Warren published ten novels. One novel, All the King's Men, won a Pulitzer Prize. Two novels, All the King's Men and Band of Angels were made into movies. In addition he published a book of short stories, two selections of critical essays, a biography, three historical essays, a study of Melville, a critical book on Dreiser, a study of Whittier, and two studies of race relations in America. As of this writing, he is the only author to have won the Pulitzer for both fiction and poetry.
Tim Wynne-Jones was born August 12, 1948. He is mainly an author of children’s literature which includes picture books and novels for children and young adults. He also writes music for children and the production Fraggle Rock. Wynne-Jones is an English-Canadian author born in Cheshire, England and raised in Ontario, Canada. (Tim Wynne-Jones-Wikipedia) Wynne-Jones was inspired to begin writing from his experience at St. Matthews Anglican Church choir of men and boys.
One Man’s Talent Feb. 16 Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. Cormac grew up in a large family with both parents. He was raised Roman Catholic and McCarthy attended a Catholic high school in Knoxville, then went to the University of Tennessee in 1951-52. In his mid-life he traveled a lot getting inspirations for his novels. Cormac had two kids and three wives throughout his life.
The structure does not stay the same throughout, but cycles through a number of different stanza patterns, finishing in four two-line stanzas that follow a conversation between the narrator and his bride. The structure is highly repetitive, creating a sense of closeness between the two speakers. Language Sound * Nagra uses phonetic spellings in places to represent 'Punglish' - English spoken in a Punjabi accent. This increases the number of 'd' and 'v' sounds in the song, and creates an alliterative, rhythmic effect. * There is a lot of rhyming in the poem, which is to be expected in a song form.
As a child, he was educated in the elementary school systems in Norfolk, Virginia, and Plainfield, New Jersey. Sumner had one brother named Eugene. After elementary school, he was self-educated with the help of his parents, David and Lillian Sumner. Sumner's early education consisted of intense reading and writing assignments given to him by his father, who too had been self-educated. Sumner's parents played a huge role in the education of their son.
The Academy of American Poets has commented more broadly on Cohen's overall career in the arts, including his work as a poet, novelist, and songwriter, stating that "[Cohen's] successful blending of poetry, fiction, and music is made most clear in Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, published in 1993, which gathered more than 200 of Cohen's poems … several novel excerpts, and almost 60 song lyrics … While it may seem to some that Leonard Cohen departed from the literary in pursuit of the musical, his fans continue to embrace him as a Renaissance man who straddles the elusive artistic borderlines."
Harold Bloom's All-White Dead Poets Society The Best Poems of the English Language: From ChaucerThrough Frost by HaroldBloom 972 (NewYork: HarperCollins, pages, $34.95) excluding all poets born after 1900, Bloom also avoids havHumanitiesat Yale, and arguablythe most important ing to choose any black poets for inclusionin the canon.Not one of the 108 poets he has selected is black. and surelythe best read- literarycommentatorof our Had Bloom decided to include twentieth-century times, authoredThe WesternCanon: Books and Schools of poets for the Ages. In this book Bloom produceda list of hundredsof his canon, blacks such as Sterling Brown, Maya Angelou, canonicalbooks - works thatmattermost. The politicalCountee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Langston
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.
Alexie begins by creating a sympathetic tone by: stating how his family was poor and how his love for his father made him learn to read books. As Alexie progresses, he starts talking about when he first started to read. He was using a confident, rather cocky tone. He states how he was only three years when he picked up his first book. He explains how he taught himself by looking at pictures and dialogue, “I look at the narrative above the picture.
They will cite three quotes from the text to support their assertion. 5) Volunteers will share the character traits and quotations. 1) Bellringer- "Good listener…"stud tudents write for seven minutes and share with 2 o'clock buddies 2) Vocabulary of the week review activity 3) Poetry- as a group students will brainstorm examples of allusion and share with the class. They will close read the poem To A Mouse by Robert Burns and analyze each s stanza. 4) Groups will share their analysis with the whole