John Ashbery - John Ashbery John Ashbery (b. 1927, Rochester, New York) is one of the most influential and innovative American poets of the 20th century. A graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University, Ashbery has won nearly every major American award for his poetry, beginning with the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956, selected by W. H. Auden, for his first collection, Some Trees. His early work shows the influence of Wallace Stevens, Boris Pasternak, and many of the French surrealists (his translations from French literature are numerous). In the late 1950s, the critic John Bernard Myers categorized the common traits of Ashbery's avant-garde poetry, as well as that of Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, Barbara Guest, and others, as constituting a "New York School." Ashbery's works.
July 28 - 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution. 1821 - Peru declares independence from Spain. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church begins - Confederate troops led by General John Bell Hood make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces under General William T. Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia. 1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States. 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law. 1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed.
Harvard University - making Harvard the oldest post-secondary school in the United States. Originally founded as New College, on March 13, 1639, the college was renamed after one of its biggest early patrons, John Harvard. In 1780, Harvard became a chartered university. Considered to be one of the world's most prestigious universities, Harvard also has the largest endowment of any private university in the world. A faculty of about 2,300 professors serves about 6,650 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students. With an acceptance rate of around 10%, Harvard is among the most selective universities in the United States; its undergraduate and graduate schools are all extremely competitive. Graduate schools include the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Business School, Medical School, Law School, Divinity School, Graduate School of Design, Graduate School of Education, School of.
Fantômas - Vladimir, another illegitimate son. Like his father he is a villain with sadistic and homicidal tendencies. He enthusiastically assisted his father on several occasions and also posed as the lover/husband of his sister or half-sister Hélène. Whether they actually shared a sexual relationship was left uncertain. The original series of Fantômas stories comprises 32 novels by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, which appeared in French between 1911 and 1913. The first seven books of the series appeared in English translation between 1915 and 1920. The original covers of the novels, by Gino Starace, are often considered works of lurid genius in themselves, and may be seen at the "Fantômas Lives" site linked below. During the 1980s, the first two novels of the series were published in revised English translations: Fantômas appeared.
1976 in literature - Nebula Award: Frederik Pohl, Man Plus Newbery Medal for children's literature: Susan Cooper, The Grey King Nobel Prize for Literature: Saul Bellow Prix Goncourt: Patrick Grainville, Les Flamboyants Prix Médicis French: Marc Cholodenko, Les États du désert Prix Médicis International: Doris Lessing, The Gold Coronet - United Kingdom Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Bennett for concept, choreography, and direction; James Kirkwood for book, Marvin Hamlisch for lyrics, Nicholas Dante for music, A Chorus Line Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror Viareggio Prize: Mario Tobino, La bella degli specchi.
Bard College - River and Catskill Mountains. Professors include such luminaries as Joan Retalleack, John Ashbery, Chinua Achebe, Joan Tower, Luc Sante, Robert Kelley, Andre Aciman, Thurmond Barker, and others. A new performing arts center by designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry was recently completed. The college is presided over by bow-tied Leon Botstein, amateur conductor and alternative education advocate who, when he arrived at Bard almost three decades ago, was the youngest college president ever. Many of Bard's hipster graduates relocate downstream in Williamsburg, a neighborhood in northern Brooklyn..
Tom Raworth - the book and encouraged Raworth to resume his education. Raworth took a B.A in Spanish. He then translated the work of Vincente Huidobro and other poets for his M.A. In the 1970s, he worked in the United States and Mexico, teaching in a number of universities. He returned to England in 1977 to take up the post of resident poet in King's College, Cambridge. His early poetry showed the influences of the Black Mountain and New York School poets, particularly Robert Creeley and John Ashbery. His 1974 book Ace saw Raworth move to a more disjunctive style, built from short, unpunctuated lines that entice the reader into following multiple syntactic possibilities, as they knit together everything from observations of the everyday to self-reflexive commentary on the acts of thinking and writing,.
