In their work, they try to make sense of all these changes. “In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse (lines 47-48)”. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He published his first poetic masterpiece, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, in 1915. In 1921, he wrote the poem The Waste Land while recovering from exhaustion.
The Rise of Silas Lapham Howells, William Dean Published: 1885 Categorie(s): Fiction Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/154 1 About Howells: William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. Born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, originally Martinsville, to William Cooper and Mary Dean Howells, Howells was the second of eight children. His father was a newspaper editor and printer, and moved frequently around Ohio. Howells began to help his father with typesetting and printing work at an early age. During 1852, his father arranged to have one of Howells' poems published in the Ohio State Journal without telling him.
She began teaching in Catherine’s school, and writing books with her soon after she turned thirteen. When Harriet’s father became president of Lane Theology Seminary in Ohio, she moved with him. Harriet met her future husband, Calvin Stowe who was a professor and apposed slavery. He was nine years older then her and, the widower of her friend, Eliza Tyler. Harriet and Calvin got married in 1836.
An Analysis on To His Coy Mistress "To His Coy Mistress", written by English poet Andrew Marwell, acclaimed long after Marvell's death a masterly work, is a lyrical poem that scholars also classify as a metaphysical poem. Let’s begin its analysis with the background information of the poet. Andrew Marwell (1621-1678), the son of a Yorkshire schoolmaster, was brought up in the seaport-town of Hull. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge at the age of 12 and took his degree in 1638. In January, 1641, his father was drowned while crossing Humber, and soon Marwell left Cambridge for London.
Nathanael’s literary style and theme of his stories were passionate romanticism and mainly dark romanticism. The spectacular author had many amazing works and so many popular books. One of his greatest works was The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Twice-Told Tales (1837). Edgar Allan Poe once said, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective—wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth".
One of the main influences on Owens’s poetry was his meeting with Siegfried Sassoon, though Owen soon fashioned his own style and approach to the war. The characteristics of Owens’s poetry are the use of the rhyming of two words, alliteration, and assonance. Alfred Tennyson was born on 5th August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire and died on the 6th October 1892 to later be buried in the poet’s corner in Westminster Abby. Tennyson was often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry, succeeding Wordsworth as poet laureate in 1850. Wilfred Owens’s poems are inspired by the horrors of his own experiences in World War One from 28th July 1914 to 4th November 1918, the day that he died 1 week before the armistice.
A genius writer. A troubled life. One of the greatest minds in classical literature. Edgar Allen Poe’s struggles and triumphs produced a lot of the beloved stories are still read and studied throughout the world today. Edgar Allen Poe was born to English actress Elizabeth Arnold Poe, and David Poe Junior, an actor from Baltimore, on January 18, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Temporarily, he worked as a legal apprentice before deciding to return to Yale University in 1808 as a graduate student where he obtained a Masters of Arts degree. Feeling like he’s calling was to the ministry and after some hesitation he decided to enter the Theological Seminary at Andover in 1811. He became an ordained minister at the age of twenty-seven years old. Gallaudet, working as a traveling salesman, returned to Hartford, Connecticut where he met a prominent physician, Dr. Mason Cogswell and his daughter, Alice Cogswell. Alice Cogswell was believed to be 4 years old at the time (some say she was 9).
Sterling Brown: Renaissance poet One of the greatest and most influential writer and poet of the Harlem renaissance was Sterling Allen Brown. Brown Was born in on may first 1901 in Washington D.C. to Sterling Nelson and Adelaide Brown. Sterling Attended Harvard University where he did his graduate studies and later worked as a professor of English for forty years. He married Daisy Turnbull in 1927 and had one son. As a poet he many known works his best of which was also his first, Southern Road, published in 1932.
It appears that Romeo went down to mourn Juliet inside the Capulet tomb when he encountered Country Paris who was supposed to have wed Juliet last week. The two started a duel with Paris’ servant present at the beginning but ran for help. Before he could come back the duel had ended with the death of Paris. “I knew the fight would end with a death again so I ran for help…but I was too late” said Paris’ dejected servant. It is thought that Romeo then saw Juliet lying inert on the tomb from the effects of a sleeping death potion, he thought her to be dead and in a blind fit