A+E Networks. In early April 1968, shock waves reverberated around the world with the news that U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Although One Hundred Years of Solitude has come to be considered one of, if not the, most influential Latin American texts of all time, the novel and Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez have both received occasional criticisms.
A.E. Housman was an English poet and scholar born best known for his poetry volumes A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922) as well as his scholarly editions of first-century Roman astronomer Marcus Manilius.t is believed that Housman wrote Last Poems for Jackson, who read it before he died in 1922. Housman's last years were spent at a nursing home in Cambridge, England, where he died in his sleep on April 30, 1936. Housman was buried in Ludlow, England.