Elena poet

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The Browning Society were groups of enthusiasts that regularly discuss the works of English writer Robert Browning. In order of the Society’s donation, the city, located in Kentucky, USA, is renamed as “Pippa Passes” after Browning’s verse drama of the same name.

French surrealist poet Robert Desnos began reading palms of his fellow prisoners in a concentration camp. They were heading to the gas chambers but Desnos only declared longevity, more children, and joy in his readings. Everybody became entranced, even the guards, that they were driven back to the barracks and spared.

The identity of the “beautiful young man” the Bard mentions in his sonnets remains unknown. But the third Earl of Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, is the strongest candidate whom Shakespeare dedicated his poems to.

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Renga, meaning “linked poem”, is the bigger version of the famous Japanese haiku. This time poets collaborate by working on 17-syllable stanzas (haikus) then combining them to form renga.

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