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William Allingham (1824 or 1828–1889), Irish poet and man of letters; Washington Allston (1779–1843), US painter and poet; Damaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist and critic; Alta (Alta Gerrey; 1942–2024), US poet and writer; Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist and translator; Alurista (born 1947 ...
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952); Bellamy Bach (pseudonym used by a group of writers); Joseph M. Bachelor (1889–1947); Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey (1812–1888); Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940)
Oceanic was published in 2018 and won the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for poetry. [5] She is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book of essays World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments , which was published in 2020 by Milkweed Editions and was a Barnes & Noble Book of ...
Olen (poet), early poet from Lycia who went to Delos Onomacritus , (c. 530 – 480 BC), also known as Onomacritos or Onomakritos, a chresmologue , or compiler of oracles Oppian or Oppianus (in Greek, Οππιανος) was the name of the authors of two (or three) didactic poems in Greek hexameters, formerly identified as one poet, but now ...
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) [1] [2] [3] is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age ...
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy told Channel 4 News that the poem was "the darkest poem he has ever written" and said that for her it was "almost unbearable to read". [65] In 2011, several previously unpublished letters from Hughes to Craig Raine were published in the literary review Areté. [66]