T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Eliot was born in St.
Louis and educated at Harvard University, but most of his adult life was passed in London. In the vanguard of the artistic movement known as Modernism, Eliot was a unique innovator in poetry and The Waste Land (1922) stands as one of the most original and influential poems of the twentieth century. As a young man he suffered a religious crisis and a nervous breakdown before regaining his emotional equilibrium and Christian faith. His early poetry, including "Prufrock," deals with spiritually exhausted people who exist in the impersonal modern city. Prufrock is a representative character who cannot reconcile his thoughts and understanding with his feelings and will.
What makes this poem different from a normal love song? S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. The Roaring Twenties — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. Prohibition was not the only source of social tension during the 1920s.
The Great Migration of African Americans from the Southern countryside to Northern cities and the increasing visibility of black culture—jazz and blues music, for example, and the literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance—discomfited some white Americans. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer part 1. Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language. Gallery: Bible verses and pop culture. Death of a Saleman: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Mediocrity. I once had a creative-writing teacher who would tactfully condemn a line of student verse by saying, in the long-suffering yet indulgent tone with which a wife might scold her husband for once again forgetting to put the cat out, “It sounds like poetry.”
Sometimes, to mix things up—there was much to criticize in our work—he would put it another way: “This sounds like the kind of thing you might find in a poem.” Why this should have been such a defect was not entirely clear to us at the time. What our teacher was complaining about, it now seems obvious, was the tendency of students to cloak our rather banal thoughts and impressions in a poetical gauze—our tendency, after reading Keats, say, to fill our poems with bowers and nightingales and long, slow vowels. (“When was the last time anyone here saw a bower?” He asked flatly.) I thought of this class recently, when I went to see Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” currently in revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, in New York.
The American Writers Museum. To suggest an addition to our Literary America map, please email American writers from all over the country help to create a literary America.
Below, click on a state to see what literary landmarks are located there like author homes and museums, book festivals, literary archives, Centers for the Book, and even final resting places. Many of our author homes and museums have been compiled with the help of B. J. Welborn’s Traveling Literary America. Jhumpa Lahiri. Jhumpa Lahiri. Jhumpa Lahiri's Struggle To Feel American.
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Scott Fitzgerald 1896 - 1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist, short story writer and scenarist, died at his Hollywood home Dec. 21, 1940. His age was 44. Mr. Roughly, his own career began and ended with the Nineteen Twenties. Read the complete obituary » Highlights From the Archives Arts and Leisure Desk F. By STEVE CHAGOLLAN. The Great Gatsby - Official Trailer 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography. American short-story writer and novelist F.
Scott Fitzgerald is known for his turbulent personal life and his famous novel The Great Gatsby. Synopsis F. The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World. [Editor’s note: In celebration of the holidays, we’re counting down the top 12 Flavorwire features of 2012.
This post, at #1, was originally published January 31.] With Amazon slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, things can sometimes seem a little grim for the brick and mortar booksellers of the world. After all, why would anyone leave the comfort of their couch to buy a book when with just a click of a button, they could have it delivered to their door? Well, here’s why: bookstores so beautiful they’re worth getting out of the house (or the country) to visit whether you need a new hardcover or not.
The Best Fictional Libraries in Pop Culture. Here at Flavorpill, we’re always on the lookout for a great library — even if that library happens to be fictional.
In fact, maybe especially then, because if there’s anything we like better than reading in a great library, it’s reading about a great library (or bookstore) in a great library. So we’ve sifted through literature, film, and television to bring you ten of the best libraries ever imagined. Check them out after the jump, and if we’ve left off your favorite, be sure to add it to our list in the comments.