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Maša Haľamová
Maša Haľamová (August 28, 1908 – July 17, 1995) was a Slovak Modernism, modernist poet. One of Slovakia's best-known 20th-century poets, she is considered particularly representative of the interwar period in Slovak literature. Biography Maša Haľamová was born Mária Pullmanová 1908 in Blatnica, Slovakia. Her father, a saffron merchant, was often away traveling abroad for work. After her mother's early death, she was taken in by one of her teachers who had been friends with her mother.Haľamová went to school in Martin, Slovakia, and in Stara Pazova in what is now Serbia, finishing school in Martin in 1925. After working at the Institute of Culture and Adult Education in Bratislava, she moved in 1926 to Nový Smokovec, a town in the High Tatras, where she worked at a sanatorium. From 1929 to 1930, she left the country briefly and lived in Paris, where she studied French language, French. She spent 30 years living in the High Tatras, settling in Štrbské Pleso with her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Halamova-masa
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Russian Language
Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the First language, native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of four living East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages. Besides Russia itself, Russian is an official language in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is used widely as a lingua franca throughout Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to some extent in the Baltic states. It was the De facto#National languages, ''de facto'' language of the former Soviet Union,1977 Soviet Constitution, Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 and continues to be used in public life with varying proficiency in all of the post-Soviet states. Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modernist Poets
This is a list of major poets of the Modernist movement. English-language Modernist poets *Marion Angus *W. H. Auden *Djuna Barnes *Elizabeth Bishop *Rupert Brooke *Basil Bunting *Hart Crane *E. E. Cummings *H.D. * T. S. Eliot *Robert Frost *Robert Graves *Robert Hayden *Gerard Manley Hopkins (precursor) *A. E. Housman *Langston Hughes *Randall Jarrell * David Jones *Rudyard Kipling *D. H. Lawrence *Amy Lowell *Robert Lowell *Mina Loy *Hugh MacDiarmid * Archibald MacLeish *Marianne Moore *Wilfred Owen *Dorothy Parker *Sylvia Plath *Ezra Pound * E. A. Robinson *Edna St. Vincent Millay *Delmore Schwartz *Edith Sitwell *Kenneth Slessor *Gertrude Stein *Wallace Stevens *Allen Tate *William Carlos Williams *W. B. Yeats European Modernist poets *Anna Akhmatova *Guillaume Apollinaire *Louis Aragon *Gottfried Benn *André Breton *Constantine Cavafy *René Char *Charles Baudelaire *Robert Desnos *Gunnar Ekelöf *Paul Éluard *Georg Heym * Jakob van Hoddis *Max Jacob *Srečko Kos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modernist Women Writers
{{Short description, none The term Modernism describes the modernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I, were among the factors that shaped Modernism. This is a partial list of modernist women writers. * Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet * Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet and author * Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American novelist, playwright, etc. * Kay Boyle (1902–1992), American novelist, poet, short story writer * Bryher (1894–1983), British novelist, activist * Mary Butts (1890–1937), British novelist * Kate Chopin (1851–1904), American novelist, short story writer * H.D. (1886–1961), American poet, novelist, memoirist * Baroness Elsa v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovak Women Poets
Slovak may refer to: * Something from, related to, or belonging to Slovakia (''Slovenská republika'') * Slovaks, a Western Slavic ethnic group * Slovak language, an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages * Slovak, Arkansas, United States See also * Slovák, a surname * Slovák, the official newspaper of the Slovak People's Party Hlinka's Slovak People's Party ( sk, Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana), also known as the Slovak People's Party (, SĽS) or the Hlinka Party, was a far-right Clerical fascism, clerico-fascist political party with a strong Catholic fundamentali ... * {{disambiguation, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Deaths
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