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The Sag Harbor Corrector's lengthy review not only told how a reviewer felt about the poem but also described its structure: "It was reserved for Sterling to enshrine in poetry the cosmic process of nature and to send his mind forth to the farthest stars and get from them, if possible, some light as to the origin and destiny of the universe ...
Francis Williams (c. 1690 – c. 1770) was a Jamaican scholar and poet who was one of the most notable free black people in Jamaica. Born in Kingston, Jamaica into a slaveholding family, Williams subsequently travelled to England where he officially became a British subject. After returning to Jamaica, he established a free school for free ...
Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021) [1][2] was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. [3] She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor, and teacher. She performed her work around the world, in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South-East Asia ...
This poem is central to Harold Bloom's reading of Stevens's Harmonium, as marking the poet's progress over the perspectivism of "The Snow Man" and the pessimism of "The Man whose Pharynx was bad". The reader who masters these poems and their interrelationships has, according to Bloom, "reached the center of Stevens's poetic and human anxieties ...
Jamaican Thomas MacDermot (1870–1933) is credited with fostering the creation of Jamaican literature. According to critic Michael Hughes, MacDermot was "probably the first Jamaican writer to assert the claim of the West Indies to a distinctive place within English-speaking culture," [2] and his Becka's Buckra Baby [3] as the beginning of modern Caribbean literature.
A Collection of Poems 1941–1989. John Joseph Maria Figueroa (4 August 1920 – 5 March 1999) was a Jamaican poet and educator. [1] He played a significant role in the development of Anglophone Caribbean literature both as a poet and an anthologist. He contributed to the development of the University College of the West Indies as an early ...
James Berry, OBE, Hon. FRSL (28 September 1924 – 20 June 2017), [1] was a Jamaican poet who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois. [2] Berry's writing often "explores the relationship between black and white communities and in particular, the excitement and tensions ...
Evan Jones (writer) Evan Gordon Newton Jones (29 December 1927 – 18 April 2023) was a Jamaican poet, playwright and screenwriter based in the United Kingdom. He was educated in Jamaica, the United States and England. Jones taught at schools in the United States before moving to England in 1956 and beginning a career as a writer.