"Olden Ways" – 54 rezultate
0.02 secundeMeilisearchLi Po
Li Po was born in central Asia. After his father moved the family back into China in 705, he started his poetic compositions. With mountains near his house, he found adventure and became a skilled swordsman and led a life of a knight-errant when he was older. Po traveled and married a daughter of a retired prime minister in 727, but soon went back to traveling the regions and neighboring countries around him. His most exciting travels were to the capital Ch’ang-an where he was presented to the emperor Hsuan-tsung and was showered with extravagant gifts. He was then appointed as a member of the Hanlin Academy and was lionized by fellow scholar-officials. The next travel he experienced was in 744. By this time he was divorced from his first wife and remarried. He was also becoming a drunk and visiting city taverns. Soon Po became known as one of the “Eight Immortals of the Wine-Cup”. During this year he was initiated in the Taoist religion along with his friend Tu Fu. After 10 years of...
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ONOgden Nash
Born Frederick Ogden Nash on August 19, 1902 in Rye, New York. An ancestor, General Francis Nash, gave his name to Nashville, Tennesee. Raised in Rye, New York and Savannah, Georgia. Educated at St. George's School in Rhode Island and, briefly, Harvard University. Started work writing advertising copy for Doubleday, Page Publishing, New York, in 1925. Published first book for children, The Cricket of Caradon in 1925. First published poem Spring Comes to Murray Hill appears in New Yorker magazine in 1930. Joins staff at New Yorker in 1932. Married Frances Rider Leonard on June 6, 1933. Published 19 books of poetry. Collaborated, in 1943, in the musical comedy, "One Touch of Venus." Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1950. Lived in New York but his principal home was in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died on May 19, 1971. He was buried in North Hampton, New Hampshire. Selected books: Hard Lines 1931 I'm a Stranger Here Myself 1938 The Face is Familiar 1940 Good...
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Frederick Ogden Nash
Born Frederick Ogden Nash on August 19, 1902 in Rye, New York. An ancestor, General Francis Nash, gave his name to Nashville, Tennesee. Raised in Rye, New York and Savannah, Georgia. Educated at St. George\'s School in Rhode Island and, briefly, Harvard University. Started work writing advertising copy for Doubleday, Page Publishing, New York, in 1925. Published first book for children, The Cricket of Caradon in 1925. First published poem Spring Comes to Murray Hill appears in New Yorker magazine in 1930. Joins staff at New Yorker in 1932. Married Frances Rider Leonard on June 6, 1933. Published 19 books of poetry. Collaborated, in 1943, in the musical comedy, \"One Touch of Venus.\" Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1950. Lived in New York but his principal home was in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died on May 19, 1971. He was buried in North Hampton, New Hampshire.
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EDEmily Dickinson
Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts, the second daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Emily, Austin (her older brother) and her younger sister Lavinia were nurtured in a quiet, reserved family headed by their authoritative father Edward. Throughout Emily’s life, her mother was not "emotionally accessible," the absence of which might have caused some of Emily’s eccentricity. Being rooted in the puritanical Massachusetts of the 1800’s, the Dickinson children were raised in the Christian tradition, and they were expected to take up their father’s religious beliefs and values without argument. Later in life, Emily would come to challenge these conventional religious viewpoints of her father and the church, and the challenges she met with would later contribute to the strength of her poetry. The Dickinson family was prominent in Amherst. In fact, Emily’s grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, was one of the founders...
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David Bowie
A consummate musical chameleon, David Bowie created a career in the Sixties and Seventies that featured his many guises: folksinger, androgyne, alien, decadent, blue-eyed soul man, modern rock star-each one spawning a league of imitators. His late-Seventies collaborations with Brian Eno made Bowie one of the few older stars to be taken seriously by the new wave. In the Eighties, Let\'s Dance (#1, 1983), his entree into the mainstream, was followed by attempts to keep up with current trends. David Jones took up the saxophone at age 13, and when he left Bromley Technical High School (where a friend permanently paralyzed Jones\' left pupil in a fight) to work as a commercial artist three years later, he had started playing in bands (the Konrads, the King Bees, David Jones and the Buzz). Three of Jones\' early bands -- the King Bees, the Manish Boys (featuring session guitarist Jimmy Page), and Davey Jones and the Lower Third -- each recorded a single. In 1966, after changing his name to...
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SMStephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer\'s life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003. The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head. \"Though I had a million things to do, I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write—something I hadn\'t done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering.\" Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, and wrote it out late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight. With encouragement from her older sister (the only other person who knew she had written a book), Meyer submitted her manuscript to various literary agencies. Twilight was picked out of a slush pile at Writer\'s House and eventually made its way to the publishing...
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ESElse Lasker- Schuler
born Feb. 11, 1869, Elberfeld, Ger. died Jan. 22, 1945, Jerusalem, Palestine Else Lasker-Schüler (February 11, 1869 – January 22, 1945) was a Jewish German poet and playwright (1869-1945) famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem Schüler was born in Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. Her mother, Jeannette Schüler (née Kissing) was a central figure in her poetry, and the main character of her play Die Wupper was inspired by her father, Aaron Schüler, a Jewish banker. In 1894, Else married the physician and occasional chess player, Jonathan Berthold Lasker (the older brother of Emanuel Lasker, a World Chess Champion) and moved with him to Berlin, where she trained as an artist. On August 24, 1899 her son Paul was born and her first poems were published. She published her first full volume of poetry, Styx, three years later, in...
