Like Victoria Wood, or the late Sir John Betjeman, Ayres uses simple verse forms -- comic ballads or folk song idioms -- to make poignant observations about tiresome husbands, gossiping wives, false teeth or battery hens.I find her work sweet and sour, gentle and sad, and often very ...
Tanikawa, who translated the “Peanuts” comic strip and penned the lyrics for the theme song of the animation series “Astro Boy,” died Nov. 13, his son Kensaku Tanikawa said Tuesday. He said his father died at a Tokyo hospital due to old age. Shuntaro Tani...
Literary Ladies Guide compiled a selection ofIntrospective quotes by May Sarton, a most thoughtful writer. They also publisheda review ofJournal of a Solitude. The Famous People website published64 Inspiring Quotes By May Sarton That Will Give You Lessons For Life—her reflections on life, authent...
but the language play and comic verse for which Ghigna is best known wells up occasionally and is aimed at young readers who hold poetry in low regard. Despite the title, girls as well as boys will find verses here that, to use X. J. Kennedy's phrase, 'will really talk to you.' ...
for all poets of note—Greek, Latin, French, and Italian—had been translated into English verse in the course of the previous century. Of these translations the precocious boy availed himself voraciously, and by the age of twelve, when he was finally settled at home and left to himself, ...
C.He is widely known for his translated rhymed verse. D.He has mastered at least three foreign languages. 2. What does the underlined word “fastidious” in paragraph 5 probably mean? A.Particular.B.Satisfied.C.Inventive.D.Productive. ...
Now if you say you're refosing to work. lhey take yoo off welfare. The poet pauses for a moment and ponders: whet do they do with you then? Once you're off welfare. there's nothing lower. They might as well pot you in e hole and bury you somewhere. Downstairs another worker ...
for the next great leap in lifting the world of objects into the dignity of his thematic preoccupations by adopting its qualities as symbols for his emotions. “You may say ‘diffuse’“, says Eliot, “but the diffuseness is essential; had Swinburne practised greater concentration his verse ...
s literary reputation worldwide. In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. According to the Nobel Prize, he got the award "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic ...
daughter Susanna. The terms instructed that she pass it down intact to "the first son of her body". The Quineys had three children, all of whom died without marrying. The Halls had one child, Elizabeth, who married twice but died without children in 1670, ending Shakespeare’s direct line...