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Classmates, thanks for taking the time out of your days to read my blog. I know I didn't update this nearly as much as I should have, but I let personal issues and other things consume me over the last few weeks, which is no excuse, but again, thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed the blog, and I do recommend following this blog as well as my personal blog. I believe that over the next few months I will be updating this one, but most importantly, my personal blog will become very much alive and active.

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Thanks again for the fun semester and I wish all of you the best of luck in your schooling adventures! Also, don't forget to read below this as I posted the final birthday blog of the semester! There was nobody famous from our past, but this guy was really interesting and I think you all should look into him more than what I provided. He was very interesting to read about!

Take Care Everyone <3

~Happy 84th Birthday Gary Snyder~

WE HAVE A LIVE ONE! Today we celebrate the 84th birthday of a poet named Gary Snyder. He was born today back in 1930 in San Francisco, and is most recognizable and noted for the Beats Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance. After college he seemed to dive heavily into Native-American and rural-Japanese ideas and cultures. He had even traveled back and forth from California and Japan studying Zen. As a result, he was given the dharma name "Chofu" which stands for "Listen to the Wind."

AWARDS:

• Pulitzer Prize for poetry, 1975
• Bollingen Prize for Poetry, 1997
• John Hay Award for Nature Writing, 1997
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, 2008

QUOTES:

• "Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there."
• "There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea." 

~Happy Birthday Charlotte Smith~

Hello to all of you whom have remained patient and finally get to read another happy birthday blog! I'm sorry for the lack of posts this semester, I'm sorry for the laziness, I did not intend for this semester to go this way, because believe it or not, I LOVE THIS BLOG! Life will get in the way of everything if you let it, and I seemed to have let it get in the way of getting a good grade on this blog lol. So lets put the past aside us for now, lets enjoy a quick summary of this young lady (265 year young lady) and lets learn about Charlotte Turner Smith.

Born on this very day back in 1749, Charlotte Turner Smith became a very important person to the world of literature. She was an English Romantic poet and a novelist as well. She basically revived the English sonnet, she helped to build the genre of Gothic fiction, and is noted for writing political novels of sensibility.
Her father was not that great of a man, but he was very wealthy. He had a spending problem and this caused her to marry at a young age. She married a man named Benjamin Smith and had an ugly marriage. The only thing that is odd about this, though was described as a violent marriage, she had TWELVE children with him! She called the marriage a "prostitution." Had it not been for this terrible marriage, she never would've became known for what she does best, writing.
Once she decided to leave her husband, she began writing as a means to support her family. She became a great writer, publishing three books of poetry, ten novels, children books, and a few other works over the course of her entire writing career. She died from illness on October 28th of 1806 and by the middle of the 19th century, so did her legacy. She was basically forgotten about until recently. Now her books have been republished and she is recognized for being a huge supporter and importance as a romantic writer.

QUOTES: 

• "If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it."
• "The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute."
• "In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind." 
• The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stone, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps."

WORKS:

• Educational Works
• Rural Walks(1795)
• Rambles Father(1796) 
• Novels
• The Old Manor House(1793)
• Montalbert(1795) 
• Poetry
• Elegiac Sonnets(1784)
• The Emigrants(1793)