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- 1391: Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
- ... the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he included fifty paintings, seventeen drawings, and six items of jewelry. In Rome, he worked with Luchino Visconti on a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It. Then he designed the sets and costumes for the play Don Juan Tenorio and Richard Strauss's Salome in Madrid and London, respectively. In 1975 ...
- 1392: Dickinson vs. Whitman
- ... main people that influenced Emily Dickinson were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Bronte. Walt Whitman was influenced by many people, some of which were: Elias Hicks, James Macpherson and William Shakespeare. Whitman read many book reviews by many people; from these, he realized Emerson was very influential. Whitman was also influenced by the Bible, his walks in New York City, Tom ...
- 1393: Charles Dickens
- ... 15, and then left for good. He enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. He was influenced by such earlier English writers as William Shakespeare, Tobias Smollet, and Henry Fielding. However, most of the knowledge he later used as an author came from his environment around him. 4 MIDDLE LIFE Dickens became a newspaper writer ...
- 1394: The Work of Robert Frost
- ... s country is the country of human sense: of experience, of imagination, and of thought. His poems start at home, as all good poems do; as Homer's did, as Shakespeare's, as Goethe's, and as Baudelaire's; but they end up everywhere, as only the best poems do. This is partly because his wisdom is native to him, and ...
- 1395: Robert Mannyng of Brunne
- ... the other hand, The Chronicle of England is an epic bildungsroman largely based on fiction and myth, and uses the works of Geoffrey Crayon, Franklin of Avalon, Geoffrey Monmouth, Wace, Shakespeare,Pierre Langtoft and Bede as its bases. Both Handlyng Synne and The Chronicle of England are massive works, many thousandsof lines long. Sources Frederick Furnivall, ed. The Chronicle of England ...
- 1396: Willem De Kooning
- ... reality was quite different. De Kooning succumbed to Alzheimer disease in late 1970s. According to Peter Schjedahl, in his essay, De Kooning later life was compared to King Lear in Shakespeare's play. It is said of him , " The wonder is, he hath endures so long./ He but usurped his life." Peter continued on with these lyrics of King Lear to ...
- 1397: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... guide the deaf in learning to speak. His grandfather, also named Alexander Bell, had similarly specialized in good speech. He acted for several years and later gave dramatic readings from Shakespeare. Young Alexander Graham Bell had a great talent for music. He played by ear from infancy, and received a musical education. Later, Bell and his two brothers assisted their father ...
- 1398: Sir Francis Bacon
- ... sentence. Other works of Bacon's include his essays from 1597-1625 and the New Atlantis in 1627. So nineteenth century writers suggested that Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays, but this theory is discounted by most scholars. Bibliography: World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1962. Volume B Pp. 18. Wegman, Richard J., Medical and Health ...
- 1399: Herbert George Wells
- ... and genres of the literary world, it is for his contribution to the realm of science-fiction that he will always be remembered. H. G. Wells is known as "The Shakespeare of Science-Fiction." He is one of the writers that gave credibility to a rising new genre of science-fiction, or Scientific Romance as it was first called in the ...
- 1400: Castles: Seen by the Light of a Thousand Candles
- ... unfriendly. The perpetual dampness of their walls was dealt with by hanging huge tapestries, often named arras after the town in northern France legendary for its tapestry production (in Hamlet, Shakespeare calls the tapestry behind which Polonius hides an arras). To minimize the risk of fire (and because architecture was in a more primitive stage), the fire was located in the ...
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