What Langston Hughes poem refers to a “raisin in the sun”?
Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” (1951) refers to a “raisin in the sun”. Hughes asks:
“What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” (1951) refers to a “raisin in the sun”. Hughes asks:
“What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
Maud Gonne did not marry William Butler Yeats, the poet who made the actress famous through his poems of unrequited love. In 1903, after knowing Yeats for fourteen years, Gonne married Major John MacBride, an Irish revolutionary characterized by Yeats as a “drunken, vainglorious lout.” MacBride was executed for his role in the Easter Rebellion…
Yes, Erle Stanley Gardner was a lawyer. Born in 1889, he was admitted to the California bar in 1911 and was known for defending poor Chinese and Mexicans. In the 1940s, he founded the Court of Last Resort, an organization dedicated to helping people unjustly imprisoned.
Hesiod, the reputed author of the Theogony, the oldest surviving account of the origin of the Greek gods, was a poor Boeotian farmer of the eighth century B.C. His Works and Days gives advice on fanning and moral life.
According to the Book of Genesis, Ishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar.
Robert Herrick urged Corinna, in “Corinna’s Going A-Maying” (1648).
Russian writer Ivan Turgenev coined the word “nihilist” in his 1862 novel Fathers and Sons.