David Gascoyne

David Gascoyne (October 10, 1916 - November 25, 2001) was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement. Gascoyne was born in Harrow and grew up in England and Scotland and attended Salisbury Cathedral School and Regent Street Polytechnic in London. He spent part of the early 1930s in Paris. His first book, Roman Balcony and Other Poems, was published in 1932, when he was sixteen. A novel, Opening Day, was published the following year. However, it was Man's Life is This Meat (1936), which collected his early surrealist work and translations of French surrealists, and Hölderlin's Madness (1938) that established his reputation. These publications, together with his 1935 A Short Survey of Surrealism and his work on the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition, which he helped to organise, made him one of a small group of English surrealists that included Hugh Sykes Davies and Roger Roughton. Ironically, at this exhibition, Gascoyne had to rescue Salvador Dalí from the...

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Roger Woddis

Roger Woddis, poet: born London 17 May 1917; married Joan Hobson (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved); died London 16 July 1993. Roger Woddis was a writer and humorous poet. One of his most famous poems, Ethics for Everyman, deals with double-morality of ethical principles. His early writing career included some involvement with Unity Theatre, London, where he contributed material to a number of revues. His poetry featured regularly in Radio Times and other periodicals in the 1970s. During much of the 1980s and early '90s, he had his own weekly poem in the humour magazine Punch: titled "Subverse". This consisted each week of a humorously subversive political poem, often dealing with recent events. He was also New Statesman's weekly poet until months before his death, succeeding 'Sagittarius' (Olga Katzin) in 1970 and, before her, Reginald Reynolds; and succeeded by Bill Greenwell. His poems featured topics such as the Vietnam war, miners strikes, and apartheid. He also wrote...

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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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Roger Waters

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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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Roger Sanchez

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine-Marie Roger, viconte de Saint-Exupéry (n. 29 iunie 1900, Lyon - d. 31 iulie 1944, deasupra Mării Mediterane) a fost romancier, eseist și reporter francez, aviator căzut pe frontul antifascist. S-a făcut cunoscut unui cerc larg de cititori în special datorită povestirii "Le Petit Prince" ("Micul Prinț", 1943), una din cele mai răspândite cărți din lume, tradusă în circa 110 limbi. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry s-a născut la 29 iunie 1900 în Lyon. În 1910 intră în colegiul din Mans și își continuă studiile la Fribourg (Elveția) . În 1921 intră în aviația franceză și, în 1926, devine pilot de linie al unei companii particulare. La începutul celui de al doilea război mondial se înrolează în aviația militară franceză și, după armistițiul din 1940, părăsește Franța și se stabilește la New York. În toamna anului 1942, odată cu debarcarea trupelor aliate în Africa de nord, Saint-Exupéry părăsește America și își reia activitatea de pilot de război. După o perioadă de instructaj în Statele...

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (* 22 ianuarie 1561 Londra - † 9 aprilie 1626 Londra) a fost un filozof englez. Nu trebuie confundat cu Francis Bacon (pictor) (1909 - 1992) sau cu filozoful Roger Bacon (1214 - 1294). Cel mai mic dintre cei cinci fii ai lui Sir Nicholas Bacon, Francis Bacon a fost educat ca un adevărat gentleman. Având sănătatea precară, primii ani de studiu i-a petrecut acasă, având ca tutore pe John Walsall, care fusese pregătit la Oxford și avea înclinații spre puritanism. Pe 5 aprilie 1573, Francis Bacon intră la Trinity College, Cambridge. Studiază în latină, conform stilului epocii. Studiind lucrările lui Aristotel, își dă seama că multe din concepțiile științifice ale acestuia erau eronate. Trăind în epoca nașterii științei moderne, Bacon și-a asumat sarcina elaborării unei metode noi, adecvate, care în opoziție cu scolastica sterilă, să favorizeze cercetarea științifică, cunoașterea și dominarea naturii de către om. Condiția prealabilă a făuririi științei și metodei noi o...

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