Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

* Ryu Murakami ( 村上龍 ), contemporary writer and filmmaker

He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games.

Philosophical ideas in Hamlet are similar to those of the French writer Michel de Montaigne, a contemporary of Shakespeare's.

Prior to translating Averroes ' commentaries, Anatoli had occupied himself with the translation of astronomical treatises by the same writer and others ; but at the instance of friends he turned his attention to logic and the speculative works, realizing and recommending theimportance of logic, in particular, in view of the contemporary religious controversies.

* J. Michael Straczynski ( born 1954 ), contemporary fiction and television writer

Another contemporary writer also wrote of Rhys if Roger Turvey is correct in stating that Walter Map's piece Of the King Appollonides deals with Rhys under a pseudonym.

He was educated at the King's School, Worcester, under Henry Bright whose teaching is recorded favourably by Thomas Fuller, a contemporary writer, in his Worthies of England.

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

As a writer of polemics in the tradition of Nietzsche and Karl Kraus, Adorno delivered scathing critiques of contemporary Western culture.

One contemporary writer critical of the scuttling of the Terrible wrote that " she made no more water than she did before battle ", and, more acidly, " If an able officer had been at the head of the fleet, the Terrible would not have been destroyed.

The interpreter must investigate what meaning the sacred writer intended to express and actually expressed in particular circumstances by using contemporary literary forms in accordance with the situation of his own time and culture.

Wilson also compares Fort to Robert Ripley, a contemporary writer who found major success hunting oddities, and speculates that Fort's idiosyncratic prose might have kept him from greater popular success.

The Canaanite equivalent of Ishtar was Astarte, and according to the contemporary Christian writer Eusebius temple prostitution was still being carried on in the Phoenician cities of Aphaca and Heliopolis ( Baalbek ) until closed down by the emperor Constantine in the 4th century.

One contemporary notes, " an intense worship of Bacchus was considered to be almost obligatory for a writer of that period.

György Lukács, in his The Historical Novel, argues that Scott is the first fiction writer who saw history not just as a convenient frame in which to stage a contemporary narrative, but rather as a distinct social and cultural setting.

Most contemporary scholars, including Professor Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, identify the most inflential writer who gave birth to the British Israelite movement as John Wilson.

English writer and courtier Richard Hakluyt's contemporary reports of the first voyage to Virginia, compiled from accounts by various financial backers including Sir Walter Raleigh ( Hakluyt himself never traveled to the New World ), also describe this incident.

The first of these was Gothic romance writer Marilyn Ross's Barnabas Collins series ( 1966 – 71 ) loosely based on the contemporary American TV series Dark Shadows.

From references in other contemporary works, Kyd is also assumed to have been the writer of an early, lost version of Hamlet ( the so-called Ur-Hamlet ), with a play-within-a-play interlude.

Thus for instance, ' if in a face-to-face relationship with a friend I discuss a magazine article dealing with the attitude of the President and Congress toward ... China ... I am in a relationship not only with the perhaps anonymous contemporary writer of the article but also with the contemporary individual or collective actors on the social scene designated by the terms " President ", " Congress ", " China "'.

* Patricia Cornwell, contemporary American crime writer and author

The town's history and contemporary state ( circa 1995 ) is discussed at length in travel writer Jonathan Raban's book, Bad Land: An American Romance.

This source is higly influenced by the contemporary concerns of its writer, but does attempt to provide some new material besides reworking Bede.

Giovanni Villani, a contemporary of Boccaccio and chronicler, states that he was born in Paris as a consequence of an illicit relation but others denounce this as a romanticism by the earliest biographers.

The contemporary chronicler Giovanni Villani reports gossip that he had bound himself to King Philip IV of France by a formal agreement before his elevation, made at St. Jean d ' Angély in Saintonge.

The Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), directed by Giovanni Pastrone, was the first popular film to use dolly shots, which in fact were originally called " Cabiria movements " by contemporary filmmakers influenced by the film ; however, some smaller American and English films had used the technique prior to Cabiria, as well as Yevgeni Bauer's The Child of the Big City, released a month prior to Cabiria.

