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Oct 15, 2024 · Walt Whitman, gay love and a posthumous novel • Oct. 13, 2024, 2:49 AM ET (NPR) Walt Whitman (born May 31, 1819, West Hills, Long Island, New York, U.S.—died March 26, 1892, Camden, New Jersey) was an American poet, journalist, and essayist whose verse collection Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, is a landmark in the history of ...
Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem. A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays. He sought to honestly portray the joys and hardships of ...
Oct 5, 2024 · Rembrandt (born July 15, 1606, Leiden, Netherlands—died October 4, 1669, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an ...
- Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69) is considered one of the greatest storytellers in art, unusually gifted in rendering peop...
- About age 10, Rembrandt entered the Latin School in Leiden, where he studied Classical and biblical works and oratory, but he soon left to train as...
- Rembrandt created works in several genres, including portraits and “history pieces.” Group portraits included The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tu...
In 1876, Rodin traveled to Italy, stopping along the way in a number of French cities, including Rheims, where his first-hand acquaintance with the cathedral contributed to what would be a lifelong love for medieval French architecture, ultimately expressed in his 1914 publication Les cathédrales de France. In Italy, he was deeply impressed by the work of Michelangelo, which would influence ...
Joseph Rudyard Kipling FRSL (/ ˈ r ʌ d j ər d / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [1] was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
Nov 21, 2023 · Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Long Island. Born into a modest family, he was the second-born of eight children to Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor. His father tried ...
Blake was born on November 28, 1757. Unlike many well-known writers of his day, Blake was born into a family of moderate means. His father, James, was a hosier, and the family lived at 28 Broad Street in London in an unpretentious but “respectable” neighborhood.
