Roger McGough

Roger Joseph McGough CBE (born 9 November 1937) is a well-known English performance poet. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please and records voice-overs for commercials, as well as performing his own poetry regularly. He is a Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and a member of the Executive Council of the Poetry. Poetry Summer with Monika 1967 Watchwords Cape, 1969 After The Merrymaking Cape, 1971 Out of Sequence Turret Books, 1972 Gig Cape, 1973 Sporting Relations Eyre Methuen, 1974 In the Glassroom Cape, 1976 Mr Noselighter André Deutsch, 1976 Frinck, A Life in the Day of, and Summer with Monika: Poems Joseph, 1978 Holiday on Death Row Cape, 1979 Unlucky for Some Bernard Stone, 1980 Waving at Trains Cape, 1982 Crocodile Puddles New Pyramid Press, 1984 Melting into the Foreground Viking, 1986 Noah's Ark Dinosaur, 1986 Worry Toni Savage, 1987 Counting by Numbers Viking Kestrel, 1989 Selected Poems, 1967-1987 Cape, 1989 You at the Back: Selected Poems, 1967-87 Cape,...

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John Keats

John Keats was born on 31 October 1795 (probably), first child of Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings Keats, who had apparently eloped1. Everything was pretty ordinary for all concerned for a while--the Keatses had three more sons (George and Thomas, plus Edward who died as a baby) and one daughter, Frances, by 1803. That was also the year when John went away to school at Enfield. In 1804, John\'s father was killed in a fall from a horse. Just over two months later, for mysterious reasons, Frances remarried, to a London bank clerk named William Rawlings. Frances quickly decided she\'d made some sort of terrible error and left, taking nothing with her since the laws of the time decreed that all her property and even her children belonged to her husband. Frances\' mother, Alice, swept in and took custody of the children, but she could do nothing about the Swan and Hoop, which Rawlings sold immediately before disappearing. It was around this time that John became prone to fistfights, which...

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John Grisham

Al doilea venit pe lume într-o familie cu 4 copii, s-a născut în Jonesboro, Arkansas, având părinți baptiști și cu posibilități modeste. Tatăl său era muncitor în construcții și într-o fermă de bumbac; mama sa era casnică. După o perioadă în care s-au mutat frecvent, familia s-a stabilit în 1967 în orașul Southaven, în districtul DeSoto, Mississippi, unde Grisham a absolvit liceul Southaven High School. Încurajat de mama sa, tânărul Grisham era pasionat de lectură și a fost influențat în special de John Steinbeck, a cărui claritate o aprecia. În 1977, Grisham a primit gradul de Bachelor of Science în contabilitate de la Mississippi State University (Universitatea de Stat Mississippi). În timp ce studia la MSU, autorul a început să țină un jurnal, un exercițiu care îl va ajuta mai târziu în strădaniile sale creative. Grisham a încercat să intre în echipa de baseball de la Delta State University dar a fost respins de către antrenorul legendar și de către aruncătorul Dave Feriss de la...

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John Ashbery

John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his Selected Prose, he characterizes himself as having been described as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry defies even the rules and logic of Surrealism." "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery", Langdon Hammer, chairman of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008. American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound". Stephen Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English has compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot, the "last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible" Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, and raised on a farm near Lake Ontario; his brother died when they were...

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John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902-1968), born in Salinas, California, came from a family of moderate means. He worked his way through college at Stanford University but never graduated. In 1925 he went to New York, where he tried for a few years to establish himself as a free-lance writer, but he failed and returned to California. After publishing some novels and short stories, Steinbeck first became widely known with Tortilla Flat (1935), a series of humorous stories about Monterey paisanos. Steinbeck's novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labour, but there is also a streak of worship of the soil in his books, which does not always agree with his matter-of-fact sociological approach. After the rough and earthy humour of Tortilla Flat, he moved on to more serious fiction, often aggressive in its social criticism, to In Dubious Battle (1936), which deals with the strikes of the migratory fruit pickers on California plantations. This was followed...

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John Donne

Donne s-a născut la Londra într-o familie romano-catolică, dar a trecut la religia anglicană în anul 1590. La vârsta de 11 ani și-a început studiile la Oxford, unde a învățat trei ani. Conform unor surse, el și-a petrecut următorii trei ani la Cambridge, dar nu și-a finalizat studiile de aici.În 1592, vrând să urmeze o carieră diplomatică sau juridică, a început să frecventeze cursurile universității Lincoln. Donne a fost secretarul particular al lui Thomas Egerton, în 1598. Căsătoria sa secretă, în 1601, cu nepoata lui Egerton, Anne More, a dus la concedierea sa din această funcție și chiar a fost, pentru o perioada scurtă de timp, la închisoare. În anii următori, Donne, și-a câștigat existența ca avocat. În această perioadă a scris Divine Poems(1607) și Biathanatos(proză postum publicată în 1644), în care el aduce argumente în sensul că ideea de sinucidere nu este în mod intrinsec și păcătoasă. Donne devine preot anglican în 1615. În 1621 el a fost numit decan la Catedrala Sf. Paul....

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John Keats

John Keats John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, though politics, rather than aesthetics, often dictated those opinions. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, audiences began to appreciate more fully the significance of the cultural change his work both presaged and helped to form. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats' poetry. He often felt himself working in the shadow of past poets, particularly Milton and Spenser, and only towards the end of his life produced his most original and most memorable poems, including a series of odes that remain among the most popular poems in English. Oscar Wilde, the aestheticist non pareil was to later write: "[...] who but the supreme and perfect artist could have got from a mere colour a motive so full of marvel: and now I am half enamoured of the...

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John Fowles

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JOHN LENNON

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