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- 71: James Baldwin
- ... Notes of a Native Son, which was a collection of eleven of his essays. In 1956, Baldwin was a very busy man having published Giovanni’s Room; he received the National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant, and the Partisan Review Fellowship. Giovanni’s Room zeroed in more closely on a different faucet of his life, his sexuality. Being a black writer was only the beginning of his hard times, being ... Los Angeles and he published Nothing Personal. He also received honorary doctor of letter degrees from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1965, he published Going to Meet the Man and The Amen Corner opened on Broadway and later toured Europe. He also published The Amen Corner and Tell Me How Long The Train’s Been ... the next few years publishing A Dialogue in 1973 and If Beale Street Could Talk, in 1974. In 1976, he published The Devil Finds Work and Little Man. He also received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Morehouse College, in Atlanta. In 1979, he published Just Above My Head and spent time speaking at west coast colleges and universities. Giovanni’s Room is often considered a “rough draft” for ...
- 72: The Bridge Of San Luis Rey. By Thornton Wilder
- ... lives an extraordinarily lonely life; her husband is dead, and her only daughter has deliberately moved to Spain to get away from her mother. The mother, however, is devoted to the girl, and writes voluminous letters about every aspect of Peruvian life, under the misguided assumption that the girl must be homesick for news of her native city. These letters are in stark contrast to Wilder’s description of what the Marquesa’s life is really like; she is old and ugly and eccentric, and the butt of all Lima’s jokes. She, however, lives ... does not even see the fact that in her own household her faithful little teenage maid is miserable from the lack of being loved. When she accidentally learns this from reading one of Pepita’s letters (coincidentally on the same day that the Marquesa receives a criticizes letter from her own daughter) she goes in and touches the hair of the sleeping Pepita and says, "Let me begin again" (Wilder, ...
- 73: Emily Dickenson
- ... of thinking shaped neither by the church or society. By the time she was twelve, her family moved to a house on Pleasant Street where they lived from 1840 to 1855. Emily was already writing letters, but composed most of her poetry in this home. Emily only left home to attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for two semesters. Though her stay there was brief, she impressed her teachers with her courage ... Susan and their daughter Martha. Emily and Susan became so close that many people believe they may have been lovers. A rumor perpetuated by the fact that Emily was known to have written many love letters and poems to Susan. Martha attempted to protect both of their images and suppress the rumors. It became common knowledge that Emily had some type of very strong feelings for Susan. At the age of ... was dressed in a new white gown and had a strand of violets placed about her neck. Before she died, Emily left specific instructions for her sister and a housemaid, Maggie to destroy all the letters she had received and saved. The box of packets and poems was found with these letters, but Emily had not said anything about destroying them. Her sister Lavina was determined to have these published, ...
- 74: Henry VIII's Divorce From Catherine of Aragon
- ... Henry's affection for Anne, but it didn't bother her. What Catherine didn't know was that his affection for Anne was stronger than it ever was for her. Anne and Henry kept writing letters back and forth, to keep their love for each other going. Anne had decided that she changed her mind and she wanted the ultimate prize. It was to be Henry's wife, the Queen of ... so strong for her that he asked Anne to be his mistress. Anne refused and suggested to be his servant in all, but lovemaking. Although she refused him, they still kept in touch. They wrote letters back and forth when they were apart to keep their love burning. Henry once wrote Anne, "I have been in great agony about the contents of your letters not knowing whether to construe them to my disadvantage or to my advantage."(Albert, p.88). Anne had changed her mind, she was going to go for the ultimate prize, Henry's wife, the ...
- 75: Gerard Manley Hopkins Terrible
- ... us to assume that the poems are his own religious confessions. "More important, however, was his sense that his prayers no longer reached God" (Benzel 371). Hopkins life-long best friend Robert Bridges received several letters from Hopkins while he wrote the "terrible" sonnets. Hopkins wrote to Bridges that the sonnets "came to him like inspirations unbidden and against my will" (Leavis 5296). Hopkins saw in his poems the fragmentation of ... realizes its complete dependence upon him (Mariani 56). Line three and four deal with his essential self and his realization that apart from God he was nothing. Line seven "Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent" (l. 7), "is a nightmarish simile which is unsettlingly modern; the speaker pictures himself as a lover sending love letters to his beloved who has left no forwarding address. The lines of communication are cut, and the countless letters pile up unread to gather dust in some dead-letter bin. It is up to ' ...
