Joyce Fossen

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James Joyce

Joyce was born in Dublin, where his father was a rates collector. He was educated at a Jesuit school and University College, Dublin where he studied philosophy and language. When he was still an undergraduate, in 1900, his long review of Ibsen’s last play was published in the Fortnightly Review. At this time he also began writing his poems which were later collected in Chamber Music, published in 1907. In 1902 Joyce left Dublin for Paris, but returned the following year as his mother was dying. From 1904 he lived with Nora Barnacle, whom he married in 1931 (the year his father died), a son was born in 1905, and a daughter in 1918. Their home from 1905 to 1915 was Trieste, where Joyce taught English at the Berlitz school. In 1909 and 1912 he made his final trips to Ireland, attempting to arrange the publication of his first book Dubliners, which finally appeared in England in 1914. It was during this time that he was contacted by Ezra Pound, a leading champion of modernist writers who...

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James JOYCE

James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922) and Finneganns Wake (1939). Joyce\'s technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology, history, and literature, and created a unique language of invented words, puns, and allusions. James Joyce was born in Dublin, on February 2, 1882, as the son of John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman, who had failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of professions, including politics and tax collecting. Joyce\'s mother, Mary Jane Murray, was ten years younger than her husband. She was an accomplished pianist, whose life was dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. In spite of their poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class facade. From the age of six Joyce, was educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, at Clane, and then at...

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Georg Trakl

Poet austriac, născut la 3 februarie 1887 (la exact 5 ani de la nașterea lui James Joyce) în Salzburg, ca fiu al lui Tobias Trakl, comerciant șvab de proveniență bănățeană, și al Mariei Trakl; gimnaziul și liceul la Salzburg, cu două clase repetate; fire hipersensibilă, maladivă, citește mult, fiind impresionat mai cu seamă de Baudelaire și Dostoievski; încă din adolescență vădește înclinații spre alcool și droguri, nutrind și un puternic sentiment de dragoste pentru una dintre surori, Grete; la terminarea școlii intră practicant la o farmacie (1904-1908), în timpul liber complăcându-se într-o boemă obositoare, dar fondând și un club literar, lăsându-se antrenat în escapade nocturne, dar găsind și răgazul de a scrie poezie și teatru; în 1908 se înscrie la Universitatea din Viena unde obține, în 1910, diploma de farmacist; în 1911 îl cunoaște pe Ludwig von Ficker, editorul unei publicații de prestigiu, „Der Brenner”, la Innsbruck, care, intuind valoarea poetului și înțelegându-i...

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George Meredith

George Meredith (n. 12 februarie 1828 în Portsmouth; d. 18 mai 1909 în Flint Cottage) a fost un scriitor și poet englez . Romane The Ordeal of Richard Feveral Emilia Rhoda Fleming The Adventures of Harry Richmond The Egoist Diana of the Crossways Evan Harrington The Amazing Marriage Poezii Modern Love Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth A Faith on Trial A Reading of Live Last Poems

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Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts to Mary Gray Staples and Ralph Harvey. She spent most of her childhood in Boston. In 1945 she enrolled at Rogers Hall boarding school, Lowell, Massachusetts, later spending a year at Garland School. For a time she modeled for Boston`s Hart Agency. On August 16, 1948, she married Alfred Sexton and they remained together until 1973. She had two children named Linda Gray and Joyce Ladd. Poetry and Prose (collections and novels) Uncompleted Novel-started in the 1960s To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) The Starry Night (1961) All My Pretty Ones (1962) Live or Die (1966) – Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1967 Love Poems (1969) Mercy Street, a 2-act play performed at the American Place Theatre (1969), published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. Transformations (1971) ISBN 0-618-08343-X The Book of Folly (1972) The Death Notebooks (1974) The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975; posthumous) 45 Mercy Street (1976; posthumous) Anne Sexton:...

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Elizabeth Kim

Elizabeth Kim was born in Korea. Omma was killed by her brother and father ('honour killing') for the sin of sleeping with an American soldier and producing a mixed-race child, Elizabeth. There is no record of her birth or of her name. Dumped in a horrific orphanage in post-war Seoul, Kim was lucky to be adopted by a fundamentalist American family. But just as her American features doomed her in racist Korea, her Korean features served as a constant reminder that she wasn't good enough for her new all-white environment. Her mother had always told her that life was made up of ten thousand joys as well as ten thousand sorrows.

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