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Barrios, Eduardo
(Encyclopedia) Barrios, EduardoBarrios, Eduardoāᵺwärˈᵺō bärˈyōs [key], 1884–1963, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was director of libraries and minister of education in Chile…Castillejo, Cristóbal de
(Encyclopedia) Castillejo, Cristóbal deCastillejo, Cristóbal dekrēstōˈbäl dā kästēlyāˈhō [key], c.1490–1550, Spanish poet of the Renaissance. As secretary to the king of Bohemia, Castillejo visited…White, Stanford
(Encyclopedia) White, Stanford, 1853–1906, American architect, b. New York City; son of Richard Grant White. In 1872 he entered the office of Gambrill and Richardson in Boston, at the time when H. H…Muses
(Encyclopedia) Muses, in Greek religion and mythology, patron goddesses of the arts, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Originally only three, they were later considered as nine. Calliope was the Muse…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound Scene 2.1:
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Act 2 SCENE 2.2: SCENE 2.1: MORNING. A LOVELY VALE IN THE INDIAN CAUCASUS. ASIA, ALONE. ASIA: From all the blasts of heaven thou hast descended: Yes, like a…Costa i Llobera, Miguel
(Encyclopedia) Costa i Llobera, MiguelCosta i Llobera, Miguelmēgĕlˈ kōˈstä ē lyōbāˈrä [key], 1854–1922, Catalonian poet and orator. In 1888 he was ordained a priest in Rome, where he developed a love…Olesha, Yuri
(Encyclopedia) Olesha, Yuri, 1899–1960, Russian novelist and dramatist. In his novel Envy (1927; tr. 1936) and in his other writing, Olesha focused on the conflict between the demands of an…Penthesilea
(Encyclopedia) PenthesileaPenthesileapĕnˌthĕsəlēˈə [key], in Greek mythology, an Amazon queen. In the Trojan War, she led a troop of Amazons against the Greeks. She was killed by Achilles, who then…Gurney, A. R.
(Encyclopedia) Gurney, A. R. (Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Jr.), 1930–2017, American dramatist, b. Buffalo, N.Y., B.A. Williams College, 1952, M.F.A. Yale School of Drama, 1958. He is best known for often…West, Jessamyn
(Encyclopedia) West, Jessamyn, 1907–84, American novelist, b. Indiana. A Quaker herself, her most famous novel is The Friendly Persuasion (1945), about the conflicts felt by a Quaker farm family…Trending
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