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John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
Barbara Ellen Johnson (October 4, 1947 – August 27, 2009) was an American literary critic and translator, born in Boston.She was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University.
Though later critics have disputed both Lowes' findings and method, The Road to Xanadu, [8] according to English author Toby Litt, is "a book of a lifetime": "Its argument, that Coleridge had one of the most extraordinary minds the world has ever seen, is there on every page"; it "is one of the books which helped me understand what writing is."
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The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by American author J. D. Salinger that was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951. Originally intended for adults, it is often read by adolescents for its themes of angst and alienation, and as a critique of superficiality in society.
John Reynolds (c.1588–c.1655) was an English merchant and writer from Exeter. He produced a series of violent stories around marriage, adultery and murder, as well as some political writings that caused him to be imprisoned.
[17] [18] His PhD dissertation was a computer-aided stylistic analysis of the English prose of Samuel Beckett. [19] After leaving Texas in 1968, he was awarded his doctorate in 1969. [20] In 1968, Coetzee began teaching English literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he stayed until 1971.
The two corresponded frequently, and Bly would translate Tranströmer's poems into English. In 2001 Bonniers , Tranströmer's publisher, released Air Mail , a work consisting of Tranströmer's and Bly's day-to-day correspondence on personal, contemporary and literary matters c. 1965–1991 – in a style that vividly conveyed how close friends ...