- 76: The Study of Linguistics
- ... culture says it is mandatory to have everything in one continuous sentence, while others more civilized or advanced will follow the rules to the very letter. Accents also have different languages linked to them. Different letters, phrases, and even a whole new language may be created in the process of learning the language, over time and a metamorphosis to keep up with the changing world. Letters are called graphemes, meaning the 26 letters of the alphabet, more or less in different languages. In inuit for example, every grapheme follows a very obvious pattern of a prefix followed by a certain suffix, a combination of vowels and consonants. ...
- 77: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- The Life of Emily Dickinson Although she lived a seemingly secluded life, Emily Dickinson's many encounters with death influenced many of her poems and letters. Perhaps one of the most ground breaking and inventive poets in American history, Dickinson has become as well known for her bizarre and eccentric life as for her incredible poems and letters. Numbering over 1,700, her poems highlight the many moments in a 19th century New Englander woman's life, including the deaths of some of her most beloved friends and family, most of which occurred ... in death (Whicher 26). Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the New England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be equal not only in number to her poetic works, but in literary genius as well (Sewall 98). Explored thoroughly in her works, death seems to be a dominating ...
- 78: The Federalist Papers and Federalism
- ... during the Revolution, asked Madison and Jay to help him in this project. Their purpose was to persuade the New York convention to ratify the just-drafted Constitution. They would separately write a series of letters to New York newspapers, under the pseudonym, "Publius." In the letters they would explain and defend the Constitution. Hamilton started the idea and outlined the sequence of topics to be discussed, and addressed most of them in fifty-one of the letters. Madison's Twenty-nine letters have proved to be the most memorable in their balance and ideas of governmental power. It is not clear whether The Federalist Papers, written between October 1787 and May ...
- 79: Emily Dickinson: A Biography
- ... of thinking shaped neither by the church or society. By the time she was twelve, her family moved to a house on Pleasant Street where they lived from 1840 to 1855. Emily was already writing letters, but composed most of her poetry in this home. Emily only left home to attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for two semesters. Though her stay there was brief, she impressed her teachers with her courage ... Susan and their daughter Martha. Emily and Susan became so close that many people believe they may have been lovers. A rumor perpetuated by the fact that Emily was known to have written many love letters and poems to Susan. Martha attempted to protect both of their images and suppress the rumors. It became common knowledge that Emily had some type of very strong feelings for Susan. At the age of ... was dressed in a new white gown and had a strand of violets placed about her neck. Before she died, Emily left specific instructions for her sister and a housemaid, Maggie to destroy all the letters she had received and saved. The box of packets and poems was found with these letters, but Emily had not said anything about destroying them. Her sister Lavina was determined to have these published, ...
- 80: Kate Chopins The Awakening
- ... that Victor has so much to occult him in New Orleans. Victor directs a knowing wink at Edna. Edna tries to maintain a matronly expression of disapproval. Victor relates the contents of Robert's two letters from Mexico. Edna is depressed to find that Robert enclosed no message for her. Mrs. Lebrun gives Edna Mademoiselle Reisz's address. Victor escorts her outside, and they exchange banter over his exploits. Mademoiselle Reisz ... It is also through this relationship that Edna can establish a kind of relationship to Robert. The pianist is the only person to whom he speaks of Edna, and Edna is able to read his letters. Everyone else in Edna's social circle conforms to conventional standards, so there is no possibility of any dialogue about her attraction to Robert. Leonce considers Edna's unconventional behavior evidence of a mental illness ... he returned two days earlier. Edna doubts his love because he did not visit her right away. She asks why he broke his promise to write her, and he replies that he never thought his letters would interest her. She hints that he lies and proceeds to leave Mademoiselle Reisz's apartment. Robert walks Edna home. Under concerted pressure, he agrees to stay for dinner. Robert discovers a photograph of ...
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