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The Mad Libs books were conceived around the same time as Strachey wrote the love letter generator. [3] It was also preceded by John Clark's Latin Verse Machine (1830-1843), the first automated text generator.
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...
On the Sidewalk Bleeding is a short story by an American author Ed McBain, also known as Evan Hunter. The story was first published in Manhunt magazine in 1956. [ 1 ] Its protagonist, a sixteen-year-old boy named Andy, bleeds to death on the sidewalk after being stabbed below the ribs by a member of a rival gang.
The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces "close imitations" of postmodernist writing. It was written in 1996 by Andrew C. Bulhak of Monash University using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars . [ 1 ]
The poem consisted of seven irregular ballad stanzas of 49 lines. [2] The poem was a satirical attack and criticism of the British government. Satan is depicted meeting with key members of the British government. [2] The poem was modelled on and meant as a continuation of "The Devil's Thoughts" of 1799 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert ...
In 2005, her album, “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection,” was nominated for the Grammy Best Spoken Word Album. She was also named one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 “Living Legends.” In the ...
Another copy of Tamerlane and Other Poems was published in a 1941 facsimile by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, [10] [27] who provided the introduction; his correction and additions to this are found in a subsequent publication. [28] A further copy was found in 1988 by a Massachusetts man rummaging around in a bin at an antiques barn in New Hampshire. [29]
Edwin Brock (19 October 1927 – 7 September 1997) was a British poet.Brock published ten volumes of poetry from 1959 through his death in 1997. Two of Brock's poems In particular -- Five Ways to Kill a Man (1972) and Song of the Battery Hen (1977) -- have been heavily anthologized.