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Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by sincere wonderment and profound connection with the environment, conveyed in ...
In Blackwater Woods. Depicts a map of Cape Cod with National Seashore shaded in green. In Blackwater Woods is a free verse poem written by Mary Oliver (1935–2019). The poem was first published in 1983 in her collection American Primitive, which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize. [1] The poem, like much of Oliver's work, uses imagery of nature to ...
Poet. Education. Kenyon College ( BA) University of Washington ( MA, PhD) Literary movement. Deep image poetry. Notable works. "A Blessing"; The Branch Will Not Break; "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota". James Arlington Wright (December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980) was an American poet.
Spouse. Eugen Jan Boissevain. . . ( m. 1923; died 1949) . Signature. Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of her prose and hackwork verse under ...
In new study published in the American Chemical Society’s journal Nano Letters, experts found that simply washing your fruits and vegetables in the sink "cannot wholly remove pesticides" because ...
A Dweller on Two Planets, or The Dividing of the Way is a book written by Frederick Spencer Oliver (1866-1899). The book was finished in 1886, typewritten and copyrighted in 1894, and again in 1899 owing to an addition. It was not published until 1905 by his mother Mary Elizabeth Manley-Oliver, six years after Oliver's death.
Liverpool, England. Died. 1893 (aged 34–35) Known for. Novelist. Notable work. Claudia; Nest Merfyn. Mary Oliver Jones (14 February 1858 – 1893) was an English novelist from Liverpool. Several of her novels were serialised in contemporary magazines and newspapers, including one that is among the earliest detective novels in Welsh.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils ( Swedish: Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, literally Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden) is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was originally published in two books, 1906 and 1907, and was first ...