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Mac Flecknoe (full title: Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet, T.S. [1]) is a verse mock-heroic satire written by John Dryden. It is a direct attack on Thomas Shadwell, another prominent poet of the time. It opens with the lines: Bust of Mac Flecknoe, from an 18th-century edition of Dryden's poems
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair was born around 1698, into both the Scottish nobility and Clan MacDonald of Clanranald.Through his great-grandmother Màiri, daughter of Angus MacDonald of Islay, he claimed descent from Scottish Kings Robert the Bruce and Robert II, the first monarch of the House of Stuart, [25] as well as, like the rest of Clan Donald, from Somerled.
This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero—a protagonist or supporting character whose characteristics include the following:
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister.He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll.
McTeague is a dentist of limited intellect from a poor miner's family who has opened a dentist shop on Polk Street in San Francisco (his first name is never revealed; other characters in the novel call him simply "Mac."). His best friend, Marcus Schouler, brings his cousin, Trina Sieppe, whom he's courting, to McTeague's parlor for dental work.
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Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787. Ossian (/ ˈ ɒ ʃ ən, ˈ ɒ s i ən /; Irish Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: Oisean) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), [1] and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian.
Oprah's Book Club and the Book-of-the-Month Club are middlebrow products marketed to deliver the classical and highbrow literature to the middle class. [15] The middlebrow nature of Oprah's Book Club was highlighted by the novelist Jonathan Franzen , after his 2001 book The Corrections was selected as Oprah's book of the month.