Edward Rowland Sill was born on 29 April 1841 in Windsor, Connecticut, and died on 27 February 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio. His life was short, frequently unsettled, and shadowed by poor health, yet it produced a body of poetry and prose distinguished by moral seriousness, intellectual candor, and an unusual tenderness toward ordinary human weakness. He belonged to the generation of American writers who came after the fi…
“I more and more believe the only way for ordinary mortals is to keep out of sight, and write anonymously.”
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Du Fu, born in 712 and dead by the end of 770, stands among the most deeply admired poets in the Chinese language and among the great literary witnesses of world history. He lived through the glittering late flowering and violent fracture of the Tang dynasty, an age remembered for imperial splendor, cosmopolitan confidence, artistic achievement, civil war, famine, displacement, and political decline. His poems preser…
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Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Longing
