Annotated Chronology of English Language and Literature by Raupp Danna & Raupp Edward Raupp Danna

Author:Raupp, Danna & Raupp, Edward Raupp Danna [Raupp, Danna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Impala Press
Published: 2020-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 77. Claude McKay (1889-1948)

(National Library of Jamaica)

Katherine Anne Porter is born in Indian Creek, Texas. Poems is the first of six collections of Emily Dickinson’s

poetry, found among her papers on her death and published posthumously.

Agatha Christie is born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, Devon, England. She is known for her 66 detective novels particularly those and 14 short story collections,

revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple

Figure 78. Dame Agatha Christie (Star Trbune )

1891

Herman Melville dies, age 72, in obscurity in New York, with an unpublished manuscript of Billy Budd (not printed till 1924).

Zora Neale Hurston, American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker is born in Notasulga, Alabama. Hurston portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937

J. R. R. Tolkien is born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson dies in Lurgashall, England, age 83.

John Greenleaf Whittier dies in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, age 85.

Walt Whitman dies in Camden, New Jersey, age 73.

Edna St. Vincent Millay is born in Rockland, Maine. My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!

Pearl Buck, American writer and novelist, is born Pearl Walsh Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Virginia. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Figure 79. Pearl S. Buck

(Encyclopedia Britannica )

Francis Parkman Jr. dies in Boston, Massachusetts, age 70.

Archibald MacLeish, American poet and writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry, is born in Glencoe, Illinois. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s. On returning to the United States, he contributed to Henry Luce’s magazine Fortune from 1929 to 1938. For five years MacLeish was Librarian of Congress, a post he accepted at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. From 1949 to 1962, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

Dorothy Parker is born in Long Branch, New Jersey. Résumé

Razors pain you, Rivers are damp, Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp.

Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give, Gas smells awful. You might as well live.

Dorothy Leigh Sayers, crime writer and poet, is born in Oxford, England.

Figure 80. Dorothy Leigh Sayers

(Goodreads.com)

Robert Louis Stevenson dies in Samoa, probably of a cerebral hemorrhage, age 44.

Kipling publishes The Jungle Book.

American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright Edward Estlin Cummings, e e cummings is born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays.

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