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The Library of Congress produces a guide to American poetry inspired by the 9/11 attacks, including anthologies and books dedicated to the subject. [33] [34] Robert Pinsky has a special place in American poetry as he was the poet laureate of the United States for three terms. [35] No other poet has been so honored.
Pages in category "Characters in American novels of the 20th century" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 238 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Dr. Seuss characters (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Characters in poems" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
Omar ibn Said, a Muslim slave in the Carolinas, wrote an autobiography in Arabic in 1831, considered an early example of African-American literature. [26] [27] [28] Robert Montgomery Bird wrote Calavar in 1834 and Nick of the Woods in 1837. James Fenimore Cooper was a notable author best known for his novel The Last of the Mohicans written in ...
The immediate success of "The Raven" prompted Wiley and Putnam to publish a collection of Poe's prose called Tales in June 1845; it was his first book in five years. [35] They also published a collection of his poetry called The Raven and Other Poems on November 19 which included a dedication to Barrett as "the Noblest of her Sex". [36]
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...
Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre.
The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th-and 19th-century literary genre which presents and celebrates the concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility. Sentimentalism, which is to be distinguished from sensibility, was a fashion in both poetry and prose fiction beginning in the eighteenth century in reaction to ...