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Edythe Mae Gordon (c. 1897 – 1980) was an African-American writer of short stories and poetry during the era of the Harlem Renaissance.Gordon primarily published her work in the Quill Club, a Boston-based publication founded by her husband Eugene Gordon and other figures of the Harlem Renaissance such as Helene Johnson and Dorothy West.
The White Knight is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass. He represents the chess piece of the same name. As imagined in John Tenniel's illustrations for the Alice stories, he is inspired by Albrecht Dürer's 1513 engraving "Knight, Death and the Devil." [1]
"Haddocks' Eyes" is the nickname [1] of the name of a song sung by The White Knight from Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, chapter VIII. "Haddocks' Eyes" is an example used to elaborate on the symbolic status of the concept of " name ": a name as identification marker may be assigned to anything, including another name, thus ...
Come, Tell Me How You Live is a short book of autobiography and travel literature by crime writer Agatha Christie.It is one of only two books she wrote and had published under both of her married names of "Christie" and "Mallowan" (the other being Star Over Bethlehem and other stories) and was first published in the UK in November 1946 by William Collins and Sons and in the same year in the US ...
Sir Galahad is seen as an example of the white knight trope. A white knight is a mythological figure and literary stock character. They are portrayed alongside a black knight as diametric opposites. A white knight usually represents a heroic warrior fighting against evil, with the role in medieval literature being represented by a knight-errant.
The poem describes the journey of a "gallant knight" in search of the legendary city of El Dorado. [1] The knight spends much of his life on this quest. In his old age, he finally meets a "pilgrim shadow" who points the way through "the Valley of Shadow". It was first published in the April 21, 1849, issue of the Boston-based The Flag of Our Union.
The Gawain Poet (fl. c. 1375 –1400), manuscript painting (as the father in Pearl) The "Gawain Poet" (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː w eɪ n, ˈ ɡ æ-,-w ɪ n, ɡ ə ˈ w eɪ n / GA(H)-wayn, -win, gə-WAYN; [1] [2] fl. late 14th century), or less commonly the "Pearl Poet", [3] is the name given to the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English.
The White Knight is a biography of the author Lewis Carroll by Alexander L. Taylor, first published in 1952. [1] References This page was last edited on 8 ...