Literary Facts - July 28
1844: Gerard Manley Hopkins is born. (Explore: Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur, Analyse Hopkins as a religious poet?)
1866: Beatrix Potter is born. (Explore: Beatrix Potter, What are some examples of Potter expressing her own personal agenda in The..., Does Potter have an overt and/or a hidden agenda she is trying to express in...)
1868: The U.S. Congress passes the Fourteenth Amendment, making blacks American citizens. (Explore: Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, What is the relationship between the 14th Amendment and the Bill of Rights?)
1927: John Ashbery is born. (Explore: Rivers and Mountains, John Ashbery, A Worldly Country, What are the basic themes in the poetry of John Ashbery?)
1959: William T. Vollmann is born. (Explore: William T. Vollmann, Fathers and Crows, The Atlas)
1969: Frank Loesser dies. (Explore: Who was Frank Loesser, and what did he contribute to the arts in America?)
1998: Zbigniew Herbert dies. (Explore: Zbigniew Herbert, Apollo and Marsyas, Old Masters, Mr. Cogito Looks at His Face in the Mirror)