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Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri at 634 S. Broadway where today his boyhood home is open to the public as The Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum. [1] After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by an aunt, Mary Field French, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Louis Untermeyer was the author or editor of close to 100 books, from 1911 until his death. Many of them and his other memorabilia are preserved in a special section of the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Schools used his Modern American and British poetry books widely, and they often introduced college students to poetry.
Louis died on July 6, 1976, [11] [12] [13] and his son Allen, who learned to rhyme from his father, [14] wrote the rhyming poem, Father Death Blues for him on July 8, 1976, over Lake Michigan. Portraits of the Ginsberg family were taken by photographer Richard Avedon and exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery [ 15 ] and the Israel Museum .
At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert Blair's The Grave and Edward Young's Night-Thoughts. At its broadest, it can describe a host of poetry and prose works popular in the early and mid-eighteenth century.
April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg (born 1890), English war poet, killed in Fampoux in the Somme at dawn (there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close combat); first buried in a mass grave, but in 1926, his remains are identified and reinterred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery [24] [25] Plot V, St. Laurent ...
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Nell Smith, the Canadian teenage music prodigy known for her collaborations with The Flaming Lips, has died.She was 17. Smith’s death was confirmed by Simon Raymonde, known as the former bassist ...
Despite his late start, he was a frequent contributor to magazines and anthologies and eventually published fifty-seven volumes of poetry. James Dickey called Stafford one of those poets "who pour out rivers of ink, all on good poems." [8] He kept a daily journal for 50 years, and composed nearly 22,000 poems, of which roughly 3,000 were ...