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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 ...
Relatives. John Dalberg-Acton. Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry ...
Decadent movement. The 1878 Pornokratès by Belgian artist Félicien Rops. The Decadent movement (from the French décadence, lit. 'decay') was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. The Decadent movement first flourished in France and then ...
The poem was published in Hughes's book Montage of a Dream Deferred in 1951. [4] The book includes over ninety poems [5] that are divided into five sections. "Harlem" occurs in the fifth section, which is titled "Lenox Avenue Mural". [6] The poems in the book were intended to be read as one long poem, but "Harlem" is often read by itself. [5]
A prolific writer, D'Annunzio's novels in Italian include Il piacere ( The Child of Pleasure, 1889), Il trionfo della morte ( The Triumph of Death, 1894), and Le vergini delle rocce ( The Maidens of the Rocks, 1896). He wrote the screenplay to the feature film Cabiria (1914) based on episodes from the Second Punic War.
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 ...