For more than 30 years Beethoven had been looking to set a poem by Friedrich Schiller to music, and it is no wonder he was drawn to the text. Schiller imagines collective transcendence through song, in which “all men shall be brothers” in a “chorus of jubilation”. The spirit of this...
Ever since I entered the workplace many years ago, and long before I came to Kenya, my role has always included being the editor of the team. I feel particularly good about that, as English is not my mother tongue. The first language I spoke was Romanian, and it was only when my fa...
Presents the poem "The Poem That Answers Why I Never Write Poems in Which You Appear," by Erin Belieu. First Line: Though it's easier this morning; Last Li... A Bash - 《Macmillan》 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Arts: The best film you'll never see It's written and directed by Paul Aus...
“no” on the barricade. It was the precariat in France that created the revolutionary yellow vest movement; it is the precariat that is responsible for Brexit and is driving the populist boom. While a state that spreads its benevolent tentacles over the citizenry might appear as a threat, ...
She could break out in fits of terrible wisdom; she was the keenest and sharpest critic of my own writing; her judgement – on art, on cities, on people – was piercing, and carried heft. Part of this was written to be read at her memorial service; part of it, obviously, was not...
She could break out in fits of terrible wisdom; she was the keenest and sharpest critic of my own writing; her judgement – on art, on cities, on people – was piercing, and carried heft. Part of this was written to be read at her memorial service; part of it, obviously, was not...
The caretaker govt's decision also goes against the very spirit of why Pakistan was born — a place where a minority, once under threat of persecution, could live and be free.
the Macedonian ruler who established one of the largest empires of the ancient world. Clearly the name remains beloved and for several years throughout the 1990s, nearly one percent of male babies took the name Alexander. In 2017, the name did not crack the top 10, but was still a common...
62.Now I never wrote a “good” line, in my life, but the moment after it was written it seemed a hundred years old. Very commonly I had a sudden conviction that I had seen it somewhere.—O. W. Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast, Table, ii “吾生平每得一佳句,乍书于纸,忽觉...
Why was The Charge of the Light Brigade written? Alfred Tennyson: Lord Alfred Tennyson, formally called Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS, was a British poet during the Victorian period in England. His poems consist of well-known works like Idylls of the King. Answer and Explanation: ...