Classical Writers

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

William Cleaver Wilkinson

William Cleaver Wilkinson, D.D. (Westford, Vermont, October 19, 1833 - Chicago, April 25, 1920) was a Baptist preacher, professor of theology, professor of poetry, and literary figure. He popularized the "Three W's and the Five W's". He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1857 and the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1859. After his graduation, he visited Great Britain and on his return in November 1859, he became pastor of the Wooster Place Baptist church in New Haven, Connecticut. On account of ill health, he resigned his pastorate in 1861 and took a walking tour of England. On his return in 1863, he became professor ad interim of modern languages in the University of Rochester. Not long after he accepted the pastorate of the Mount Auburn Baptist church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Resigning this pastorate in 1866, he opened a private school at Tarrytown, New York. In 1872, he was elected professor of homiletics and pastoral theology at Rochester Theological Seminary, a position which he filled with marked ability until 1882 when he resigned. After that, he devoted himself entirely to literary work. In 1871, he was offered the chair of the German language and literature at the University of Michigan and that of English literature in 1873. In the same year, the University of Rochester conferred upon him the honorary degree of doctor of divinity. His "Dedication Hymn" (published in his Poems) was used at the dedication of Rockefeller Hall at the Rochester Theological Seminary and of the Toronto Baptist College. In 1892, he became a professor of poetry and criticism at the University of Chicago. In 1905, his daughter Evelyn, aged 20, married a 55-year-old man who had divorced his wife; Wilkinson and his wife "denounced their daughter for marrying a man who cast off one wife to wed another". He died on April 25, 1920 as a result of injuries from a fall.

William Cleaver Wilkinson's Books:

[Classic French Course In English]

Christian Frchtegott Gellert

Christian Frchtegott Gellert (1715-1769)

Christian Frchtegott Gellert (July 4, 1715 - December 13, 1769) was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert's Books:

[C F Gellerts Sammtliche Schriften]

Monday, September 29, 2008

Clare Ann Matz

Clare Ann Matz (1961-now)

Clare Ann Matz (born 1961) is an American multicultural and multimedia performance artist, musician, film director, painter, journalist and writer, who lives and works in Italy.

B Matz's Books:

[The Inns And Taverns Of Pickwick]

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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Franois Victor Alphonse Aulard

Franois Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849-1928)

Franois Victor Alphonse Aulard (19 July 1849 23 October 1928) was a French historian of the French Revolution and Napoleon. He was born at Montbron in Charente. He entered the cole Normale Suprieure in 1867 and obtained the degree of doctor of letters in 1877 with a Latin thesis on Gaius Asinius Pollio and a French one on Giacomo Leopardi (whose works he subsequently translated into French He made a study of parliamentary oratory during the French Revolution, and published two volumes on Les orateurs de la Constituante and on Les orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention. With these works, which were reprinted in 1905, he entered a new field, where he soon came an acknowledged master. Applying to the study of the French Revolution the rules of historical criticism which had produced such rich results in the study of ancient and medieval history, he devoted himself to profound research in the archives, and to the publication of numerous important contributions to the political, administrative and moral history of that period. Appointed professor of the history of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne in 1885, he formed the minds of students who in their turn did valuable work. To him we owe the Recueil des actes du Comit de salut public; La Socit des Jacobins:Recueil de documents sur l'histoire des club des Jacobins de Paris; Paris pendant la reaction thermidorienne et sous le directoire: Recueil de documents pour l'histoire de l'esprit public a Paris, which was followed by a collection on Paris sous le consulat. For the Socit de l'Histoire de la Revolution Franaise, which brought under his editorship the important periodical entitled La Revolution franaise. He produced the Registre des librations du consulat provisoire, and L'Etat de la France en l'an VIII et en l'an IX, with the reports of the effects, besides editing various works or memoirs written by men of the Revolution, such as JC Bailleul, Chaumette, Fournier, Hrault de Schelles, and Louvet de Couvrai. These large collections of documents were a fraction of his output. He wrote a Histoire politique de la Revolution franaise, and a number of articles which were collected in volumes under the title Etudes et leons sur la Rvolution franaise. In a volume entitled Taine, historien de la Rvolution franaise, Aulard attacked the method of the eminent philosopher in criticism that was severe, perhaps unjust, but certainly well-informed. This was, as it were, the "manifesto" of the new school of criticism applied to the political and social history of the Revolution.

Alphonse Aulard's Books:

[Les Grands Orateurs De La Rvolution]

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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Arthur C Clarke

Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008)

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (16 December 1917 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in parallel with the script for the eponymous film, co-written with film-director Stanley Kubrick; and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician from 19411946. He proposed a satellite communication system in 1945 which won him the Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Gold Medal in 1963. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 19471950 and again in 1953. Clarke emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956 largely to pursue his interest in scuba diving, and lived there until his death. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998, and was awarded Sri Lanka's highest civil honour, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005.

Charles Clarke's Books:

[History Of Company F 1st Regiment R I Volunteers | History Of Company F 1st Regiment R I Volunteers During The Spring And Summer Of 1861]

Friday, September 26, 2008

William Le Queux

William Le Queux (1864-1927)

William Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa), a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-German invasion fantasies The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter of which was a phenomenal bestseller.