She would retreat from a difficult home to the nearby woods, where she would build huts of sticks and grass and write poems. Mary Oliver was born and raised in Maple Hills Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Reviewing Dream Work (1986) for the Nation, critic Alicia Ostriker numbered Oliver among America’s finest poets, as “visionary as Emerson.” Mary Oliver was an “indefatigable guide to the natural world,” wrote Maxine Kumin in the Women’s Review of Books, “particularly to its lesser-known aspects.” Oliver’s poetry focused on the quiet of occurrences of nature: industrious hummingbirds, egrets, motionless ponds, “lean owls / hunkering with their lamp-eyes.” Kumin also noted that Oliver “stands quite comfortably on the margins of things, on the line between earth and sky, the thin membrane that separates human from what we loosely call animal.” Oliver’s poetry won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and a Lannan Literary Award for lifetime achievement.
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Gordon had had a well-paid job as an advertising copywriter, but he’d thrown it up in favour of a more modest job so he would be free to write poetry. Certainly, he spends his days surrounded by books, quite literally: he works in a small bookshop in London. Keep the Aspidistra Flying focuses on Gordon Comstock, a struggling poet, who has dreams of making it big in the literary world. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Orwell captures the struggles of the aspiring writer with almost pitch-perfect attention to psychological detail, exploring the gulf between art and life, and art and money, for that matter. And he did all of these in his 1936 novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying, which may not be a great novel like Nineteen Eighty-Four, but is firmly – at least for my money – in the ‘good’ category. Although principally known for his last two novels about totalitarianism, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and for his political essays about big questions surrounding nationalism, fascism, and Communism, George Orwell also wrote well about petty poverty, the writer’s life (see his ‘ Confessions of a Book Reviewer’, also from 1946), and the English obsession with money, usually with having too little of it. Aimee wrote all through her years as a student at the Bronx High School of Science and then Vassar College. She wrote her first story at the age of five, and was off and running from there. Aimee Friedman was born and raised in Queens, New York, in an apartment filled with books and different languages. Aimee lives in New York City, where she can usually be found writing in cafes, window-shopping, or searching for the perfect iced latte. After graduating from college in 2001, she became a children's book editor, a job she still does, and loves, to this day! 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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. She wrote as well poems which later found regard as poetic genius. The question of where Bronts fervent writing style, most often associated with her fiery novel Wuthering Heights, originated has long been debated. Emily Brontë, a member of famous Brontë family, was an English novelist and poet, best known for her novel Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Fans of both authors might be surprised to discover that Jane Austen’s Emma was a little too prim for fellow writer Charlotte Bront. When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855, she left behind 20 pages of a novel that signaled her most compelling work since 'Jane Eyre.' Now, in a voice true to Bronte's, comes a brilliant tale of a. E-artnow presents to you this collection of Emily Brontë's complete works. 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