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Irish or
France
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).
Events
*July 10 –
Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine ( ; ; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolism (movement), Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the ''fin de siècle'' ...
shoots at and wounds
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (, ; ; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.
Born in Charleville, he s ...
in Brussels.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
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*
Alexander Anderson Alexander Anderson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Alexander Anderson (cartoonist) (1920–2010), American cartoonist, creator of "Rocky the Flying Squirrel"
* Alexander Anderson (illustrator) (1775–1870), American illustrator
* Alexander ...
, ''A Song of Labour, and Other Poems''
[Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ]
*
Robert Bridges
Robert Seymour Bridges (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was a British poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is ...
, ''Poems by Robert Bridges'' (see also ''Poems''
1879
Events January
* January 1
** The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War.
** Brahms' Violin Concerto is premiered in Leipzig with Joseph Joachim ...
,
1880
Events
January
*January 27 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the incandescent light bulb. Edison filed for a US patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires." gr ...
)
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* ]Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian literature, Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentar ...
, '' Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers''[
* ]Edward Carpenter
Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivise ...
, ''Narcissus, and Other Poems''[
* ]Austin Dobson
:''This article describes the English racing driver. For the English poet, see Henry Austin Dobson''.
Austin Dobson (19 August 1912 in Lodsworth, Sussex – 13 March 1963 in Cuckfield
Cuckfield ( ) is a village and civil parishes in En ...
, ''Vignettes in Rhyme''[
* ]Dora Greenwell
Dora Greenwell (6 December 182129 March 1882) was an England, English poet. The name "Dora Greenwell" was for many years supposed to be the pseudonym of a writer of rare spiritual insight and fine poetic genius. It was very generally surmised t ...
, ''Songs of Salvation''[
* ]William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditiona ...
, ''Love is Enough; or, The Freeing of Pharamond''[
* ]Emily Pfeiffer
Emily Jane Pfeiffer (26 November 1827 – 23 January 1890, née Davis) was a Welsh poet and philanthropist. She supported women's suffrage and higher education for women, as well as producing feminist poems.
Pfeiffer was born Montgomeryshire, bu ...
, ''Gerard's Monument, and Other Poems''[
]
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
* Will Carleton, ''Farm Ballads''[Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)]
* William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells ( ; March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American Realism (arts), realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of ...
, ''Poems''[
* ]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems " Paul Revere's Ride", '' The Song of Hiawatha'', and '' Evangeline''. He was the first American to comp ...
, ''Aftermath''[
* ]Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record ...
, ''Lars: A Pastoral of Norway''[
]
Works published in other languages
France
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* Tristan Corbière
Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of ...
, ''Les amours jaunes''
* Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (, ; ; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.
Born in Charleville, he s ...
, ''Une Saison en Enfer
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'' ("A Season in Hell")
* Théodore de Banville
Théodore Faullain de Banville (; 14 March 1823 – 13 March 1891) was a French poet and writer. His work was influential on the Symbolist movement in French literature in the late 19th century.
Biography
Banville was born in Moulins in Allier ...
, ''Trente-six ballades joyeuses'', Paris: Lemerre; France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
[Web pag]
"The Trente-six ballades joyeuses of Theodore de Banville"
identified as page 328 and the first page of an article the web page references as "The Trente-six ballades joyeuses of Theodore de Banville, by Aaron Schaffer © 1922 The Johns Hopkins University Press." at the Jstor website, retrieved February 6, 2010
* Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine ( ; ; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolism (movement), Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the ''fin de siècle'' ...
:
** ''Romances sans paroles''[Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications]
** ''Art poétique'', criticism[
]
Awards and honors
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in poetry" article:
* January 9 – Hayim Nahman Bialik
Hayim Nahman Bialik (; January 9, 1873 – July 4, 1934) was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew language, Hebrew and Yiddish. Bialik is considered a pioneer of modern Hebrew poetry, part of the vanguard of Jewish thinkers who gave voice ...
, חיים נחמן ביאליק (died 1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
), Russian-born Hebrew
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poet
* January 7 – Charles Péguy
Charles Pierre Péguy (; 7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism; by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing ( ...
