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The Pulitzer Prizes for 2018 has been announced. Following are the winners of the Pulitzer Prize 2018. 1. Fiction :-  Andrew Sean Greer’s “Less” has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Greer’s novel tells the comic story of a middle-aged novelist. 2. Drama :- Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok. 3 . History :- The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, by Jack E. Davis (Liveright/W.W. Norton). 4. Biography :- Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books). 5. Poetry :-  Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

~>> Ransom main idea hare in the essay poetry: A Note on Ontology is to assert the ontological status of poetry. Ransom divides poetry in to two broad groups. One groups that talk about things. Another group that talks about idea. And the third group comes out of blending of these two qualities. Physical poetry, Platonic poetry and Metaphysical are the names for these groups respectively. Physical_poetry : The physical poetry uses physical things/ objects. The poets are concerned with material and surface appearance but not an idea. It is concrete form of poetry. Language is plain literal and scientific. It is the poetry of things. They present not the ideas but the things. But the things are represented in language. Physical poetry is pure poetry because it has visual context. It is too realistic, and it does not maintain interest. Platonic_poetry : Platonic poetry deals with ideas not with objects. So Platonic poetry does not concern with real poetry. Ransom says that th...