Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a prosperous suburb west of Chicago, and died on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. He became one of the most recognizable writers of the twentieth century: novelist, short-story master, journalist, war correspondent, celebrity, sportsman, and, in his earliest publications, a poet. His name came to signify a style as much as a body of work. Hemingway…
“You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Modernist Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Sorrow, Despair
In the autumn of 1867, a sixteen-year-old girl sat at her desk in Litchfield, Michigan, struggling with algebra homework. The mathematical figures before her kept blurring, replaced by a persistent phrase that demanded attention: "Curfew must not ring tonight." What began as an interruption to her studies would become one of the most recited poems of the nineteenth century, launching Rose Hartwick into unexpected lit…
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Children's Verse, Death & Mortality, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Peace, Wonder
