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A Literary Analysis of the Fall of the House Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (798 words, 2 pages)

Edgar Allan Poe is a major American Poet of the Nineteenth Century. He is also known for his achievements in short fiction and criticism for American Literature. In Poe's tales he uses setting to set the mood and to foreshadow certain things in his essays. In the two stories "The ... Read More

A Comprehensive Analysis on Why Emily Dickinson Was Considered a Brilliant Writer (1883 words, 8 pages)

Emily Dickinson, a creative poet during the mid-nineteenth century, wrote what manyconsider to be truly American poetry. To understand why Dickinson is considered abrilliant writer of American poetry, one must know about the time period in which shewrote her poetry. Dickinson wrote during the era of American literature known as ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by William Faulkner (2817 words, 4 pages)

William Faulkner is viewed by many as America's greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer, and finally ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (566 words, 1 pages)

The author of Cyrano de Bergerac is Edmond Rostand. Edmond Rostand was born on April 1, 1868 in Marseille, France. He was obsessed with literature in general, but was especially interested in theater. His first drama was called The Romantics, then Cyrano de Bergerac, Chantecler, and The Last Night of ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of Transcendentalism (407 words, 1 pages)

Tn American Literature, Romanticism came during the New England Literary movement called Transcendentalism. "Transcendentalism is a belief in spiritual truth beyond sense perception and material success." It is said to be a theory that highlights the transcendent as the realistic reality. In other words, this is a philosophy asserting the ... Read More

A Description of Gwendolyn Brooks a Black Poet From Kansas (1101 words, 2 pages)

Gwendolyn Brooks was a black poet from Kansas who wrote in the early twentieth century. She was the first black woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize. Her writings deal mostly with the black experience growing up in inner Chicago. This is the case with one of her more famous works, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Book, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (977 words, 2 pages)

I attended one of the many presentations at the Book Fair in MDCC Wolfson Campus on Thursday 18, 199 at 730pm. This presentation was called Art and Literature in Argentina and it was the introduction of the new translation of Leaves of Grass (Hojas de Hierva). Leaves of Grass is ... Read More

An Examination of the Novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1617 words, 4 pages)

The novel, Wuthering Heights, is intricately written, and includes a diversity of love and hate between characters. Wuthering Heights was first published in London in 1847, and was written by Emily Bronte. Emily Bronte was born in 1818, and lived in the parsonage of the town of Haworth, Yorkshire. She ... Read More

A Review of Kathleen Norris’ “The Cloister Walk” (1061 words, 2 pages)

Norris, Catholic Tradition, and Notre DameIn The Cloister Walk, American poet Kathleen Norris takes the reader through her experiences with life in a Benedictine monastery. She writes 75 short tales, each one dealing with a different observation.. One thing that appealed to me about this book is that Kathleen Norris ... Read More

The Childhood, Achievements and Literary Works of William Shakespeare (883 words, 2 pages)

William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as ... Read More

The Childhood, Education and Achievements of Italian Michelangelo Buonarotti (1867 words, 3 pages)

The Italian Michelangelo Buonarotti, almost certainly the most famous artist produced by Western civilization and arguably the greatest, is universally viewed as the supreme Renaissance artist (see Renaissance art and architecture). He created monumental works of painting, sculpture, and architecture and left an additional legacy of numerous letters and poems. ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Lovelace Augusta Byron King (1993 words, 3 pages)

In a world of men, for men, and made by men, there were a lucky few women who could stand up and be noticed. In the early nineteenth century, Lovelace Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, made her mark among the world of men that has influenced even todays world. ... Read More

The Life and Works of Robert Frost (1046 words, 5 pages)

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. His father was William Frost, a Harvard graduate who was on his way westward when he stopped to teach at Bucknell Academy in Pennsylvania for extra money. His mother, Isabelle Moodie began teaching math at Bucknell while William was ... Read More

An Overview of Robert Browning as one of the Most Talented Poets of the Victorian Period (2206 words, 9 pages)

Robert Browning, one of the most talented poets of the Victorian period, is famous especially for his dramatic monologues. Often these long poems deal with such issues as love, death, and faith. Much of his work is directly reflective of his life and of those issues that were of direct ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Aphra Behn (1348 words, 5 pages)

... a Devil on't the Woman damns the Poet. -- Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was not the first woman writer neither was she the only woman writer of her day. But Aphra Behn holds the singular distinction of being the first professional woman writer ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Michelangelo (1887 words, 8 pages)

