poetic BIRTHDAYS for OCTOBER

10/21/1772  Samuel Taylor Coleridge-was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher. It was his poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," a poem which I read in the 5th grade, that fostered my love for poetry. Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England.

10/27/1932 -  Sylvia Plath - was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. In 1982 she won a posthumous PULITZER PRIZE for "The Collected Poems." Plath published her first poem at the age of eight.

10/27/1914 -  Dylan Thomas - was a Welsh poet and writer, A lot of his poetry appeared in print when he was a teenager. Dylan caught the attention of the literary world in 1934 with the publication of his poem "Light breaks where no sun shines."



10/30/1885 - Ezra Pound was an American poet and critic whose contribution to poetry began with his development of IMAGISM, a poetic movement which stressed clarity, precision and economy of language.

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