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A poet's poem: beautifully crafted and perfect in form and sense: possibly the best American poem ever written. That is not only my opinion but also the the opinion of ...
One of the most famous horror stories, which is perfectly plausible, abridged to fit into 10 minutes.
The photographs are part of a series by Eadweard Muybridge in about 1890 which are said to have inspired the 1912 painting called "Nude Descending a Staircase" by Marcel ...
The picture is a still from the film "Angels with Dirty Faces", 1938
These are the original words of Emily Dickinson.
There are different versions which were "cleaned up" for publication by well-meaning editors and entitled "The Chariot" ...
Dickens' hatred of the Law is thematic in most of his novels. The phrase "The Law is an ass" comes from Oliver Twist. The Law's delay - which Hamlet gives in his most famous ...
The conclusion of the tale
"In pace requiescat" means "in peace let them remain"
First published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book, this is one of the most chilling of horror stories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cask_of_Amontillado
"Immolation" ...
One of the best novels ever written.
The picture is from Roman Polanski's film.
You can read the whole book here:
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/19/46/frameset.html
First published in 1886, when Yeats was 24.
The drawing of Yeats was by Augustus John
The picture is the waterfall at GlenCar
The print is by Steven Brown
I was looking ...
There's a couple of small errors in the reading which you may point out if it pleases you to do so.
But here's Ginsberg himself doing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-7nEP_3YCM
and ...
In offering this reading I am going against the advice of my wife. If the Administration of YouTube don't like it then I will remove it. They are suspicious about Art. ...
The picture is called Rural Scene with cottage - by an unknown artist
The portrait of Pope was by Michael Dahl
The poem is about Eliot's difficulty in communicating with women. More specifically it relates to three visits he paid on Adeleine Moffat in Boston and his inability to ...
The poem was written in 1912 by Ezra Pound, the Bob Dylan of his day, at the same time as T S Eliot's Portrait of a Lady (1911) and when Henry James's Portrait of a Lady ...
Parts of this introduction were read by Orson Welles and Richard Burton as the start of theatrical productions and films. Here it is in its entirety. Be assured that I ...
from The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966.
This poem was written in 1852 in Paris, first published in 1855. Browning at the time was resolved to write a poem every day, so it might be just a day's work. Nobody ...
from Prufrock and Other Observations. 1917.
I have no doubt that this refers to a real dilemma in which Eliot found himself. He was a shy young man and embarrassed in ...
A prease is a press - in the sense of a crowd, e.g., "alone in a press of people travelled he".
He was fatally wounded at the Battle of Zutphen. There's a story that he ...
It's a poem about hopeless love, relating the probability of its requital relative to other unlikely events.
Sod's Law states "Desirability is Inversely Proportional to ...
Awareness of your own mortality is inversely proportional to how much life you think you have left. It eventually becomes an imposing presence lurking in the background....
Har-tru is a kind of tennis court surface made of American clay.
Dr. Loewenstein has a Jewish name which is not uncommon for a psychoanalyst. Jewish names have the 'e' ...
This seemingly light-weight funny poem is actually a deadly accurate parody of a very influential novel.
It is a succinct synopsis of the heartwrenching autobiographical ...
Steven Foster wrote some famous songs, "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "Swanee River", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Black Joe", "Beautiful Dreamer" and of course this one....

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