Classics and the Western Canon - Interim Readings: Essays.

The World's Classics: CC Dreamthorp, with Selections from 'Last Leaves' (with an introduction by Hugh Walker) by Alexander Smith 200 Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 by Edgar Jones.

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A new era was inaugurated by Charles Lamb’s Essays of Elia 182to the same period belong Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, and Thomas De Quincey in England, C A Sainte-Beuve in France, and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau in the US. From the 19th century the essay was increasingly used in Europe and the US as a vehicle for literary criticism.

Max Beerbohm. Helpful Not Helpful. Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on.. one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.. Elia Kazan. Helpful Not Helpful. Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

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Max Beerbohm: Swinburne was rescued from alcoholism by Theodore Watts-Dunton, and lived the rest of his life at Watts-Dunton’s house. I had hoped that the reference was to an event from “No. 2 The Pines” in Beerbohm’s And Even Now, but I could not find it there.

A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading. Here’s American Theatre’s “official” summary of the proceedings:. This week we have the playwright and director Conor McPherson in the studio to talk about his artistic philosophy, the.

A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media.

QUOTE NOTE: This is a wonderful observation on its own, but the story behind it makes it even more special. On the opening night of the the play Once In a Lifetime, which the 25-year-old Hart co-wrote with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman, Hart was stunned when his esteemed collaborator went onstage to say, “I would like this audience to know that eighty percent of this play is Moss Hart.”.

Havelock Ellis, in Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922). Max Beerbohm, the voice of the third-person narrator, in Zuleika Dobson. “Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist,” in The Essays of Elia (1823) Many other animals have feelings. What distinguishes our species is thought.

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