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Hood, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Hood, Thomas, 1799–1845, English poet. He was an editor of various prominent magazines and periodicals. The greater proportion of his work was written in a humorous vein, and he was…Fröding, Gustaf
(Encyclopedia) Fröding, GustafFröding, Gustafgŭsˈtäv fröˈdĭng [key], 1860–1911, Swedish lyric poet. His first two volumes of poems, Guitar and Concertina (1891) and New Poems (1894), both translated…Simpson, Louis
(Encyclopedia) Simpson, Louis, 1923–2012, American poet, b. Kingston, Jamaica, grad. Columbia (B.S., 1948; Ph.D., 1959). He was an infantryman in World War II, and was a professor at the Univ. of…Owen, Wilfred
(Encyclopedia) Owen, Wilfred, 1893–1918, English poet, b. Oswestry, Shropshire. He served as a company commander in the Artist's Rifles during World War I and was killed in France on Nov. 4, 1918,…Freneau, Philip
(Encyclopedia) Freneau, PhilipFreneau, Philipfrēnōˈ [key], 1752–1832, American poet and journalist, b. New York City, grad. Princeton, 1771. During the American Revolution he served as soldier and…Neruda, Pablo
(Encyclopedia) Neruda, PabloNeruda, Pablopäˈblō nār&oomacr;ˈᵺä [key], 1904–73, Chilean poet, diplomat, and Communist leader. He changed his original name, Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto,…Shapiro, Karl
(Encyclopedia) Shapiro, Karl, 1913–2000, American poet and critic, b. Baltimore, studied Univ. of Virginia, Johns Hopkins. His interests in the aesthetics and artifice of modern poetry and the role…Pearl, The
(Encyclopedia) Pearl, The, one of four Middle English alliterative poems, all contained in a manuscript of c.1400, composed in the West Midland dialect, almost certainly by the same anonymous author…Mufaddaliyat
(Encyclopedia) MufaddaliyatMufaddaliyatm&oomacr;fäˌdälēätˈ [key] or MofaddaliyatMofaddaliyatmō– [key], great Arabic anthology compiled by the celebrated philologist Al Mufaddal ad-Dabbi (d. c.775…Smith, Stevie
(Encyclopedia) Smith, Stevie (Margaret Florence Smith), 1902–71, English poet and novelist, b. Hull, Yorkshire. At first unnoticed as a poet, she worked in a London publisher's office until 1953.…Trending
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