Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was one of Italy greatest composers but he had never earned the reputation that he deserved to have during his lifetime. Not only he was a great violinist‚ a concertmaster‚ and a teacher; he was also known as an extraordinary composer with his significant contributions to the concerto’s development such as Stabat Mater‚ Magnificant‚ Gloria and The Four Seasons‚ his most popular work. Throughout the article Discovering the Rediscovery of Antonio Vivaldi by Miles Dayton
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timeline‚ however you may also use outside sources if you would like. You should have a total of eight events on your timeline before submitting it to your instructor. Timeline of Early 20th Century American Literature 1900- (Novel/Poem) Ezra Pound lived outside the United States after 1908. He had‚ nevertheless‚ a profound influence on 20th-century writing in English‚ both as a practitioner of verse and as a patron and impresario of other writers 1910- (Poem) Frost memorably crafted
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Meaning happens in the air. Imagism There were four basic rules of the movement: 1. use the common language of speech 2. use the exact word 3. images in poetry should be "hard and clear" 4. Write in free verse. Imagism Authors include Ezra Pound‚ Amy Lowell‚ William Carlos Williams‚ Hilda Doolittle Imagism Ran from about 1912-1917 Imagism They were influenced by Japanese haiku‚ a form of short lyric verse that arose in the 16th century. The goal of a haiku was to capture a
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Free Verse Realism Mark Twain‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Henry James‚ Daisy Miller Kate Chopin‚ The Story of an Hour Robert Frost and his poems. Modernism Ernst Hemingway‚ Pulitzer Prizes‚ Noble Prize‚ and The Killers Minimalism Ezra Pound‚ In A Station of the Metro Imagism Essay questions – On test day‚ you will be asked two essay questions. They will be picked at random from the four questions below. So be prepared to answer all of them because‚ you will not know which one
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of writing (Arnold Bennett‚ John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells). In 1914 the situation is about to change again for two reasons: Ezra Pound decided to make London the centre of a new avant garde and started promoting the work of modernist writers such as James Joyce or Joseph Conrad. The First World War. At the beginning of WWI it seemed it was going to frustrate Ezra Pound’s plans. During the war people weren’t interested in artistic matters and many poets and British artists fought in the war
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William Butler Yeats On June 13‚ 1865 the erie town of Sandymount‚ Ireland welcomed William Butler Yeats‚ who later becomes a legend in modern English literature. In 1867 his family moved to London‚ but he frequently visited his grandparents in Northern Ireland. There he was immensely influenced by the folklore of the region. Eventually in 1881 his family returned to Dublin. There Yeats studied at the Metropolitan School of Art‚ getting increasingly more focused on literature‚ and later evolving
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William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865. He was born into a highly artistic family with his father being a talented painter and his sisters involved in the arts and craft movement. Yeats grew up under the nationalist revival of the late 19th century which disadvantaged his heritage and influenced his attitude and outlook for the rest of his life. In 1876 the Yeats family moved to England to benefit William’s fathers painting career. William was home schooled for while‚ then transferred to
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and elite structure and allusions ➢ a persistent theme of disillusionment in society Who are the most prominent modernist authors? ➢ T.S. Eliot ➢ Virginia Woolf ➢ Ernest Hemingway ➢ William Faulkner ➢ Ezra Pound ➢ James Joyce ➢ W.B. Yeats ➢ F. Scott Fitzgerald* While Fitzgerald wrote during the modernist era and while he uses themes of disillusionment‚ he tends to retain a more classic style than those of his contemporaries.
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T. S. Eliot‚ perhaps one of the most controversial poets of modern times‚ wrote what many critics consider the most controversial poem of all‚ The Waste Land. The Waste Land was written using a fragmented style. This is a style that is evident in all of Eliot"s writings. There are several reasons for his using this approach‚ from a feeling of being isolated‚ to a problem articulating thoughts (Bergonzi 18‚ Cuddy 13‚ Mack 1745‚ Martin 102). What influenced Eliot the most in writing poetry was a book
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