Poet
Described by her contemporary Joan Hambidge, as the Pablo Neruda of Afrikaans, Krog would publish her first book of verse, Dogter van Jefta (Daughter of Jephta) at the age of seventeen. Within the next two years she published a second collection titled: Januarie-suite (January Suite). Since then she has published nine further volumes, one in English. Much of her poetry deals with love, apartheid, the role of women, and the politics of gender. Her work has been translated into English, Dutch and several other languages.
Read more about this topic: Antjie Krog
Other articles related to "poet":
... In the time of the Greek oral poet Hesiod, Elysium would also be known as the Fortunate Isles or the Isles (or Islands) of the Blessed, located in the western ocean at the ... Isles of the Blessed would be reduced to a single island by the Thebean poet Pindar, describing it as having shady parks, with residents indulging ... from author to author Pindar and Hesiod name Cronus as the ruler, while the poet Homer in the Odyssey describes fair-haired Rhadamanthus dwelling there ...
... January 21 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss novelist and poet, 73 January 30 - Dorothy Thompson, influential journalist, 67 May 26 - William Troy, writer and teacher, 57 ... poet, novelist and memoirist, 75 October 19 - Mihail Sadoveanu, Romanian novelist, 80 November 2 - James Thurber, humorist, 66 December 7 - Roussan Camille, Haitian poet and journalist, 49 ...
... Romanian historian, essayist, novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, playwright, and journalist January 20 - R ... science fiction and fantasy author March 15 - Ben Okri, poet and novelist March 11 - Dejan Stojanović, Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and ...
13 – Georges Duhamel, French novelist, 81 June 7 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet, 79 June 10 – Henry Treece, historical novelist, 54 June 30 – Margery Allingham ...
... Eliot, American/British poet and dramatist, 76 January 12 – Lorraine Hansberry, journalist and dramatist, 34 (cancer) March 13 – Fan S ... Noli, Albanian bishop and poet, 83 May 3 – Howard Spring, novelist, 76 June 5 – Thornton Burgess, children's author, 91 June 13 - Martin Buber, Austrian-born Jewish philosopher, 87 July 9 – Jacques Audiberti ... Costain, popular historian, 80 October 15 – Randall Jarrell, poet, 54 (road accident) October 30 – Arthur Schlesinger, Sr ...
Famous quotes containing the word poet:
“To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth ... but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.”
—Laura Riding (1901–1991)
“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“I am no Poet here; my pen ‘s the spout,
Where the rain water of my eyes run out,
In pity of that name, whose fate wee see
Thus copied out in griefs Hydrography:
The Muses are not Mer-maids, though upon
His death the Ocean might turn Helicon”
—John Cleveland (1613–1658)