Friday, April 30, 2010

Andr Chnier

Andr Chnier

Andr Chnier

Andr Marie Chnier (30 October 1762 - 25 July 1794) was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement. His career was brought to an abrupt end when he was guillotined for alleged "crimes against the state", just three days before the end of the Reign of Terror. Chnier's life has been the subject of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chnier and other works of art.



[Posies Choisies De Andr Chnier]


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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Edward Augustus Freeman

Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892)

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Edward Augustus Freeman (2 August 1823 - 16 March 1892) was an English historian. His reputation as a historian rests largely on his History of the Norman Conquest (18671876), his longest completed book. In common with his works generally, it is distinguished by exhaustiveness of treatment and research, critical ability, a remarkable degree of accuracy, and a certain insight into the past which he gained from his practical experience of men and institutions. He is in the main a medieval and constitutional historian.



[Sketches Of Travel In Normandy And Maine]

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist anarchist. Gross, David (ed. ) The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals p. 8, ISBN 978-1-4348-0552-2 ("The Thoreau of these journals distrusted doctrine, and, though it is accurate I think to call him an anarchist, he was by no means doctrinaire in this either. ") Though Civil Disobedience seems to call for improving rather than abolishing government "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government" the direction of this improvement aims at anarchism: "'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. " Richard Drinnon partly blames Thoreau for the ambiguity, noting that Thoreau's "sly satire, his liking for wide margins for his writing, and his fondness for paradox provided ammunition for widely divergent interpretations of 'Civil Disobedience. '" He further points out that although Thoreau writes that he only wants "at once" a better government, that does not rule out the possibility that a little later he might favor no government.



[La Desobeissance Civile | On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience | Walden | A Plea For Captain John Brown | Cape Cod]

Monday, April 26, 2010

Alan Cross

Alan Cross

Alan Cross is an American television screenwriter, producer and director. Cross is best known for co-creating the television version of Weird Science, for which he co-wrote the pilot and numerous episodes, directed two episodes, and served as co-executive producer. His other most notable screenwriting and producing work includes writing ten and producing twelve episodes of the series Parker Lewis Can't Lose with his then-partner Tom Spezialy. His other work includes the co-executive producer of Veronica's Closet and consulting producer for both Dawson's Creek and Get Real. He has written episodes of the series She Spies, Players, Enterprise and Desperate Housewives.


F Cross's Books:


[Beneath The Banner]


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Wilhelm Hauff

Wilhelm Hauff

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Wilhelm Hauff (November 29, 1802 November 18, 1827) was a German poet and novelist.



[La Caravane Contes Orientaux | Kontrovers Predigt uber H Clauren Und Den Mann Im Mond | La Kantistino | La Karavano | Maerchen Almanach Auf Das Jahr 1826 | Maerchen Almanach Auf Das Jahr 1827 | Maerchen Almanach Auf Das Jahr 1828 | Mitteilungen Aus Den Memoiren Des Satan Vol 1 | Mitteilungen Aus Den Memoiren Des Satan Vol 2 | The Marvellous History Of The Shadowless Man And The Cold | The Oriental Story Book | The Severed Hand]

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Donald Windham

Donald Windham

Donald Windham (July 2, 1920 May 31, 2010) was an American novelist and memoirist. He is perhaps best known for his close friendships with Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Windham moved with his partner Fred Melton, an artist, to New York City in 1939. He collaborated with Williams on a play, You Touched Me!, based on a D.H. Lawrence story, in 1942. Windham became estranged from Williams in the Seventies after Williams published his Memoirs (1975).



[Notes In North Africa]

Ian Maclaren

Ian Maclaren

Ian Maclaren (pseudonym of Rev. John Watson; 3 November 1850 6 May 1907) was a Scottish author and theologian. He was the son of John Watson, a civil servant. He was born at Manningtree, Essex, and educated at Stirling and at Edinburgh University, later studying theology at New College, Edinburgh, and at Tbingen. During 1874 he became a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and became assistant minister of Edinburgh Barclay Church. Subsequently he was minister at Logiealmond in Perthshire and at Glasgow, and in 1880 he became minister of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, from which he retired during 1905. In 1896 he was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University, and in 1900 he was moderator of the synod of the English Presbyterian Church. While travelling in the United States he died from blood poisoning, following a bout with tonsilitis, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush, achieved extraordinary popularity, selling more than 3/4 of a million copies, and were succeeded by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne, Kate Carnegie and those Ministers, and Afterwards and other Stories. By his own name Watson published several volumes of sermons, among them being The Upper Room (1895), The Mind of the Master (1896) and The Potter's Wheel (1897).



