His time in England was what sparked his interest in Gothic Literature. In 1820, Poe’s family had gone back to Richmond, where he continued to excel in school. Jane Stith Stanton, a classmates’ mother who had offered support to Edgar when the other children teased him, died in 1824. Soon after, his first period of depression began. After John Allen’s business went through a bit of hardship, he came into some money, and was able to send Edgar to the University of Virginia.
Unknown Darkness To write about things nobody likes to talk about or even mention in real life makes Nathaniel Hawthorne a great poet and a famous one at that. Hawthorne wrote so much about the American Colonies and how they lived their lives, he captured the smallest details of that time. Imagine being a writer in those times trying to find things to write about, in some of his poems you can see what a morbid mind he had, and it’s possibly due to his environment. Some of his Ancestors were direct descendants of Puritan judges. Which might have influenced his all famous “Scarlet Letter” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, both these poems evoke each readers own personal judgments on human nature.
Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts, but his legacy was cut short, passing at age 40. He was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, best known for his tales of mystery. “He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing
Born on January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents, Elizabeth Arnold and David Poe, were killed in a theatre accident soon after his birth and the child was taken in by John Allan, a "wealthy Scottish tobacco exporter" (Kellman 2079). He lived in Virginia for most of the time in Richmond, and around 1826, went to University of Virginia. However, Poe was kicked out but a few months later on debts that came from gambling and drinking. In 1827, traveling to Boston, he enlisted into the army under the name Edgar Allan Perry and under the heat of the sun in summer of 1827, he published Tamerlane and Other Poems with a pseudonym of A Bostonian.
Sterling Brown: Renaissance poet One of the greatest and most influential writer and poet of the Harlem renaissance was Sterling Allen Brown. Brown Was born in on may first 1901 in Washington D.C. to Sterling Nelson and Adelaide Brown. Sterling Attended Harvard University where he did his graduate studies and later worked as a professor of English for forty years. He married Daisy Turnbull in 1927 and had one son. As a poet he many known works his best of which was also his first, Southern Road, published in 1932.
Thomas Nast was born September 27, 1840, Landau, Bandan, which is now Germany. He was the son of a musician in the 9th regiment Bavarian band. His mother took him to New York in 1846. He studied art there for about a year with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design. After school (at the age of 15), he started working in 1855 as a draftsman for Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper; three years afterwards for Harper's Weekly.Nast drew for Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886.
He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. to Washington, D.C. During the early 1980s, Baldwin was on the faculty of the Five Colleges in Western Massachusetts. While there, he mentored Mount Holyoke College future playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002. Baldwin died of cancer in 1987 at the age of 63. writings fiction: Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel; 1953) Giovanni's Room (novel; 1956) romance from Paris, white protagonist tortured by the uncertainty of his sexual feelings Another Country (novel; 1962) tragic story of a black musician Greenwhich Village, reflects racial, moral, sexual and artistic problems of B. 's generation Going to Meet the Man (short stories; 1965) Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (novel; 1968) an important black actor reviews his life during a long convalescence If Beale Street Could Talk (novel; 1974) an idealized romance between a black sculptor and a black girl, B. 's final denuciation of American racism Just Above My Head (novel; 1979) Harlem Quartet (novel; 1987) essays: Notes of a Native Son (1955) Nobody Knows My Name (1961) The Fire Next Time (1963) No Name in the Street
he has two siblings Henry, and Rosalie. When Edgar was two his mother died and before he was born his father departed from the family. After his mother's death he was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan at the age of two.at the age of six he went to England for five years to study many subject like Latin, French, as well as math and history. Edgar later returns to America to to continue his studies. He attended University of Virginia in 1826 at the age of 17.
ODE TO INDOLENCE What is an Ode? An Ode is a poem giving praise to someone or something of importance to you. Historical Background This ode was written in spring 1819, between mid-March and early June. On 19 March Keats wrote of his 'sort of temper indolent' in a letter to his brother George and sister-in-law Georgiana. And on 9 June, he told one Miss Jeffrey that 'the thing I have most enjoyed this year has been writing an ode to Indolence'.
In the fall of 1916, America met a young, ambitious Harvard graduate known as Edward Estlin Cummings. For forty-six years, this bold new poet, armed with his extremely unique style of writing and his firm moral beliefs, rejected conventional thinking of his era. Through his work he praised simplicity in life and reviled with deep cynicism the artificialities and ethical potholes of mankind. By the fall of 1962, his work completed, he left his mark on the world of poetry as e e cummings. Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Edward (Sr.) and Rebecca Cummings.