Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (born 13 April 1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin. Seamus Heaney was born on April 13, 1939 into a family of nine children at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, between Castledawson and Toomebridge in Northern Ireland. In 1953, his family moved to Bellaghy, a few miles away, which is now the family home. His father, Patrick Heaney, owned and worked a small farm of fifty acres in County Londonderry, but his real commitment was to cattle-dealing, to which he was introduced by the uncles who had cared for him after the early death of his own parents. Seamus' mother came from the McCann family, whose uncles and relations were employed in the local linen mill and whose aunt had worked as a maid to the mill owners' family. The poet has commented on the fact that his parentage thus contains both the Ireland of the cattle-herding Gaelic past and the Ulster of the Industrial...

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Bruce Springsteen

Born on 23 September 1949, Freehold, New Jersey, USA. As the world\'s greatest living rock \'n\' roll star, Bruce Springsteen has unconsciously proved former Rolling Stone critic Jon Landau totally correct. Landau appeared smug and brave when he made the arrogant statement in 1974, \"I saw rock \'n\' roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen\". Prior to that, Springsteen had paid his dues, playing in local bands around New Jersey, notably with the Castiles, Earth, Steel Mill and Dr Zoom And The Sonic Boom, before he settled as the Bruce Springsteen Band with David Sancious (keyboards), Gary Tallent (bass), Clarence Clemons (saxophone), Steven Van Zandt (guitar), Danny Federici (keyboards), and Vini Lopez (drums). Following an introduction to CBS Records A&R legend John Hammond, Springsteen was signed as a solo artist; the company sensed a future Bob Dylan. Springsteen ignored their plans and set about recording his debut with the band Greetings From Asbury Park N.J.. The album...

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Denise Duhamel

poeta americana contemporana. 1993- Zambeste! 1995 Femeia cu doua vagine 1996 Cum a cazut cerul 2001 Regina pentru o zi:poeme alese si inedite 2005 Mille et un sentiments *** Denise Duhamel is an American poet. She was born in Woonsocket, RI, in 1961. She received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.[1] She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been resident poet at Bucknell University. She has had residencies at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony.[2] Duhamel has also collaborated with Maureen Seaton on Little Novels, Oyl, and Exquisite Politics. Of this collaboration, Duhamel says; "Something magical happens when we write - we find this third voice, someone who is neither Maureen nor I, and our ego sort of fades into the background. The poem matters, not either one of us."[3] Duhamel names Lucille Ball, Roseanne Barr, Andrea Dworkin, Alyson Palmer, Amy Ziff and Elizabeth Ziff (who make up the singing group Betty) and the 70s...

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), the newspaper comic strip Secret Agent X-9 and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in The New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction". Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 to 2005. Hammett was born on a farm called "Hopewell and Aim" off Great Mills Road, St. Mary's County, in southern Maryland, United States. His parents were Richard Thomas Hammett and Anne Bond Dashiell. (The Dashiells are an old Maryland...

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Claudia Millian-Minulescu

Claudia Millian-Minulescu (București, n. 1887) a fost profesoară de desen, dar s-a afirmat în publicistică, poezie și pictură. Căsătorită inițial cu Cristu Cridim, în 1914 se căsătorește cu Ion Minulescu, celebrul poet simbolist. În poezie, stilul ei se încadrează fără probleme în simbolism, fiind exacerbată latura decorativă a acestuia. A publicat trei cărți de poezii: "Garoafe roșii" (1914), "Cântări pentru pasărea albastră" (1922) și "Întregire" (1936). La 21 septembrie 1961, Claudia Minulescu a trecut în neființă. I-au apărut postum două cărți de memorialistică: Despre Ion Minulescu (1968) și Cartea mea de aduceri-aminte (1973).

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Mehmet Akif Ersoy

Mehmet Âkif Ersoy, (d. Mehmet Ragif, 28 Aralık 1873, İstanbul - ö. 27 Aralık 1936, İstanbul), Arnavut asıllı Türk olan Cumhuriyet Dönemi șairi, düșünür, veteriner, öğretmen, vaiz, hafız, Kur'an mütercimi, milletvekili. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin ulusal marșı olan İstiklâl Marșı'nın güftekârıdır. "Vatan șairi" ve "milli șair" unvanları ile anılır. Çanakkale Destanı, Bülbül en önemli eserlerindendir. II. Meșrutiyet döneminden itibaren. Sırat-ı Müstakim (daha sonraki adıyla Sebil'ür-Reșad ) dergisinin bașyazarlığını yapmıștır. Kurtuluș Savașı sırasında milletvekili olarak 1. T.B.M.M’de yer almıș, İstiklal Madalyası sahibi bir vatanseverdir. Mehmet Âkif, son yıllarını Mısır’da Türkçe dersleri vererek ve Kur’an’ın Türkçeye çevrilmesi konuları ile uğrașarak geçirdi. Mehmet Âkif Ersoy, 1873...

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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 Haziran 1901; İstanbul – 24 Ocak 1962; İstanbul), çağdaș Türk romancı, öykücü ve șair. Aynı zamanda 1942-1946 yılları arasında TBMM'de Kahramanmaraș milletvekilliği yaptı. 23 Haziran 1901'de İstanbul'da doğdu.1923 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi’ni bitirdi. Liselerde ve yüksek okullarda çeșitli dersler okuttu. 1939 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi’nde Yeni Türk Edebiyatı profesörlüğüne atandı. 1942-1946 yılları arasında Maraș Milletvekili olarak görev yaptı. Bir süre Milli Eğitim müfettișliği yaptı. Sonra 1949 yılında Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü’ndeki görevine döndü. Gençlik yıllarında Yahya Kemal ve Ahmet Hașim'in talebesi ve dostu olmuș, Batı edebiyatından Paul Valéry ile Marcel Proust'u kendisine üstad olarak seçmiștir. Bu yazarlar edebiyatta...

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John Stuart Mill

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