Writer Eric Bomba-Ire borrowed the title "Spleen" from French poet, Charles Baudelaire's le spleen de Paris (Paris' Spleen) from his acclaimed book of small poems, "Les Fleurs du mal" (1857, tr. The Flowers of Evil). In the poem, Baudelaire expresses a particular feeling that he calls...
Although no less a worthy than Robert Gittings contributed an illuminating biographical sketch for Bellerby’s Selected Poems (which is still in print, probably simply due to the fact that Amazon hasn’t sold out the 1994 printing), her life deserves a treatment similar to Jean Strouse’s cl...
these were poems written in the manner ofLudovico Ariosto’sOrlando furiosoandTorquato Tasso’sGerusalemme liberata. The best of all the epics written about the conquest of the New World was by farAlonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga’sLa Araucana(1569–89;The Araucaniad). The young soldier and...
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one of those cheap articles which large houses sell as an advertisement. When the men in the office saw the article, which was being sold in Paris by the thousand, they began their jokes again, and Oreille had a dreadful time of it. They even made a song about it, which he heard fro...
The author of the Tractatus found another benefit in poems and also in Tolstoy’s stories, a new dimension that was already partly condensed in the adjective “latent”: for these are mediums offering, in Sanchez Dura’s terms,[16] the inexpressible in language as a way of seeing, as ...
A sparkling, witty collection of short stories and poems from an acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood. She gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; and examines the boons and banes of orphanhood. ...
Sully-Prudhomme.French poet whose early works are melancholic and whose later poems are concerned with scientific and philosophical theories. He won the 1901 Nobel Prize for literature.See,The Kiss--Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). supposition.That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise;...
wrote. Other thanTamburlaine the Great, he wroteDr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta,andEdward II.Besides these four dramas, he also translatedAmoresby Ovid andPharsaliaby Lucan. He also wrote a few poems. Among these poems, “Hero and Leander” and “The Massacre of Paris” are his favorite ...
Spleen: Directed by Eric Bomba-Ire. With Michael Van Osch, Samantha Worthen, Lane Carlock, Brian Spruell. A man deeply devoted to his spouse finds his life swirling out of control in a darkly woven tale of love, betrayal and passion.