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Robert Hayden. Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. [ 1] He was the first African-American writer to hold the office.
Poetry. Form. Three stanzas. Publication date. 1966. Lines. 14. " Those Winter Sundays " is a poem written in 1962 by American Robert Hayden (1913–1980), while he was teaching as an English professor at Fisk University. The poem is one of Hayden's most recognized works, together with " Middle Passage ".
Hayden based the poem in part on The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. He first published the poem in Phylon in 1945. He significantly revised it for publication in his 1962 A Ballad of Remembrance. "Middle Passage" is the "centerpiece" of A Ballad of Remembrance, and that collection is considered to have played a large role in increasing Hayden's ...
English: The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, by Benjamin Robert Haydon (died 1846), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1880 by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Oil on canvas, 1841. 117 in. x 151 in. (2972 mm x 3836 mm). See source website for additional information. This monumental painting records the 1840 ...
December 28, 1964. ( 1964-12-28) title card. Carol for Another Christmas is a 1964 American TV movie, written by Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens ' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol and a plea for global cooperation. It was the first in a planned series of television specials developed to promote the United Nations and educate ...
Tom Hayden. Tom Hayden with his then-wife, Jane Fonda, and their son, Troy, Santa Monica, California. Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 – October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Hayden was best known for his role as an anti-war, civil rights, and intellectual activist in the 1960s ...
Benjamin Robert Haydon ( / ˈheɪdən /; 26 January 1786 – 22 June 1846) was a British painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits. His commercial success was damaged by his often tactless dealings with patrons, and by the enormous scale on which he preferred to work.
Release date Title Studio release label Notes December 12, 1980: Popeye: Buena Vista International: International distribution only through Walt Disney Productions; co-production with Paramount Pictures, Robert Evans Productions and King Features Entertainment