LETTING GO After feeling driven my whole life something very near the center has unwound and I can no longer hurry through airports or return all
It is something of an irony that the most well-known photograph of Virginia Woolf, captured by George Beresford in 1902, was taken well before she had composed her most famous works; in fact, it wa…
The work of Wordsworth is singularly unequal. His influence on contemporary and succeeding thought and literature has been profound and lasting.
Jared A. Brock gathers together photos and inspirational quotes by more than 100 world-famous writers including Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, and George Orwell.
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Антон Павлович Чехов «Нездоровье мое немножко напугало меня и в то же время (бывают же такие фокусы!) доставило мне немало хороших, почти счастливых минут. Я получил столько сочувствий искре…
AP PhotoRobert Frost in 1955.British poet A.E. Housman (1859), American poet Robert Frost (1874) and American playwright Tennesee Williams (1914) There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people. -- Robert Frost. Watch a clip from the 1951 film, A Streetcar...
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Portrait of Robert L. Frost , American poet who wrote "North of Boston" and "A Boy's Will." Ca. 1910s.
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
These gay couples were brave enough to take on the world together.
Louise Glück was born in New York, New York, on April 22, 1943, and grew up on Long Island. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014), which won the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry; Averno (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; and Vita Nova (Ecco Press, 1999), winner of Boston Book Review’s Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker’s Book Award in Poetry. In 2004, Sarabande Books released her six-part poem “October” as a chapbook. Glück’s other award-winning books include The Wild Iris (Ecco Press, 1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (Ecco Press, 1990), for which she received the Library of Congress’s Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (Ecco Press, 1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America’s Melville Kane Award. In a review in The New Republic, the critic Helen Vendler wrote: Louise Glück is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the unusual distinction of being neither “confessional” nor “intellectual” in the usual senses of those words. Glück has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (Ecco Press, 1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Her honors include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize, the MIT Anniversary Medal and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. The recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, Glück was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999. In the fall of 2003, she was appointed as the Library of Congress’s twelfth poet laureate consultant in poetry. She served as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets from 2003 to 2010, and as writer-in-residence at Yale University. In 2008, Glück was selected to receive the Wallace Stevens Award for mastery in the art of poetry. Her collection, Poems 1962–2012 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), was awarded the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2015, she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died on October 13, 2023, at the age of eighty.
The famously reclusive J.D. Salinger wouldn't allow himself to be known.
La fotografía a color fue un descubrimiento que vino a revolucionar la manera en que entendemos el pasado. Con la invención de la fotografía, cientos de
When You Are Old When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) published 1892 Years ago I went into a below ground restaurant that always had a line of people waiting to get a table. On a little ledge beside the stairs there were books that one could read to pass the time. I picked up Yeats' poetry, and came upon this poem.
Famed author bantered with admiring reporters in 1933 in first trip here in 19 years.
Vita Sackville-West, 1961 photos by Inge Morath
From Pucci to top hats to pastel suits, these writers had a way with fashion.
