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1976 in literature – Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman; Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire; Richard Yates's The Easter Parade; Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's The Final Days; Samuel R. Delany's Triton; Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family; Agatha Christie's Sleeping ...
Stephen Toussaint (born 22 March 1965) is a British actor and writer. He first gained prominence through his role in the ITV crime drama The Knock (1994–2000). Currently, he plays Lord Corlys Velaryon in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon .
1950 in poetry – Death of Edna St. Vincent Millay; Birth of Mary Dorcey, Medbh McGuckian; 1951 in poetry – Birth of Paul Muldoon; 1952 in poetry – Death of Paul Éluard, George Santayana; Birth of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill; 1953 in poetry – Death of Dylan Thomas; Birth of Frank McGuinness; 1954 in poetry – Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!
1348 – Jan of Jenštejn, Archbishop of Prague, writer, composer and poet (died 1400) c. 1363 – Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥 元清), Japanese Noh actor and playwright (died c. 1443) 1364 – Christine de Pizan, Venetian-born Middle French court poet and writer (died c. 1430) c. 1368 – Thomas Hoccleve, English poet and clerk (died 1426)
A print of Samuel Johnson, based on a portrait by Joshua Reynolds, later used in the 1806 edition of the Lives of the Poets. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
Title page of Toussaint's life story. 1854, a biography, Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo, was written by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee and published in Boston, one of the genres known as slave narratives. [7] The Pierre Toussaint Haitian-Catholic Center in Miami, Florida, is named for him. [12]
The name "fireside poets" is derived from that popularity; their writing was a source of entertainment for families gathered around the fire at home. The name was further inspired by Longfellow's 1850 poetry collection The Seaside and the Fireside. [3] Lowell published a book titled Fireside Travels in 1864 which helped solidify the title. [4]
Toussaint finally got into trouble because of his book in 1757, during the period when Robert Damiens attempted to assassinate Louis XV of France. This was the moment when Les Mœurs came to be regarded as a book that could lead to regicide. Also Toussaint illegally sold 400 copies of an illegal reprint of Claude Adrien Helvétius's De l'esprit.