This is an archive of article summaries that have appeared in the Did you know section of Portal:Poetry in 2006. For past archives, see the complete archive page.
... that Denise Levertov was born in England, and only moved to the United States in her mid 20's?
... that Serbian epic poetry typically has unrhymed lined of 10 syllables with a caesura after the fourth syllable?
... that poet James Laughlin wrote a poem called Experience of Blood after discovering his son's dead self-slain corpse in the bathtub? One of Laughlin's other, more positive poems is featured this week.
... that Torquato Tasso was kept in a hospital for the insane for more than 7 years?
... that T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
... that the title of Maya Angelou's book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is taken from the poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar?
... that Francis Scott Key, who wrote the United States National Anthem, was principally a lawyer?
... that Zbigniew Herbert advocated 'semantic transparency' in poetry?
... that Sengalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor served as the first president of Senegal?
This is an archive of article summaries that have appeared in the Did you know section of Portal:Poetry in 2006. For past archives, see the complete archive page.
... that Denise Levertov was born in England, and only moved to the United States in her mid 20's?
... that Serbian epic poetry typically has unrhymed lined of 10 syllables with a caesura after the fourth syllable?
... that poet James Laughlin wrote a poem called Experience of Blood after discovering his son's dead self-slain corpse in the bathtub? One of Laughlin's other, more positive poems is featured this week.
... that Torquato Tasso was kept in a hospital for the insane for more than 7 years?
... that T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
... that the title of Maya Angelou's book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is taken from the poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar?
... that Francis Scott Key, who wrote the United States National Anthem, was principally a lawyer?
... that Zbigniew Herbert advocated 'semantic transparency' in poetry?
... that Sengalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor served as the first president of Senegal?