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  2. Thomas Hardy - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. [1]

  3. Cilappatikaram - Wikipedia

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    It therefore connotes a "story that centers around an anklet". [22] The content and context around that center is elaborate, with Atiyarkkunallar describing it as an epic story told with poetry, music, and drama. [4]

  4. First Person Singular (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    The book's title story, "First Person Singular", is a new story that was previously unpublished. The other seven stories in the book were first published in the literary magazine Bungakukai between summer 2018 and winter 2020. Several stories in the book were also previously published in English in The New Yorker and Granta. [26]

  5. Drama (film and television) - Wikipedia

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    In this broader sense, drama is a mode distinct from novels, short stories, and narrative poetry or songs. [3] In the modern era, before the birth of cinema or television, "drama" within theatre was a type of play that was neither a comedy nor a tragedy. It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries, along with film studies ...

  6. Langston Hughes - Wikipedia

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    He wrote novels, short stories, plays, poetry, operas, essays, and works for children. With the encouragement of his best friend and writer, Arna Bontemps, and patron and friend, Carl Van Vechten, he wrote two volumes of autobiography, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander, as well as translating several works of literature into English.

  7. 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

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    novel, short story, poetry, drama Richard Meckelein (1880–1948) 25 Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) United States: poetry, drama Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) 26 Ivan Shmelyov (1873–1950) Soviet Union France: novel, short story Nicolaas van Wijk (1880–1941) 27 Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) Finland: novel, short story ...

  8. Drama - Wikipedia

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    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.

  9. Alexander Pushkin - Wikipedia

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    He brought natural speech and foreign influences to create modern poetic Russian. Though his life was brief, he left examples of nearly every literary genre of his day: lyric poetry, narrative poetry, the novel, the short story, the drama, the critical essay and even the personal letter. According to Vladimir Nabokov,