Who wrote “O rose, thou art sick”?
William Blake wrote “O rose, thou art sick” in “The Sick Rose” (1794).
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What is the quotation at the start of T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” (1925)?
“Mistah Kurtz—he dead,” from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness is the quotation at the start of T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men”.
Who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1973?
Pulitzer Prize judges and trustees were divided so sharply over Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow that for only the seventh time in Pulitzer history no award was given.
What poet in what poem says “I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul”?
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) says “I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul” in “Invictus.”
How well was Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass initially received?
It is estimated that the first edition of one of the great American poems, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sold no more than three dozen copies when it was first published in 1855.
How did Thomas Chatterton (1752-70) die?
Thomas Chatterton was the author of several pseudo fifteenth-century poems supposedly written by monk Thomas Rowley. He committed suicide in his London garret by taking arsenic at age seventeen, driven to despair by poverty. He became a hero of native English verse to Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. Chatterton was the author…