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The Creepy and Cringworthy
Born on December 6, 1896, Ira Gershwin transformed American English through lyrics that blended wit, rhythm, and conversational charm. His work shaped the Great American Songbook, elevating popular music with literary finesse and giving English a new musical voice that still echoes through Broadway, jazz, and modern songwriting.
Birth of Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) – The Lyricist Who Gave Modern English Its Songbook Wit and Rhythm
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Poetry along the Fowey
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George Seferis – Collected Poems
VIMeditativeher heavy breastinside the mirrorVIIAgain I dress myselfin the tree’s foliageand you bleatVIIINight the windseparationspreads and undulatesIXThe young FateNaked womanthe pomegranate she brokewas full of starsXNow I raisea dead butterflywithout any make-upXIHow can you put togetherthe thousand little piecesof each person? https://draft2digital.com/book/3562890 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096TTS37J
George Seferis – Collected Poems
The poetry of John Clare feels different from that of other Romantic poets. Since I am fully aware of what an ambiguous characterization that is, I will attempt to qualify some of the differences I see in his poems and, specifically, in his understanding of Nature. When I read the poems of Wordsworth or Coleridge, […]
Nature or Nurture? John Clare, Peasant Poet
Born in Lancashire in 1917, Leonora Carrington is perhaps now best known as a surrealist artist; in 2024, one of her artworks sold for $28.5 million. During her career, however, she also wrote novels, short stories, a play and a memoir, all infused with her dreamlike, idiosyncratic worldview. First published in English in 1976 but […]
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
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