Oliver Goldsmith

Irish poet, dramatist and essayist, Oliver Goldsmith was born either in Pallas, County Longford or Elphin, Roscommon. He was the second son of an Anglican clergyman, and spent much of his childhood at Lissoy which he drew on when writing The Deserted Village. He had a severe attack of smallpox at the age of eight which left him badly disfigured for life. In 1744 he went as a sizar to Trinity College, Dublin, ran away in 1746, but returned to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1749. After several false starts in choosing a career, a generous uncle sent him in 1752 to Edinburgh University to study medicine. Instead of taking a degree he travelled throughout Europe, from which travels he drew on in The Vicar of Wakefield (1766). In 1756 he returned destitute to London,and practised as a physician in Southwark and as an usher in Peckham. He corrected proofs for Samuel Richardson and drifted into the profession of hack writer for Ralph Griffiths proprietor of the Monthly Review. In...

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Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver s-a născut la 10 septembrie 1935, Ohio, U.S.A. A frecventat Universitatea de Stat din Ohio și Collegiul Vassar dar nu a luat vreun titlu important. A lucrat ca secretară la Edna St.Vincent Millay. Cărți publicate: „Nici o călătorie și alte poeme” (1963), „Râul Styx, Ohio și alte poeme” (1972), „Călătorul de noapte” (1978), „Primitivul american” (1983),”Casa luminii” (1990), „Noi poeme selectate ” (1992), „Pinul alb” (1994), „Manual de poezie” (1994), „Pășunile albastre” (1995), „Vântul de Vest: poeme și poeme în proză.” (1997), „Reguli pentru dans: manual pentru cititul și scrisul în versul clasic” (1998), „Orele de iarnă: proză, poeme în proză, și poeme” (1999), „Bufnițele și alte fantezii: poeme și eseuri” (2003), „De ce mă trezesc devreme” (2004), „Eseuri și alte însemnări” (2004), „Sete” (2006). Locuiește în Provincetown, Massachusetts – America. A câștigat Premiul Pulitzer în 1983, apoi National Book Award în 1992.

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ramms+ein

Rammstein is: Flake Lorenz (keyboards), Oliver Riedel (Bass), Christoph Schneider (drums), Paul Landers (guitar), Richard Z. Kruspe-Bernstein (guitar), and Till Lindemann (vocals). There have been no line-up changes since the band was established in 1993. There is no other band that sounds remotely like Rammstein. The East German sextet\'s unique blend of metal, industrial, techno and classical musical elements has made it one of Europe\'s most successful rock bands ever since the 1995 release of its debut album HERZELEID (which went platinum in several Euro territories). Its successor SEHNSUCHT (released abroad in 1997, and as the band\'s U.S. debut in January 1998) was not only the logical continuation of the musical concept, but also even more successful than album No. 1. with platinum in Germany AND in the USA and a string of awards in other European countries, Rammstein secured their place in the history of rock music - a development on which their third album MUTTER will build....

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Olivier Deck

1962 : naissance à Pau, avec une dent (comme Henri IV et Napoléon). Le grand-père, qui lui n’en avait plus qu’une (dent), prétend que c’est le signe d’un don. Il ne saura jamais, hélas, s’il avait raison. 1964: première cuite, en trempant des boudoirs dans des fonds de champa-agne. 1966: mauvais millésime. 1968 : trop petit, regrets éternels. Souvenirs de gens dans les rues. D‘un oncle qui marchait pieds nus. 1969: découverte, grâce à l\'instituteur, de Peer Gynt de Grieg, ce petit bonhomme qui s\'en va un matin à travers la montagne. 1970 : première BD, histoire de cowboys à gueules de chiens, avec des gentils et des méchants. 1971 : deuxième prix au concours de peinture de l’école (un bûcheron). 1972 : gagne le concours de chanson de la colo de Béost (vallée d’Ossau) avec « Par le grand Manitou » de Carlos. (Pas le terroriste, le chanteur !) 1973 : gagne pour la deuxième fois le concours de chanson de la colo avec « C’est un beau roman » de Michel Fugain. (Clin d’œil du destin ?)...

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Olivier Marchand

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Angela Carter

Angela Olive Stalker was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, England on the 8th May 1940. War had broken out in Europe and she was evacuated as a child to Yorkshire to live with her maternal grandmother, a working-class, matriarchal, domineering, feminist bread-\'n-buta granny of the north of England. Carter left school and started work at the age of nineteen for the Croydon Advertiser, following in the footsteps of her father - who was a Scottish journalist working in London. One year later she met and married Paul Carter. She was to divorce him almost twelve years after, in 1972. She studied English at the University of Bristol and built on her already vast cultural and literary baggage. Her mother was a great literary influence on her, as she devoured book after book and author after author. Her upbringing was very much based on the works of Shakespeare and great names of English literature. The influence of authors on her work is enormous and perhaps incalculable. There are references to...

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