[A Doctor Of The Old School | Beside The Bonnie Brier Bush | De Dominee En Zijn Gemeente | Graham Of Claverhouse | Rabbi Saunderson]


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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Cornelius Mathews

Cornelius Mathews

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Cornelius Mathews (October 28, 1817 - March 25, 1889), was an American writer, best known for his crucial role in the formation of a literary group known as Young America in the late 1830s, with editor Evert Duyckinck and author William Gilmore Simms.



[Chanticleer | The Indian Fairy Book | Behemoth A Legend Of The Mound Builders | Big Abel And The Little Manhattan | Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story Of The Peabody Family | The Career Of Puffer Hopkins]

Friday, April 23, 2010

A W Tozer

A W Tozer (1897-1963)

Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 - May 12, 1963) was an American Christian pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorate degrees.


J Wilson's Books:


[Report Of The Chief Librarian]

Izola Forrester

Izola Forrester (1918-now)

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Izola Forrester (November 15, 1878 - March 6, 1944) was an American author who was born Izola Louise Wallingford. Forrester was a pioneer journalist in the heyday of magazine and newspaper publishing in the early part of the 20th century. She was also one of the early women screenwriters of silent films, drawing on her books and stories for their plots, as well as the dramas she was familiar with as a child performer in the 1880s, trouping with her mother Ogarita Booth Henderson (Oct. 23, 1859 - April 12, 1892). Ogarita was a stage actress who believed herself to be the daughter of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln. Forrester's father was George Wallingford Hills (Nov. 9, 1853 - Feb. 22, 1923), a Harvard-educated travel writer, but she was brought up by a stepfather, Alexander Henderson, a director of light operas, and later by newspaperman George Forrester and his wife Harriet, who formally adopted her on January 6, 1893, after her mother's death. Izola had one sister, Beatrice Henderson Colony, also a child actress, who became a vaudeville performer, a radio host, and the founder-producer of the Keene Summer Theater in New Hampshire. Forrester's precocious career as a writer and editor began at the age of 15 in Chicago, where she met banner artist Ruben Robert Merrifield (Sept. 21, 1860 - April 13, 1932). They married on October 29, 1899 in Chicago. She was hired as a feature writer for the New York World, specializing in women's interest stories about public figures, from the leaders of the suffrage movement to the stars of stage and film. She was a regular contributor to many periodicals such as The Saturday Evening Post and McClure's under Managing Editor Willa Cather, as well as the author of over twenty books including the popular Greenacre Girls and Polly Page fiction series. Forrester's prolific body of work propelled her into a successful career as a screenwriter in Hollywood with her second husband, playwright Mann Page, Jr. (May 29, 1888 - March 15, 1961). Izola and Mann were married (a common law marriage) on Nov. 18, 1913. Their 36 films ranged from the silent era's The Quitter (1915) starring Lionel Barrymore, collaborations with Douglas Fairbanks and Sinclair Lewis, to the talkies' She Had to Choose (1934) starring Buster Crabbe. An embodiment of the post-Victorian independent woman, Forrester pursued her professional career both by choice and economic necessity, managing to balance it with motherhood and the raising of eight children born between 1901 and 1918. Forrester's last book was This One Mad Act: The Unknown Story of John Wilkes Booth and His Family by His Granddaughter (1937), a memoir of her childhood recollections of her mother's and grandmother's connection with John Wilkes Booth.



[Kit Of Greenacre Farm]

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Patrick Pearse

Patrick Pearse (1879-now)

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Patrick Henry Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. He was declared "President of the Provisional Government" of the Irish Republic in one of the bulletins issued by the Rising's leaders, a status that was however disputed by others associated with the rebellion both then and subsequently. Following the collapse of the Rising and the execution of Pearse, along with his brother and fourteen other leaders, Pearse came to be seen by many as the embodiment of the rebellion.



