Ossian: the greatest hoax of all The 18th-century discovery of ancient mythic stories in Gaelic caused a literary sensation across Europe. Then Dr Johnson denounced them as a fraud. But academics continue to debate their merits. By Phil Miller...
The Importance of Being Ern The article criticizes the poetry of Ern Malley. It points out that his works are the greatest literary hoax of the twentieth century. It asserts that Malley existed to prove a point about the development of contemporary poetry, and he d... M Heyward - 《Nationa...
The World's Greatest Hoax - The Loch Ness Monster Story★★★Although it happened many years ago, the hoax took theworld by storm. It was quite a 1 when London's DailyMail(《每日邮报》)printed a photo in 1933 of a creature(生物) in Scotland's Loch Ness, the largest and deepest fres...
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Ern Malley, the great poet, or the greatest hoax?
【题目】 B Choose the right answer and complete the passage.The World's Greatest Hoax- The Loch Ness Monster Story**Although it happened many years ago. the hoax took the world by storm. It was qunte a when London's Daily Mail(《每日邮报》 ) prmted a photo in 1933 of a creare(...
mid-19th century. Poe conceived of his writing as a response to the literary conventions of this period. In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” he deliberately subverts convention by rejecting the typical practices of preaching or moralizing and instead focusing on affect and unity of ...
Excerpt from Money: The Greatest Hoax On Earth by Merrill Jenkins These media we are learning about may be material things, produced by labor, and having use value itself: copper, iron, brass, lead, bronze, nickel, paper, gold, silver, ivory, beer, salt, corn, rice, knives, hoes, tea...
In 1844 he returned to New York, wrote “The Balloon Hoax” for the Sun, and became subeditor of the New York Mirror under N.P. Willis, thereafter a lifelong friend. In the New York Mirror of January 29, 1845, appeared, from advance sheets of the American Review, his most famous ...
The Cask of Amontillado, short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Godey’s Lady’s Book in November 1846. The narrator of this tale of horror is the aristocrat Montresor, who, having endured, as he claims, a thousand injuries at the hand of the