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 on...