Poets laureate of US states - Delaware Fleda Brown Florida Edmund Skellings Georgia David Bottoms Idaho Jim Irons Illinois Vacant Iowa Marvin Bell Kentucky Joe Survant Louisiana Jean McGivney Boese Maine Baron Wormser Maryland Michael Collier Missouri Vacant Nebraska William Kloefkorn New Hampshire Marie Harris New Jersey Interregnum New York John Ashbery North Carolina Vacant North Dakota Larry Woiwode Oklahoma Carl Sennhenn Pennsylvania Samuel Hazo Rhode Island Tom Chandler South Carolina Vacant South Dakota David Allan Evans Tennessee Maggi Vaughn Utah Kenneth W. Brewer Vermont Grace Paley Virginia George Garrett West Virginia Irene McKinney Wisconsin Ellen Kort Wyoming Robert Roripaugh There is no such position in Arizona, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, or Washington. Hawaii has a state writer. External Links Alabama state poet laureate California state poet.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Arlington Robinson - The Man Who Died Twice 1926 Amy Lowell - What's O'Clock 1927 Leonora Speyer - Fiddler's Farewell 1928 Edwin Arlington Robinson - Tristram 1929 Stephen Vincent Benet - John Browns Body 1930 Conrad Aiken - Selected Poems 1931 Robert Frost - Collected Poems 1932 George Dillon - The Flowering Stone 1933 Archibald Macleish - Conquistador 1934 Robert Hillyer - Collected Verse 1935 Audrey Wurdemann - Bright Ambush 1936 Robert P. Tristram Coffin - Strange Holiness 1937 Robert Frost - A Further Range 1938 Marya Zaturenska - Cold Morning Sky 1939 John Gould Fletcher - Selected Poems 1940 Mark Van Doren - Collected Poems 1941 Leonard Bacon - Sunderland Capture 1942 William Rose Benet - The Dust Which Is God 1943 Robert Frost - A Witness Tree 1944 Stephen.
List of English language poets - Fleur Adcock (born 1934) Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Mark Akenside (1721-1770) Bruce Andrews Maya Angelou (born 1928) Rae Armantrout Simon Armitage (born 1963) Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) John Ashbery (born 1927) Thomas Ashe (1836-1889) Margaret Atwood W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Pam Ayres Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638) Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) Amiri Baraka (born 1934) Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) John Barbour (died 1395) Richard Barnefield (1574-1627) Djuna Barnes William Barnes (1801-1886) James K. Baxter (1926-1972) Francis Beaumont (1586-1616) Aphra Behn (1640-1689) Gwendolyn B. Bennett Charles Bernstein John Berryman John Betjeman (1906-1984) Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) William Blake (1757-1827) Edmund Blunden Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922) Eavan Boland (born 1944) Arna Wendell Bontemps Marx Alexander Boyd (1563-1601) Anne Bradstreet Nicholas Breton (1542-1626) Robert Bridges (1844-1930) Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) Gwendolyn Brooks, (born 1917) Sterling A. Brown.
List of poets - 1922-1949) Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918) Apuleius Louis Aragon, (1897-1982) Walter Arensberg Conrad (Dada) Tudor Arghezi (Romanian poet) Bonaventura Carles Aribau, (1798-1862) Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533) Simon Armitage, (born 1963) Ernst Moritz Arndt Achim von Arnim, (1781-1831) Bettina von Arnim, (1785-1859) Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888) Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet Antonin Artaud, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist John Ashbery, (born 1927) Thomas Ashe, (1836-1889) Anton Askerc, (1856-1912) Douglas Asper Attar, (c. 1130-c. 1230) Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist W. H. Auden, (1907-1973) Ausonius, (c. 310-395) Miha Avanzo, (born 1949) Margaret Avison, (born 1918) Robert Ayton, (1570-1638) B Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC) Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973) Leonard Bacon, (1802-1881) Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845) Robert Bagg Julio Baghy Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851) France Balantic, (1921-1943) Christianne Balk.
List of people by name: As - - Am - An - Ao - Ap - Aq - Ar - As - At - Au - Av - Aw - Ax - Ay - Az As-Suli, (circa 880-880), chess player as-Suli, Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya, (circa 880-946) Ashdown, Paddy, (born 1941), British politician Asahara Shoko, Japanese cult leader Asam, Cosmas Damian, architect Asam, Egid Quirin, architect Asanga, (born 300 C) Asaro, Catherine, author Ascari, Alberto, race car driver Asch, Sholom, (1880-1957), novelist Ascheberg, Rutger von, (1621-1693), Swedish soldier Aseev, Konstantin, chess player Ashbery, John, poet Ashby, Hal, actor, director, editor, producer Ashby, Jeffrey, astronaut Ashcroft, John, Attorney General of US Ashe, Arthur, (United States) Ashe, Thomas, (1836-1889), poet Ashford, Emmett L, first African-American umpire in organized baseball Ashford, Evelyn, (born 1957), Olympic champion Ashikaga Takauji, (1305-1358), Japanese shogun.