(killed in action 1914
This year saw the beginning of what became known as the First World War, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip ...
), French
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* The French (band), ...
poet and essayist
* February 26 – Tekkan Yosano
Yosano Hiroshi (与謝野 寛; 26 February 1873 – 26 March 1935), known by his pen name was a Japanese author and poet active in late Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa era. His wife was fellow author Yosano Akiko. His grandson was politicia ...
, 与謝野 鉄幹, pen-name
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of Yosano Hiroshi (died 1935
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January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
), Japanese
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late Meiji period
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, Taishō and early Shōwa period
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* Showa Corporation, a Japanese suspension and shock manufactu ...
author and poet; husband of author Yosano Akiko
, known by her pen name Yosano Akiko (Shinjitai: , Kyūjitai: , ), was a Japanese author, poet, feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō era, Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan. She is one ...
; grandfather of cabinet minister and politician Kaoru Yosano
(August 22, 1938 – May 23, 2017) was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Sunrise Party of Japan and former member of the House of Representatives, serving his ninth term in the Lower House represe ...
(surname: Yosano)
* March 28 – Gilbert E. Brooke (died 1936
Events January–February
* January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House.
* January 28 – Death and state funer ...
), French-born English
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* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
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poet and colonial medical officer
* April 12 – Kumaran Asan
Mahakavi Kumaran Asan (12 April 1871 – 16 January 1924) was a poet of Malayalam literature, Indian social reformer and a philosopher. He is known to have initiated a revolution in Malayalam poetry during the first quarter of the 20th century, ...
(died 1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...
), Indian
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, Malayalam
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-language poet
* April 25 – Walter De la Mare
Walter John de la Mare (; 25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fi ...
(died 1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
), English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
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Culture, language and peoples
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
* ''English'', an Amish ter ...
poet, short story writer and novelist
* August 3 – Alexander Posey
Alexander Lawrence Posey (August 3, 1873 – May 27, 1908) was a Native American poet, humorist, journalist, and politician in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.Schneider 190 He founded the ''Eufaula Indian Journal'' in 1901, the first Native American ...
(drowned 1908
This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time.
Events
January
* January ...
), Native American
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poet, journalist, humorist and politician
* August 13 – Dora Adele Shoemaker (died 1962
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.
Events January
* January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
), American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, p ...
poet and playwright
* October 10 – George Cabot Lodge
George Cabot "Bay" Lodge (October 10, 1873 – August 21, 1909) was an American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Early life
Lodge was born in Boston on October 10, 1873, and grew up at his parents' home in Nahant, Massachusetts ...
(died 1909
Events
January–February
* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
* Janu ...
) American
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** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, p ...
* December 7 – Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including ''O Pioneers!'', ''The Song of the Lark (novel), The Song of the Lark'', a ...
(died 1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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January
* January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country i ...
), American
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** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
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novelist and poet
* December 11 – Tilly Aston
Matilda Ann Aston (11 December 1873 – 1 November 1947), better known as Tilly Aston, was a blind Australian writer and teacher, who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the A ...
(died 1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Events
January
* January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country i ...
), Australian
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* December 12 – Lola Ridge
Lola Ridge (born Rose Emily Ridge; 12 December 1873 – 19 May 1941) was an Irish-born New Zealand-American anarchist and modernist poet, and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She is best known for her lon ...
(died 1941
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, wa ...
), Irish American
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anarchist and modernist poet, and editor of avant-garde, feminist and Marxist publications
* December 29 – Ovid Densusianu
Ovid Densusianu (; also known under his pen name Ervin; 29 December 1873, Făgăraș – 9 June 1938, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian and critic, chief of a poetry school, university professor ...
("Ervin") (died 1938
Events
January
* January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS).
* January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
), Romanian
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poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian, critic, academic and journalist
* Undated
** George Clarke
George Clarke (7 May 1661 – 22 October 1736), of All Souls, Oxford, was an English architect, print collector and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1702 and 1736.
Life
The son of Sir William Clark ...
