Karl Shapiro
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American poet and essayist (1913-2000)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1913
- Died
- 2000
- Works
- 84
Top works
- [Northern lights
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
- Prentice Hall Literature [Grade Ten]
- The house
- A Prosody Handbook
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1971-09-29
film composer
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24
- Total plays
- 148
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 29,147x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,736x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- An analysis of variance test for normality (complete samples)
· 1965 · cited 14,419x
- Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts
· 1998 · cited 12,838x
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Quotes
- “Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.”
- “A leg I noticed next, fine as a mote, "And on this frail eyelash he walked," I said, "And climbed and walked like any mountain-goat."”
- “Then in my heart a fear Cried out, "A life — why, beautiful, why dead!" It was a mite that held itself most dear, So small I could have drowned it with a tear.”
- “As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.”
- “The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there.”
- “Words like “spokesman” and “touchstone” took me completely by surprise. For very real reasons. Not only had I been out of the country when my first two books were published, but I have always been “out of the country” in the sense that I never had what ordinarily is thought of as a literary life, or been part of a literary group. What psychiatrists nowadays call a support system. I never had any of that and still don’t.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Karl
- Family name
- Shapiro
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baltimore
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Educated at
- University of Virginia
- Employer
- Poetry
- Languages spoken
- English language
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1913-11-10
- date of death
- 2000-05-14
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- personal library at
- Harry Ransom Center
- has works in the collection
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
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