List of American poets - that country. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 A-D 2 E-K 3 L-P 4 R-S 5 T-Z A-D Bruce Andrews Maya Angelou (born 1928) John Ashbery (born 1927) Amiri Baraka (born 1934) Charles Bernstein John Berryman Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Anne Bradstreet Gwendolyn Brooks William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) Lucille Clifton Billy Collins Gregory Corso (1930-2001) Hart Crane, (1899-1932) Stephen Crane, (1871-1900) Harry Crosby (1898-1929) Countee Cullen (1903-1946) E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) James Dickey Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Diane Di Prima Ed Dorn (1929-1999) Rita Dove W.E.B. Du Bois Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) E-K Richard Eberhart (born 1904) T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (born 1919) Philip Freneau (1752-1832) Robert Frost (1874-1963) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Brion Gysin (1916-1986) Carla Harryman Alamgir Hashmi Robert Hayden H.D (1886-1961), Oliver.
King John - King John King John is one of Shakespeare's history plays. The play details the history of Richard the Lionhearted's younger brother, King John of England. The play opens with a demand from the French King that King John abdicate in favor of his elder brother, Geffery's son, Arthur. The five acts follow a dizzying change of alliances, Papal excommunication and subsequent acceptance, and ends finally with King John's death at the hands of a monk. Throughout the play, a character known as "The Bastard" delivers a commentary on nobility, "commodity" and English sovereignty. Cast King John Prince Henry, son to the King (the future Henry III) Arthur, Duke of Britain, nephew to the King (Arthur I, Duke of Brittany) Earl of Pembroke (William Marshal) Earl of Essex.
Vernor Vinge - which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. Vinge published his first short story, "Bookworm, Run!", in 1965 in Analog Science Fiction, then edited by John W. Campbell. He was then a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s, including adapting two of his stories into a short novel, Grimm's World (1969), and publishing a second novel, The Witling (1975). Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella "True Names", which is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to stories by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and others (and particularly to the cyberpunk genre). His next two novels, The Peace War (1984) and Marooned in Realtime (1986), concern the impact of a technology which.
Kathleen Kennedy - Hartington, was the daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr and sister of U.S. president John F. Kennedy. She married William Cavendish (1917-1944), Marquess of Hartington and son of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, who was killed in action in World War II. She died in an airplane crash four years later. See also: Kennedy family.
Kansas (band) - Leftoverture (1976) was released, Kansas was popular enough for the album to be a smash hit and a constant presence on the burgeoning AOR radio format, as was the followup Point of Know Return (1977). After a few more albums, Kansas began to fall apart in the early 1980s. Hope and Livgren became born-again Christians and Walsh formed a new band, replaced by John Elefante. In spite of a successful 1982 album called Vinyl Confessions, the group split in 1983, only to reform in 1986 with the album Power. The 1990s saw a string of barely noticed releases, and Kansas has continued to tour sporadically, but the band has never been able to regain any mass popularity or critical notice..
Karl of Austria - of Hungary in the early 1920s. Karl has generally been seen by historians as an honourable figure who tried as emperor-king to halt World War I. On 14 April 2003 the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, promulgated Karl of Austria's "heroic virtues", a step on the road to sainthood in Roman Catholicism. Karl was the son of Archduke Otto Franz Joseph, younger brother of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (whose assassination triggered off World War I), and of Princess Josepha of Saxony. In 1911 he was married to Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma, a daughter of the exiled Duke of Parma. Their oldest son and current head of the Habsburg family is Otto von Habsburg, who served as a German Member of the.
Vermont - allowing Vermont's land and forest to recover from the excesses of human beings. The accompanying lack of industry has allowed Vermont to avoid many of the ill-effects of 20th century industrial busts, effects that still plague neighboring states. Today, much of Vermont's forest consists of second-growth. Of the remaining industries, dairy farming is the primary source of agricultural income. Vermont dairy is exported to the rest of the world by companies like Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and Cabot Cheese. Vermont's natural beauty and social tolerance has also made it attractive to independent thinkers, unique companies and cottage industries such as The Vermont Teddy Bear Company and King Arthur Flour. Tourism, numerous summer camps, furniture-making and skiing also make up a large component of Vermont's income. Trout fishing, lake fishing and.
Kathryn Grayson - who was born Zelma Kathryn Hedrick. She married twice, first to actor John Shelton, second to actor/singer Johnnie Johnston. She has one daughter. The petite soprano was one of MGM Studios top sopranos of the 1940s & 1950s. She started out with dreams of being in opera, but MGM scooped her up to be in films. Some consider her role as Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me, Kate as her best. She also played Magnolia in the 1951 version of Show Boat. She left the movies in 1956 for the stage and fulfilled her dream of being in opera. She was nominated for an Emmy in 1955 for her performance as a blind girl in General Electric Theater's Shadow On The Heart..