, Canadian
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** Clementine Krämer
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, née Cahnmann (died 1942
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...
in Theresienstadt concentration camp
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), German
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poet and short-story writer
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in poetry" article:
* April 26 – Vladimir Benediktov
Vladimir Grigoryevich Benediktov (; (17 November o.s.1807, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 26 April 4 o.s.1873, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian romantic poet and translator, of Goethe, Schiller, Barbier, Gautier and ...
(born 1807
Events
January–March
*January 7 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies.
*January 20 – The Sierra Leone Company, faced with b ...
), Russian
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*A citizen of Russia
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poet and translator
* May 9 – Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (February 4, 1821 – May 9, 1873) was an American poet, remembered mostly for his sonnet series. Apart from the 1860 publication of his book ''Poems'', which included approximately two-fifths of his lifetime sonnet o ...
(born 1821
Events
January–March
* January 21 – Peter I Island in the Antarctic is first sighted, by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
* January 26 – Congress of Laibach convenes to deal with outstanding international issues, particularly ...
), American
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* May 22 – Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher.
He is famous for the novel ''The Betrothed (Manzoni novel), The Betrothed'' (orig. ) (1827), generally ranked among ...
(born 1785
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Burmese Konbaung Dynasty annexes the Mrauk U Kingdom of Arakan.
** The first issue of the '' Daily Universal Register'', later known as ''The Times'', is published in London.
* January 7 &nd ...
), Italian poet and novelist
* June 29 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (born Sri Madhusudan Dutta; ; 25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a Bengali poet and playwright. He is considered one of the pioneers of Bengali literature.
Early life
Madhusudan was born in Sagardari, a villag ...
(মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত also spelled "Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto", "Datta" or "Dutta"), born Madhusudan Dutt (born 1824
Events
January–March
* January 1 – John Stuart Mill begins publication of The Westminster Review. The first article is by William Johnson Fox
* January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of th ...
–1873), Indian
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, English
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-language poet and dramatist
* July 13 – Caroline Clive
Caroline Wigley Clive (''née'' Meysey-Wigley; 24 June 1801 – 13 July 1873) was an English writer known by the pseudonym V. She was known chiefly as the author of ''IX Poems'' that when first published, took their place in the forefront of the ...
, also known as "Caroline Wigley Clive", 71 (born 1801
Events
January–March
*January 1
** The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the abolition of the Parliament of Ir ...
), English
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* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
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poet and author, dies in fire
* October 27 – Janet Hamilton (born 1795
Events
January–June
* January – Central England records its coldest ever month, in the CET records dating back to 1659.
* January 14 – The University of North Carolina opens to students at Chapel Hill, becoming the ...
), Scottish
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poet
* December 24 – Rangga Warsita
Raden Ngabehi Ranggawarsita (14 March 1802 – 24 December 1873, , ) was a Javanese philosopher and poet. He was born into the famous literary Yasadipura family in Surakarta, in Central Java. He is sometimes called the ''last Javanese poet''.
Bi ...
(born 1802
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, begins removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens, claiming they are at risk of destruction during the Ott ...
), Javanese
* Undated
** Kasiprasad Ghose, Indian
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** Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos
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(born 1843
Events January–March
* January 3 – The '' Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms'' (海國圖志, ''Hǎiguó Túzhì'') compiled by Wei Yuan and others, the first significant Chinese work on the West, is published in China.
* J ...
), Greek
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See also
* 19th century in poetry
* 19th century in literature
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* List of years in poetry
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Before 1000 BC
* – '' Kesh Temple Hymn''
* – Enheduanna, ''The Exalta ...
* List of years in literature
This article gives a chronological list of years in literature, with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern liter ...
* Victorian literature
Victorian era, Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). In the Victorian era, the novel became the leading literary genre in English. English writing from this era reflects the major transform ...
* French literature of the 19th century
19th-century French literature concerns the developments in French literature during a dynamic period in French history that saw the rise of Democracy and the fitful end of Monarchy and Empire. The period covered spans the following political re ...
* Poetry
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