Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Writing in 1901, the distinguished black critic and poet William Stanley Braithwaite argued, "We are at the commencement of a 'negroid' renaissance," one that "will have as much importance in literary history as the much- spoken-of and much-praised Celtic and Canadian renaissance." Others came to share his optimism. Just three years later, a critic declared the birth of the "New Negro Literary Movement." At the time, after all, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the novelists Pauline Hopkins and Charles Chesnutt, and the essayists W.E.B. DuBois and Anna Julia Cooper were at the height of their creative powers...
...poet, who holds numerous honorary degrees from prestigious universities across the country, is spending this semester at his home in Dublin and is currently traveling in Australia, an English Department spokesperson said yesterday...
Heaney, a famed Irish poet whose work has been canonized in the Norton Anthologies of English Literature, Poetry and Modern Poetry, teaches poetry writing seminars to undergraduates each spring...
...Poet lived a life divided by elation and sorrow, each emotion intensifying the glory or bitterness of the other. Fortified by fiery wit and fiery whiskey, Oscar Wilde tackled the foibles of Victorian society with equal panache at the Albermarle Club and Reading Jail. As poet, dramatist, novelist, and aesthete, Wilde succeeded in expressing through his writing the myriad emotions he experienced and observed in the world around...
...lack of continuity is some-what remedied by the actress who performs this one-woman play. Winsome Brown takes on the role, not only of the poet, but of his friends and enemies and his fictional characters as well...