Settling in Collingwood (Melbourne, Victoria) he worked as a photographer's assistant through the 1870s while studying art at night under Louis Buvelot and befriending others who were to become prominent artists. He returned to England for three years of full-time art study at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881 to 1884. Through the 1880s and 1890s he worked in Victoria, at the famous studio complex of Grosvenor Chambers in Melbourne, and at a number of artists' camps and visits around the colony. He married Elizabeth Williamson in 1896, had a son, Caleb. Many of his most famous paintings come from this period.
Rumi Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī commonly known as Rumi was a 13th century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. In 2007, he was described as the "most popular poet in America. He was born in Persia to native Persian speaking parents in the village of Wakhsh.
Nathanael was such an inspiring writer and very unique with a lot of passion. Nathanael was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. He knew many famous people and went to college with poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future president Franklin Pierce. A historical event that Mr. Hawthorne grew up to know about was that his great-grand father was a magistrate during the 1692 Salem witch trials. Nathanael came from a respected well known family.
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.
Richard Wilbur was born in New York City on March 1, 1921, to Lawrence L. Wilbur, a portrait painter, and Helen Purdy Wilbur, whose father and grandfather had been newspaper editors. Wilbur felt influences from both sides of his family. He enjoyed drawing and creating cartoons when he was young, but he also had a passion for words. His interests were combined when he began writing poems, since he uses vivid visual images in his poetry. When he was two, Wilbur moved with his family to rural New Jersey.
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.
These concerns were firmly established early in twentieth-century American poetry by the New England poets Robert FROST and Wallace STEVENS, then later by, along with Bronk, Robert CREELEY and George OPPEN, and in the nineteenth century by Henry David Thoreau (an especially strong influence on Bronk), Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emily Dickinson. Bronk was born in Fort Edward, near Hudson Falls, New York where he lived all his life except for his student years at Dartmouth College and Harvard University, a period of military service during World War II and a brief stint as an instructor at Union College. Even after he gained a wide readership, Bronk shrank from public attention and concentrated on his immediate surroundings. His writing expresses his refusal to compromise his life style and point of view as in his poem "The Abnegation" (1971): "I will not / be less than I am to be more human." He believes that what he knows of the world is only a semblance of the truth at best.
This poem was one of Fitzgerald’s many poems that he composed during his lifetime, this one in particular written in 1920 in New York. The poem stemmed from Fitzgerald’s success with his first novel, This Side of Paradise which became one of the most popular books that year. The purpose of the poem was to entail the transformation of Fitzgerald’s life from being empty and unfulfilled to having the best time of his life where his novel became successful, having impressed and married the woman he loved and becoming friends with many American expatriates in Paris, most notably Ernest Hemingway. Gaining his new found fortune, he made several excursions to Paris and the French Rivera, using the lines ‘we leave tonight’ to express so, as well as to also express Fitzgerald’s leap towards fame, fortune and luxury. Imagery is used substantially in the poem, for example, the still, deserted street, the moonless way, the sea is white, hollow highways and more.
The author will quote poems from Quincy Adam’s journal and will then try to evaluate what he was implying. John Quincy also wrote documents in the newspaper supporting his father and while he was doing that he would take care of his sick mother (134-136). Overall John Quincy Adams was a very talented writer and most importantly an influential
Research Paper over William Blake An English poet, painter, and printmaker, William Blake is known for idiosyncratic views. He is highly regarded today for his creativity. He was a philosophical man with mystical wonders that resided with his work. His work has been characterized as part of the Romantic Movement that appeared a lot in the 18th century. William was born November 28, 1757 in London to a middle-class family.