Samantha Monnett English 11 Literature of America April 27‚ 2012 The Life of a So Called Lesbian Amy Lowell was born in Brookline‚ Massachusetts on February 9‚ 1874. She was the daughter of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lawrence. Both her mother and father were from New England aristocrats. Aristocrats are wealthy and prominent members of society. Her father‚ Augustus‚ was a businessman‚ civic leader‚ and horticulturalist. Lowell’s mother‚ Katherine‚ was an accomplished musician
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Tragedies occur every second on Earth. People die‚ disappear‚ and get hurt daily. Robert Frost experienced a lot of tragedy throughout Frost’s life. Although Frost became an extremely famous and well-known poet‚ many tragedies were faced during Frost’s lifetime. Although full of tragedy‚ Robert Frost’s life‚ career‚ and legacy all still remain an important part of literature history. Robert Frost’s parents‚ William Prescott Frost Jr. and Isabelle Moodie Frost‚ moved to San Francisco‚ California
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mankind‚ Ezra Pound’s “Make it new” was a dire cry that was ringing in everyone’s ears. Modernists changed the course of history; and yet held on to their past. The drive to preserve the obsolete revolutionized language in various forms for it was felt that language could not convey the complete meaning- “That’s not all‚ that’s not what I meant at all” - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Writers such as Eliot‚ James Joyce‚ Virginia Woolf‚ W.B Yeats‚ Ezra Pound and so
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Little Review” Sophia Estante and Lorrie Moore (Mentor)‚ English This research looks at the work of Margaret C. Anderson‚ the editor of the Little Review. The review published first works by Sherwood Anderson‚ James Joyce‚ Wyndham Lewis‚ and Ezra Pound. This research draws upon mostly primary sources including memoirs‚ published letters‚ and a complete collection of the Little Review. Most prior research on Anderson focuses on her connection to the famous writers and personalities that she published
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MONDAY‚ 29 DECEMBER 2008 Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington Death of a Hero was published in 1929 but despite the time lag is very much a product of the First World War‚ in which Aldington fought‚ was wounded‚ and became recognised as a war poet. Incidentally‚ the distinction of becoming acknowledged both as a novelist and as a poet is a rare one. One thinks of Emily Bronte‚ Thomas Hardy and Lawrence Durrell (with whom Aldington would conduct a famous literary correspondence later in life)‚ but
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modernism inspired new and revolutionary ideas‚ forming distinct poetic groups. Through modernism‚ came Imagism. Imagists rejected traditional poetry such as romantic and futurist and focused on the notion that less is more. Prominent imagist poet Ezra Pound believed‚ “It is better to present on Image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works” (Caws‚ 356). Imagism was a movement of poets
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How is it best to honor a great star after it has fallen and past on to death? For some‚ a mere funeral and wake would suffice‚ but for other monument are erected‚ schools and workplaces closed‚ parade and moment of silence where attributed to. Others like the late great Ray Charles movies are and to commemorate and celebrate their achievements over the years. So what then would you do for a person that freed millions‚ and united a country? For Walt Whitman he felt the best way to honor such a "star"
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arts soon crossed the English Channel‚ as instanced by the abstraction and dynamism of Red Stone Dancer (1913-14) by the London-based vorticist sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Other vorticists and modernists include such English-language writers as Ezra Pound‚ Wyndham Lewis‚ and Mina Loy‚ who also responded to the stimulus and challenge of the European avant-garde with
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poets’ works. In the circle of modernist poets‚ we can name among others Ezra Pound‚ Thomas Stearns Eliot‚ William Butler Yeats‚ Wallace Stevens‚ William Carlos Williams‚ Edward Estlin Cummings... Born in 1894 (October 14)‚ the latter was an American poet who deeply marked the history of literature namely through the modernist literary movement. Profoundly influenced by some famous figures such as Pablo Picasso‚ Ezra Pound‚ Gertrude Stein‚ he was actually very famous for his original style characterized
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condition of British society.He employees many literary and cultural allusions from the western canon‚from Buddism and the Hindu Upanishad in the poem.Of course‚the waste land is not quite the poem Eliot originally drafted.His close friend and colleague‚Ezra Pound‚significantly revirsed the poem‚suggesting major cuts and compressing.The main features of the book are given below- Summary of the poem- The poem’s structure is divided in to five sections.In the first section‚ “The Burial of Death”‚the narrator-perhaps
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