Michelangelo (1475-1564), arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. ... Read More

A Biography of William Shakespeare, a Genius Playwright (325 words, 1 pages)

Shakespeare was born April 23, 1564 in the town of Stratford, England. His father, John Shakespeare was a glove maker and his mother May Arden inherited land so they had some money. As a result of his father having money he did not have to stay home and help out ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Langston Hughes (826 words, 2 pages)

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri into an abolitionist family. He was the grandson of Charles Henry Langston. His brother was John Mercer Langston, who was the the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began ... Read More

A Biography of Jack Kerouac, the Father of the Beat Generation (1310 words, 3 pages)

Jack Kerouac was the spark that started the flame of the Beat Generation though, through his own eyes, he felt like a failure. Jack keyed the term beat generation in a conversation with John Clellon Holmes, another of the beat generation poets, in 1948 (). The Beat Generation might not ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Boccaccio (332 words, 1 pages)

Boccaccio was born in Paris, in 1313, the illegitimate son of a Florentine merchant and a French noblewoman. Reared in Florence, he was sent to study accounting in Naples around 1323. He abandoned accounting for canon law and gave that up for classical and scientific studies. He took part in ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Robert Frost (1260 words, 2 pages)

Robert Frost, perhaps the greatest American poet of the twentieth century, has brought himself great recognition. Many critics have tried to find a faulty side to his writing, but they have had a difficult time because his writing "romanticizes the rural simplicity that he loved while probing into the mysteries ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1301 words, 3 pages)

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet of the nineteenth century. She was one of the greatest masters of the short lyric poem. Not much is known about her life, but what is known is unusual and interesting. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December tenth, eighteen hundred ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Elizabeth Barrett (577 words, 1 pages)

Elizabeth Barrett, an English poet of the Romantic Movement, was born in 1806 at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England. The oldest of twelve children, Elizabeth was the first in her family born in England in over two hundred years. For centuries, the Barrett family had lived in Jamaica, where they owned ... Read More

A Biography of Charles Darwin the English Naturalist and Geologist (955 words, 3 pages)

Charles Darwin"The Catholic church has absolutely no view on 'Darwin's Theory of Evolution' or 'Darwinism' what is commonly believed by the magistarium is that one should not necessarily take the Bible in a literal sense ..." -An excerpt from Robert Richard's The Meaning of Evolution. Charles Darwin, a British naturalist ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Ariosto (1192 words, 3 pages)

Italian poet, remembered primarily for his ORLANDO FURIOSO, published in its final version in 1532. Ariosto's work was the most celebrated narrative poem of the Italian high Renaissance, and the first example of modern poetry to provoke widespread critical controvesy. Ariosto was born in Reggio Emilia, as the son of ... Read More

The Life and Works of Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1584 words, 3 pages)

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jeresy. Louis Ginsberg, Allens dad, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a Jewish Socialist. His wife, Naomi, was a radical Communist and nudist who went tragically insane in early adulthood. A shy and complicated child ... Read More

An Analysis of the First Decade of the Twentieth Century on a Group of Young Italian Painters (979 words, 2 pages)

During the first decade of the twentieth century, a group of young Italian painters united together, under the influence of poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Before creating their new style, these painters embraced the ideas of Marinettis The Foundation and Manisfesto of Futurism which appeared in the newspaper Le Figaro on ... Read More

Francis Bacon and His Abstract Expressionism (581 words, 1 pages)

Beginning on the early 1950s, despite the dominance of Abstract Expressionism in both the United States and Europe, there were recurring waves of insistence on a return to the figure, a new naturalism of naturalistic fantasy. Crucial to the new figuration were Alberto Giacometti and Jean Dubuffet. The only other ... Read More

An Analysis of Virgil’s Aeneid (2094 words, 4 pages)

While on the surface the Aeneid could be seen as a Roman epic meant to glorify Rome and rival those of the ancient Greeks, the author was engaged in a struggle. Virgil had to satisfy the cultural demands of his work, the political demands of his time, and his own ... Read More

A Biography of Michelangelo Buonarroti Born in a Small Village of Caprese, Italy (776 words, 2 pages)

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born March 6, 1475 in the small village of Caprese, Italy. A sculptor, architect, painter, and poet that did his work in the Italian high renaissance. Michelangelo's father, Ludovico Buonarroti had connection to the prominent Medici family. He studies at the gardens when he was 15 years ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013