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Charles Martin (born 1942, New York City) is a poet, critic and translator. He grew up in the Bronx . He graduated from Fordham University and received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York . [ 1 ]
"I am not afraid to die." [3]— Philip Danforth Armour, American industrialist, founder of Armour and Company (6 January 1901) "Bertie." [4]— Victoria, queen regnant of the United Kingdom (22 January 1901), calling to her eldest son and heir, Albert, Prince of Wales
Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. [1]: 426 [2] Harner earned a degree in industrial journalism and clothing design at Kansas State University. [3] Several of her other poems were published and ...
Charles Lamb in 1798, the year he wrote and published "The Old Familiar Faces". Drawn and engraved by Robert Hancock. "The Old Familiar Faces" (1798) is a lyric poem by the English man of letters Charles Lamb. Written in the aftermath of his mother's death and of rifts with old friends, it is a lament for the relationships he had lost.
Hours after @TheRoyalFamily Instagram account unveiled a new portrait of King Charles to commemorate Burns Night—the celebration of the life and work of Scotland's bard, Robert Burns—the ...
Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States.
From about 1870 onwards, Massey became increasingly interested in Egyptology and the similarities that exist between ancient Egyptian mythology and the Gospel stories. He studied the extensive Egyptian records housed in the Assyrian and Egyptology section of the British Museum in London where he worked closely with the curator, Dr. Samuel Birch, and other leading Egyptologists of his day, even ...
James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for Divine Comedies. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover (published in three ...