Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. William Hayley’s 1796 biography called him the “greatest English author,” and he remains generally regarded “as one of the preeminent writers in the English language”. Writing in English, Latin, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica, (written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship) is among history’s most influential and impassioned defenses of free speech and freedom of the press. Milton’s poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.
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Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. Summary: Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Why did I read the book: I was in the mood for a light romance Jane Austen-style With a twist – both books we are reviewing take Jane Austen in the modern era, either in spirit (literally), or in form… It’s Austenmania! Today we do a little homage to the queen of Historical Romance herself, the indomitable Jane Austen. The main drive of the story is the Dragonriders trying to get everyone to prepare for Threadfall. McCaffrey uses this story to show us how a lot of the information/history from the original settlers was lost completely by the Ninth Pass 2000 years later (which is when the first book in the series is set).Īs usual, there are several strands of story playing out at the same time. I don’t know if I’m just getting used to McCaffrey’s writing/Pern or what, but despite the fact that this book involved an entirely new cast of characters, I found it a lot easier to get into than some of her other stories. Dragonseye takes place as the First Interval is drawing to a close and the Second Fall is about to begin. When Thread first fell, the original settlers were able to determine that Thread would fall for about 50 years, and that there would be intervals of around 200 years between each cycle of Thread. In this book, McCaffrey takes us back to around 300 years after the initial landing at Pern. The Aroma of Books //Rants//Raves//Reviews// Pargeter, Edith (also writing as Ellis Peters).Mertz, Barbara (also writing as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels).Christie, Agatha (also writing as Mary Westmacott).Children’s History: Landmark, Signature Biographies, and We Were There.#BookSpin & #BookSpinBingo (Litsy Challenge). The girl's frequent moves and sporadic mental and physical abuse left emotional scars that affected her even after she was adopted by a loving family (the "three little words" that change her life are her guarded consent to legal adoption, "I guess so"). She also blames the ineptitude of social workers who, more often than not, acted as advocates for foster parents rather than the children they were assigned to protect. She acknowledges that there may have been legitimate reasons for her and Luke's placement in foster care but pointedly criticizes the manner in which she was repeatedly uprooted. Using a matter-of-fact tone at times laced with bitterness, the author recounts how she was wrenched away from her teenage mother at age three and was later removed from her unstable grandfather's home to live in cramped quarters with strangers. In this engrossing memoir, college senior Rhodes-Courter chronicles her hardscrabble childhood in foster care, detailing glitches in the system and infringements of laws that led to a string of unsuitable and sometimes nightmarish placements for her and her younger half-brother, Luke. No mortal man is wiser than Socrates, who, on his daily walks through Athens, talks to all the people he meets. “Tell us, Delphic Oracle, who is the wisest man in all of Greece?” So begins The Death of Socrates. Each book in the series features an engaging-and often funny-story that presents basic tenets of philosophical thought alongside vibrant color illustrations. introduces children-and curious grown-ups-to the lives and work of famous philosophers, from Descartes to Socrates, Einstein, Marx, and Wittgenstein. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willing to consider life’s “big questions,” however strange or impractical. At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. However, he has an obnoxiously large nose, which causes him to doubt himself. In addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted, joyful poet and is also a musical artist. Hercule Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, a cadet (nobleman serving as a soldier) in the French Army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents. The most famous English translations are those by Brian Hooker, Anthony Burgess, and Louis Untermeyer. The character of Cyrano himself makes reference to "my panache" in the play. The play has been translated and performed many times, and it is responsible for introducing the word panache into the English language. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene. The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. The play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of Cyrano de Bergerac's life. Cyrano de Bergerac ( / ˌ s ɪr ə n oʊ d ə ˈ b ɜːr ʒ ə r æ k, - ˈ b ɛər-/ SIRR-ə-noh də BUR-zhə-rak, – BAIR-, French: ) is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. |