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Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance.
Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Scenes from Vienna or Carnival Jest from Vienna), Op. 26, is a solo piano work by Robert Schumann. He began composition of the work in 1839 in Vienna . He wrote the first four movements in Vienna, and the last on his return to Leipzig .
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559) The Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and was further developed in Rabelais and His ...
The ninth book in the series, The Carnivorous Carnival, takes place at Caligari Carnival; the carnival's name is a nod to the 1920 silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. [27] Also in the ninth book, Hugo the Hunchback's name is an allusion to French author Victor Hugo , who wrote the famous book The Hunchback of Notre Dame .
Garcia has authored several poetry collections and works in literary and cultural criticism. [2]In 1996, Garcia was the recipient of a Philippine National Book Award, winning Best in Literary Criticism for his work on Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years (1996).
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces.With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer [1] are fictional characters in T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.The Jellicle cat duo are mischievous petty thieves who often cause trouble for their human family.
The 13th-century French poem La Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage describes a symbolic battle between different foods, meat against fish. [2] A likely graphic precursor of the painting is Lent and Carnival , a 1558 etching by Hieronymus Cock after Frans Hogenberg , in which the personifications of lean and fat are driven together on carts by ...