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Today’s program begins with a poem called “The Red Wheelbarrow.” It is simple, but it is also beautiful. It tells about an object a person might see on a farm – a wheelbarrow. This device can help a person carry large loads. It is a small cart with one wheel in the front and two long, usually wooden, handles. Listen as the poem paints a picture around this simple object.
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This poem was published in The poet was a doctor who loved words. Or maybe he was a poet who was also a doctor. He loved poems so much he would write them on the cards which he would give people to tell them what medicines to take. His name was William Carlos Williams. Many of his poems tell the story of simpl
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Williams, Tennessee
With the exception perhaps of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams was the greatest American playwright of the mid twentieth century. He rose, however, from inauspicious beginnings. Born as Thomas Williams in Mississippi in , he was a sickly child, suffering periodically from diphtheria and provoking the ire of his father, a violent alcoholic who despised what he considered to be his son’s weakness. Owing to the fact that his father was a travelling salesman, Williams’ childhood was further disrupted by the frequent relocations undergone by his family. This sad and troubled upbringing was, many believe, the foundation for the tragic family dramas contained throughout his work.
While at college in Missouri as a young man, Williams saw a production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts and decided that his calling was as a playwright. He was later forced to drop out of college by his father to help support the family by working in a shoe factory; although Williams ha
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Tennessee Williams
American playwright (–)
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, – February 25, ), known bygd his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.[1]
At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie () in New York City. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (), Sweet Bird of Youth (), and The Night of the Iguana (). With his later work, Williams attempted a new style that did not appeal as widely to audiences. His skådespel A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.[1]
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