Humbert Humbert has a first love experience when he is young with Annabel Leigh. (the character was inspired byEdgar Allan Poe‘s poem,Annabel Lee). It is a strange coincidence that Humbert and his Annabell also have their first romantic encounter by the Mediterranean. After her young tragic ...
Sir Thomas Littleton (1422—1481) and Sir Edward Coke (1552—1634) were English legal authorities, best known in the phrase ‘Coke on Littleton,’being the commentary of Coke on the legal treaties by Littleton.Demosthenes (4th century B.C.), Greek orator.Tully...
A c. 1901 illustration to the 1830 version of the poem, by William Edward Frank Britten The Day-Dreamwas an expanded version ofAlfred Tennyson‘s poemThe Sleeping Beauty. It was further altered in 1848 for a dramatic performance for a private gathering with Tennyson starring as the Prince who...
(According to Wikipedia), The New York Times music critic Edward Rothstein described her voice as “a “grand mansion of sound”, and wrote that “it has enormous dimensions, reaching backward and upward. It opens onto unexpected vistas. It contains sunlit rooms, narrow passageways, cavernous h...
The theme of being‘stolen away by gypsies’ (the word gypsy means ‘egyptian’) was a common motif in medieval and early-modern folklore.‘Gypsies’ – like ‘fairies’ – were often used as an explanation for both abduction and the learning of hidden knowledge.Another ‘out-group’ with ...
Of the Peirsoun case, it is interesting that a polemic poem The Legend of the Bischop of St Androis Lyfe (supposed to have been written by William Sempill) appears to have been written mentioning the case and making a salubrious innuendo that Aleisoun was caught giving sexual favours to ...
Man: A poem, a carol, or a cameo, Pa. Woman: Meek, I listen. No sonnets I like, Em. Man: Bishop made lame female damp? Oh, Sib! Woman: Pull a bat. I held a ladle, hit a ball up. Man: Anne, I stay a day at Sienna. Woman: Ladle histolytic city lots I held, Al. Man...
Edward MacDowell: Scotch Poem. I remember learning this piece a very long time ago when I was 12. I like the darkness of it then the sudden beautiful scottish melody. This contrast remnds me of the opening to Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy in E flat minor. I really love his music, espe...
She is torn between enabling Pete and being seduced by their lustful manipulations by Stanton. Stanton Carlisle: What kind of deck is this? Zeena Krumbein: This is the tarot. Oldest kind of cards in the world. Pete says the gypsies brought them out of Egypt. They’re a wonder for giving...
History will make this poem prophetic and its awful silliness a hideous spiritual music I have the moan of doves and the feather of ecstasy Man cannot long endure the hunger of the cannibal abstract War is abstract the world will be destroyed ...