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Mailer, Norman
(Encyclopedia) Mailer, Norman (Norman Kingsley Mailer), 1923–2007, American writer, b. Long Branch, N.J., grad. Harvard, 1943. He grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., served in the army during World War II,…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Witch of Atlas
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To MaryNote on the Witch of Atlas, by...The Witch of Atlas Before those cruel Twins, whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Revolt of Islam, Canto 12
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Canto 11 Note on the "Revolt of Islam",... Canto 12 The transport of a fierce and monstrous gladness Spread through the multitudinous streets, fast flying Upon the…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: On The Seas And Far Away
by Robert Burns Inscription To Miss Graham Of FintryCa' The Yowes To The Knowes-Se...On The Seas And Far Away Tune—"O'er the hills and far away." How can my poor heart be glad,…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Hymn of Apollo
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Song of Proserpine While Gathe...Hymn of PanHymn of Apollo Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. There is a fair draft amongst the Shelley…A Boy's Will: Waiting
by Robert Frost Asking for RosesIn a ValeWaiting Afield at Dusk He arrives at the turn of the year. WHAT things for dream there are when spectre-like, Moving among tall haycocks lightly…Walt Whitman: Proud Music of the Storm, Part 6
Part 6Then I woke softly, And pausing, questioning awhile the music of my dream, And questioning all those reminiscences, the tempest in its fury, And all the songs of sopranos and tenors,…Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr., 1908–2000, American novelist, short-story writer, and editor, b. Lincoln, Ill. Educated at the Univ. of Illinois and Harvard, he began his career as a…Joseph, in the Bible
(Encyclopedia) Joseph, one of the heroes of the patriarchal narratives of the Book of Genesis. He is presented as the favored son of Jacob and Rachel, sold as a boy into slavery by his brothers, who…Juana Inés de la Cruz
(Encyclopedia) Juana Inés de la CruzJuana Inés de la Cruzhwäˈnä ēnāsˈ dā lä kr&oomacr;s [key], 1651–95, Mexican poet. She is considered the greatest lyric poet of the colonial period. A beautiful…Trending
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