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Note the alliterations in [s], expression of a sigh, in the line Je pense à mon grand cygne , avec ses gestes fous (I think of my great swan with its mad gestures), and in [i] in the lines Comme les exilés, ridicule et sublime / Et rongé d’un désir sans trêve ! (Like exiles , ridiculous and sublime / And gnawed by incessant desire). The ...
"Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" is an essay by the Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle. It was first published anonymously in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country of London in December 1849, [ 1 ] and was revised and reprinted in 1853 as a pamphlet entitled " Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question ". [ 2 ]
A critical analysis of Blackwood's work appears in Jack Sullivan, Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story From Le Fanu to Blackwood, 1978. David Punter has written two essays on Blackwood. [30] [31] There is a critical essay on Blackwood's work in S. T. Joshi's The Weird Tale (1990).
The Jane Schaffer method is a formula for essay writing that is taught in some U.S. middle schools and high schools.Developed by a San Diego teacher named Jane Schaffer, who started offering training and a 45-day curriculum in 1995, it is intended to help students who struggle with structuring essays by providing a framework.
The essay sparked such a controversy in Britain, with responses from many major literary figures, that Miss Mitford was compelled a year later to bring out a thin book, Noblesse Oblige, with her disquisition on the subject as its centerpiece. Her argument, a set-piece even today among literary parlor games, was that the more elegant euphemism ...
The title of After Many a Summer, a novel by Aldous Huxley originally published in 1939 and retitled After Many a Summer Dies the Swan when published in the US, is taken from the fourth line of the poem. It tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire who, fearing his impending death, employs a scientist to help him achieve immortality.
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The Sacred Wood is a collection of 20 essays by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1920.Topics include Eliot's opinions of many literary works and authors, including William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and the poets Dante Alighieri and William Blake.