Leon Feraru

Leon Feraru (pseudonim al lui Leon Enselberg; 1887, Brăila - 1961, New York) este un poet, traducător și istoric literar. Provine dintr-o familie de condiție modestă (tatăl era fierar, de unde pseudonimul). A urmat școala primară și Liceul „Nicolae Bălcescu" în orașul natal. Este licențiat în litere și drept al Universității din Montpellier. Debutează în revista „Lumea israelită" a lui S. Grossman. Mai tânăr prieten și colaborator al lui D. Anghel, a publicat împreună cu acesta câteva poezii (Halucinații, Orologiul, Vezuviul) sub pseudonimul Ola Cânta, în 1913 părăsește România, stabilindu-se în cele din urmă la New York, din cauza unor scandaluri xenofobe, ca acela stârnit de reprezentarea piesei Manasse de Ronetti-Roman. Feraru păstrează și după emigrare contactul cu revistele din țară, cărora le trimite reportaje, impresii, poezii. După un stagiu de conferențiar la Universitatea din Toronto, devine profesor de limbi și literaturi romanice la Universitatea Columbia din New York...

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Irving Layton

Born Israel Pincu Lazarovitch in Târgu Neamț to Jewish parents, he emigrated with his family to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1913. Layton graduated from Macdonald College in 1939 and received his M.A. in economics and political science from McGill University in 1946. He was an influential teacher (he taught modern English and American poetry at Sir George Williams University and at York University in Toronto) and many of his students became poets, writers, and artists. Throughout the 1950s on to the 1980s, Layton travelled widely abroad and became especially popular in South Korea and Italy, and in 1981 these two nations nominated him for the Nobel Prize for Literature. (The prize that year was instead awarded to novelist Gabriel García Márquez.) Among his many awards during his career was the Governor-General's Award for A Red Carpet for the Sun in 1959. In 1976 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1995, Layton was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died at the...

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Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (June 20, 1786 - July 23, 1859) was a French poet. She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore. She published Élégies et Romances, her first poetic work, in 1819. Her melancholy, elegiacal poems are admired for their grace and profound emotion. Marceline appeared as an actress and singer in Douai, Rouen, the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, where she notably played Rosine in Beaumarchais's Le Barbier de Séville. She retired from the stage in 1823. She later became friends with the novelist Honoré de Balzac, and he once wrote that she was an inspiration for the title character of La Cousine Bette.[1] Her poetry is also known for taking on dark and depressing themes, which reflects her troubled life. She is the only female writer included in the famous Les poètes maudits anthology published by Paul...

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Louis Dudek

Louis Dudek, OC (February 6, 1918 – March 23, 2001) was a Canadian poet and literary critic and publisher of Polish origin. He is known for his writing, his role in defining Modernism in poetry, and his literary criticism. He was the author of over two dozen books of poetry, criticism, and other topics. He supported and initially published many poets, including other now-established writers including Daryl Hyne and Ken Norris. Born in Montreal, Quebec to a Catholic family which had emigrated from Poland, Dudek received a BA from McGill University in 1939. He joined the Department of English of McGill University in 1951, where he lectured in modern poetry. Dudek remained at McGill for the rest of his life. He founded Contact Press, a Montreal publisher of poetry in the 1950s and 1960s, with Raymond Souster and Irving Layton. Writer Robin Blaser called Dudek “Canada’s most important—that is to say, consequential modern voice.” The Dudek archives and many of his papers, known as the...

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Peter Weiss

Peter Ulrich Weiss (November 8, 1916 – May 10, 1982) was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his play Marat/Sade and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Weiss was born in Nowawes (now part of Potsdam-Babelsberg), Brandenburg, to a Hungarian Jewish father and Christian mother. At age three he moved with his family to Bremen, and then during his adolescence to Berlin where Weiss began training for a career as a visual artist. In 1934 he emigrated with his family to Chislehurst, near London, England, where he studied photography at the Polytechnic School of Photography, and then in 1937-1938 attended the Prague Art Academy. After the German occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938, his family moved to Sweden, and Weiss himself removed to Switzerland. In 1939 he again emigrated to Stockholm, Sweden, where he lived for the rest of his life. He became a Swedish citizen in 1946. Weiss was married three times: to the painter Helga...

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Renée Vivien

Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn (11 June 1877 - 18 November 1909) was a British poet who wrote in the French language.[1][2] She took to heart all the mannerisms of Symbolism, as one of the last poets to claim allegiance to the school. Her compositions include sonnets, hendecasyllabic verse, and prose poetry. Vivien was born in London, England to a wealthy British father and an American mother from Jackson, Michigan. She grew up in Paris and London. Upon inheriting her father's fortune at 21, she emigrated permanently to France. In Paris, Vivien's dress and lifestyle were as notorious among the bohemian set as was her verse. She lived lavishly, as an open lesbian, and carried on a well-known affair with American heiress and writer Natalie Clifford Barney. She also harbored a lifelong obsession with her closest childhood friend and neighbor, Violet Shillito – a relationship that remained unconsummated. In 1900 Vivien abandoned this chaste love, when the great romance with Natalie...

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (n. 22 mai 1859 - m. 7 iulie 1930) a fost un romancier britanic, celebru pentru a-l fi creat pe Sherlock Holmes--primul detectiv care apare într-o serie de romane polițiste. În afara acestora, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle a fost autorul a numeroase povestiri știintifico-fantastice, romane istorice, piese de teatru, romane de dragoste, poezie și texte inspirate direct din realitate (non-fiction). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s-a născut la Edinburgh, din părinți irlandezi care emigraseră în Scoția. A fost trimis la Stonyhurst, o școală a Iezuiților, la vârsta de 9 ani, deși când a absolvit-o în 1875 el abandonase deja creștinismul pentru a deveni un agnostic. Din 1876 până în 1881 a studiat medicina la Universitatea din Edinburgh, inclusiv o perioadă de practică petrecută la Aston (acum parte a districtului Birmingham). După absolvire s-a angajat ca doctor pe un vas care se îndrepta spre coasta Africii de Vest; în 1882 și-a deschis un cabinet la Plymouth. Și-a luat doctoratul...

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CLASICI AI EPIGRAMEI ROMANESTI

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