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Emily Dickinson. American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States.It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies). [1]
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Writers like Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and poets Ezra Pound, H.D. and T. S. Eliot demonstrate the growth of an international perspective in American literature. American writers had long looked to European models for inspiration, but whereas the literary breakthroughs of the mid-19th century came from finding distinctly American styles and ...
A literary style and movement in which magical elements appear in otherwise realistic circumstances. Most often associated with the Latin American literary boom of the 20th century [50] Gabriel García Márquez, Octavio Paz, Günter Grass, Julio Cortázar, Sadegh Hedayat, Nina Sadur, Mo Yan, Olga Tokarczuk: Neo-Romanticism
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Nick Carter (character) Colonel Cathcart; Holden Caulfield; Lemmy Caution; Hagbard Celine; Rebecca Chambers; Nick and Nora Charles; Frederick Chilton; John Clark (Ryanverse character) Claudia (American literary character) Clay (Less Than Zero) Peter Clemenza; Rooster Cogburn (character) The Continental Op; Anthony Corleone; Carmela Corleone ...
Charles Fenno Hoffman, for example, was a friend of Griswold and, despite having little literary reputation, was granted twice as much space as any other poet. [13] Responding to the idea that The Poets and Poetry of America represented the best that the United States had to offer, one British editor concluded, "with two or three exceptions ...
At its most basic, 'newspaper poetry' refers to poetry that appears in a newspaper. In 19th-century usage, the term acquired aesthetic overtones. Lorang, discussing newspaper poetry's reception in the United States, observes that '[p]erhaps the most commonly espoused view was that newspaper poetry was light verse unworthy of the space it required and unworthy of significant consideration'. [1]