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
Rimbaud The Drunken Boat Introduction Arthur Rimbaud was a french poet that lived in Paris during the second half of the nineteenth century. He is remembered for his writing of three major works: The Drunken Boat, Illuminations, and A Season in Hell. Of the three, The Drunken Boat is the most celebrated; it is filled with symbolic exaggerations and metaphorical clauses. In fact, his work was the poetic equivalent to the impressionist and symbolist movements that were developing in all branches of the arts at that time. Rimbaud has had a profound effect on many celebrated poets since his death in late 1891 after being diagnosed with cancer.
Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, known principally for his poems about life in the Midwest. It has been 49 years since he has died and today he is virtually forgotten. His book of poems entitled Spoon River Anthology may spark a small amount of recognition. This book is a work of free verse poems about the secret lives of the inhabitants of Spoon River, a small Midwest town based on Lewistown and Petersburg, Illinois. This book remains a landmark in the literature world of realism and revolt against conventional social standards that flourished in the early 20th century.
Teiresias tells Odysseus he will reach home eventually but must always return to the sea. This shows that Odysseus’s journey is where his “true home is” (Yoak). “He must literally go through hell to find happiness and appreciate it” (Yoak). The first obstacle Odysseus must overcome is the song of the Sirens. These creatures sing to lure sailors to their doom.
Most of his education in literature was focused on 'Anglo-European' cultures, with little introduction to Latin American literature or writers. Despite that he was greatly influenced by the book “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by 1982 Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Marquez who later became Rivera's mentor at the Sundance Institute (Westgate, 2007). Chris Westgate wrote of Reivera in a play review “Rivera incorporates many of his life experiences into his plays. In The Promise and Each Day Dies With Sleep, Rivera discusses his experiences as a Puerto Rican in a small American town, with an emphasis on family, sexuality , spirituality and the occult. Marisol was inspired by the situation of his homeless uncle.” Some of Jose's works and contributions are as follows.
He was most known for his novel’s ‘East is Eden’ (1952) and ‘the Grape of Wrath’ (1939), which he won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Steinbeck was also a Nobel Peace prize winner; winning the award for literature in 1962. He died in 1968 in New York. Of Mice and Men is based on a ranch in Salinas valley primarily. It tells the story of Lennie Smalls a mentally challenged man, with a big-strong muscular stature, and that of George Milton an intelligent- smaller yet cynical man.
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.
An epic story that inspired many authors to write their own version of it, “The Odyssey.” The mastermind of this story was Homer (Greek; W Hómēros), a blind poet, who majored in ancient Greek literature. He was said to be born around 800 B.C. and yet, we still read one of his greatest novels to this day. Odysseus, who is the main character of the story, has many obstacles to overcome. But luckily, his courage helps him find his way home.
English 110 New Criticism/Carver essay Apprehension Raymond Carver is an American poet and short story author, and is recognized by the Philadelphia Inquirer, as “one of the great short story writers of all time.” Carver is known for his average Joe characters, which help the reader closer relate to his stories. Cathedral, considered to be his greatest literary work, is a set of twelve short stories first published in 1983. The first of his featured stories, “Feathers,” is story told in the first- person point-of -view by the narrator, Jack. The story is a recollection of a time when he and his wife, Fran, were, as far as they knew, still happy. However, little did they know, their lives would change forever by a simple invitation to the house of his coworker, Bud, and his wife, Olla.
Memories Of My Melancholy Whores is one of Gabriel Gracia Marquez’s ( The Author Of One Hundred Years Of Solitude ) great piece of work. This novel was originally published in 2004 with a Spanish title and published again in oktober 2005 with and English translation by Edith Grossmen. However, Memories Of My Melancholy Whores was not the best of Gracia Marquez novels, and in comparion to the Love In The Time of Cholera, this novel is lighter and more casual. But it has its own unique wisdom throughout style. This novel is about a man who has reached the age of ninety and wished to have a wild love with a fourteen years of virgin as gift for his birthday.