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Arthur Buchwald/Short Biography

Buchwald was born in New York in 1925.he was an American humorist. He first started writing as a paid journalist in Paris after second world war. He was a part of large American expatriate at that time, received  Pulitzer  prize in 1982        He was born in the immigrant family father Joseph and mother Helen. He was the youngest of four children. his mother lived in the hospital for 35 years because of her illness. When family business failed his father put him in the asylum center in The New York. He stayed in the forester home for at least five years. During the world war second, he wanted to join in the us marine corps but he was too young but later served.           In 1949 Buchwald left the university of Southern California and went to Paris. In Paris he got a job as a correspondence of variety. He was later hired as an editorial staff in restaurant and night club. Buchwald enjoyed the notoriety he received when U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's press secretary, Ji

The Renaissance

The Renaissance is  the period  in European civilization instantly following the Middle Ages and traditionally embrace to have been characterized by a surge of interest in Classical scholarship and values.           According to wikipediya/Renaissanc e,It was a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to Modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The Renaissance also witnessed the discovery and investigation of new continents, the exchange of the Copernican for the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, the  fall of  the feudal system and the growth of commerce, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper, printing, the mariner’s compass, and gunpowder. For the thinkers and scholars, it is however a revival of classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural decline.            The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman Humanities a

William Wordsworth/Romanticism

William  Wordsworth was  an English Romantic poet who helped Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads which  was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's poet laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850 .He was second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson.              In 1795 he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset. The two poets quickly developed a close friendship. In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved from  Racedown  in Dorset, where they had lived for two years, to  Alfoxton  House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether  Stowey . Together Wordsworth and Coleridge produced Lyrical Ballads in 1798, which is an important work in the English Romantic movement. The volume gave neither Wo

Romanticism

    Romanticism  :-                                     Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature—all components of modernity. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education, the social sciences, and the natural sciences It had a significant and complex effect on politics, with romantic thinkers influencing liberalism, radicalism, conservatism and nationalism.   In the visual arts romant

William Blake/ Short Biography

William Blake  (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He was unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered an influential figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form  "what is in   proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English   language" .  In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. He spent entire life in London , except for three years in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich  literature , which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself".                  Although , Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his characteristic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical und

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.    Literary  Theoory :   Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as " The Poetic  Principle" .He  disliked didacticism  and allegory, though he believed that meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface. Works with obvious meanings, he wrote, cease to be art.  He believed that work of quality should be brief and focus o