Photo: William Blake Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Crowley was known as "The Beast," a title that he himself gleefully used. He earned the name as a child, when his exasperated mother would call him "Beast 666" in the wake of his mischief. As an adult, he proudly used the nickname,...
Most of Hughes’ poems were written during the Harlem Renaissance, named after the cultural activity African Americans participated in, such as: literature, music, art, theatre, and political thinking. William Blake, on the other hand, was a nonconformist who was associated with the leading ...
- William Blake, To Spring, 1820 "The spring sea rising and falling, rising and falling all day." - Yosa Buson "There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven - A time to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant and a time...
Though his work as a diplomat, soldier, and justice of the peace were influential, Chaucer's works of poetry are what he is truly remembered for. Chaucer's poems were very unusual for the time and place in which he lived for one important reason: they were written in Middle English. Bef...
screenwriter and also served as a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He has been referred to as “one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century”, writing almost 50 books in his career, along with many more screenplays, poems and short stories. ...
William Blake was an English engraver, artist, poet, and visionary, author of exquisite lyrics in Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) and profound and difficult “prophecies,” such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), The F
The Tyger, poem by William Blake, published in his Songs of Innocence and of Experience at the peak of his lyrical achievement. The tiger is the key image in the Songs of Experience, the embodiment of an implacable primal power. Its representation of a p
“cabaret opera”;12 Étudesfor piano (1959–66); andOpen House(1975), asongcycle based on poems byTheodore Roethke. As a pianist and composer, Bolcom became well known for his interest inragtimemusic;Graceful Ghost Rag(1971), written in memory of his father, is one of several ...
Paradise Lost, epic poem in blank verse, of the late works by John Milton, originally issued in 10 books in 1667. Many scholars consider Paradise Lost to be one of the greatest poems in the English language. It tells the biblical story of the fall from g
Smith, the daughter of a Jamaican mother and an English father, changed the spelling of herfirst nameto Zadie at age 14. She began writing poems and stories as a child and later studiedEnglish literatureat theUniversity of Cambridge(B.A., 1998). ...