Wednesday, September 07, 2005

November Birthdays of Poets
1 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 1636-1711
Stephen Crane 1871-1900
Margaret Taylor Burroughs 1917
2 Odysseus Elytis 1911
Michelle Cliff 1946
3 Lucan 39 A.D.
William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878
Oodgeroo Noonuccal 1920 nee Kath Walker
4 Eden Phillpotts 1862
5 James Elroy Flecker 1884
6 Colley Cibber 1671
9 Ivan Turgenev 1818
10 Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774
Friedrich von Schiller 1759
Vachel Lindsay 1879
14 Adam G. Oehlenschlager 1779
Norman Alexander MacCaig 1910
15 Gerhart Hauptmann 1862-1946
Marianne Moore 1887
16 Chinua Achebe 1930
17 Joost van Den Vondel 1587
18 Sir William Gilbert 1836-1911
Johnny Mercer 1909
Margaret Atwood 1939 Margaret's Page
19 Allen Tate 1899
20 Thomas Chatterton 1752-1770
22 Jose Maria de Heredia 1842-1905
Andre [Paul Guillame] Gide 1869-1951
23 Paul Celan 1920
Gayl Jones 1949
24 Charles D’Orleans 1394-1465
25 Lope de Vega 1562
26 William Cowper 1731-1800
27 James Agee 1909
28 William Blake 1757-1827 Everything You Wanted to Know about Blake but Were Afraid To Ask
Nikolai Nekrasov 1821
Alexander Blok 1880-1921
Stefan Zweig 1881
Owen [Vincent] Dodson 1914-1983
Lance Jeffers 1919-1985
Dennis Brutus 1924 AKA John Bruin
29 Andres Bello 1781-1865
30 Sir Phillip Sidney 1554

Birthdays from The Waterboro Library unless credited otherwise.

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