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Archive for July, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 30th, 2002 English novelist Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights, 1847) is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in 1818.
A great one-book author, Emily Brontë originally published Wuthering Heights under the name Ellis Bell in 1847 as the first two volumes of a three-volume set, the third volume being her sister Anne’s Agnes Grey. Three years later, eldest sister Charlotte edited and published Emily’s classic under her sister’s real name, and it has enchanted (and bewitched) readers ever since. Suggested Reading Novel Wuthering Heights, 1847.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 30th, 2002 Painter and art biographer Giorgio Vasari (Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 1550-1568) is born in Arezzo, Tuscany.
Without Vasari’s precious book, we would have scant information on a lot of magnificent artists of the Italian Renaissance. For this he is often called the first art historian, and his guidebook (really a set of brief lives) is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the most glorious period in Western art. Suggested Reading Biographies Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 1550-1568.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 30th, 2002 In 1685, English poet and playwright John Gay (The Beggar’s Opera, 1728) is born in Barnstaple, Devon. John Gay, b. June 30, 1685, d. 1732
Suggested Reading Plays Acis and Galatea, 1718 (opera, music by Handel). The Beggar’s Opera, 1728. Polly, 1729.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 29th, 2002 Immortal American journalist and novelist Don Marquis (archy and mehitabel, 1927) is born in 1878 in Walnut, Ill.
An indefatigable writer of stories, poems, and plays, Marquis made his name early in the twentieth century with humorous newspaper columns in first The New York Sun and then the Herald Tribune. His place in history, however, was insured with the publication of archy and mehitabel in 1930 and its companion books in the years to follow. The stories of the cockroach author archy and his pal mehitabel, a down-at-the-heels lady cat, are as fresh today as when they were written. Be sure to get copies with the original illustrations by George Herriman. Suggested Reading archy and mehitabel, 1930. archy s life of mehitabel, 1933. archy does his part, 1935. the lives and times of archy and mehitabel, 1943.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 28th, 2002 In 1866, naturalist and children’s author Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1908) is born in London. Beatrix Potter, b. July 28, 1866, d. 1943
Suggested Reading Tales The Twenty-three Tales, 1902-1930.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 28th, 2002 In 1844, English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (“Pied Beauty,” 1877) is born in Stratford, Essex.
Hopkins may or may not have invented the famous “sprung rhythm”; some readers have found it in much earlier poetry. But he certainly helped widen the rhythmic possibilities of poetry in the twentieth century. And his extravagant language and ecstatic exclamations will always remain favorites with young-hearted readers and Roman Catholics. Suggested Reading Poetry Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Now First Published, with Notes by Robert Bridges, 1918. Complete Poems, 1947. Letters The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, 1935. The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon, 1935.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 28th, 2002 In 1844, English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (“God’s Grandeur," 1877) is born in Stratford.
Hopkins may or may not have invented the famous “sprung rhythm”; some readers have found it in much earlier poetry. But he certainly helped widen the rhythmic possibilities of poetry in the twentieth century. And his extravagant language and ecstatic exclamations will always remain favorites with young readers and Roman Catholics. Suggested Reading Poetry Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Now First Published, with Notes by Robert Bridges, 1918. Complete Poems, 1947. Letters The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, 1935. The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon, 1935.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 27th, 2002 In 1870, English writer and versifier Hilaire Belloc (Cautionary Verses, 1940) is born in Versailles. Hilaire Belloc, b. July 27, 1870, d. 1953
Suggested Reading Poems Cautionary Verses, 1973, including Cautionary Tales for Children, New Cautionary Tales, The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, More Beasts for Worse Children, More Peers, A Moral Alphabet, Ladies and Gentlemen. Non-fiction The Servile State, 1912. Europe and Faith, 1920. Jews, 1922.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 26th, 2002 English author (Brave New World, 1932) is born in 1894 in Godalming, Surrey. Aldous Huxley, b. July 26, 1894, d. 1963
Suggested Reading Novels Crome Yellow, 1921. Antic Hay, 1923. Point Counter Point, 1928. Brave New World, 1932. Eyeless in Gaza, 1936. After Many a Summer, 1939. Ape and Essence, 1948. Essays Essays New and Old, 1926. Vulgarity in Literature, 1930. The Doors of Perception, 1954. Other Beyond the Mexique Bay: A Traveller’s Journey, 1934. The Devils of Loudon, 1953.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 26th, 2002 Irish genius and playwright George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, 1903) is born in Dublin, 1856. In 1925 he will win the Nobel Prize for literature. George Bernard Shaw, b. July 26, 1856, d. 1950
Suggested Reading Plays Arms and the Man, 1894. Candida, 1897. The Devil’s Disciple, 1897. Captain Brassbound’s Confession, 1900. Caesar and Cleopatra, 1901. Mrs Warren’s Profession, 1902. Man and Superman, 1903. John Bull’s Other Island, 1904. Major Barbara, 1905. The Doctor’s Dilemma, 1906. Misalliance, 1910. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, 1910. Androcles and the Lion, 1913. Pygmalion, 1913. Heartbreak House, 1919. Back to Methuselah, 1921. Saint Joan, 1923. The Apple Cart, 1929. Too True to Be Good, 1932. Essays & Studies The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891. The Impossibilities of Anarchism, 1893. The Sanity of Art, 1895. The Perfect Wagnerite, 1898. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, 1906. Common Sense about the War, 1914. The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, 1928. Major Critical Essays, 1930. Music in London 1890-1894, 1930. Essays in Fabian Socialism, 1932. Pen Portraits and Reviews, 1932. London Music in 1888-1889, 1937. Autobiography Shaw Gives Himself Away, 1939. Sixteen Self Sketches, 1949. Letters Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence, 1952.
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