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Frances Sargent Osgood (née Locke; June 18, 1811 – May 12, 1850) was an American poet and one of the most popular women writers during her time. [1] Nicknamed "Fanny", she was also famous for her exchange of romantic poems with Edgar Allan Poe.
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same ...
The World's Wife is Carol Ann Duffy's fifth collection of poetry. Her previous collection, Standing Female Nude, is tied to romantic and amorous themes, while her collection The Other Country takes a more indifferent approach to love; The World's Wife continues this progression in that it critiques male figures, masculinity, and heterosexual love to instead focus on forgotten or neglected ...
The six best-known English male authors are, [citation needed] in order of birth and with an example of their work: William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; William Wordsworth – The Prelude
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist; Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945), Polish poet; Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), English poet, first woman to receive Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, in 1955; Esther Raab (1894–1981), Palestinian/Israeli poet and prose writer; Elsa Rautee (1897–1987 ...
Scholars have confirmed the cherished place of romantic love in Pilgrim culture, [2] and have documented the Indian war described by Longfellow. [3] Miles Standish and John Alden were likely roommates in Plymouth; [4] Priscilla Mullins was the only single woman of marriageable age in the young colony at that time and did in fact marry Alden. [3]
May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton [1] (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), a Belgian-American novelist, poet, and memoirist.Although her best work is strongly personalised with erotic female imagery, she resisted the label of ‘lesbian writer’, preferring to convey the universality of human love.
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, [1] the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. [2]