User:Filiocht/Table

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 * Richard Aldington
 * July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1962
 * Poetry, Novel
 * Death of a Hero (Novel)
 * A member of the Imagists, Aldington was married to fellow Imagist H.D. for a time.
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 * Djuna Barnes
 * June 12, 1892 - June 18, 1982
 * Poetry, Novel, Short Story, Journalism, Drama
 * Nightwood (Novel)
 * Openly lesbian, Barnes was an important part of Parisian bohemian life in the 1920s. She was a close friend and confidiant of James Joyce.
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 * Samuel Beckett
 * April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989
 * Poetry, Novel, Short Story, Drama
 * Waiting for Godot Endgame Krapp's Last Tape (Plays), Molloy Malone Dies The Unnamable (Novels)
 * Born in Ireland, Beckett spent most of his writing life in France, where he worked for the French Resistance during World War II. He achieved fame through his 1952 play, Waiting for Godot. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
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 * Kay Boyle
 * February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992
 * Poetry, Novel, Short Story, Essay, Memoir, Journalism
 * Being Geniuses Together (Memoir), Year Before Last, Generation Without Farewell (Novels) Collected Poems
 * Boyle was a member of the Lost Generation of American expatriate writers and atrists in Paris in the 1920s and 30s. Back home in America, se became a victim of McCarthyism, losing her position as foreign correspondent for The New Yorker magazine.
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 * Basil Bunting
 * March 3, 1900 – 1985
 * Poetry, Criticism, Translation, Journalism
 * Briggflatts (Long poem), Complete Poems
 * Bunting served time as a conscientious objector during World War I. A friend of Ezra Pound, he was associated with the Objectivist poets. During World War II, he served in British Military Intelligence in Persia. He was expelled in 1952, when he returned to his native Northumbria, where he worked as a journalist on a local paper.
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 * Brian Coffey
 * June 8, 1905 - April 14, 1995
 * Poetry, Criticism, Translation
 * Third Person, Advent (Long poem), Poems and Versions 1929-1990, Poems from Mallarmé
 * Born in Dublin, Coffey lived in Paris, where his friend Samuel Beckett introduced him to James Joyce. He later lived in St Louis, London, and for the last 22 years of his life, Southampton. He ran Advent Press, publishing poetry and translations by himself and others.
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 * E. E. Cummings
 * October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962
 * Poetry, Novel, Drama
 * Poems 1923–1954  The Enormous Room (Novel),  Eimi'' (Novel)
 * Noted for his unorthodox use of typography and punctuation in his poems, reflected in the common appearance in print of his name as e. e. cummings. He also exhibited regularly as a painter.
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 * Denis Devlin
 * April 15, 1908 - August 21, 1959
 * Poetry, Translation
 * Collected Poems '', Exile and Other Poems (Translation of work by by St-John Perse)
 * was, along with Samuel Beckett and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Irish modernist poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s. He was also a career diplomat.