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- 991: Michael Collins
- ... first tutors capable of, because of their personalities alone, infusing into me pride of the Irish as a race." As a child Michael also read widely. He was familiar with Shakespeare and the great novelists of the 19th century. Every week he read the nationalist newspapers "The Freeman's Weekly" and "The Leader". When only 11 years of age Michael began ...
- 992: Maya Angelou 2
- ... her theme was love and the universality of all lives. "The honorary duty of a human being is to love, "Angelou said. She spoke of her early love for William Shakespeare's works, and offered her audience excerpts from the poems of several African-Americans, including James Weldon Johnson and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. But always, she came back to love -and ...
- 993: Mark Twain 2
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John Clemens. With the Lampton family ...
- 994: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... Napoleon had declared himself Emperor, however, he tore the page out and substituted 'In Memory of a Great Man'. What raises Beethoven's genius in music to the level of Shakespeare's in literature is his supreme mastery of musical form. He was able to create vast and complex musical structures stemming from the fundamental building blocks of music itself. After ...
- 995: Lenonard Bernstein
- ... as director of the New York Philharmonic and the production West Side Story. West Side Story was an idea by Jerome Robbins of a modern, New York style, version of Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet. Arthur Laurents wrote the script, Bernstein was the composer and Stephen Sondheim was the lyrist. This tragic comedy premiered in August 1957. Apparently, this was another ...
- 996: Geroffrey Chaucer
- ... s in final syllables that are silent, in modern English, was no longer understood by the 15th century. Nevertheless, Chaucer s writing dominated English poetry up to the time of Shakespeare.4 Chaucer lived a very full and diligent life, a life that defined the extreme meanings of outspokenness. The multitudinous of life experiences that enable him to grasp the terms ...
- 997: Geoffery Chaucer
- ... life experiences to influence his every word. Geoggrey Chaucer is the first literly personality in English, and we know more about the outline of his life than we do about Shakespeare s. His inner life is recorded in his poems, and he liked to put himself as a character into them. From his birth to his death his writing was not ...
- 998: Freud
- ... University of Vienna in 1873. He had a prodigious memory and loved reading to the point of running himself into debt at various bookstores. Among his favorite authors were Goethe, Shakespeare, Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche. To avoid disruption of his studies, he often ate in his room. After medical school, Freud began a private practice, specializing in nervous disorders. He was ...
- 999: Emily Dickinson
- ... analysis on Emily Dickinson s poetry is some of the most emotionally felt works of the nineteenth century. Miss Dickinson is often compared with other poets and writers, but like Shakespeare, Miss Dickinson is without opinions (Tate 86). Her verses and technical license often seem mysterious and can confuse critics, but after all is said, it is realized that like most ...
- 1000: Charles Dickens
- ... attended school off and on until the age of 15 when he left for good. He loved reading and was influenced by some of the early English writers like William Shakespeare. But most of his knowledge that he used as an author came from what he observed around him. He was a keen observer of life and had a great understanding ...
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