[Four Months Besieged]

Monday, April 19, 2010

Richard Connell

Richard Connell

Richard Edward Connell Jr. (October 17, 1893 - November 22, 1949) was an American author and journalist, probably best remembered for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time and his stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. He had equal success as a journalist and screenwriter and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for best original story for the film Meet John Doe.



[The Most Dangerous Game]

Saturday, April 17, 2010

David Eugene Smith

David Eugene Smith

David Eugene Smith, Ph.D., LL.D. (1860-1944) was an American mathematician and educator. Born in Cortland, New York, he attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1881 (Ph. D., 1887; LL.D., 1905). He practiced law for some years at his place of birth, then became professor in the Michigan State Normal College in 1891, the principal of the State Normal School at Brockport, New York (1898), and professor of mathematics in Teachers College, Columbia University (1901).



[The Hindu Arabic Numerals]

Amy Lowell Dh Lawrence Hd Etc

Amy Lowell Dh Lawrence Hd Etc

Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.



[Some Imagist Poets An Anthology]

Dwight L Moody

Dwight L Moody (1837-1899)

Dwight L Moody (1837-1899)

Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 - December 22, 1899), also known as D.L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now the Northfield Mount Hermon School), the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers.



[That Gospel Sermon On The Blessed Hope]


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A W Andrews

A W Andrews

Arthur Westlake Andrews (1868 - 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, and mountaineer. He trained as a geographer (FRGS 1896) and became a teacher of geography and history in Southwark. In 1913 he published 'a text-book of geography', reprinted in 1922. As a climber, his first contribution appears to have been, in 1899, the route now called 'Andrews' renne' on Storen, Norway. He is especially remembered for two later climbing contributions :- for his co-authorship, with J.



[Minnesota And Dacotah | Reflections On The Operation Of The Present System Of | The Story Of Sitka | Once There Was A King]

Friday, April 16, 2010

David Abbott Advertising

David Abbott Advertising

David Abbott (born ca. 1938) is a British advertising executive who founded Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. Abbott started as a copywriter at Mather & Crowther and then at DDB, London. In 1966, he was sent to their New York office, then returned to London as a director. In 1971, he founded French Gold Abbott. In 1978, he founded Abbott Mead Vickers (AMV), handling clients including Volvo, Sainsbury's, Ikea, Chivas Regal, The Economist, Yellow Pages, and the RSPCA. In 1991, BBDO acquired a stake in AMV and appended their name. The One Club for Art and Copy inducted Abbott into its Creative Hall of Fame in 2001.



[Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled | How The Tricks Succeeded | Mind Reading In Public | Some Famous Exposures | The Name Of The Dead]


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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Judith Merril

Judith Merril (1923-1997)

Judith Josephine Grossman (January 21, 1923 - September 12, 1997), who took the pen-name Judith Merril about 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist. Although Judith Merril's first paid writing was in other genres, in her first few years of writing published science fiction she wrote her three novels (all but the first in collaboration with C.M. Kornbluth) and some stories. Her roughly four decades in that genre also included writing 26 published short stories, and editing a similar number of anthologies.



[Exile From Space]

Alexander Henderson

Alexander Henderson

Alexander Henderson (1780 - 1863) was a Scottish physician and author. Born in Aberdeenshire, he was educated at Edinburgh University, where he graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1803. He came to London and was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1808. He chiefly devoted himself to letters, though, contributing to such works as Encyclopaedia Britannica and Edinburgh Review. He published The History of Ancient and Modern Wines in 1824.



[Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War]


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Harry Bates

Harry Bates

Harry Bates (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1900 - September 1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer. He was a pioneering editor and author in the creation and development of twentieth century science fiction. His classic 1940 short story "Farewell to the Master" was the basis of the landmark 1951 science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, which is widely regarded as one of the great science fiction movies.



[The Affair Of The Brains | Farewell To The Master]

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

William Blake

William Blake (1757-1827)

William Blake (28 November 175712 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". Although he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "Human existence itself". Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of both the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic", for its large appearance in the 18th century. Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England, Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions, as well as by such thinkers as Jakob Bhme and Emanuel Swedenborg. Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th century scholar William Rossetti characterised Blake as a "glorious luminary," and as "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors. " Historian Peter Marshall has classified Blake as one of the forerunners of modern anarchism, along with Blake's contemporary William Godwin.



