LITERARY FACTS
LITERARY FACTS
This article includes some of my favorite events in the literary history. We can learn a lot from these facts. They at times stir us to the quick and convince us about the values of the biographical details of the author. Both Sartre and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize. This literary fact has always been my favorite.
Samuel Beckett refused to attend the Nobel prize ceremony.
Samuel Beckett was obsessed by a desire to create what he called "a literature of the unword."
Issa's mother died when he was three years old.
e.e.cummings was inspired to write Santa Clause: A Morality after uniting with his daughter, Nancy.
French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) produced his best works while still in his late teens. He gave up creative writing before he reached 21.
Ikkyu (b. 1394), famous monk poet, was the illegitimate son of Emperor Go-Komatsu.
Katherine Mansfield who married Middleton Murry in 1918 died of tuberculosis in January 1923, aged only 35.
W. Somerset Maugham died in France in December at the age of 91.
Chaucer (1340-1400) married Philippa, sister of John of Gaunt’s third wife.
Wordsworth’s (1770-1850) The Prelude, his spiritual autobiography in verse, was published posthumously..
Cervantes’s masterpiece Don Quixote edited by Lathrop (1997) contains more than 2000 footnotes.
James Joyce was unable to find a publisher for his Dubliners for nine years, though the book was completed in 1905.
Victor Hugo by the age of 14 had written 3000 poems.
500 copies of James Joyce’s classic Ulysses were seized by the U. S. Post Office as obscene material and burned.
Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, though some of the judges favored the prize to Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
This article includes some of my favorite events in the literary history. We can learn a lot from these facts. They at times stir us to the quick and convince us about the values of the biographical details of the author. Both Sartre and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize. This literary fact has always been my favorite.
Samuel Beckett refused to attend the Nobel prize ceremony.
Samuel Beckett was obsessed by a desire to create what he called "a literature of the unword."
Issa's mother died when he was three years old.
e.e.cummings was inspired to write Santa Clause: A Morality after uniting with his daughter, Nancy.
French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) produced his best works while still in his late teens. He gave up creative writing before he reached 21.
Ikkyu (b. 1394), famous monk poet, was the illegitimate son of Emperor Go-Komatsu.
Katherine Mansfield who married Middleton Murry in 1918 died of tuberculosis in January 1923, aged only 35.
W. Somerset Maugham died in France in December at the age of 91.
Chaucer (1340-1400) married Philippa, sister of John of Gaunt’s third wife.
Wordsworth’s (1770-1850) The Prelude, his spiritual autobiography in verse, was published posthumously..
Cervantes’s masterpiece Don Quixote edited by Lathrop (1997) contains more than 2000 footnotes.
James Joyce was unable to find a publisher for his Dubliners for nine years, though the book was completed in 1905.
Victor Hugo by the age of 14 had written 3000 poems.
500 copies of James Joyce’s classic Ulysses were seized by the U. S. Post Office as obscene material and burned.
Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, though some of the judges favored the prize to Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
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