Poet and translator Heather McHugh was raised in Virginia and attended Harvard University, where she studies with Robert Lowell. She published her first book of poetry, Dangers, in 1977. Since then, she has published A World of Difference (1981), To the Quick (1987), Shades (1988), and The Father

Elegant, Smart

16th century (renaissance) literature, 16th century (renaissance) poetry, Augustan literature, Beautiful , Clean, Dramatic, Elegant, Lyrical, Mythic, Political, Witty

Chicago poet, assemblage artist, indigent, and musician. Is into accidents.

Beautiful , Collage, Cool, Dreamy, Ecstatic, Electronic, Elegant, Erotic, Ethereal, Euphoric, Hallucinatory, Melancholy, Mythic, Pastoral, Playful, Rebel, Repetitive, Rhythmic, Serial, Spectral

The period between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, though a time of cultural ferment in the former colonies, was marked by an identity crisis. It was a time when the country was young and the influence of European art and philosophy was strong. The most praised writers were sycophants: Cooper wrote

Ecstatic, Elegant, Pathos, Pioneering, Sincere, Transcendentalism, Witty