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King Sheave, a poem describing the arrival of Sheave , a postulated Germanic culture hero, in 154 lines. It was originally an incomplete portion of a longer projected poem written in the late 1930s, but was treated as a complete poem for its insertion into Tolkien's unfinished novel The Notion Club Papers , published in Sauron Defeated (1992 ...
Two days after King delivered "I Have a Dream", Agent William C. Sullivan, the head of COINTELPRO, wrote a memo about King's growing influence: Personally, I believe in the light of King's powerful demagogic speech yesterday he stands head and shoulders above all other Negro leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negroes.
The son of actor Dennis King, [1] John Michael King was born in New York City. He made his Broadway debut in a revival of The Red Mill in 1945. He won the Theatre World Award for his portrayal of Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the original production of My Fair Lady, notable for his rendition of "On The Street Where You Live".
The Notion Club Papers is an abandoned novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, written in 1945 and published posthumously in Sauron Defeated, the 9th volume of The History of Middle-earth. It is a time travel story, written while The Lord of the Rings was being developed. The Notion Club is a fictionalization of Tolkien's own such club, the Inklings.
The Socratic notion of the dialogic nature of truth and human thought, posited in opposition to "official monologism, which pretends to possess a ready-made truth" (Bakhtin notes that this is a formal quality only, and that in the hands of a dogmatic school or religious doctrine, the dialogue can be transformed into merely another method for ...
[154] According to historian Roy Porter, the liberation of the human mind from a dogmatic state of ignorance, is the epitome of what the Age of Enlightenment was trying to capture. [ 155 ] Bertrand Russell saw the Enlightenment as a phase in a progressive development which began in antiquity and that reason and challenges to the established ...
The horror writer Stephen King has acknowledged Tolkien's influence on his novel The Stand and his fantasy series The Dark Tower. [32] Other prominent fantasy writers including George R. R. Martin , Michael Swanwick , Raymond E. Feist , Poul Anderson , Karen Haber , Harry Turtledove , Charles De Lint , and Orson Scott Card have acknowledged ...
1832 first edition, printed by Bradbury and Evans, Edward Moxon, London. 1842 title page, with added poems "Queen Liberty" and "Song-To the Men of England", J. Watson, London. The Masque of Anarchy (or The Mask of Anarchy ) is a British political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry ) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre ...