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In 1797, Mathews married Eliza Kirkham Strong (1772–1802) of Exeter, the author of a volume of poems and some novels, and an actress. [8] She retired from the stage in 1801 and died in 1802. In 1803, Mathews married Anne Jackson (died 1869), an actress and half sister to the actress Frances Maria Kelly. Anne Jackson Mathews wrote a biography ...
1996: Walking the Black Cat: Poems, [30] (National Book Award in Poetry finalist) 1997: Looking for Trouble: Selected Early and More Recent Poems. Faber and Faber. 1997. ISBN 9780571192335. 1999: Jackstraws: Poems [30] (The New York Times Notable Book of the Year) ISBN 9780156010986; 1999: Simic, Charles (1999). Selected Early Poems. ISBN ...
Charles E. Wadsworth Jr. (March 3, 1917 – August 21, 2002) was an American painter, printmaker, and poet. He was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey and moved to Cranberry Isles, Maine in the 1940s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His art and writing frequently deal with themes of nature and the "austere enchantments" of life on Maine's islands, as Wadsworth himself ...
Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 – 29 March 1788) was an English Anglican cleric and a principal leader of the Methodist movement. Wesley was a prolific hymnwriter who wrote over 6,500 hymns during his lifetime. [ 2 ]
According to Marjorie Perloff: “Charles Bernstein is our ultimate connoisseur of chaos, the chronicler, in poems of devastating satire, chilling and complex irony, exuberant wit, and, above all, profound passion, of the contradictions and absurdities of everyday life in urban America at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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 Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems [ 1 ] and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac . [ 2 ]
After attending Longton High School, Tomlinson read English at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied with Donald Davie.After leaving university he taught for several years in Camden Town, London, followed by a brief period as secretary to Percy Lubbock in Italy, before returning to London as an M.A. student at Royal Holloway, University of London.