William Dean Howells
b. 1837
William Dean Howells (* 1. März 1837 in Martinsville (heute Martins Ferry), Ohio; † 11. Mai 1920 in Neu England) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Literaturkritiker und Zeitschriftenredakteur. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind A Modern Instance (1881) und The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885).
Best-known poems
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The Two Wives
The colonel rode by his picket-line
In the pleasant morning sun,
That glanced from him far off to shine …
All poems (11)
- CapriceI.
- ChangeSometimes, when after spirited debate
- Earliest SpringTossing his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles,
- From Generation to GenerationInnocent spirits, bright, immaculate ghosts!
- HopeWe sailed and sailed upon the desert sea
- IfYes, death is at the bottom of the cup,
- In Earliest SpringTossing his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles,
- Judgment DayBefore him weltered like a shoreless sea
- The Two WivesThe colonel rode by his picket-line
- VisionWithin a poor man’s squalid home I stood:
- What Shall It Profit?If i lay waste and wither up with doubt
