Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon (n. 3 octombrie 1897, Paris - d. 24 decembrie 1982, Paris) a fost pseudonimul literar al lui Louis-Marie Andrieux, poet și scriitor francez. Influențat de Charles Dickens, contele de Lautréamont, Lev Tolstoi, Maxim Gorki, este unul din reprezentanții realismului. Împreună cu André Breton și Paul Éluard fomează în 1924 suprarealismul. După absolvirea liceului Carnot, studiază medicina la Sorbona, unde îl cunoaște pe André Breton. În 1917, se înrolează și participă la Primul Război Mondial, lucrând la un spital militar. Aici îl cunoaște pe Guillaume Apollinaire, devenind prieteni apropiați. În 1927 aderă la mișcarea comunistă. În 1928 o cunoaște pe Elsa Triolet, scriitoare și participantă la Rezistența franceză, cu care se căsătorește în 1939. Poezie 1942: "C"; 1943: Muzeul Grévin ("Le Musée Grévin"); 1919: Foc de bucurie ("Feu de joie"); 1926: Mișcarea perpetuă ("Le Mouvement perpétuel"); 1929: Marea bucurie ("La Grande Gaîté"); 1930 - 1931: Acuzatul-acuzator ("Persécuté...

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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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Joseph Louis Vance

Louis Joseph Vance was born on September 19, 1879 in New York, New York (although some sources say Washington, DC). He was an American fiction writer of short stories, novels and screenplays. Vance was the son of Wilson and Lillie Beall Vance. Originally, Vance wanted to become an artist and illustrator and attended the Art Students League and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Vance married Nance Elizabeth Hodges in 1898. They had one son, Wilson Beall Vance who was born the following year. Vance was 26 years old when his first book,Terence O\'Rourke,Gentlema Adventurer was published in 1905. Vance was a \"hack\" writer for many years producing hundreds of short stories and some adventure novels until he published a group of three mystery novels which promoted him to best-selling author status. The novels were: The Brass Bowl (1907) about a beautiful young girl, who in order to help her grieving father,becomes a burglar and meets a professional burglar who resembles the identical twin...

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Louis Dudek

Născut în 1918, la Montreal. Profesor de literatură canadiană la Universitatea McGill (Montreal). Poet, critic literar și eseist. Autorul și coautorul mai multor antologii de poezie canadiană. Versuri: \"The Transparent Sea\" (1960); \"Atlantis\" (1967); \"Collected poetry\" (1970). Eseuri: \"The First Person in Literature. Literature and the Press\" (1960).

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Louis MacNeice

(1907-1963) Fiu de preot protestant, s-a născut în Irlanda de Nord (Belfast), a studiat la Oxford,a predat cursuri de literatură clasică la Birmingham,de greacă la Londra și de poezie la universitatea Cornell din S.U.A, dar a renunțat la cariera didactică și , aprprope un sfert de secol, a fost colaborator permanental B.B.C.-ului, în care calitate a scris numeroase piese radiofonice (mai ales în versuri)(Christopher Columbus - Cristofor Columb, 1944; The Dark Tower- Turnul negru, 1947). Ca poet este adesea considerat al doilea ca importanțădin generația lui Auden, cu care a fost bun prieten și al cărui crez poetic l-a împărtășit. Șovăitor în ceea ce privește concepțiile filozofice și politice , a subscris la punctul de vedere al lui Beckett, potrivit căruia importantă este " forma ideilor", chiar atunci când nu crezi în ele;totodată, a pledat pentru o poezie "impură", respectiv pentru o atitudine programatic subiectivă a poetului față de natură și societate. Credincios acestor...

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Louis Dudek

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and doctor Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961). The name "Céline" was chosen after his grandmother's first name. Céline is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and World literature. He remains, however, a controversial figure because of anti-Semitic statements published in 1937 and during the Second World War. Only child of Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches and Marguerite-Louise-Céline Guilloux, he was born Louis-Ferdinand Destouches in 1894 at Courbevoie, just outside Paris in the Seine département (now Hauts-de-Seine). His father was a minor functionary in an insurance firm and his mother was a lacemaker. In 1905 he was awarded his Certificat d'études, after which he began working as an apprentice and messenger boy in various trades. Between 1908 and 1910 his parents sent him to Germany and England for a year in each...

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Louis McKee

Louis McKee (born July 31, 1951, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) has been a fixture of the Philadelphia poetry scene since the early 70s. He is the author of Schuylkill County (Wampeter, 1982), The True Speed of Things (Slash & Burn, 1984) and eleven other collections. More recently, he has published River Architecture: Poems from Here & There 1973-1993 (Cynic, 1999), Loose Change (Marsh River Editions, 2001) and a volume in the Pudding House Greatest Hits series. Gerald Stern has called his work “heart-breaking” and “necessary,” while William Stafford has written, “Louis McKee makes me think of how much fun it was to put your hand out a car window and make the air carry you into quick adventures and curlicues. He is so adept at turning all kinds of sudden glimpses into good patterns.” Naomi Shihab Nye says, “Louis McKee is one of the truest hearts and voices in poetry we will ever be lucky to know.” Near Occasions of Sin, a collection issued in 2006 by Cynic Press, has been praised by...

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