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Lewis, essayist Edward Hoagland, literary critic Camille Paglia, rhetorician Kenneth Burke, fomer United Artists ' senior vice-president Steven Bach, novelists Bernard Malamud and John Gardner, trumpeter / composer Bill Dixon, composers Allen Shawn, Henry Brant, and Vivian Fine, painters Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski, politicians Mansour Farhang and Mac Maharaj, poets Léonie Adams and Howard Nemerov, sculptor Anthony Caro, dancer / choreographer Martha Graham, drummer Milford Graves, author William " Bill " Butler ( author of The Butterfly Revolution ), economist Karl Polanyi and a number of Pulitzer Prize-winning poets including W. H. Auden, Stanley Kunitz, Mary Oliver, Theodore Roethke and Anne Waldman.
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The enjoyment of Mahler's Ninth Symphony prompted the essayist Lewis Thomas to write the title essay in his Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
Norman Lewis Corwin ( May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011 ) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing.
Loos had become a devoted admirer of H. L. Mencken and when he was in New York, she would take a break from her " Tuesday Widows ", and join his circle which included Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Hergesheimer, essayist Ernest Boyd, and theater critic George Jean Nathan.
* Lewis Thomas, former faculty ( 1948 – 1950 ), physician, researcher, and essayist
He was born in Copenhagen, the son of R. W. B. Lewis, an American literary historian, and the Danish writer, playwright and essayist Elsa Gress.
* Died: Aldous Huxley, 69, English novelist ; C. S. Lewis, 64, Irish novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist
* C. S. Lewis, a novelist, academic, medieval scholar, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.
Lewis and Edward
As a young child, before the age of eight, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, including the much loved The Owl and the Pussycat, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland had made their impression, although she later said of Alice that she was more interested in Tenniel's illustrations than what they were about.
This figure includes 17 alumni, 14 non-alumni professors, and 4 professors who are also alumni ( Carl D. Anderson, Linus Pauling, William A. Fowler, and Edward B. Lewis ).
Its main activists were Julian Lewis, Edward Leigh and Francis Holihan.
Edward B. Tylor and Lewis H Morgan brought the term " evolution " to anthropology though they tended toward the older pre-Spencerian definition helping to form the concept of unilineal evolution used during the later part of what Trigger calls the Antiquarianism-Imperial Synthesis period ( c1770-c1900 ).
Chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940, issue of The New Yorker and Marshall's autobiography My 50 Years of Chess ( 1942 ).
" His most famous poem, " On the Ning Nang Nong ", was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poets including Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.
* May 20 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2004 )
** Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1918 )
The first half of the 20th century saw the publication of two influential textbooks that soon came to be regarded as founding documents of chemical thermodynamics, both of which used and extended Gibbs's work in that field: these were Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Processes ( 1923 ), by Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall, and Modern Thermodynamics by the Methods of Willard Gibbs ( 1933 ), by Edward A. Guggenheim.
* A radio interview with Edward Teller Aired on the Lewis Burke Frumkes Radio Show in January 1988.
Kazan initially refused to provide names, but eventually named eight former Group Theater members who he said had been Communists: Clifford Odets, J. Edward Bromberg, Lewis Leverett, Morris Carnovsky, Phoebe Brand, Tony Kraber, Ted Wellman, and Paula Miller, who later married Lee Strasberg.
" Thoreau also influenced many artists and authors including Edward Abbey, Willa Cather, Marcel Proust, William Butler Yeats, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, E. B.
For his part, Edward blamed Lewis de Beaumont, the Bishop of Durham and an ally of Isabella, for the fiasco.
Edward B. Lewis discovered homeotic genes, rooting the emerging discipline of evo-devo in molecular genetics.
* Lewis Edward Lawes ( 1883 – 1947 ), Reformist warden of Sing Sing prison
* Edward Lewis, Pretty Woman ( 1990 ) – Corporate raider Edward Lewis ( Richard Gere ) attempts to make a hostile takeover of Morse Industries.
It starred Avery Brooks, Phylicia Rashad, Edward Woodward, Jenny Lewis, Samuel L. Jackson and Endyia Kinney.
