Lewis Carroll, the writer of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was actually a mathematician. He wrote a lot of books on mathematics under his real name, Charles Dodgson. The day job that took up nearly half of his lifetime was being a teacher at Christ Church, the largest college of ...
the model of this, Eliot wrote three more poems—“East Coker”(1940),“The Dry Salvages”(1941), and“Little Gidding”(1942)—in which he explored through images of great beauty and haunting power his own past, the past of thehuman race, and the meaning of human history. Each of ...
3、Who wrote Waiting for Godot ? A.John Berger B.Samuel Beckett C.Harold Pinter D.Martin Amis 正确答案:Samuel Beckett 4、The most gifted of the “university wits” was().。 A.Lyly B.Peele C.Greene D.Marlowe 正确答案:Marlowe 5、Utopia was written in the form of().。
W. H. Auden was an English-born poet and man of letters who achieved early fame in the 1930s as a hero of the left during the Great Depression. Most of his verse dramas of this period were written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood. In 1939 Aude
of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts. It is now no longer possible to say who wrote them ...
S. Eliot’s poem, The Wasteland. I turned to it recently because I was interested in learning how people who actually believed in magic thought it worked. In current fantasy fiction, magic often involves little more than pointing a wand and saying something vaguely Latinate or unpronounceable...
Records show that Shakespeare, who was also a company shareholder, had works published and sold as popular literature. Although The Taming of the Shrew is believed to be the first play that Shakespeare wrote, his first published plays were Titus Andronicus and Henry VI Part 2. They were printe...
There are some who have still not got over the trauma of that encounter, some who still grieve for the lost and some who have not come to terms with their loss. I wrote this poem for “Moving Worlds” of University of Leeds, UK as they were doing a ten year anniversary issue. In ...
A physician and a poet, William Carlos Williams, modernist, lived and worked in Rutherford, New Jersey most of his life. His poems deal with the everyday things in life, based on the local becoming universal. Wheelbarrows, plums, people traits, starlings
I reflected that however true that readerly instability may be, there must be some stable element always remaining in that text, something of the author who wrote it, I called it the text’s ‘linguistic DNA’. Underwood responded to my response, saying that the author is not stable and ...