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A Life Fragment edited by Victor Eremita. Either/Or ( Danish: Enten – Eller) is the first published work of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. It appeared in two volumes in 1843 under the pseudonymous editorship of Victor Eremita ( Latin for "victorious hermit"). It outlines a theory of human existence, marked by the distinction between ...
Aestheticism. The Peacock Room, designed in the Anglo-Japanese style by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Edward Godwin, one of the most famous and comprehensive examples of Aesthetic interior design. Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music ...
The poem was composed in response to a multi-page advertisement for the new $28 million hotel Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York. The Great Depression had begun to hit New Yorkers and disproportionately affected minorities in the city. [2] The disparity between the rich and poor was widening at the onset of the Depression and Jim Crow laws ...
Galgenlieder a 5, cycle of 14 songs by Sofia Gubaidulina (b.1931) Galgenlieder, 10 songs for mezzo and trio by Anders Brødsgaard (b.1955) Galgenlieder, Op. 129, 8 songs for soprano' harp and tuba by Jan Koetsier (1911–2006) Galgenlieder, chamber composition by Jacqueline Fontyn (b.1930) Galgenlieder, five song cycle by Siegfried Strohbach ...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) is a long poem by Ezra Pound. It has been regarded as a turning point in Pound's career (by F. R. Leavis and others), and its completion was swiftly followed by his departure from England. The name "Selwyn" might have been an homage to Rhymers' Club member Selwyn Image. The name and personality of the titular ...
The poem allows the reader to linger over the possibility of colors, strangeness and unusual dreams. Imagination that is absent from a mundane orderly life is represented by a dandified aesthete and an adventurous and exciting life by a drunken sailor dreaming of catching tigers in red weather. The poem's message is fairly simple.
poet, woman of letters. Mathilde Blind (born Mathilda Cohen; 21 March 1841 – 26 November 1896), [1] was a German-born English poet, fiction writer, biographer, essayist and critic. In the early 1870s she emerged as a pioneering female aesthete in a mostly male community of artists and writers. By the late 1880s she had become prominent among ...
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art. [ 1] Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [ 2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical ...