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His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death. [5]
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation modernist American poet [1] who was a link between earlier modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist New American poets.
Charles Lamb in 1798, the year he wrote and published "The Old Familiar Faces". Drawn and engraved by Robert Hancock. "The Old Familiar Faces" (1798) is a lyric poem by the English man of letters Charles Lamb. Written in the aftermath of his mother's death and of rifts with old friends, it is a lament for the relationships he had lost.
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1780 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. [1]
Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams (November 4, 1936 – September 20, 2015) was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won many poetry awards. Williams won many poetry awards. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987.
This, Sorley's last poem, was recovered from his kit after his death. It was untitled, and so is commonly known by its incipit , or other titles. It is generally interpreted as a rebuttal to Rupert Brooke 's 1915 sonnet " The Soldier .", [ 2 ] which begins "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field ...
Every now and then, Charles Spencer (aka Princess Diana’s younger brother) will give royal fans a glimpse into his family history, whether that means sharing a rare throwback photo of a beloved ...
Charles Murray (27 September 1864 – 12 April 1941) was a poet who wrote in the Doric dialect of Scots. He was one of three rural poets from the north-east of Scotland, the others being Flora Garry and John C. Milne , who did much to validate the literary use of Scots.