and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

In 1691, he wrote the music for what is sometimes considered his dramatic masterpiece, King Arthur, with the libretto by Dryden and first published by the Musical Antiquarian Society in 1843.

In a 2001 retrospective review of " Forever Changes ," Andrew Cowen of The Birmingham Post ( UK ) wrote, " This 1967 masterpiece ... is the nearest the Americans came to having their own ' Sgt Pepper ' and, in true American style, it was largely overlooked by the mainstream audience which, at the time, was hanging on every note played by The Beatles.

In a 2002 story for the Chicago Daily Record, Mark Guarino, the newspaper's music critic, wrote that "' Forever Changes ' is a touchstone for serious pop fanatics ..." He added that, "... the band's first three albums were since rediscovered as visionary classics, all three culminating in ' Forever Changes ' ( Elektra ), the band's 1967 masterpiece of ornate pop.

In an obituary of Arthur Lee in early 2007, Kandia Crazy Horse of Vibe Magazine wrote that "' Forever Changes ' ( was ) his psychedelic masterpiece ... an exhilarating mash-up of West Side freak folk with East Side mariachi and blues.

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

Reviewing the book, Stephen F. Blinkhorn, a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, wrote that The Mismeasure of Man was " a masterpiece of propaganda " that selectively juxtaposed data to further a political agenda.

He wrote more than eighty operas during his lifetime, including his masterpiece, Il matrimonio segreto ( 1792 ).

One critic dubbed it a masterpiece ; Pauline Kael wrote that he " may be the most natural and least self-conscious screen actor that has ever lived ".

Michael Sragow wrote in 2000 that the documentary was " a wonderful introduction to Peckinpah ’ s radically detailed historical film about American outlaws in revolutionary Mexico — a masterpiece that ’ s part bullet-driven ballet, part requiem for Old West friendship and part existential explosion.

Paulus Orosius ’ s masterpiece is Historiae Adversus Paganos, the only history book that he wrote, which allow us to gain an insight into the historiographical methodology of the Spanish priesthood.

" Harold Bloom called the book " Joyce's masterpiece ", and wrote that " aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante.

Richard Schickel wrote in Life that " Jan Troell has made the masterpiece about the dream that shaped America-a dream, and an America, fast disappearing from our views.

* Edmund Blackadder wrote on Sputnikmusic. com that Farewell was " Rush's masterpiece ( closely followed by Hemispheres )", describing the instrumentation as " absolutely brilliant, with every musician at the peak of their talents " and praised the album for its " wide variety of different song types and structures ".

Among popular novelists Daphne Du Maurier wrote Rebecca, a mystery novel, in 1938 and W. Somerset Maugham ( 1874-1965 ) Of Human Bondage ( 1915 ), a strongly autobiographical novel, is generally agreed to be his masterpiece.

Shortly after Shūzō's return to Japan, he wrote and published his masterpiece, The Structure of " Iki " ( 1930 ).

His love and admiration for his wife is best expressed in the fine sonnet he wrote as an introduction to her masterpiece The Blazing World.

In the 1943 edition of his famous Histoire du cinéma, Robert Brasillach wrote that the film was amongst Renoir's most jumbled and confused but applauded the biting satire, which he considered Proustian, and the technical variation employed by the director, ultimately concluding that the film was an unrealised masterpiece.

Kmoch wrote, " The following game, a stunning masterpiece of combination play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies.

On the eve of battle, he wrote the legendary " A Letter to My Wife " ( 與妻訣別書 ), later to be considered as a masterpiece in Chinese literature.

In 1956, at a time where he believed he would die, he wrote what many consider to be his masterpiece, La charge de l ' orignal épormyable.

He then wrote his masterpiece, Les oranges sont vertes, which would be presented at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in 1972.

* Le grand testament, the masterpiece of poet François Villon, who also wrote a Petit testament

The British Mail On Sunday wrote: " Not since first reading John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece A Confederacy Of Dunces, have I laughed so much, or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice.

