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[[en]] Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite. Aldous' father was the son of Thomas Henry Huxley, a great biologist who helped develop the theory of evolution. His mother was the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist; the niece of Matthew Arnold, the poet; and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, a famous educator and the real-life headmaster of Rugby School who became a character in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.Brave New World book cover Undoubtedly, Huxley's heritage and upbringing had an effect on his work. Gerald Heard, a longtime friend, said that Huxley's ancestry "brought down on him a weight of intellectual authority and a momentum of moral obligations." Throughout Brave New World you can see evidence of an ambivalent attitude toward such authority assumed by a ruling class. Like the England of his day, Huxley's Utopia...

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Adelbert von Chamisso

Adelbert von Chamisso (January 30, 1781 – August 21, 1838) was a German poet and botanist. He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family. Driven out by the French Revolution, his parents settled in Berlin, where in 1796 young Chamisso obtained the post of page-in-waiting to the queen, and in 1798 entered a Prussian infantry regiment as ensign. His family was shortly thereafter permitted to return to France; he remained in Germany and continued his military career. He had little education, but sought distraction from the dull routine of the Prussian military service in assiduous study. In collaboration with Varnhagen von Ense, he founded (1803) the Berliner Musenalmanach, in which his first verses appeared. The enterprise was a failure, and, interrupted by the war, it came to an end in 1806. It brought him, however, to the notice of many of the literary celebrities of the day and established his...

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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat." Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois to Swedish ancestry. At the age of thirteen he left school and began driving a milk wagon. He subsequently became a bricklayer and a farm laborer on the wheat plains of Kansas.[1] After an interval spent at Lombard College in Galesburg,[2] he became a hotel servant in Denver, then a coal-heaver in Omaha. He began his writing career as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News. Later he wrote poetry, history, biographies, novels, children's literature, and film reviews. Sandburg also collected and edited books of ballads and folklore. He spent most of his life in the Midwest before moving to North Carolina. Sandburg fought in the Spanish-American War with the 6th...

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Born October 31, 1902(1902-10-31) Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil Died August 17, 1987 (aged 84) Rio de Janeiro Occupation Poet Nationality Brazilian Literary movement Modernism Carlos Drummond de Andrade (October 31, 1902 - August 17, 1987) was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Cançăo Amiga" ("Friendly Song") was printed on the 50 cruzados note. Drummond was born in Itabira, a mining village in Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. His parents were farmers of Portuguese ancestry (and remote Scottish ancestry). He went to a school of pharmacy in Belo Horizonte, but never worked as a pharmacist after graduation. He worked in government service for most of his life, eventually becoming director of history for the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service of Brazil. Though his earliest poems are formal and satirical, Drummond quickly adopted the new forms of Brazilian modernism that were evolving in...

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Schiopota Dragos

Nu sunt cunoscut in lumea intreaga, de parca toti am fi intregi, sunt totusi un om cu capul pe umeri,daca nu as fi, nu s-ar mai povesti,era intr-o noapte cu ceata, pe la ora cincisprezece dupa-masa, chiar treizeci de minute mi se pare,cu mult soare si vant ancestral, fara miros,inodor dar insipid si in loc sa strig "Mama", n-am strigat nimic, s-au suparat si au plecat impreuna, ea cu sexul opus, el invers.Totul s-a terminat cat ai zice peste, apoi a venit viata si inca sunt inchis in ea.Acum scriu si tot muncesc, c-asa-i bine, omenesc...

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Catalin Mihai Stefan

-mențiune- concursul Grigore Hagiu,Târgu Bujor, 2000 -premiul III la festivalul național de poezie Costache Conachi, Tecuci,2002 -premiul de debut la concursul Convorbiri Literare, Radio Iași, 2003 -premiul editurii Princeps Edit- concursul Porni Luceafărul, Botoșani, 2004 -premiul pentru debut în volum (Muza avatarului-leacuri pentru obsesii)la festivalul Ronald Gasparic, Iași, 2006 -absolvent al Facultății de Litere, secția română-engleză, Universitatea ,,Al. I. Cuza”, Iași -născut pe 30 Noiembrie 1979, Tecuci, Jud. Galați

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alissya s

am 18 ani ,anul acesta termin liceul

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Bagarean Iulia

O incercare de a vedea adevarata lume - acesta este scopul meu in viata. Desi sunt doar la inceput. Adolescenta este varsta intrebarilor, iar eu mi le pun si incerc sa gasesc raspunsuri. Am doar 17 ani si vreau sa-mi folosesc potentialul creativ la maxim.

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Larissa Botnari

Si merg purtand in mine golul acesta enorm...

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ancestra chemare

de Felix Onofrei

delicata-ti faptura atata foc viu in vatra in cabana de munte/eden e acolo:nectar si blana de urs;pastrav si un vin fierbinte/lacrimi de cetini trosnesc,afara ninge si s-aud lupii/iubirea pluteste ca...

Ancestral

de Dinu Popescu

Univers, destăinuie-ți tainele ancestrale, Readu-mă la forma mea cea inițială, Vreau să patrund treptat enigmele tale, Din incipit și până-n clipa cea finală. Pierdut în sideralul tău mister Se...

vis ancestral

de FLOARE PETROV

cândva călăream timpul ca pe un murg și culegeam impresii din sublimul astral sufletul meu era un fiu de demiurg dar am căzut din visul ancestral. am căzut din Eden ca Adam și Eva am mușcat și eu din...

miros de pâine pe Ararat

de viorel gongu

Din liniștea pâinii dospită-n covata de lemn Se urcă spre nori popsind doar o clipă în nări Jertfirea din ruga de grâu ancestral untdelemn Întinsă pe-oglinda din ceruri mustind sângerări Îndemn...

Cartea lui Rafael V

de Ionut Acrudoae

VII Atmosfera camerei, generică și plină de praf ancestral, își aștepta stăpânul. Celule rătăcite de piele și unghii, moarte de ceva vreme, își începură metamorfoza, integrându-se în Universul...

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Desfasurari de vis

de Felix Onofrei

Desfasurari de vis Alerg prin zi,activitati banale. Respir un aer umed,rece; In cord aud o tainica chemare Iar sufletul incet percepe. Prin fotoni mii de fiinte Se zbat croindu-si fete. Molecule-n...

În sine

de Petre Sorin

Un infinit de lupte am dus, În mintea mea din nori, Imagine frânta, nimic în culori, În tine speranța mi-am pus. Zâmbitoare și plină de viață, eu spun; Mă transform pe zi ce trece. Tu ești factorul...