[Poems Of William Blake]


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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Albert Mathiez

Albert Mathiez

Albert Mathiez

Albert Mathiez (1874, La Bruyre, Haute-Sane 1932) was a French historian, known for his work on the French Revolution. He was a student of Alphonse Aulard. His La Rvolution franaise appeared in three volumes (1922-1924). He wrote it as a socialist, pro-Robespierre interpretation, where Aulard had been pro-Danton. He held the Sorbonne chair in French Revolutionary Studies and was the founder of the Societe des Etudes Robespierristes, which led to the creation of the highly regarded journal Annales historiques de la revolution francaise.



[Les Grandes Journes De La Constituante | Les Grandes Journees De La Constituante]


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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Alice Werner

Alice Werner

Alice Werner (26 June 1859 - 9 June 1935) was a miscellaneous writer, poet and teacher of the Bantu language. She has lived in New Zealand, Mexico, America and throughout Europe. She was initially educated in Germany before moving to England. After visiting Nyasaland in 1893 and Natal in 1894, her writings were focused on African themes.


E Werner's Books:


[The Northern Light]


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Cesare Cant

Cesare Cant

Cesare Cant (December 5, 1804 March 15, 1895) was an Italian historian. Cant was born at Brivio, in Lombardy, and began his career as a teacher. His first literary essay (1828) was a romantic poem entitled Algiso, o la Lega Lombarda (new ed, Milan; 1876), and in the following year he produced a Storia della citt e della diocesi di Como in two volumes (Como, 1829). The death of his father then left him in charge of a large family, and he worked very hard both as a teacher and a writer to provide for them. His prodigious literary activity led to his falling under the suspicions of the Austrian police, and he was mixed up in a political trial and arrested in 1833. While in prison writing materials were denied him, but he managed to write on rags with a tooth-pick and candle smoke, and thus composed the novel Margherita Pusterla (Milan, 1838). On his release a year later, as he was interdicted from teaching, literature became his only resource. In 1836 the Turinese publisher, Giuseppe Pomba, commissioned him to write a universal history, which his vast reading enabled him to do. In six years the work was completed in seventy-two volumes, and immediately achieved a general popularity; the publisher made a fortune out of it, and Cant's royalties amounted, it is said, to 300,000 lire (12,000). Just before the revolution of 1848, being warned that he would be arrested, he fled to Turin, but after the Five Days he returned to Milan and edited a paper called La Guardia Nazionale. Between 1849 and 1850 he published his Storia degli Italiani (Turin, 1855) and many other works. In 1857 the archduke Maximilian tried to conciliate the Milanese by the promise of a constitution, and Cant was one of the few Liberals who accepted the olive branch, and went about in company with the archduke. This act was regarded as treason and caused Cant much annoyance in after years. He continued his literary activity after the formation of the Italian kingdom, producing volume after volume until his death. For a short time he was member of the Italian parliament; he founded the Lombard historical society, and was appointed superintendent of the Lombard archives. His, views are colored by strong religious and political prejudice, and by a moralizing tendency, and his historical work has little critical value and is for the most part pure book-making, although he collected a vast amount of material which has been of use to other writers. In dealing with modern Italian history he is reactionary and often wilfully inaccurate. Besides the above-mentioned works he wrote Gli eretici d'Italia (Milan, 1873); Cronistoria dellIndipendenza italiana (Naples, 1872-1877); Il Conciliatore e i carbonari (Milan, 1878), etc.



[Margherita Pusterla]


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Friday, April 9, 2010

Bob Holman

Bob Holman

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Bob Holman is a poet and poetry activist in the United States.



[All Wool Morrison | The Rainy Day Railroad War]