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Juan de Yepes (San Juan de la Cruz)
Su verdadero nombre era Juan de Yepes y nació el 24 de junio de 1542 en Fontiveros, pequeño pueblo abulense perteneciente a Castilla y León, una comunidad autónoma de España. Murió su padre cuando Juan tenía seis años; a los nueve años, se trasladó con su madre al abulense pueblo de Medina del Campo, en donde a los 17 años, ingresa en un colegio de jesuitas para estudiar humanidades. El año 1563 toma los hábitos de la orden religiosa Carmelita, adoptando el nuevo nombre de fray Juan de san Matías; al año siguiente se traslada a Salamanca para cursar estudios de teología en su célebre universidad. En el año 1567 es ordenado sacerdote, y adopta el nuevo y definitivo nombre de Juan de la Cruz. Su ilustre paisana de Ávila, Teresa de Jesús, trabó gran amistad con él y le integró en el movimiento de la reforma carmelita que ella había iniciado. En 1568 Juan de la Cruz fundó el primer convento de Carmelitas Descalzos, los cuales practicaban a ultranza la contemplación y la austeridad. Unos...
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Tirso de Molina
Nació en Madrid en el seno de una familia humilde. Cursó estudios de Humanidades e ingresa, en 1600, en el convento de la Merced, para ser ordenado un año más tarde en Guadalajara. Durante la primera década del XVII realiza estudios universitarios de Artes, Teología y Sagrada Escritura. Fue discípulo de Lope de Vega. Residió en conventos de Guadalajara, Toledo, Soria y Segovia. Se trasladó a Madrid y Toledo, y viajó a Santo Domingo. A su vuelta se traslada a Sevilla, En donde publicaria la primera parte de sus comedias. Escribió textos religiosos y una historia de su orden. Su estilo en la comedia es claro y libre de afectación. En 1632 es confinado en el convento de Cuenca, privándosele de su cargo de cronista. En 1635 se publicaron de la segunda a la quinta parte de sus obras. La más conocida es El burlador de Sevilla . Otras obras destacadas son, Marta la piadosa (de 1614) y Don Gil de las calzas verdes (1615) y El condenado por desconfiado, (1635). En 1646 fue elegido definidor...
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JHJuan Fernández de Heredia
Juan Fernández de Heredia, en aragonés Johan Ferrández d'Heredia (1310?, Munébrega, (Zaragoza) - 1396). Escritor, mecenas, político y diplomático aragonés al servicio de Pedro IV de Aragón y gran maestre de la Orden de San Juan de Jerusalén. Heredia nació hacia 1310 en Munébrega (cerca de Calatayud, actual provincia de Zaragoza). En 1328 ya era miembro de la Orden del Hospital, ocupando cargos en Alfambra y Villel (1333). Llegó al honor de Castellán de Amposta en 1345, la dignidad más alta de la Orden en la Corona de Aragón. En 1355 es prior de la Orden en Castilla. Desde 1356, el apoyo de Inocencio VI le vale ser prior de Saint-Gilles, afincándose en la corte papal de Aviñón, donde el Papa lo nombra gobernador de la ciudad y le encarga su defensa, para la que mandará construir unas famosas murallas. Mantendrá buenas relaciones con los siguientes papas Urbano V y Gregorio XI, así como con el también aragonés Benedicto XIII (antipapa); de hecho, y siempre según el gran historiador...
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Olden Ways
de Gheorghe Constantin Marius
Only the moonlight now remains To guide me through the ancient woods; The restful place of our fathers in the dark. Infront of me there lies, an unknown path, Now hidden in the mist. A mountain...
The Wood-Pile
de Robert Frost
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day I paused and said, \'I will turn back from here. No, I will go on farther- and we shall see\'. The hard snow held me, save where now and then One foot...
It was a time of triumph for the morons
de Alexandru Paleologu
Mr. Paleologu, to begin with, let us say that this talk is the result of certain hostile attitudes, especially in the Western media, concerning Mircea Eliade and what we call here “Generation ’27”. I...
A happy/unhappy event
de Adrian Arvunescu
It was a beautiful day when I met Traian on a cargo ship to Afghanistan. We both were illegal immigrants seeking a better life. I forgot to mention that I m from Papua, where big people eat little...
This day
de Alin Avram
I know I don\'t remember last weekend at all. Early this week were days that I just can\'t recall. Yesterday\'s through- What was I doing? Darned if I can say. But I know I\'ll never forget This day....
Famous blue raincoat
de Leonard Cohen
It\'s four in the morning, the end of December I\'m writing you now just to see if you\'re better New York is cold, but I like where I\'m living There\'s music on Clinton Street all through the...
o zi ca asta
de emilian valeriu pal
uneori te trezești gol fără absolut nici un motiv. pur și simplu nu e nimic în tine ca și cum somnul ar fi o mașină de gunoi care ridică pe timpul nopții tot ce-ai adunat în tine. * stătusem în...
Carte haiku
de Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu
Conținutul (strict versurile, imaginile fotohaiku fac parte dintre cele postate de mine mai demult pe acest site) cărții mele de haiku Umbra unui fluture, publicată în februarie la Editura PIM....
The Little Mermaid
de Radu Herinean
The Little Mermaid - - - - by Hans Christian Andersen Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very deep...
Cyber Lesson Learned
de Ohm
A letter is being written for you. 10/26 Written in draft form, why? Because I know not what else to do? It is as cold here, in draft, as it is in my heart. My body chilled, by your absence. My mind...