Anna Randal for Art-Sheep Günter Grass, the Nobel prize winning novelist, playwright and poet, died today, April 13, in the German city of Lübeck. He was 87 years old. Amongst his many talents was writing, sculpting and illustrating. While one of his most famous works is his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), amongst his […]
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Rather than forgive and forget, these wordsmiths used their poison pens to deliver a healthy dose of literary revenge. 1. NORMAN MAILER The honeymoon didn’t last long for the notoriously combative Mailer and Lady Jeanne Campbell, his third wife and sparring partner. The pair’s bickering was so fierce that Campbell joked they could clear
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I can write no stately proem As a prelude to my lay; From a poet to a poem I would dare to say.For if of these fallen petals One to you seem fair, Love will waft it till it settles On your hair.And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper
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Julia Horeftari for Art-Sheep Greetings, my brave reader. Ireland has given us some of the greatest minds in literature. Poets, novelists and playwrights whose genius is incomparable. James Joyce -a personal favourite, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Edna O\’Brien, W.B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw are artists of the word who have blessed
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While American currency features former U.S. Presidents, Founding Fathers, and iconic landmarks, many other countries put famous writers, poets, artists, and novelists on their banknotes. 1. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN // DENMARK Danish author Hans Christian Andersen is mostly known for his classic fairy tales like \”Thumbelina,\” \”The Little Mermaid,\” and \”The Emperor\’s New Clothes,\” which
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There is another sky, Ever serene and fair, And there is another sunshine, Though it be darkness there; Never mind faded forests, Austin, Never mind silent fields – Here is a little forest, Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear
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The tree has entered my hands, The sap has ascended my arms, The tree has grown in my breast- Downward, The branches grow out of me, like arms.Tree you are, Moss you are, You are violets with wind above them. A child – so high – you are, And all this is folly to the
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The Queen I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.When you go through the streets No one recognizes you. No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks At the carpet of red gold That
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Bertolt Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) Bertolt Brecht is best known for his plays and poems, in which he embraced anti-bourgeois themes and being forced from his native Germany. Bertolt Brecht was born February 10, 1898 in Germany, he began writing plays while working at an Army hospital. Brecht\’s work fit nicely
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Julia Horeftari for Art-Sheep Greetings, my brave reader. Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. What do these two have in common? Well, apart from living at the same place and at the same time -16th century London- and being both poets and playwrights, sharing the same prestigious title of being England\’s greatest writer, they could even
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