Maurice Scève

Maurice Scève (1501-1564?), représentant le plus illustre de l\'école lyonnaise, est né à Lyon, entre 1500 et 1505, dans une famille bourgeoise qui joue un rôle honorable dans la vie de la cité. Son existence reste mal connue. Il reçoit une solide formation intellectuelle. Peut-être devient-il docteur en droit. Vers 1530, il est en Avignon attaché au vicaire de l\'Archevêque. En 1533, il prend part aux recherches qui tentent de retrouver le tombeau de la mythique Laure, la dame que Pétrarque avait aimée et chantée dans son Canzoniere, morte en Avignon lors de la peste de 1348. Il y découvre un sonnet qu\'il attribue à Pétrarque. Cette trouvaille lui vaut la célébrité, et les félicitations du roi François Ier, lui même grand amateur de poésie pétrarquiste. De retour à Lyon, Scève fréquente les cercles cultivés et connaît les milieux néo-latins où s\'épanouisse le sodalitium lugdunense. En 1535, Scève fait la connaissance d\'Étienne Dolet et lui donne à imprimer son premier ouvrage, La...

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Paul Verlaine

Poet francez si lider al simbolismului in evolutia poeziei. Stilul de viata a lui Verlaine a oscilat intre criminalitate si inocenta; s-a casatorit cu o tinerica in 1870 dar dupa un an s-a indragostit de tanarul poet Arthur Rimbaud, care avea 17 ani. Impreuna cu Stéphane Mallarmé si Charles Baudelaire au format asa numitul "Decandents". In opera lui Verlaine predomina doua impresii: doar "eu" este important si ca rolul poeziei este de a pastra momentele celor mai intense si unice trairi. A folosit atat forma clasica dar si versul liber si un limbaj simplu, muzical. Paul Verlaine s-a nascut in Metz, nord-estul Frantei, unde tatal sau, capitan de infanterie, s-a intamplat sa stationeze. Verlaine a fost singurul copil, dar alaturi de familia sa a trait si Elisa Déhee, o verisoara orfana, de care poetul s-a indragostit nebuneste mai tarziu. In 1851 familia se muta la Paris, unde a fost trimis la liceu. La varsta de 14 ani citeste Baudelaire "Les Fleurs du mal" ce il va influenta puternic...

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ron mael

In collaboration with vocalist brother Russell, composer/keyboardist Ron Mael was the mastermind behind the skewed pop smarts and wiseguy wordplay of cult favorite Sparks. Born August 12, 1950, in Culver City, CA, Mael spent his childhood modeling young men\'s apparel for mail-order catalogues; while attending UCLA in 1970, he and Russell formed their first group, Halfnelson. Although Todd Rundgren produced the band\'s self-titled 1971 debut, their quirky, tongue-in-cheek art pop initially failed to find an audience. After their manager successfully convinced the Maels to change the group\'s name, however, Sparks almost reached the Hot 100 with the single \"Wonder Girl.\" 1972\'s sublimely bizarre A Woofer in Tweeter\'s Clothing cemented the band\'s cult status, and scored another near-hit with \"Girl From Germany.\" Following the Maels\' relocation to England, 1974\'s glam-bubblegum opus Kimono My House reached the Top Five on the U.K. album charts and spawned two major British hits,...

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John Stuart Mill

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Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic jurist, theologian, and mystic. Rūmī is a descriptive name meaning "the Roman" since he lived most of his life in an area called Rūm because it was once ruled by the Byzantine Empire. According to tradition, Rumi was born in Balkh, Khorasan (now in Afghanistan), the hometown of his father's family. Scholars, however, argue that he was most likely born in Wakhsh, a small town located at the river Wakhsh in what is now Tajikistan. Wakhsh belonged to the larger province of Balkh, and in the year Rumi was born, his father was an appointed scholar there. Both these cities were at the time included in the Greater Persian cultural sphere of Khorasan, the easternmost province of historical Persia, and were...

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