Langston Hughes The Weary Blues on CBUT, 1958
Watch the famous poet from the Harlem Renaissance read his poem \”The Weary Blues,\” while the Doug Parker Band plays jazz in the background.
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7 Tips from Edgar Allan Poe on How to Write Vivid Stories and Poems
There may be no more a macabrely misogynistic sentence in English literature than Edgar Allan Poe’s contention that “the death… of a beautiful woman” is “unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.” (His perhaps ironic observation prompted Sylvia Plath to write, over a hundred years later, “The woman is perfected / Her dead /
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Walt Whitman reads America
Here’s Walt Whitman reading his poem “America.” It was taken from a wax cylinder recording Thomas Edison made in 1889 or 1890—although the recording’s authenticity is somewhatdisputed. The last two lines of the poem are not read.
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4 Fake Quotes By Famous Authors To Watch Out For
A lot of people swear by Goodreads. I swear at it. Often. It\’s a font of unsourced quotations, some of them fake, just like Wikiquotes. Take the line that tops the list of George Eliot quotes: \”It is never too late to be what you might have been.\” There\’s no proof she ever said it.
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14 Quotes from Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath Nationality: American Profession: Author Why Famous: Credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two published collections: \”Other Poems and Ariel\” and \”The Colossus\”. She won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems. Also well known for the semi-autobiographical work \”The Bell Jar\”. She suffered
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25 of Oscar Wilde\’s Wittiest Quotes for the 160th Anniversary of His Birth
Today is the 160th anniversary of Oscar Wilde\’s birth. Celebrate with some of his best quips. 1. I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. 2. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. 3. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. 4. It is absurd to
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