English literary family, one of the most celebrated literary families of the 20th cent. Its members included Dame Edith Sitwell, 1887–1964, English ...
1930–, American poet, b. San Francisco. Associated with the beat generation of the 1950s, he lived in Japan from 1956 to 1968. His poetry, influence...
name given by European traders to the coast bordering the Bight of Benin on the Gulf of Guinea, W Africa. It was the principal source of slaves from W...