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- Prof. Ian Jack: Literary scholar who moved from Butler and the Brontës to the definitive edition of Browning (Independent)
Ian Jack, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, was the author of a series of masterly studies and editions of English writers between 1660 and 1860. His critical discussion was careful and decisive, his editing learned and lucid. There is no reader of Keats, or of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, or of Robert Browning, but must reckon a debt to Ian Jack.
- “Sadaqah†Part II A Sacred Institution to Facilitate the Poor - Yemen Times
“Sadaqah†Part II A Sacred Institution to Facilitate the PoorYemen Times, Yemen - 26 minutes agoAn Urdu poet had discussed these crooked clerics, and rightly explained in his poetry as follows: O Crooked clerics! Enjoy the life, you are free of worries ...
- Archived: Jean says it all with verse - Cornish Guardian
Archived: Jean says it all with verseCornish Guardian, UK - 9 minutes agoSeveral of Mrs Tonkin's pieces have been published in poetry books and she has even written her autobiography about her life for her grandchildren. ...
- Getting out: "The Belle of Amherst" playing at Actors Forum Theatre - Los Angeles Daily News
Getting out: "The Belle of Amherst" playing at Actors Forum TheatreLos Angeles Daily News, CA - 13 hours agoThe play "The Belle of Amherst," based on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson, is playing at the Actors Forum Theatre in North Hollywood through Oct. 12. ...
- Darwish as his friend knew him - Gulf News
Dubai: "I yearn for my mother's bread, my mother's coffee, her touch." How many Palestinians were inspired by these words, or sang them during national gatherings down through the years? Millions. Mahmoud Darwish provided a cultural identity for ...
- Hilda Doolittle's Bethlehem grave at Nisky Hill Cemetery still ... - The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
Hilda Doolittle's Bethlehem grave at Nisky Hill Cemetery still ...The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com, PA - 30 minutes agoHD may not be a household name, but she holds a special reverence among poetry lovers in general and people who study her work in particular. ...
- Giller Prize long list unveiled - CBC News
New novels from Austin Clarke, David Adams Richards and Rawi Hage are in the running for one of Canada's top literary awards, organizers of the $50,000 Giller Prize revealed Monday. Past Giller winners Clarke and Richards made the cut for their ...
- Annual Art a'Faire celebrates local art scene - Visalia Times-Delta
It's going to be a great day in the neighborhood. Any day set aside to celebrate the arts is good news for Visalians. Come out to the Art a'Faire from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Visalia United Methodist Church, 5200 W. Caldwell Ave. The ...
- Poetry column: Sneaky tactics behind mastering mirrors - Evening Sun
In part, most poets are chroniclers. They record truthfully, though maybe not realistically, the times in which they live. They couch their stories in metaphor and allusion. They compare and refer, rather than state directly. Poets hold before us ...
- Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida delivers a poetic solo effort with ... - Newsday
Raine Maida is a poet at heart. Where that poetry fits into his music has finally come into focus. Maida, frontman of Canadian alt-rockers Our Lady Peace, has ventured out on an introspective solo disc, "The Hunter's Lullaby," engaging his love of ...
- Legendary Actor Paul Newman dies at 83 (Zap2It)
The blue-eyed star of 'The Hustler,' 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' was at home after a long battle with cancer Paul Newman, the legendary movie star and irreverent cultural icon who created a model philanthropy fueled by profits from a salad dressing that became nearly as famous as he was, has died. He was 83.
- Going for gold on the silver screen - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukGoing for gold on the silver screenguardian.co.uk, UK - 7 hours agoBut there's infinitely more drama in the pain and poetry captured by Kon Ichikawa in Tokyo Olympiad (1965) and by the octet including Ichikawa, Milos Forman ...
- "Andre Kertesz: On Reading" - Absolutearts.com
"Andre Kertesz: On Reading"Absolutearts.com - 10 hours agoAndré Kertész: On Reading is a collection of 104 black-and-white photographs that highlight Kertész’s signature style of the visual poetry in everyday life. ...
- McIntyre dancers sparkling, inventive at Jacob’s Pillow - Daily Gazette
BECKET, Mass. — There are many special things about Jacob’s Pillow. Among them, the dance festival’s willingness to test the new. This week’s performance, the last for the summer, features the first outing for a new company in the first ...
- Moronic Evil at the Evangelical Forum - OpEdNews.com
On August 16 Moronic Evil resided on the Evangelical forum with pastor Warren presiding. And it was satisfied. The key question on that forum was not about abortiion or Evil. It was about money. It was when that fat walrus, pastor Warren asked if the ...
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