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Karr's head is drawn on the body of a wasp (alluding to Les Guêpes) and annotated "KARicature" (sic). The short story "Les Willis" was the basis of Giacomo Puccini's opera Le Villi (1884). The bamboo species Bambusa multiplex Alphonse Karr was named in his honour. [16] Numerous roads have been named after him including: Rue Alphonse Karr in Paris
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The marriage ends contentiously, and he implicates Margo in the murder of Wade Meecham and blackmails his ex-lover, Raven Alexander. Eliot becomes romantically involved with possessive Hollywood actress Nola Madison. Margo is bludgeoned to death, and her son-in-law Draper Scott is convicted of her murder.
A younger son of a Yorkshire family, little is known of Henry Wyatt before he adopted the cause of Henry Tudor, later to become king Henry VII.Many myths and assumptions have been woven around his privations in prison as a supporter of the Tudor party's opposition to Richard III in the years 1483–85, and are still to be found recounted as facts.
Karr won a 1989 Whiting Award for her poetry. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005 and has won Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and essays. Karr has published five volumes of poetry: Abacus (Wesleyan University Press, CT, 1987, in its New Poets series), The Devil's Tour (New Directions NY, 1993, an original TPB), Viper Rum (New Directions NY, 1998, an original TPB), Sinners Welcome ...
Thomas Garbáty sees the poem as a humorous parody of the Arthurian legend, where Arthur is cowed by both the challenging knight and Ragnelle, "passing the buck" to Gawain. [5] The Wedding of Sir Gawain survives in a poorly copied 16th-century manuscript located in the Bodleian Library (Bodleian 11951, formerly Rawlinson C. 86) [ 6 ] though it ...
The Reagans came together to protect New York City in the epic and emotional Blue Bloods series finale after a madman threatened to put all their lives in danger. Warning: Spoilers below for Blue ...
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison. The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.