Daily Quote 山河据形胜,天地生豪酋。(孟浩然) Poem of the Day Eternities by G. K. Chesterton Beauty of Words The Art of the Essayist Arthur Christopher Benson
Several biological traits make Homo sapiens uniquely capable of dominating the animal kingdom. Their hands, with opposable thumbs, allow for precision grip and dexterity unmatched by most species. This capability enabled the development of sophisticated tools, art, and technologies. The human brain is...
All of the world’s classic surveys of history can stand as noble examples of the art of literature, but most historical works and studies today are not written primarily with literary excellence in mind, though they may possess it,as it were, by accident. The essay was once written ...
essayist- a writer of literary works litterateur author,writer- writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. ...
of the art of literature, but most historical works and studies today are not written primarily with literary excellence in mind, though they may possess it, as it were, by accident. The essay was once written deliberately as a piece of literature; its subject matter was of comparatively...
Now, as in the past, some of the greatest essayists are critics of literature, drama, and the arts. Some personal documents (autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, and letters) rank among the world‘s greatest literature. Some examples of this biographical literature were written with ...
In 2006 an American essayist, Stephen Miller, published a book called "Conversation: A History of a Declining Art", in which he worried that "neither digital music players nor computers were invented to help people avoid real conversation, but they have that effect." A reviewer of Mr Miller...
Around the time of his speech, Mr Macron commissioned two academics - Felwine Sarr, a radical Senegalese scholar and essayist, and Bénédicte Savoy, a French art historian specialising in therestitutionof artlootedby Napoleon - to advise the government on how to share the art in its possessio...
No work of philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, “The Dehumanization of Art.” The essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, grappled with the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to...
Art is science in the flesh —Jean Cocteau Art is wild as a cat and quite separate from civilization —Stevie Smith The artist, like the neurotic, has withdrawn from an unsatisfying reality into this world of imagination; but, unlike the neurotic, he knew how to find a way back from it...