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John F. Kennedy Jr., publisher, son of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy (graduated 1979) Max Kennedy, author (expelled) [27] Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative from Rhode Island (graduated 1986) Vanessa Kerry, physician and health care administrator who founded the non-profit, Seed Global Health, daughter of John Kerry
According to Voltaire himself, the poem concerns and was written in honour of the life of Henry IV of France, and is a celebration of his life. [1] The ostensible subject is the siege of Paris in 1589 by Henry III in concert with Henry of Navarre, soon to be Henry IV , but its themes are the twin evils of religious fanaticism and civil discord.
James Frank Dobie was born on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, and was the eldest of six children. [1] [2] [3] When he was young, his father Richard read to him from the Bible and his mother Ella read to him from books such as Ivanhoe and Pilgrim's Progress.
A Cycle of the West is a collection of five epic poems (called "Songs") written and published over a nearly thirty-year span by John G. Neihardt.As one extended work of literature, the Cycle treats historical topics from the American settlement of the Great Plains and the displacement of the Native American cultures there.
John Gould Fletcher (January 3, 1886 – May 10, 1950) was an Imagist poet (the first Southern poet to win the Pulitzer Prize), author and authority on modern painting. [1] He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas , to a socially prominent family.
Henry Bohlen (1810–1862), Civil War Union brigadier general; George Henry Boker (1823–1890), poet, playwright, and diplomat; Joseph Bonnell (1802–1840), West Point graduate, hero of the Texas Revolution; Adolph E. Borie (1809–1880), Secretary of the Navy; John Bouvier (1781–1851), jurist and legal lexicographer
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (1896) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson. [1] It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1896, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Free Selector's Daughter", "Andy's Gone with Cattle", "Middleton's Rouseabout" and the best of Lawson's contributions to The Bulletin Debate ...