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Wilson MacDonald
Wilson Pugsley MacDonald (May 5, 1880 – April 8, 1967) was a popular Canadian poet who "was known mainly in his own time for his considerable platform abilities" as a reader of his poetry. By reading fees, and by selling his books at readings, he was able to make a living from his poetry alone.Wilson (Pugsley) MacDonald Biography , ''Dictionary of Literary Biography'', BookRags.com, Web, May 10, 2011. In the 1920s he was so popular that, according to writer , "his fame eclipsed that of Robert Service and |
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United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 In Poetry
Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, "United Kingdom" links to English poetry and "India" links to Indian poetry. Events * June 3 – Canadian poet Charles G. D. Roberts is knighted.John Coldwell Adams,Sir Charles G.D. Roberts," ''Confederation Voices'', Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Mar. 2, 2011. * June 15 ** Gay English poet W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann. ** Premiere of T. S. Eliot's verse drama ''Murder in the Cathedral'' at Canterbury Cathedral in England. * American poet George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958. * Picasso's poetry begins to be written. * Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Persia, is rebuilt. Works published in English Canada * Arthur Bourinot, ''Selected Poems (1915–1935)''. * E. J. Pratt, ''The Titanic'', Toronto: Macmillan. * Kenneth Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January – Geoffrey Grigson publishes the first issue of ''New Verse'' in London (1933–39). * January–March – New Objectivity movement in German literature and art ends with the fall of the Weimar Republic. * June – W. H. Auden has his "Vision of Agape". * May 9 – A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in Cambridge, asserting that poetry's function is "to transfuse emotion – not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer ... He criticizes much of the poetry from the 17th and 18th centuries as deficient in this regard, and condemns Alexander Pope's poetry in particular while praising William Collins, Christopher Smart, William Cowper and William Blake. * Black Mountain College founded in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of ''Poetry'' magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets. It features poetry by Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, George Oppen, Basil Bunting, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others. Also in the issue: Zukofsky's essay "Sincerity and Objectification". * George Oppen and his wife, Mary Oppen found To Publishers in Le Beausset, France; Louis Zukofsky is editor. * ''Beacon'' magazine founded in Trinidad (lasts until 1933)"Chronology for Anglophone Caribbean poetry" p xviii, in Brenier, Laurence A., ''An Introduction to West India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him. Works published Canada * Alfred Bailey, ''Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book'', (Ryerson).Biographical Sketch " Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009. * , ''Caw-Caw Ballads'' Montclair, NJ: Pine Tree Publishing.Search results: Wilson MacDonald Open Library, Web, May 10, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *June 29 – T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England; in November he takes British citizenship. *July 7 – James Joyce's collection ''Pomes Penyeach'' is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris. *August – T. S. Eliot's poem ''Journey of the Magi'' is published in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series (London) illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Works published Canada * Alfred Bailey, ''Songs of the Saguenay and other poems''.Biographical Sketch " Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, May 5, 2011. * , ''An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I ( 1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France. * Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes Works published Canada * William Henry Drummond, ''Complete Poems'', posthumously published.Gustafson, Ralph, ''The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse'', revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books * Wilson MacDonald, ''Out Of The Wilderness''. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.Search results: Wilson MacDonald Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011. * |
1921 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March — Jorge Luis Borges returns to his birthplace, Buenos Aires in Argentina, after a period living with his family in Europe. * August 3 — Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov's fate is sealed when he is arrested in the Soviet Union by the Cheka on charges of being a monarchist; on August 24 the Petrograd Cheka decrees execution of all 61 participants of the "Tagantsev Conspiracy", including Gumilyov. The exact dates and locations of their executions and burials are still unknown. He had divorced Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in 1918. * Autumn–Winter — T. S. Eliot works on ''The Waste Land'' in Margate and Lausanne. * December 31 — Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, ''Comprimido estridentista'', in the broadsheet ''Actual'' n°1 (Mexico City). * Mrs. C. A. Dawson-Scott founds PEN, an international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 23 — English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, who will be killed by the end of the year, and whose first nationally published poem appears 3 days later ("Miners" in ''The Nation''). * April — Hu Shih, chief advocate of the revolution in Chinese literature at this time, publishes an essay, "Constructive Literary Revolution - A Literature of National Speech" in ''New Youth'' proposing a four-point reform program. * June — English poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector. * August 17 — English poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon meet for the last time, in London, and spend what Sassoon later describes as "the whole of a hot cloudless afternoon together." * November 4 — English war poet Wilfred Owen is killed in action, age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Drummond
William Henry Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet whose humorous dialect poems made him "one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world," and "one of the most widely-read and loved poets" in Canada.Selected Poetry of William Henry Drummond: Notes on Life and Works " Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 15, 2001 "His first book of poetry, ''The Habitant'' (1897), was extremely successful, establishing for him a reputation as a writer of dialect verse that has faded since his death."C.J. Taylor, Drummond, William Henry " ''Canadian Encycloped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modernist Poetry In English
Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists. In common with many other modernists, these poets wrote in reaction to the perceived excesses of Victorian poetry, with its emphasis on traditional formalism and ornate diction. In many respects, their criticism echoes what William Wordsworth wrote in ''Preface to Lyrical Ballads'' to instigate the Romantic movement in British poetry over a century earlier, criticising the gauche and pompous school which then pervaded, and seeking to bring poetry to the layman. Modernists saw themselves as looking back to the best practices of poets in earlier periods and other cultures. Their models included ancient Greek literature, Chinese and Japanese poetry, the troubadours, Dante and the medieval Italian philosophical poets (such as Guido Cavalcanti), and the English Metaphysical poets. Much of early modernist poetry took the form of short, compact lyrics. As it developed, how ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
