I tried to give a better title to literature.stackexchange.com/q/22995/139 based on the details that the OP added to the body. You may want to review and see if you can clean up the title.
as per subject, I remember a quote like being a poet meant standing out in thunderstorms trying to be struck by lighting and if you were lucky you might get struck maybe 4 times in your life. I believe he was a reasonably popular poet in the 1950s / 1960s, American, I seem to remember he was sort...
Is there a common method to adscribe a writer/painter/person as belonging to a certain century?
As in "Herman Melville was a 19th century writer who...". Is it only used in such clear cases as someone born and dead inside the same century? Is it a matter of active years?
Doris Lessing (1919 - 201...