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Charles Sprague (October 26, 1791 – January 22, 1875) was an early American poet. He worked for 45 years for the State and Globe Banks and was often referred to as the "Banker Poet of Boston". His odes and prologues won several competitive prizes and were collected and published in 1841 as The Writings of Charles Sprague.
Faustin Charles (born 15 September 1944) is a Trinidad-born writer and storyteller, who moved to Britain in the 1960s. He is the author of novels, poetry and short stories, his work featuring in major anthologies of Caribbean writing. He published his first collection of poems in 1969.
Stardust is a 1999 fantasy novel by British writer Neil Gaiman, usually published with illustrations by Charles Vess. Stardust has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre-Tolkien English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and Hope Mirrlees.
According to Marjorie Perloff: “Charles Bernstein is our ultimate connoisseur of chaos, the chronicler, in poems of devastating satire, chilling and complex irony, exuberant wit, and, above all, profound passion, of the contradictions and absurdities of everyday life in urban America at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Charles Stuart Calverley (/ ˈ k ɑː v ər l ɪ /; 22 December 1831 – 17 February 1884) was an English poet and wit. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour".
Some critics have credited The World Doesn't End with a resurgence of the prose poem form in American Poetry. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Christopher Buckley argued that Simic chose the prose poem form because it most closely approximates the Eastern European folk tale .
Stork taught in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. [1]He wrote poems such as Beauty's Burden, [2] Death - Divination and The Silent Folk. [3] He translated the hymn "We Worship Thee, Almighty Lord" by Johan Olof Wallin, [4] and some of the songs of Carl Michael Bellman. [5]
Charles Murray (27 September 1864 – 12 April 1941) was a poet who wrote in the Doric dialect of Scots. He was one of three rural poets from the north-east of Scotland, the others being Flora Garry and John C. Milne , who did much to validate the literary use of Scots.