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"Being Boring" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released in November 1990 by Parlophone as the second single from their fourth studio album, Behaviour (1990). The song was written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant , and produced by them with German producer Harold Faltermeyer .
The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 stanzas, [1] it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian ...
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.
The Academy of American Poets administers several programs: National Poetry Month; [13] the website Poets.org, which includes a curated collection of poems and essays about poetry, over 800 recordings and videos of poets dating back to the 1960s, and free materials for K-12 teachers, including lesson plans; [14] the syndicated series, Poem-a ...
She wrote several poems for school beginning in her elementary years, but after becoming a fan of the singer Yui in her junior high school years, she decided to become a singer-songwriter. [2] She auditioned with Sony Music Entertainment Japan in 2009, which lead to her being called to Tokyo. She recorded four songs at their studio and was ...
The Trouble with Being Born (French: De l'inconvénient d'être né) is a 1973 philosophy book by Romanian author Emil Cioran.The book is presented as a series of aphorisms, meditating primarily on the painful nature of being alive, and how this is connected to other subjects, such as God, metaphysical exile, and decay. [1]
James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.
Though the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry made the transition from papyrus rolls to the codex, while less popular authors were not reproduced in this new format, [22] and a significant amount of her poetry survived until the seventh century, [23] her work appears to have disappeared around the ninth century, [24] and did not make the ...