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- 71: Rainer Maria Rilke
- ... by the visual arts of the great sculptor Rodin. These poems would turn out to be New Poems published in 1908. In his later life, Rilke moved to Switzerland, where he completed Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus both published in 1923. These later works reflected culmination of the development of Rilke’s poetry. These works gathered his dominant themes of love and the idolization of women, life and death, God ...
- 72: Hamlet - A Study Of Procrastin
- William Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest playwright of all time, authored a number of works consisting of sonnets, comedies, and tragedies. In his brilliant career, Shakespeare created literary works of art. What makes Shakespeare unlike any other writer of his time, or thereafter, is his ability to organize a realistic plot, manage themes ...
- 73: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807. He was a widely read and highly regarded poet of the nineteenth century. Longfellow was successful in both lyric and narrative poetry and later wrote incredible sonnets. He was not a poet of extremes, intense passion, or tragedy. He was gentle and optimistic and felt the purpose of poetry was to “embellish and sweeten life,” He generally wrote of normal life, and ...
- 74: John Keats
- ... turn Keats into a real romantic poet; but not over night of course. The summer of 1816, he got down to his poetry full time. He failed with his “romanticized” long poems, and started writing sonnets instead. These allowed Keats to make points, as well as paint word pictures. Keats now faced the decision to give himself to poetry or to continue with his medicine studies. Keats decision didn’t last ...
- 75: Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent into Metaphorical Hell
- ... this time period and on through the Renaissance. His Works: His first important work was La vita nuova(The New Life), written not that long after Beatrice's death. It chronicled, in the form of sonnets woven together with prose, his love for her, his premonition of her death, her actual death and his commitment that he would write a work that would be a worthy monument for her. While remaining ...
- 76: "Perfectly Imperfect: The Shakespeare Story"
- ... son Hamnet died. A year later, Shakespeare bought New Place, an important house in Stratford, and Anne went to live there. A woman called The Dark Lady was referred to in some of Shakespeare's sonnets, which were probably written in the 1590's. Shakespeare obviously had an affair with her during that time period. She was said to have an ill complexion, and dark hair, and there is evidence that ...
- 77: William Shakespeare's Life
- ... caught poaching in a deer park. Shakespeare apparently arrived in London about 1588 and by 1592 had attained success as a playwright. The publication of Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece and of his Sonnets established his reputation as a poet in the Renaissance manner. Shakespeare's modern reputation is based mainly on the 38 plays he wrote, modified, or collaborated on. Shakespeare's professional life in London was marked ...
- 78: The Life of the Great William Shakespeare
- ... and The Rape of Lucrese in 1594, once people started reading his plays and watching him on stage. They then realized that Shakespeare was a talented man. Other works began to circulate around like his Sonnets which drew more attention and fame to his name. The hard part was behind him and Shakespeare now had a base to his career as a writer and entertainer (Encyclopedia Americana 104). "Shakespeare's works ...
- 79: Shakespeare and His Plays
- ... caught poaching in a deer park. Shakespeare apparently arrived in London about 1588 and by 1592 had attained success as a playwright. The publication of Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece and of his Sonnets established his reputation as a poet in the Renaissance manner. Shakespeare's modern reputation is based mainly on the 38 plays he wrote, modified, or collaborated on. Shakespeare's professional life in London was marked ...
- 80: William Shakespeare
- ... performances there also. W.S. owned 1/7th 1613-Fire at the Globe during a performance of Henry 8th; rebuilt within a year. Left comedies and histories to write tragedies soon after the Globe reopened. Sonnets-published in 1610 but circulated earlier. First Tragedy: The Tragedy of Hamlet Late plays: Cymbeleneand and Winter's Tale became bitter, ironic, and sad (much as his mood was changing toward the latter parts of ...
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