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About the Poet:Frederick Morgan, born on April 25, 1922 was a founder and for 55 years the editor of The Hudson Review, one of the nation’s most prestigious literary journals, and the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. Fred Morgan was one of the great editors of American letters said who had… Continue reading The Masters Summary by Frederick Morgan
About the Poet: Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an Indian poet, born in Ahmedabad. Bhatt has been recognized as a distinctive voice in contemporary poetry.She has an MFA from the University of Iowa, and for a time was writer-in-residence at the University Of Victoria, Canada. She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for… Continue reading The Himalayas Summary by Sujata Bhatt
About the Poet: Thomas Stearns Eliot better known as T. S. Eliot was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and one of the twentieth century’s major poets. T S Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1888, and died on 4 January 1965. As a poet, he altered his affinity… Continue reading Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat Summary by T. S. Eliot
About the Poet: Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara (born April 21, 1921, in Bumodi, Nigeria) is a Nigerian poet and novelist who may be pronounced as highly original and uninfluenced by other poets. He has been extremely successful in apprehending the moods, sights, and sounds of Africa. His poems show great sensitivity, perceptive judgments, and tremendous… Continue reading Once Upon a Time: Summary
About the Poet: William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies born on 3 July 1871 was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or hobo, in the United Kingdom and United States, but became one of the most popular poets of his time. The principal themes in his work are observations about life’s hardships, the ways in… Continue reading In the Country Summary by William Henry Davies
About the Poet Koyamparambath Satchidanandan was born in 1946 in Pulloot, a village in Kodungallur in the Thrissur District of Kerala. K. Sachidanandan is an Indian poet and critic writing in Malayalam and English. A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual critic, playwright, editor, literary columnist, and translator, is the former Editor of… Continue reading Cactus: Summary
About the poet – A Jewish-Indian poet, playwright, art critic (The Names of India (1964–66)) and editor (Poetry India (1966–67)) born on 14th December 1924 in Mumbai, was regarded as the path finder of the post colonial Indian English writing. Known for his deft handling of the irony of the quintessential Indian milieu and its… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of the Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
