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Há 3 dias · Agriculture, rural life, community. Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. [1] Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).
- Fiction, poetry, essays
- August 5, 1934 (age 89), Henry County, Kentucky, U.S.
- Agriculture, rural life, community
Há 2 dias · George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets.
Há 4 dias · Aleister Crowley ( / ˈælɪstər ˈkroʊli / AL-ist-ər KROH-lee; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, philosopher, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist and mountaineer.
Há 5 dias · Ovid (born March 20, 43 bce, Sulmo, Roman Empire [now Sulmona, Italy]—died 17 ce, Tomis, Moesia [now Constanṭa, Romania]) was a Roman poet noted especially for his Ars amatoria and Metamorphoses. His verse had immense influence both by its imaginative interpretations of Classical myth and as an example of supreme technical ...
- Why is Ovid important?Ovid was a Roman poet renowned for his verse’s technical accomplishment. His best-known work is the Metamorphoses, a collection of mythological and...
- What did Ovid write?In addition to the Metamorphoses, Ovid wrote many books of poetry in the form of elegiac couplets, including the Amores (The Loves), the Heroides (...
- What was Ovid’s education like?Ovid’s father sent him and his elder brother to Rome to be educated. There he embarked, under the best teachers of the day, on the study of rhetori...
- What was Ovid’s occupation?After finishing his education, Ovid held some minor judicial posts, the first steps on the official ladder, but he soon decided that public life di...
- Why was Ovid banished?In 8 CE Augustus banished Ovid to Tomis on the Black Sea. The reason why is uncertain, but Ovid specified a poem (probably Ars amatoria) and an ind...
Há 4 dias · John Milton, English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most significant English author after William Shakespeare. He is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. Learn more about Milton’s life and works in this article.
Há 3 dias · 6. Conscience is purified. Confession of one’s sins brings with it a purification and, importantly, peace of conscience. This is tied to the healing aspect of Confession. Indeed, Confession is one of two “healing” sacraments, along with the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. Both of these sacraments aid the body-soul reality of the ...
Há 5 dias · Das was a confessional poet whose poems have often been considered at par with those of Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell. Kamala Das' first book of poetry, Summer in Calcutta was a breath of fresh air in Indian English poetry. She wrote chiefly of love, betrayal, and the consequent anguish.
