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...Hill ’08 first stumbled across this verse from Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene” after searching his name on Google, although he says that his name was probably more inspired by folk artist Arlo Guthrie than the Elizabethan poet.“My parents didn’t know of the reference,” says Hill, whose first name also happens to mean “hill.” “They wanted an ‘A’ name after my great-grandfather, Alec...
...Many people have asked whether I’m still alive and still writing,” said 78 year-old Adrienne Rich ’51, the acclaimed poet and feminist...
...first poet chosen to be as a Rothschild lecturer, said Nancy F. Cott, director of the Schlesinger Library...
...face is mask-like. Gone are El Greco’s expressive brush strokes, replaced with a new artistic naturalism that focuses on the realistic representation of fabric folds and shadows.Velazquez’s first work in the exhibit is a psychologically intense portrait of the famous Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote, whose somber dress dramatically emphasizes his dramatic features, creating a clear contrast with the expressionless paintings of the monarchs.Past the portraits is a large gallery devoted to religious paintings of the period, which comprise the bulk of the show. On display between...
...answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." But instead of joining the chorus of black voices swelling with nostalgia to return to their African roots, Douglass stayed put. Poet Langston Hughes grieved in verse that "(America never was America to me) ... (There's never been equality for me,/ Nor freedom in this 'homeland of the free')." But his lament is couched in a poem whose title, like its author, yearns for acceptance: Let America Be America Again...