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Charlotte Dacre

Charlotte Dacre

Charlotte Dacre

Charlotte Dacre (17821841) was an English author of Gothic novels. Most references to her today are under the name Charlotte Dacre, but she first wrote under the pseudonym Rosa Matilda, and later adopted a second pseudonym to tease and confuse her critics. Charlotte Dacre was born Charlotte King, and later became Mrs Byrne upon her marriage to Nicholas Byrne in 1806. She was the daughter of John King, born Jacob Rey (c.17531824), a moneylender and radical writer well known in London society. Her father divorced her mother, Sara, ne Lara, under Jewish law in 1784 before setting up home with the dowager countess of Lanesborough. After the death of his wife, Charlotte Dacre married Nicholas Byrne, with whom she already had three children. He was an editor and future partner of London's The Morning Post newspaper where the author Mary Robinson (poet) was the poetry editor and an influence on a young Charlotte Dacre who began her writing career by contributing poems to the Morning Post under the pseudonym "Rosa Matilda. " As a romance novelist, Dacre cast heroines in a way quite different from the norm of the early 19th century that called for ladies of decorum and good taste. Her style was more like that of the male authors of her era, creating aggressive and often physically violent female characters who demonstrate powerful sexual desires and ambition. Dacre usually constructed this behaviour in a way that can be at least in part justified by the actions of others. Of her four major novels, Zofloya is the best known today, and sold well on its release in 1806; it was translated into both German and French. In this story, a female character stalks, brutally attacks, and then murders a girl whom she sees as a sexual rival. Yet, despite the brutality, the story has its underlying moral messages in that young women are warned against the dangers of lust. In the literary world, Charlotte Dacre has remained in virtual obscurity for nearly two centuries. However, her work was admired by some of the literary giants of her day and her novels influenced Percy Shelley who thought highly of her style and creative skills.



[Hours Of Solitude A Collection Of Original Poems Volume I | Hours Of Solitude A Collection Of Original Poems Volume Ii]


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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Egbert B Gebstadter

Egbert B Gebstadter

Egbert B Gebstadter

Egbert B. Gebstadter is a fictional author who appears in the indexes (and sometimes in the text) of books by Douglas R. Hofstadter. For each Hofstadter book, there is a corresponding Gebstadter book. His name is derived from "GEB", the abbreviation for Hofstadter's first book Gdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid; the letters appear in his last name, permuted in his first name, and permuted again in his initials. From Gebstadter's brief 1985 biography:


H Egbert's Books:


[Jacqueline Of Golden River]


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Alphonsus De Guimaraens

Alphonsus De Guimaraens (1870-1921)

Afonso Henrique da Costa Guimares, known as Alphonsus de Guimaraens, was a Brazilian poet. The poetry of Alphonsus de Guimaraes is substantially mystical and involved with Catholicism. His sonets display a classical structure, and are profoundly religious. They become increasingly sensitive as he explores the meaning of death, of the impossible love, of solitude and of his inadequacy regarding the world. However, the mystical tone marks in his works a feeling of acceptance and of resignation towards life, suffering and pain. Another characteristic aspect of his work ids the use of spirituality in relation to the feminine figure, which is considered to be an angel, or a celestial being. As a result of that, Guimaraes shows himself not one as a Symbolist but also a follower of Neo-romanticism. His works, predominantly poetic, made him one of the main Symbolist authors in Brazil. In reference to the city he spent most of his life in, he is also called the "loner of Mariana", his "ivory tower of Symbolism" ("o solitrio de Mariana" and "torre de marfim do Simbolismo", respectively, in Portuguese).



[The Pre Columbian Discovery Of America By The Northmen With Translations From The Icelandic Sagas]


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Antonio Garca Gutirrez

Antonio Garca Gutirrez

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Antonio Garca Gutirrez was a Spanish Romantic dramatist. After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833, and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugne Scribe and the Alexandre Dumas, pre; lacking success, he was on the point of enlisting when he suddenly sprang into fame as the author of El trovador, which was played for the first time on 1 March 1836. Garca Gutirrez never surpassed this first effort, which placed him among the leaders of the Romantic movement in Spain, and which became known all over Europe through Giuseppe Verdi's music. His next great success was Simn Bocanegra (1843; again made into an opera by Verdi, as Simon Boccanegra). However, since his plays were not lucrative, he emigrated to Spanish America, working as a journalist in Cuba and Mexico until 1850, when he returned to Spain. The best works of his later period are a zarzuela titled El grumete (1853), La venganza catalana (1864) and Juan Lorenzo (1865). He became head of the archaeological museum at Madrid, the city where he died. His Poesas (1840) and another volume of lyrics, entitled Luz y tinieblas (1842), are comparatively minor; but the versification of his plays, and his power of analysing feminine emotions, give him a foremost place among the Spanish dramatists of the 19th century.



[Heath Modern Language Series El Trovador]