Carl Sandburg won the Pulitzer for his book of Complete Poems.
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Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 1951
Posted in Pulitzer Prize, Video on 24 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 1948
Posted in Poem of the day, Pulitzer Prize, Video on 20 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Musee des Beaux Arts
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to [...]
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 1944
Posted in Pulitzer Prize, Video on 17 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stephen Vincent Benét was the younger brother of William Rose Benét, who won the Pulitzer in 1942. This was the second Pulitzer for Stephen, who won the award in 1929 for John Brown’s Body. He died of a heart attack in 1943 and was awarded the second Pulitzer posthumously.
The following excerpt is from an article [...]
“The Call” by Regina Spektor: Chronicles of Narnia
Posted in Song of the day, Video on 11 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Aslan roars]
The Angel Tree
Posted in Creative Nonfiction, Video on 26 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At work this week we were discussing Christmas movies. Many came to mind: Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck, The Bishop’s Wife with Loretta Young, White Christmas with Rosemary Clooney, The Bells of St. Mary’s with Ingrid Bergman, Holiday Inn, Miracle on 34th St., It’s A Wonderful Life.
Something about the final scene in A Christmas Memory [...]
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel 1932
Posted in Pulitzer Prize, Video on 24 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) is the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first woman to win both the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes. She won both awards for her book The Good Earth, published in 1931, which revolves around family life in a Chinese village before the 1949 Revolution.
Here are two quotes [...]
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Posted in Video on 17 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dido and Aeneas: When I am laid in earth
Posted in Song of the day, Video, Voice on 24 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create
No trouble, no trouble in thy breast;
Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
………………..
by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Beethoven’s Letter
Posted in Poem of the day, Song of the day, Video on 10 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oct. 10, 1802
“As the leaves of autumn fall and are withered, so hope has been blighted. Oh, you men who think of say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic. How greatly do you wrong me. For six years, I have been a hopeless case, frustrated by senseless physicians, cheated year after year in the [...]
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Posted in Video on 4 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I’ve been reading poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay and found this obituary in the New York Times:
OBITUARY Oct. 20, 1950
Edna St. V. Millay Found Dead At 58
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
AUSTERLITZ, N.Y., Oct. 19–Edna St. Vincent Millay, the famous poet, was found dead at the foot of [...]
