In this work, French philosopher Henri Bergson explores the aesthetics of comedy. ..

Virgil's ten pastoral poems, or eclogues, present a simplified bucolic vision of the world in which the poet alludes to recent history and comments on contemporary life. ..

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Per request of Augustus Caesar, Virgil wrote the epic poem The Aeneid to give an account of the years directly after the Trojan War. Virgil's lone, princely survivor from Troy, Aeneas, searches the Mediterranean for a new homeland. ..

Booker T. Washington recalls the poverty and racial discrimination of the Reconstruction Era. To help the family subsist, he went to work in salt furnaces and coal mines at the age of nine. His deep longing for an education caused him to walk hundreds of miles from West Virginia to enroll in the Hampton Institute, a school for black students. Washington became an instructor, founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and became one of the foremost black educators in the United States...

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Izaak Walton, English biographer and author, gives a short account of George Herbert's Life. Herbert had a diverse career. Not only is he one of the great English poets of the seventeenth century, but he also served as public orator for Cambridge and as the parliamentary representative for Montgomery. He was eventually ordained a priest and served as a rector in Bremerton. His religious devotion is reflected in many of his poems...

In this short biography, Izaak Walton, a close friend of Donne's, describes the poets colorful life. In addition to being a clergyman and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, John Donne is also one of the most celebrated English poets of the seventeenth century. He was known not only for his religious verses, but also for his love lyrics and other secular poetry. ..

Written by John Webster in 1612, The Duchess of Malfi is a tragic drama whose protagonist suffers a horrible end at the hands of her two scheming brothers after she secretly marries a commoner. Webster?s plays are often considered the greatest seventeenth-century English dramas, after those of Shakespeare, and they are still widely studied and performed today...

In her novels, Edith Wharton wrote about the convlict between the allure, restrictions, and expectations of upper-class society and individual fulfillment. The Age of Innocence, one of her most popular novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921...

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Virgil idealizes the farmer's life in four books as one in which man lives in cooperation with nature, ennobled by severity, unpredictability, and acceptance of the gods' will. The last book includes some of Virgil's most eloquent verses in the moving story of Orpheus, who travels to the underworld to retrieve his beloved Euridyce, only to lose her again. . . . What should he do? fly whither, twice bereaved? Move with what tears the Manes, with what voice The Powers of darkness? She indeed even now Death-cold was floating on the Stygian barge! For seven whole months unceasingly, men say, Beneath a skyey crag, by thy lone wave, Strymon, he wept, and in the caverns chill Unrolled his story, melting tigers' hearts, . . ...

Voltaire's satirical farce tells of an ill-fated young man, Candide who, at the encouragement of his tirelessly optimistic tutor, travels the globe in search of his love, Lady Cunegonde. In the face of Candide's increasing misfortune, Dr. Vangloss, his tutor, remains eternally cheerful - which provides the focus for Voltaire's attack. Though it praises man's resilience, Candide attempts to demolish the image of suffering as a pathway to a greater good, as well as the view that life is precious, regardless of the miseries that fate brings...

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Written by Emily Bronte, this is the story of the interconnected lives of the families that live at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, centering on the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine. Unrequited love and jealousy drive Heathcliff to seek vengeance with unrelenting determination...