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Ina Coolbrith was born Josephine Donna Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois, the last of three daughters of Agnes Moulton Coolbrith and Don Carlos Smith, brother to Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. [8] Coolbrith's father died of malarial fever four months after her birth, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and a sister died one month after that; [ 8 ] Coolbrith's mother ...
Clinton "Clint" Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of the number one New York Times Best Seller , How the Word Is Passed , which won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the top ten books of 2021 by the New York Times .
"North Atlantic Trade", poem by C. Fox Smith (credit to C.F.S.) published in Punch, Vol. 153, 22 August 1917. "Let Her Go!", poem by C. Fox Smith (credit to C.F.S.) published in Punch, Vol. 152, 28 March 1917. The Complete Poetry of Cicely Fox Smith, edited by Charles Ipcar and James Saville, published by Little Red Tree Publishing, June 15, 2012
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories and poetry, and an artist. He achieved early recognition in California (largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling) for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne.
A final photo has emerged of North Carolina grandparents on the roof of their home, surrounded by floodwaters, minutes before they drowned due to Hurricane Helene. Jessica Drye Turner’s family ...
This sets the sonnet apart from Smith's later River Arun poems, which "[see] the poet-historian as a preservationist with special power." [ 5 ] Instead, "To the South Downs" (alongside "Written at the Close of Early Spring" and "To Spring" in the first edition of Elegiac Sonnets ) is a classically Romantic poem, "specifically because those ...
Smith believed that her poetry, not her novels, granted her respectability. Smith's husband fled to France to escape his creditors. She joined him there until, thanks largely to her, he was able to return to England. After Benjamin Smith was released from prison, the entire family moved to Dieppe, France to avoid further creditors. Charlotte ...
Ada Smith was born on 25 March 1875, the fourth daughter of Robert Smith of Haltwhistle. [17] [18] Her mother Mary Ann died 1885, in Southport. [19] In 1887, the family went to London for a year, returning north then to Haydon Bridge. [18] In 1888, at age 13 or 14, she first published a poem.