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Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter.
Several poems look at the narrator’s parents — the poetry isn’t necessarily autobiographical — particularly one called “Drunken Monologue From an Alcoholic Father’s Oldest Daughter.”
Aeronwy Thomas' Poetry Reading in Turin, Italy, 2006 Homage to Aeronwy Thomas, painting by Davide Binello, 2011. Aeronwy Bryn Thomas-Ellis (3 March 1943 – 27 July 2009) [1] was a poet, writer and translator of Italian poetry. She was the second child and only daughter of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife, Caitlin Macnamara.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death.
Oklahoma celebrates the holiday the week containing November 11, Veterans Day, while Florida and Arkansas celebrate it the last full week of September. [3] [4] Kansas passed the law to make it an official holiday week and became effective on July 1, 2013. [5] Arkansas passed House Bill 2756 and made it official as Act 682 on March 26, 2003. [3]
Hughes is the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her mother was an American novelist and poet, and her father was the British poet laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. Her mother died by suicide when Frieda was almost three; her father died of a heart attack while being treated for cancer.
On Wednesday, Dec. 4, the Big Little Lies alum, 57, posed with her 13-year-old daughter Faith as the mother-daughter duo made a rare appearance together at The Hollywood Reporter's Annual Women In ...
Her infancy inspired William Wordsworth to write "Address to My Infant Daughter" [2] in her honour. As an adult, she was further immortalised by him in the 1828 poem "The Triad", [3] along with Edith Southey [4] and Sara Coleridge, daughters of her father's fellow Lake Poets. In 1843, at the age of 39, Dora Wordsworth married Edward Quillinan.