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Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums.
John Dyer was the fourth of six children born to Robert and Catherine Cocks Dyer in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, five miles from Grongar Hill.His exact birth date is unknown, but the earliest existing record of John Dyer dates his baptism on 13 August 1699 [2] – within fourteen days after his birth as was the tradition of the time – in Llanfynnydd parish.
The book received largely negative reviews from poets like Jarrell, who wrote, in The Nation, that Berryman was "a complicated, nervous, and intelligent [poet]" whose work was too derivative of W. B. Yeats. [5] Berryman later concurred with this assessment of his early work, saying, "I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats." [8]
Pushkin recites his poem before Gavrila Derzhavin during an exam in the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum on 8 January 1815. Painting by Ilya Repin (1911) Pushkin's married lover Anna Petrovna Kern , for whom he probably wrote the most famous love poem in Russian
He raised a large family and "was a man of superior abilities and varied attainments, who tried his hand with fair success in architecture, painting, music, and poetry. He was comfortably well off for a country clergyman, and his shrewd money management enabled the family to spend summers at Mablethorpe and Skegness on the eastern coast of ...
Shortly after his death, Mercure de France published Calligrammes, a collection of his concrete poetry (poetry in which typography and layout adds to the overall effect), and more orthodox, though still modernist poems informed by Apollinaire's experiences in the First World War and in which he often used the technique of automatic writing.
Another poem, "Let all the world in every corner sing", was published in 103 hymnals, of which one is a French version. [45] Other languages into which his work has been translated for musical settings include Spanish, Catalan and German. [46] In the 20th century, "Vertue" alone achieved ten settings, one of them in French.
[22] [23] Schuon's writings on the central rites of Native American religion and his paintings of their way of life attest to his particular affinity with their spiritual universe. [ 24 ] The 1970s saw the publication of three works considered as particularly important by his biographers composed of articles previously published in the French ...