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James Dickey Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Feb 2, 1923
  • Died: Jan 19, 1997

James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. poetry

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. amazing

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. poetry

St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2025

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. 3 wisdom & wit from John Millington Synge

3 wisdom & wit from John Millington Synge

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. 28 views from William Butler Yeats

28 views from William Butler Yeats

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. 27 quotes from Dave Barry

27 quotes from Dave Barry

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 thoughts from Winston Churchill

74 thoughts from Winston Churchill