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Kenneth Rexroth
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BIOGRAPHY

Poet, writer, and painter. Special Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara. Author of Classics Revisited and others.

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Antique book open to the frontispiece of The Iliad of Homer, showing the title and an engraved portrait of a bearded man, with old books in the background.
In its simplest definition literature is a body of written works. However, the name has traditionally been applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the perceived aesthetic excellence of their execution. Literature may be classified…
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