Poetry in Motion
#RIP #OTD in 1673, playwright (Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, Les Femmes savantes, L'école des femmes), actor Molière (portrait by Pierre Mignard) died at his home in Paris from tuberculosis, aged 51. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris https://t.co/KtBmPBnWnx pic.twitter.com/XeVVcyPDEx
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) February 17, 2024
17 February 1933. Newsweek magazine was published for the first time in the USA. Its first lead story was about Adolf Hitler coming to power in Germany. pic.twitter.com/2BlHa2xMNs
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 17, 2024
18 February 1922. Helen Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest, Arkansas, USA. She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years. She was an advocate of women’s sexual freedom and sought to provide women with feminist role models in her magazine. pic.twitter.com/zP6UwJybNY
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 18, 2024
18 February 1931. Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio, USA. Her most celebrated work, Beloved, gained a Pulitzer Prize and was made into a 1998 film. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. In 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. pic.twitter.com/xtfZSMEieB
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 18, 2024
19 February 1958. Helen Fielding was born in Morley. She’s best known as the creator of the fictional character, Bridget Jones, a 30-something singleton in London, who featured in the novels and films Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. pic.twitter.com/APR4EgNp2S
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 19, 2024
#RIP #OTD in 2016 medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum), cultural critic, Umberto Eco died at his Milanese home of pancreatic cancer, aged 84. Cremated remains Cimitero Monumentale in Milano https://t.co/eF7WwSJ2Qv pic.twitter.com/TQCFgo5zq0
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) February 19, 2024
19 February 2016. American novelist, Harper Lee, died (aged 89). She’s best known for her classic anti-racist novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, which became a successful Hollywood film. Lee only published one other book, but was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. pic.twitter.com/HUGB4jE4nV
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 19, 2024
#RIP #OTD in 1895, social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass died from a heart attack at his home in Washington D. C., at the age of 77. Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York https://t.co/kiCpLljFJC pic.twitter.com/dDXbxoMbuW
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) February 20, 2024
#RIP #OTD in 2005, journalist and author (Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) Hunter S. Thompson died from a gunshot at his home, Owl Farm near Woody Creek, Colorado, at the age of 67. Cremated remains fired from a cannon at Owl Farm https://t.co/kiCpLljFJC pic.twitter.com/KuWKXf1e5m
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) February 20, 2024
21 February 1848. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (left) and Friedrich Engels (right), was published in London (in German). It suggested the history of society was the history of class struggles, and predicted capitalist society would be replaced by socialism. pic.twitter.com/930Om8Zfdg
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 21, 2024
21 February 1907. Acclaimed poet, Wystan Hugh (“WH”) Auden, was born in York. Poetry specialists have usually ranked him 3rd behind WB Yeats and TS Eliot in lists of the greatest poets of the 20th century, but in recent years some have ranked him as the highest of those three. pic.twitter.com/0gSCvQDcPi
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 21, 2024
#RIP #OTD in 2012 journalist, foreign affairs correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times, Marie Colvin died while covering the siege of Homs in Syria, aged 56. Cremated remains scattered in Oyster Bay, New York and Thames river in England https://t.co/20VHbX9Uej pic.twitter.com/EP9ToCROp6
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) February 22, 2024
#RIP #OTD in 2021 poet (A Coney Island of the Mind), translator, painter, social activist, co-founder of City Lights Booksellers, Lawrence Ferlinghetti died; interstitial lung disease; his San Francisco home, aged 101. Bolinas Cemetery, California https://t.co/20VHbX9Uej pic.twitter.com/L64q3hgweg
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) February 22, 2024
23 February 1633. Samuel Pepys was born in London. He was an administrator of the navy and an MP who is best known for the diary he kept for a decade on London life, while still a relatively young man. The diary is still seen as a key source for historians of London in the 1660s. pic.twitter.com/GqQoobJ4Ra
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 23, 2024
#RIP #OTD in 1821, poet ("Ode to a Nightingale", "Sleep and Poetry", "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"), John Keats, died in a villa on the Spanish Steps in Rome, today the Keats-Shelley Memorial House museum aged 25; tuberculosis. Campo Cestio, Rome https://t.co/4fBve47CkF pic.twitter.com/gmJUcEaZTH
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) February 23, 2024
24 February 1786. Wilhelm Grimm, was born in Hanau, Germany. He’s the author, along with his brother, Jakob, of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” which included such classic children’s stories as Snow White, The Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, and Rumpelstiltskin. pic.twitter.com/lItlDv54zm
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 24, 2024
#RIP #OTD in 1852, poet, singer, songwriter (Irish Melodies, "The Minstrel Boy", "The Last Rose of Summer"), entertainer, Ireland's national bard, Thomas Moore died; Sloperton Cottage, Bromham, Wiltshire, England, aged 72. St. Nicholas churchyard, Bromham https://t.co/WXEuRXfVmA pic.twitter.com/ZT3tvvyhSS
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) February 25, 2024
25 February 1917. Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester. His best known novel was, A Clockwork Orange. In 1971, it was adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick. Burgess said the film was responsible for the popularity of the book, which was first published in 1962. pic.twitter.com/jdbyVR4huK
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) February 25, 2024
#RIP #OTD in 1964 author (Peyton Place) Grace Metalious died from cirrhosis of the liver in Boston aged 39. Smith Meeting House Cemetery, Gilmanton, New Hampshire https://t.co/WXEuRXfVmA pic.twitter.com/C4V9Pw7xkP
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) February 25, 2024
#RIP #OTD in 1983, playwright (A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Rose Tattoo, The Glass Menagerie, The Night of the Iguana), Tennessee Williams died; overdose of Seconal; Hotel Elysée, New York City, aged 71. Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis https://t.co/WXEuRXfVmA pic.twitter.com/mFvRHEYBiL
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) February 25, 2024