The guns were heard by Baden in his camp before Ingolstadt, " The Prince and the Duke are engaged today to the westward ", he wrote to the Emperor.

As Edward, the Black Prince, wrote shortly afterward in a letter to the people of London:

In 1847, Prince Albert wrote: " I must now seek in the children an echo of what Ernest brother and I were in the old time, of what we felt and thought ; and their delight in the Christmas-trees is not less than ours used to be ".

In 1748, Alexander Sumarokov wrote a Russian adaptation that focused on Prince Hamlet as the embodiment of an opposition to Claudius's tyranny — a treatment that would recur in Eastern European versions into the 20th century.

* Apart from his treatises on the arts, Alberti also wrote: Philodoxus (" Lover of Glory ", 1424 ), De commodis litterarum atque incommodis (" On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literary Studies ", 1429 ), Intercoenales (" Table Talk ", c. 1429 ), Della famiglia (" On the Family ", begun 1432 ) Vita S. Potiti (" Life of St. Potitus ", 1433 ), De iure ( On Law, 1437 ), Theogenius (" The Origin of the Gods ", c. 1440 ), Profugorium ab aerumna (" Refuge from Mental Anguish ",), Momus ( 1450 ) and De Iciarchia (" On the Prince ", 1468 ). These and other works were translated and printed in Venice by the humanist Cosimo Bartoli in 1586.

Believing that people were motivated by self-interest, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513 as advice for the city of Florence, Italy.

He also wrote many letters, verses and epitaphs, including those of Duke / Prince Arichis II of Benevento and of many members of the Carolingian family.

While Niccolò Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy is the period's key work on republics, he also wrote The Prince on how best to run a monarchy.

It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.

All this went some way to attracting the attention of Prince, who later wrote " Manic Monday " for the group.

A fortnight later he wrote to Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, " The sky begins to clear.

Uncertain of how the Prince Consort's widow, Queen Victoria, would take the news of the birth, the Prince of Wales wrote to the Duke of York that the Queen had been " rather distressed ".

Distressed at their threats, and following the advice of Sir William Knollys and the Duchess of Teck, Alexandra informed the Queen, who then wrote to the Prince of Wales.

The Dutch nobility were astonished: even the Prince of Orange would not have dared such an outrage, Leicester was warned ; but, he wrote, he would not be intimidated by the fact that Hemart " was of a good house ".

Prince wrote his first tune, " Funk Machine " on his father's piano when he was seven.

Prince wrote and performed a song for the hit 2006 animated film Happy Feet.

In January 2010, Prince wrote a new song, " Purple and Gold ", inspired by his visit to a Minnesota Vikings football game against the Dallas Cowboys.

" These pseudonyms include: Jamie Starr and The Starr Company ( for the songs he wrote for The Time and many other artists from 1981 – 1984 ), Joey Coco ( for many unreleased Prince songs in the late 1980s, as well as songs written for Sheena Easton & Kenny Rogers ), Paisley Park ( occasionally used in the early 1990s for his production credits on songs, including those written for Martika and Kid Creole ), Alexander Nevermind ( for writing the 1984 song " Sugar Walls " by Sheena Easton ), and Christopher ( used for his song writing credit of " Manic Monday " for The Bangles ).

At his request, his memoirs about Prince Charles ( which he wrote at Churchill's suggestion ) were only published after de Staercke's death in 2003, with the help of and a preface by Belgian historian Jean Stengers.

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Austrian ambassador of France, wrote of the baptism:

" The British press reported a triumphant royal command performance ; The Illustrated London News wrote, " Herr Jacques Offenbach, the astonishing Violoncellist, performed on Thursday evening at Windsor before the Emperor of Russia, the King of Saxony, Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert with great success.

Machiavelli wrote The Prince during a time of political chaos in Italy, and writes down a formula by which a leader can lead the country out of turmoil and return it to prosperity.

While Graham wrote all the songs, except one co-written by Prince, the album was co-arranged and co-produced by Prince, and most of the instruments and vocals were recorded by both Graham and Prince.