The top of Desolation Peak provides beautiful views of the North Cascades range, which contains one-third of all the glaciers on the mainland United States within its 789 square miles. The peak offers literature fans an added thrill, as writer Jack Kerouac spent a summer inside the fire tower...
Poetry in the fascist period underwent a process of involution, partly influenced by French Symbolism, with its faith in the mystical power of words, and partly under the stress of changed political conditions after World War I, during which literature had declined. Many poets of the wartime gen...
the great revival of classical art, literature, and learning in Europe from the 14th century to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world. the period during which this revival occurred. the forms and treatments in art, architecture, literature, etc., used ...
All the woodcuts are reproduced full size and accompanied by Vecellio's commentaries on each costume. An extensive, illustrated introduction by two of the world's leading experts on Renaissance literature and culture offers the most thorough context possible, complete with additional color illustrations...
(Genesis 38:8-10) The teaching of Paul VI finds immediate support in nearly contemporary magisterial literature in Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii, which rendered an identical judgment. Pius XI quotes St. Augustine on the question in defense of his own position, and many other major ...
was indispensable to the continued existence ofsecularliterature in the vernacular. Ballads such asRobert Sempill’s “Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan” (1640), however, kept the vernacular tradition alive at the edges of an increasingly Anglicized body of Scottish wri...
literature, and philosophy were part of a general economic trend away from feudalism towards capitali...
(Auratus; 1508–88) and Adrien de Tournebu (Turnebus; 1512–65), pioneers in the study of Greek poetry, inspired the contemporary poets Ronsard and du Bellay, the leaders of the Pléiade group, with admiration forGreek literature. The great printerRobert Estienne(Stephanus; 1503–59) ...
You’ll learn why the city was called the New Athens and how it set the standards for art, science, literature, and philosophy across Europe. Naturally you wouldn’t have an accurate picture of the Florentine Renaissance without learning about the personalities that pushed the limits and were ...
‘cabin’d, cribb’d, confined, bound in,’ fearful of infection. Our theatres are dark, coronavirus is still very present and the threat of unemployment and economic hardship grows closer. At a stroke, we are suddenly closer to Shakespeare‘s world of dread and life-changing, virulent ...