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[minstrels] The More Loving One -- W. H. Auden: May 10, 1:55pm 1 review poetry
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/618.html; W. H. Auden was a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1954 to 1973, and divided most of the second half of his life between residences in New York City and Austria. He died in Vienna in 1973.

Millays Poetry in A Greenwich Village Context--by Nina Miller: Mar 24, 12:36pm 1 review poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/ninamiller.htm; ...Such dramatic national success had tangible effects on Millay's status among New Yorkers, naturally enough. Yet in this fact we also glimpse the dynamic circuit in which New York took cues from the national culture even while dictating most of its terms. Millay had an enormous literary and personal influence among the New York literati. Greenwich Village regarded her "with awe" even before her arrival there, on the strength of one passionate poem; John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson, young poets and literary editors at the middle-brow journal Vanity Fair, made it a personal mission to bring her work before a wide reading public; Genevieve Taggard and the other editors of the high-art little magazine Measure took Millay as their unofficial poet laureate; Countee Cullen, favorite son of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote his undergraduate thesis on Millay and pursued his professional career along distinctly lyrical and traditional lines; and even Dorothy Parker, embodiment of midtown urbanity , described her own significant (and significantly national) career as a matter of following Millay's example. In short, in the era literary criticism has taught us to see as dominated by avant-garde formalism, Millay's passionate sonnets were widely admired and imitated by writers of all kinds...

Pablo Neruda - Biography: Mar 10, 1:56pm 4 reviews poetry
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-bio.html

Im Explaining a Few Things by Pablo Neruda: Mar 10, 1:49pm 1 review poetry, politics, war
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-m-explaining-a-few-things/; Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher. Some years later his father, who had then moved to the town of Temuco, remarried doña Trinidad Candia Malverde. The poet spent his childhood and youth in Temuco, where he also got to know Gabriela Mistral, head of the girls' secondary school, who took a liking to him. At the early age of thirteen he began to contribute some articles to the daily "La Mañana", among them, Entusiasmo y Perseverancia - his first publication - and his first poem. In 1920, he became a contributor to the literary journal "Selva Austral" under the pen name of Pablo Neruda, which he adopted in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda (1834-1891). Some of the poems Neruda wrote at that time are to be found in his first published book: Crepusculario (1923). The following year saw the publication of Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, one of his best-known and most translated works. Alongside his literary activities, Neruda studied French and pedagogy at the University of Chile in Santiago...

Poetry International Web - THE FOUR SEASONS: Mar 7, 7:02am 2 reviews poetry
http://morocco.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?cw...

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Brief Biography: Feb 15, 4:01pm 2 reviews poetry
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennybio.html; Alfred Tennyson was born August 6th, 1809, at Somersby, Lincolnshire, fourth of twelve children of George and Elizabeth (Fytche) Tennyson. The poet's grandfather had violated tradition by making his younger son, Charles, his heir, and arranging for the poet's father to enter the ministry. (See the Tennyson Family Tree.) The contrast of his own family's relatively straitened circumstances to the great wealth of his aunt Elizabeth Russell and uncle Charles Tennyson (who lived in castles!) made Tennyson feel particularly impoverished and led him to worry about money all his life...

William Blake biography: Jan 5, 3:25pm 1 review poetry
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/blake.htm; William Blake was born on November 28, 1757 in London, the third of five children. His father James was a hosier, and could only afford to give William enough schooling to learn the basics of reading and writing, though for a short time he was able to attend a drawing school run by Henry Par. William worked in his father's shop until his talent for drawing became so obvious that he was apprenticed to engraver James Basire at age 14. He finished his apprenticeship at age 21, and set out to make his living as an engraver...

Borges - Biography of J.L. Borges: Jan 5, 2:51pm 2 reviews poetry, bio
http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_biography.html; Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 24, 1899 - the same year that Vladimir Nabokov was born. Shortly after his birth, his family relocated to calle Serrano 2135/47 in Palermo, a suburb on the northern outskirts of Buenos Aires...

Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios &More - Lord Alfred Tennyson: Dec 30, 2007 4:26pm 1 review poetry
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/300; Happy New Year ! Wishing you, peace, love, health, joy--and the very best life has to offer. Lord Alfred Tennyson Born on August 6, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England, Alfred Tennyson is one of the most well-loved Victorian poets. Tennyson, the fourth of twelve children, showed an early talent for writing. At the age of twelve he wrote a 6,000-line epic poem. His father, the Reverend George Tennyson, tutored his sons in classical and modern languages. In the 1820s, however, Tennyson's father began to suffer frequent mental breakdowns that were exacerbated by alcoholism. One of Tennyson's brothers had violent quarrels with his father, a second was later confined to an insane asylum, and another became an opium addict...