On this day,
In 1830, the wonderful, prolific American poet, Emily Dickinson who had only seven poems published during her lifetime.
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Vitam et Mortem
On this day,
Born in 1608, John Milton, poet and author of, “Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.”
In 1964, English poet Dame Edith Sitwell died aged 77, a leading light of the 1920s avant-garde.
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Literatus Obitus
On this day,
In 1980, John Lennon, singer, songwriter and poet, former member of the Beatles is shot and killed whilst walking with his wife to their New York apartment.
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Literatus Obitus
On this day,
In 1993, death of Anthony Burgess, best known for, “A Clockwork Orange, “ subsequently turned into a controversial film.
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Dies Natalis
On this day,
Was born in 1849, Frances Hodgson Burnett, English author of such as, “Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden,”
also, in 1713, Irish novelist, Laurence Stern, best known for, “Tristram Shandy.”
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Literatus Obitus
On this day,
In 1910 Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian author of, “War and Peace and Anna Karenina,” passed away in a railway carriage at Astopovo,
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Dies Natalis
On this day,
In 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author of such stirring tales as, “Kidnapped, Treasure Island and The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
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Dies Natalis
On this day,
In 1821, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian author of, “Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov.”
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Literatus Obitus
On this day,
In 1953, ignoring the advice rendered to his father, Welsh bard Dylan Thomas passed away at the age of 39 whilst on a lecture tour of America, in the Chelsea Hotel in New York, dying of pneumonia brought on by alcoholism.
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