Born in 1872 , Aubrey Beardsley died in 1898. In those twenty-five years he managed to do something to art from which it has never recovered. He never went to art school, never painted a single large canvas; he was never exhibited; he was dead before his twenty-sixth birthday, and yet of all the artists ...
Writers are some of the most humorous people on the planet and I find that their funniest quotes are often concerned with the shortcomings of other writers! Of course the majority are not averse to the odd quip about themselves either. Here are some of the quotes that highly amuse me: “This is not a ...
When it comes to readings for your wedding, most people turn to traditional sources. And while there’s nothing wrong with Shakespeare or Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets From The Portuguese,” there are other poets worth looking into. Eliza Acton Victorian Eliza Acton has fallen into obscurity, and not just as a poet: she was once the ...
H.H. Asquith, considered the founder of the British welfare state, was the prime minister of the United Kingdom who led the British Empire into the monumental debacle that was World War I. The son of a cloth merchant, Henry Herbert Asquith was born in Morley, Yorkshire and attended Balliol College, Oxford. After graduation, he became ...
When we think of Irish poetry, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce come to mind. Oscar Wilde would probably be further down the list. Known mostly for his plays, epigrams (“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”), and his scandalous imprisonment, Wilde writes solid poetry. And, arguably is my favorite Irish poet. Life ...
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