Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the ...
Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work...
He is the author of The Web of October: Rereading Martin Carter (1986), a suite of love poems entitled Suite for Supriya (1993), and Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves was published in 2003. Roopnaraine's collection of essays, The Skys Wild Noise, won the non-fiction ca...
This month marks 200 years since the death of Romantic poet and London resident John Keats – famous for poems includingOde to a Grecian UrnandOde to the Nightingale– at the age of just 25. Born on 31st October, 1795, Keats was the eldest of Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings’ four chi...
She published only a handful of poems. It wasn't until after her death that her sister discovered and published over 1800 of her poems, and she gained the fame she is celebrated for today. 51. Sylvester Stallone Sylvester Stallone's journey to stardom wasfraught with rejection and hardship....
The beat for “Bridle” was provided to me by a guy on the Strange Famous Forum who went by the name Varick Pyr. I actually worked with him recently on the latest Epic Beard Men album, but he goes by the name Romero Shaw now. He’s not an easy person to track down as he tends...
(the others being Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New...
Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age. Among her contributions to Canadian literature, Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and Writers' Trust of Canada. Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada Dig Deeper List of Third Wave Feminists...
He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, ...
Delerue's prolific output includes ballets, operas, chamber pieces, orchestral works, a series of vocal melodies for the poems of Paul Eluard, and music for TV and plays. Birthplace: Roubaix, France Gabriel Pierné Dec. at 73 (1863-1937) Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (16 August 18...