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- 1171: Pope Paul III: The Sixteenth Century Miracle
- ... Alessandro received a very good education during his youth. He studied in Rome under Pomponius Laetus, and also in the gardens of Lorenzo de' Medici at Florence. He had a love for art and elegant literature which was proper for his period. At first, Alessandro wanted a diplomatic career, but with his mothers urging he looked for one in the church instead. In the church his rise was rapid. And in ...
- 1172: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- ... Beyond The Horizon” in 1920, “ Anna Christie” in 1922, “Strange Interlube” in 1928 and “Long Days Journey Into Night” in 1957. (Newlyn,Eugene O'Neill”,p.1787.) Eugene was also awarded the Nobel Peace in Literature in 1936. (Newlyn,Eugene O'Neill” ,p.1783.) O'Neill wrote many other plays that were seen and enjoyed through out the world. He was definetly a important person in history. O'neill was constantly ...
- 1173: The Life and Work of Nemerov
- The Life and Work of Nemerov "Nemerov's contribution to our literature--as a gifted writer of fiction and critical prose, but pre-eminently as a poet-- does not seem to me to have received as much celebrity as it deserves. Nemerov's virtues are all in ...
- 1174: The Works of Graham Greene
- ... true in his novel, The Quiet American. The Quiet American is judged as one of Greene*s "entertainments" that include comedies, spy fiction, and thrillers that take place in foreign countries (Introduction). According to World Literature Critics editor, James P. Draper, The Quiet American is set in South Vietnam and anticipates U.S. involvement in the Vietnam conflict. The novel*s protagonist, Alden Pyle, who is ignorant of Oriental culture, is ...
- 1175: Gather Together in Maya Angelou's Name
- Gather Together in Maya Angelou's Name "A baby's love for his mother is probably the sweetest emotion we can savor." (Angelou) By consistently weaving the theme of motherhood into her literature, Maya Angelou creates both personal narratives and poems that the reader can relate to. Her exploration of this universal theme lends itself to a very large and diverse audience. Throughout Angelou's works, she allows ...
- 1176: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... wing and tutored him in the humanities and sciences. When he was able to get away from the office, Hamilton further expanded his intellect in Knox's library, where he read voluminously in the classics, literature, and history. Hamilton, who had early fancied himself a writer, published an occasional poem in the local paper, and impressed the residents of the island with a particularly vivid and florid account of a hurricane ...
- 1177: The Works of Sinclair Lewis
- ... collection of his letters, was published posthumously in 1952. His reputation was international. Although he generally scoffed at prizes and refused the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for Arrowsmith, Lewis accepted the 1930 Nobel Prize in literature. He was the first American ever to receive this award.
- 1178: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- ... Psycho for Commonweal magazine in September of 1960, had a different opinion of it; "Hitchcock pushes everything as far as he can go: the violence, the sex, the thrills and the gore." All of the literature used in this report all agree on one fact: Psycho is a movie beyond its years and is one of the best in movie history. Although none of his movies did or would ever compare ...
- 1179: Walt Whitman and His Poetry
- ... well, if at all. His dad was an English carpenter who probably could not read his son's poetry. His parent's family consisted of nine children, four of whom had disabilities. His start in literature came when, at the age of 12, he was withdrawn from school to work as a printer. At this time he began to learn to love reading books. He read whenever he could and was ...
- 1180: Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works
- ... the sights at the beach. The young boy who barely knows she exists constantly in her thoughts. "Welty has given, and will continue to give(For these works are soundly made and will stand) a literature that reaches great stature in it's theme of love"(Schlueter, 535). Eudora Welty captures the feelings of being in love and shows them brilliantly on paper. The reader immediately empathizes with the young girl ...
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