"Many critics believe that his life in Dublin provided the fuel for all of his later creative endeavors."
duh!
Best guess for James Joyce
Date of birth is February 2, 1882
Frank Budgen, portrait of James Joyce. Zurich, 1919
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Sunday
James Joyce - Irish Novelist - Biography
"Many critics believe that his life in Dublin provided the fuel for all of his later creative endeavors."
duh!
Best guess for James Joyce
Date of birth is February 2, 1882
Saturday
Why We Need Novellas, Now More Than Ever | The Outlet: the Blog of Electric Literature
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| Electric Outlet (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
" We crave a respite from the corrosive adolescent sarcasm that’s become American fiction’s defense against a world of true adult feeling."
Tuesday
BBC - History - The Shakespeare Paper Trail: The Early Years
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| Cover of William Shakespeare |
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Monday
National Poetry Month
Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events.
Sunday
Geoffrey Bartholomew, the bard of McSorley's Old Ale House, publishes his second book of pub poems - NY Daily News
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| English: McSorley's Old Ale House (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
"'Light or Dark' focuses on the bar's role in history and the patrons through the ages, like Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman"
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Saturday
James Joyce Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com
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| Cover of James Joyce |
"James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland. He published "Portrait of the Artist" in 1916 and caught the attention of Ezra Pound. With "Ulysses," Joyce perfected his stream-of-consciousness style and became a literary celebrity. The explicit content of his prose brought about landmark legal decisions on obscenity. "
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Wednesday
Harold Bloom Talks About Literature, Judaism, and the Almighty – Tablet Magazine
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| Harold Bloom sobre Cortázar. De la crítica literaria al SIDA (Photo credit: Scemoso) |
"“You should hear him talk to a cabdriver,” one of Bloom’s ex-students told me. Bloom thrives on personal contact, and his conversation is full of affectionate verbal squeezes: His Yale colleague Geoffrey Hartman, like Bloom a pioneering critic of Romanticism, is the “Ayatollah Hartmeini”; John Ashbery, the poet, is always “the noble Ashbery.” Every male under 60 is addressed as “young man”; every woman, of whatever age, as “my dear.” “Kinderlach,” Bloom will say to a group of middle-aged friends, with genuine, surprised tenderness, “you astonish me always.”"
Friday
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| Dante gazes at Mount Purgatory in an allegorical portrait by Agnolo Bronzino, painted c. 1530 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
* All hope abandon, ye who enter in*
~ Dante Alighieri {from THE INFERNO} ~
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