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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, including "In the valley of Cauteretz", "Break, break, break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, idle tears" and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and classmate at Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister, but died from a cerebral hemorrhage before they were married. Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, Ulysses, and Tithonus. During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success. Tennyson wrote a number of phrases that have become commonplaces of the English language, including: "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis...

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James Wright

James Arlington Wright s-a născut la 13 decembrie 1927 în Martins Ferry, Ohio, SUA. Și-a făcut studiilela Kennyon College, la Universitatea din Viena. A fost profesor la Hunter College, perioadă în care a realizat traduceri remarcabile din opera unor scriitori precum Georg Trakl, Pablo Neruda, Herman Hesse ș.a. Printre volumele sale de versuri se numără: The Green Wall (1957); The Branch will not Break (1963); Shall we gather at the River (1968); Saint Judas (1969). Moare la 25 martie 1980.

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Angela Carter

Angela Olive Stalker was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, England on the 8th May 1940. War had broken out in Europe and she was evacuated as a child to Yorkshire to live with her maternal grandmother, a working-class, matriarchal, domineering, feminist bread-\'n-buta granny of the north of England. Carter left school and started work at the age of nineteen for the Croydon Advertiser, following in the footsteps of her father - who was a Scottish journalist working in London. One year later she met and married Paul Carter. She was to divorce him almost twelve years after, in 1972. She studied English at the University of Bristol and built on her already vast cultural and literary baggage. Her mother was a great literary influence on her, as she devoured book after book and author after author. Her upbringing was very much based on the works of Shakespeare and great names of English literature. The influence of authors on her work is enormous and perhaps incalculable. There are references to...

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James G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist and short story writer who was a prominent part of the science fiction New Wave movement. His best-known novels are the controversial Crash, an exploration of sexual fetishism connected to automobile accidents, and the loosely autobiographical Empire of the Sun, about his childhood internment by the Japanese during World War II after the invasion and conquest of Shanghai, where Ballard was born in the International Settlement. Both books were adapted into films, by David Cronenberg and Stephen Spielberg respectively. So distinctive was his work that the adjective "Ballardian" entered the language, defined by the Collins English Dictionary as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." Ballard was diagnosed with...

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Romain Rolland

Motivația Juriului Nobel "ca un omagiu adus înaltului idealism al creației lui literare și dragostei de adevăr cu care a descris diferite tipuri umane". Romain Rolland (n. 29 ianuarie 1866, Clamecy, Nièvre — d. 30 decembrie, 1944, Vézelay) a fost un scriitor francez, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în anul 1915. Romain Rolland s-a născut la Clamecy, unde și-a făcut o parte din studiile liceale(1873-1880). În 1884 devine elevul lui Paul Claudel, la Liceul "Louis le Grand" din Paris, iar în 1889 este absolvent al "Școlii Normale Superioare".Își continuă studiile la "Școala franceză" din Roma, unde o cunoaște pe muziciana Malwida von Meysenburg, mare admiratoare a lui Wagner. Se căsătorește cu Clotilde Bréal(1892), de care se va despărți în 1901. Doctor în litere în 1895, este și profesor de istoria artelor la Sorbona (1904 - 1912). Încă din 1901 începe să ducă o corespondență cu Tolstoi. Debutează ca dramaturg în 1895, cu piesa Saint-Louis, urmată de alte piese reunite...

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EgoPHobia #24

de Sorin - Mihai Grad

De câteva zile pe www.egophobia.ro puteți citi EgoPHobia #24, cu care am revenit la formatul obișnuit, după numărul special dedicat împlinirii a 5 ani de la apariția primului număr al e-revistei...

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Birds

de Saint-John Perse

A man at sea, feeling noon in the air, lifts his head at this wonder: a white gull opened on the sky, like a woman\'s hand before the flame of a lamp, elevating in daylight the pink translucence of a...

I have found

de Crăița Șerbănescu

I think that I have found Upon this wondrous ground A friend for life, a love Who is a touch above Life\'s mediocrities That blow in different seas These special ones on earth Who\'ve been that way...

Sonnet XLI

de William Shakespeare

Those petty wrongs that liberty commits, When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full well befits, For still temptation follows where thou art. Gentle thou art and...

At the mother's cross A face of an angel of childhood

de Laurențiu Nelu Rădoi

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Under the acacias bathed in dead winter's frost, Driven in the wheel of life by a windy March, The moon rises warm, but it's so far away The too...

Sonet XLI

de Cristian Vasiliu

Iert micile-ți păcate când absența Mea se-ntâlnește cu-anii tăi cei sprinteni, Căci fără seamăn crește frumusețea, Când trena-i o ispită pretutindeni. Ești nobil și frumos; pentru plăcere O țintă...

Taming of the Shrew

de William Shakespeare

Induction, Scene I SCENE I. Before an alehouse on a heath. Enter Hostess and SLY SLY I\'ll pheeze you, in faith. Hostess A pair of stocks, you rogue! SLY Ye are a baggage: the Slys are no rogues;...

Hamlet

de William Shakespeare

HAMLET DRAMATIS PERSONAE (PAGINA 1) CLAUDIUS king of Denmark. (KING CLAUDIUS:) HAMLET son to the late, and nephew to the present king. POLONIUS lord chamberlain. (LORD POLONIUS:) HORATIO friend to...

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Hamlet

de William Shakespeare

HAMLET DRAMATIS PERSONAE (PAGINA 8) ACT IV SCENE VI Another room in the castle. [Enter HORATIO and a Servant] HORATIO What are they that would speak with me? Servant Sailors, sir: they say they have...

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trying to bury santa

de Andrei Dumitrescu

They\'re trying to bury Santa Claus, to kill Christmas Eve, to make our miracles blurry to make us not believe, They\'re trying to buy the story to grasp the hollowness with their teeth, to rip the...

Song of wine

de Emile Nelligan

Fresh in joy\'s live light all things coincide, This fine may eve! like living hopes that once Were in my heart, the choring birds once Their prelude to my window open wide. O fine may eve! o happy...

Slavery

de Poison

Don’t think before you act, You’ll only get things worse. Remember that we made a pact. Do not try to remove the curse. Just look behind your back: You’ll see me pushing you away. You’ll see the...