... , they contributed little or nothing to any literary tradition, thereby limiting the scope of Indian-English poetry in the pre-independence period. The post-independence scenario emerged different. Admittedly, Indian writing in English is a very urban-India phenomenon. Urban India has seen a whole generation grow up on English as a medium of thought, communication, and expression. A large section of people even thinks ... thinks Indian; his thoughts, attitudes and perspectives remain fiercely Indian. For him, English remains just another language, not Indian, not foreign; just his langua...

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... be a fool for doing something unwise, but to be twice a fool for essentially the same reason causes heightened distress. When the author talks of writing his words down in "whining poetry" he knows he is just droning on about his grief. Another example is when he discusses "draw[ing] my ... and grief of an unrequited love through his use of sorrowful diction. John Donne uses superb imagery to show the reader his emotional condition before writing his poetry. Before expressing his feelings in poetry John Donne overcomes his self-pity and initial emotional breakdown by crying as described ...

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... at age nineteen, he got his first job as a teacher at his old highschool (Smith 2). From then on, he worked many jobs such as writing streetcar advertisements, working the stock market, and various teaching positions (Wright 1). Soon, Ogden found a stable job as an editor and publicist for Doubleday Page ... Publishers (Trachtenberg 1). His boss, Dan Longwell encouraged Ogden to submit his poetry to The New Yorker (Wright 1). It was then that his writing career took off (Wright 1). On January 11, 1930, Nash's poem first appeared in the magazine (Smith 2). In 1932, Nash left his job ... ...

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... in French Fields, a collection of nearly one hundred translations of French poets, was the only work which Toru could see published during her life time. A novel in French entitled Le Journal de Maden Oiscelle Drivers was published posthumously. It was the first fiction written by an Indian. Toru's translation of French poets received enthusiastic appreciation both in Europe and India. A renowned ... in the famous poems like The Solitary Reaper and Ode to Nightingale respectively. On The Casuarina Tree, Iyanger's comment is very noteworthy: The Casuarina Tree is the super piece of writi...

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... Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri to a family of abolitionists. His father, James Nathaniel Hughes, was a storekeeper and his mother was a school teacher who also enjoyed writing poetry. The brother of Langston's grandfather, John Mercer Langston, was the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. His childhood was marked by poverty and the ... a cattle rancher. "On the train, when he returned to the north, Hughes wrote one of his most famous poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". It appeared in the African-American journal crisis in 1921."...

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... yellow pad to coax an inquisitive soul from what she thinks of as the reluctance of matter, I drove into town to drink tea in the cafe and write notes in a journal -mist rose from the bay like the luminous and indefinite aspect of intention, and a small flock of tundra swans for the second winter in a row was feeding on new grass ... effect the world. Hass has held many jobs in his life that help other people to learn more about the English language and poetry. In 1967 he taught literature and writing at the State University of New York Buffalo. Four years later he went home to teach at...

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... a group including her brother. In 1925 Moore took over from Thayer as editor of the Dial, remaining there until 1929, at which time the journal was discontinued. After this, never marrying, Moore supported herself by freelance writing and with occasional help from former Dial backers. In 1929 she and her mother moved to Brooklyn, where Moore remained after her mother's death in ... ...

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... , and developed poems by drawing lines out of a hat and piecing them together. These were the beginnings of Dylan's career as a writer and poet. Before long he was reporting and writing feature articles for the paper and its weekly supplement, The Herald of Wales. Thomas began to spend much of his time exploring the streets, pubs, and alleys of the depression ... this period. In May of 1933, his poem "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" was published in the New English Weekly, marking the first appearance of his work in a London journal, and in December of the following year his first poet...

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... one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College but left without a degree. Over ... 's Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, so he could devote himself entirely too writing poetry. While in New England Frost's f...

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... a member of Johnson's club, to which Burke, Garrick, Reynolds, Goldsmith, and other 18th-century luminaries also belonged. Later that year he and Johnson toured Scotland, a visit Boswell described in The Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785; complete edition from manuscript, 1936). His great work, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., appeared in 1791. In it Boswell ... in Italy, and Gray returned to England in 1741. He continued his studies at Cambridge, and he remained there for most of his life, living in seclusion, studying Greek, and writing. In 1768 he w...

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