* Uncredited cast members include Eddie Acuff, Murray Alper, Ward Bond, Walter Brooke, Georgia Carroll, Glen Cavender, Spencer Charters, Wallis Clark, William B. Davidson, Ann Doran, Tom Dugan, Bill Edwards, Frank Faylen, Pat Flaherty, James Flavin, William Forrest, William Gillespie, Joe Gray, Creighton Hale, John Hamilton, Harry Hayden, Stuart Holmes, William Hopper, Eddie Kane, Fred Kelsey, Vera Lewis, Audrey Long, Hank Mann, Frank Mayo, Lon McCallister, Edward McWade, George Meeker, Dolores Moran, Charles Morton, Jack Mower, Paul Panzer, Francis Pierlot, Clinton Rosemond, Syd Saylor, Frank Sully, Dick Wessel, Leo White and Dave Willock.
Writers and techniques frequently mentioned in relation to the Theatre of the Absurd include the 19th-century nonsense poets, such as Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear ; Polish playwright Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ; the Russians Daniil Kharms, Nikolai Erdman, and others ; Bertolt Brecht's distancing techniques in his " Epic theatre "; and the " dream plays " of August Strindberg.
" Gorey classified his own work as literary nonsense, the genre made most famous by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.
Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, Mervyn Peake, Colin West, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss and Spike Milligan.
Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear both made good use of this type of nonsense in some of their verse.
Lewis and literary
Gibberish should not be confused with literary nonsense such as that used in the poem " Jabberwocky " by Lewis Carroll.
He often entertained literary figures like Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Aldous Huxley, Ferenc Molnár, and close friend Somerset Maugham, as well.
" Properly speaking ," wrote Warren Lewis, " the Inklings was neither a club nor a literary society, though it partook of the nature of both.
The Mythopoeic Society is a literary organization devoted to the study of mythopoeic literature, particularly the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, founded in 1967 and incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1971.
As a character and literary allusion he has appeared in, or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture, particularly in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass ( 1872 ).
Saunders Lewis ( born John Saunders Lewis ) ( 15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985 ) was a Welsh poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic, and political activist.
He was on the editorial board, with Conrad Aiken, Eliot, Lewis and Aldous Huxley, of Chaman Lall's London literary quarterly Coterie published 1919 – 1921.
Hymes has included many other literary figures and critics among his influences, including Robert Alter, C. S. Lewis, A. L. Kroeber, Claude Lévi-Strauss.
C. S. Lewis called him ‘ the father of the Drab Age ’ ( i. e. the unornate ), from what Lewis calls the ' golden ' age of the 16th century, while others see his love poetry, with its complex use of literary conceits, as anticipating that of the metaphysical poets in the next century.
This includes the The Eagle and Child pub ( where the well-known writers J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis often met their literary friends ), complementing the Lamb and Flag opposite it on the College side of the road, which the College owns and operates ( using the profits to fund graduate scholarships ).
When his novel, written according to the tenets of the New Realism literary movement ( established years before by Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis and others ) was published in 1930, many of the residents were convinced that his characters were based on local inhabitants, and considered the work a slander against the town.
The Vorticists published two issues of the literary magazine BLAST, in June 1914 and July 1915 which Lewis edited.
Each novel in the series has received a literary award, including the 1969 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction & the 1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for A Wizard of Earthsea, the 1972 Newbery Honor for The Tombs of Atuan, the 1973 National Book Award for Children's Books for The Farthest Shore, the 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novel for Tehanu, and the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for The Other Wind.
Pope's " The Dunciad " is a satirical slaying of two of his literary adversaries ( Lewis Theobald, and Colley Cibber in a later version ), expressing the view that British society was falling apart morally, culturally, and intellectually.
* Professor Helen Cooper ( literary scholar ) ( Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Cambridge University, a Chair formerly held by three previous Magdalene fellows: C. S. Lewis, J.
* C. S. Lewis ( literary critic, author and theologian )
Nonetheless, among his literary influences, he acknowledges Tove Jansson's Moomin, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
In 1844 Lewis married Lady Maria Theresa Villiers, a lady of literary tastes.
Although the Progressive Era had built a protective barrier around the upstanding American businessman, as one literary scholar writes: " Lewis was fortunate enough to come on the scene just as the emperor's clothes were disappearing.
In London, for instance, Marinetti's visit directly precipitated Wyndham Lewis ' founding of the Vorticist movement, whose literary magazine BLAST is an early example of a modernist periodical.
He also published paperback editions of literary works by authors such as novelist Wyndham Lewis and the poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
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