Medailonky autorů
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. (1807 - 1882).
L i f e
- received university education in Europe
- became a scholar, professor of modern languages at Harvard
- became one of the intellectual triumvirate based in Boston including also J. R. Lowell and...
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Lowell, James Russell. (1819 - 1891).
L i f e
- one of the most versatile and respected literary figures in America in the 2nd half of the 19th century
- a poet, critic, essayist, editor, linguist, teacher, reformer, and diplomat
- received...
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Masters, Edgar Lee. (1869 - 1950).
W o r k
- poet, playwright, biographer, novelist
P o e t r y :
Spoon River Anthology (1915) and The New Spoon River Anthology (1924):
< E. A. Robinson’s stoicism and his naturalistic portraits
< the...
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Mather, Cotton. (1663 - 1728).
L i f e
- colonist in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, New England, grandson of the Colony founders Richard Mather and John Cotton, and son of the influential minister Increase Mather
- received...
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McKay, Claude. (1889 - 1948).
L i f e
- born in Jamaica x but: lived in England, Japan, and US
W o r k
P o e t r y :
Songs of Jamaica (1912):
- a collection of rural poems in an authentic local Jamaican dialect
- a romantic...
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Melville, Herman. (1819 - 1891).
L i f e
- a sailor: jumped the whaling ship Acushnet for a too rough discipline, and spent several weeks among the cannibals on the South Pacific islands
- his realistic and rich prose not acknowledged in his...
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Miller, Henry. (1891 - 1980).
L i f e
- spent the money to support him on the university on travelling with his mistress, left without degree
- underwent a variety of odd jobs, including a post with a telegraph company, responsible for...
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Moore, Marianne. (1887 - 1972).
W o r k
- promoted the modernist poetry: re-established and edited the originally Transcendentalist magazine The Dial as an avant-garde magazine
< E. Dickinson: though Dickinson was established only in her...
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Morton, Thomas. (ca 1590 - 1647).
L i f e
- colonist in Massachussets, New England, founder of the Merrymount Colony (later Wollaston, now Quincy, Massachusetts)
- a counterpart of the pious Plymouth Protestants: established trade relations...
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Norris, Frank. (1870 - 1902).
W o r k
- a naturalist and critical realist
< influenced by Emile Zola > his early determination to portray life with a photography-like fidelity
< Social Darwinism > his conviction individuals...
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O'Neill, Eugene. (1888 - 1953).
L i f e
- his father was an extremely successful actor, his mother a morphine addict, and his older brother James an alcoholic
- despised the popular theatre represented by his father, decided to...
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Odets, Clifford. (1906 - 1963).
L i f e
- son of Lithuanian-Jewish parents
- a political leftist, sympathiser with Marxism, and member of the US Communist Party
W o r k
- established himself as the champion of the underprivileged
- helped to...
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Paine, Thomas. (1737 - 1809).
L i f e
>> left for Philadelphia on the eve of the American Revolution
- edited the journal Pennsylvania Magazine, or American Museum, published his numerous topical essays
- became a popular...
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Poe, Edar Allen. (1809 - 1849).
L i f e
- son of wandering actors: his mother died when he was young, his father disappeared, adopted by the childless Richmond merchant John Allen
- lived with his aunt Mrs Clemm in Baltimore, and married her...
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Pound, Ezra. (1885 - 1972).
W o r k
- a poet, literary critic, social critic, translator, and literary entrepreneur
- began to transform English literatura immediately after his moving to London = ‘the place for poetry’ (1908)
- exported...
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