Word: poet
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...over artists and entertainers involved a lot of passionate diatribes conducted as if we were swigging tequila at all-night bull sessions in a sophomore dorm. In order to rationalize the process (somewhat), we divided the world of arts into 20 categories, ranging from writer to singer to poet to painter to actor, and chose the most influential in each...
Portrait did not sell well enough to relieve Joyce's chronic financial worries, but his work by then had attracted the attention of a number of influential avant-gardists, most notably the expatriate American poet Ezra Pound, who believed a new century demanded new art, poetry, fiction, music--everything. Such supporters rallied to promote Joyce and his experimental writings, and he did not disappoint them...
...Andrew Eliot left East Coker in Somerset, England, for Boston. Two hundred and eighteen years later, his direct descendant, Thomas Stearns Eliot--who would become the most celebrated English-language poet of the century--was born in St. Louis, Mo., to a businessman and a poet, Henry and Charlotte Eliot. Although young Tom was brilliantly educated in English and European literature and in Eastern and Western philosophy and religion, he fled--in his mid 20s--the career in philosophy awaiting him at Harvard, and moved to England. There he married (disastrously), met the entrepreneurial Ezra Pound and, while working...
...Nobel Prize-winning doctor, a noted Irish poet, a media mogul, a former president of Ireland and five professors from Harvard and Yale are this year's nine honorary degree recipients...
Anne Bradstreet would never have been admitted to Harvard 300 years ago, but last October, Harvard dedicated a gate by Canaday Hall in the poet's honor...