Along with other contemporary works, such as Giovanni Paolo Marana's Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy and Montesquieu's Persian Letters, the opera was inspired by a contemporary interest in the perceived " exotic " culture of the Ottoman Empire, a nation which had only recently ceased to be a military threat to the Austrian Empire.

" Giovanni Miccoli ( 1961 ) was the first to note that the contemporary sources did not portray the participants as children.

In that medium he shared many similarities with his contemporary in Italy, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, whose work in printmaking led him to invent the monotype.

" ( Lanciani, 1896 ch 1 ) Like prophets, Renaissance sibyls forecasting the advent of Christ appear in monuments: modelled by Giacomo della Porta in the Santa Casa at Loreto, painted by Raphael in Santa Maria della Pace, by Pinturicchio in the Borgia apartments of the Vatican, engraved by Baccio Baldini, a contemporary of Botticelli, and graffites by Matteo di Giovanni in the pavement of the Duomo of Siena.

Two other great Italian tenors present on the roster of Met singers during the 1920s also happened to be Gigli's chief contemporary rivals for tenor supremacy in the Italian repertory — namely, Giovanni Martinelli and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi.

In 1719, Tiepolo was married to Maria Cecilia Guardi, sister of two contemporary Venetian painters Francesco and Giovanni Antonio Guardi.

Among his pupils were his contemporary Giovanni Battista Zelotti and later Giovanni Antonio Fasolo, Anselmo Canneri, and Luigi Benfatto ( also called dal Friso ; 1559 – 1611 ).

by Giovanni Bellini as he had a good knowledge of contemporary Venetian painting.

Numerous contemporary writers attest to his fame, not only as a composer, but as a singer, poet, organist, philosopher, and passionately devoted citizen of Florence, notably Giovanni da Prato, in hist book Paradiso degli Alberti.

This soon grew to include more contemporary composers, including William Croft, Michael Christian Festing, Maurice Greene, Bernard Gates, Giovanni Bononcini, Senesino, Nicola Haym, Francesco Geminiani, Pier Francesco Tosi, John Ernest Galliard, Charles Dieupart, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet and Giuseppe Riva.

The facade was very similar to that of the contemporary Church of Sant ' Andrea al Quirinale, which was also designed by Giovanni Tristano.

Under Jesuit scientists Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Niccolo Zucchi the young Bartoli, together with his younger contemporary Francesco Maria Grimaldi was involved in noteworthy experiments and discoveries of the planetary heavens.

Born in Bibbiano, Italy, in the Province of Reggio Emilia Giovanni was a contemporary of Lagrange and Laplace, and a pupil of Lazzaro Spallanzani.

The co-driver and pacenote systems championed by the Mercedes teams of the previous year were vindicated by the failure of an alternative contemporary system used by some other works drivers, notably those of Lancia who in 1953 year had entered five cars ; three 3. 3-litre D24s for Felice Bonetto, Juan Manuel Fangio and Piero Taruffi, winner of the 1951 edition of the race, and two 3-litre versions for Giovanni Bracco and Eugenio Castellotti.

By 1458 he left the Veneto and was never to return ; he spent most of the remainder of his career in the March of Ancona, where he developed a distinctive personal style that makes a contrast to his Venetian contemporary Giovanni Bellini.

Crivelli is a painter of marked individuality ; unlike Giovanni Bellini, his contemporary, his works are not " soft ", but clear and definite in contour, with astounding attention to detail.

This volume gives a vivid picture of life in Europe during the time ; it is particularly important to music historians for giving extraordinary details of the activities of the Venetian School, one of the most famous and progressive contemporary musical movements in Europe, including an elaborate description of the festivities at the church of San Rocco in Venice, with polychoral and instrumental music by Giovanni Gabrieli, Bartolomeo Barbarino, and others.

It represents a contemporary account of the music of Giovanni Gabrieli performed in the Scuola di San Rocco.

In 1602, shortly after Amor Vincit was completed, Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani, Vincenzo ’ s brother and collaborator in the creation of the Giustiniani collection of contemporary art, commissioned a painting from the noted artist Giovanni Baglione.