Literary Facts - April 27
1759: Mary Wollstonecraft is born. (Explore: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, What is the theme of Mary Wollstonecraft's essay "A Vindication of the Rights...)
1882: Ralph Waldo Emerson dies. (Explore: Transcendentalism, Self-Reliance, The Poetry of Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Discuss Emerson's style with reference to some of his essays.)
1904: C. Day Lewis is born. (Explore: C. Day Lewis, The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis, In the poem "The Ecstactic" by C D Lewis, does the poem progress in thought...)
1921: Hisaye Yamamoto is born. (Explore: The Eskimo Connection, Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables)
1932: Hart Crane dies. (Explore: My Grandmother's Love Letters, The Bridge, Hart Crane, What is the theme of Hart Crane’s “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”?)
1945: August Wilson is born. (Explore: Fences, The Piano Lesson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, August Wilson, In The Piano Lesson by August Wilson, how is the South important to the drama?)
