This book offers an insightful exploration of a prominent figure in Romantic literature, highlighting their influential writings and philosophical ideas. It delves into the themes and historical context that shaped their work, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of their contributions to literature and thought. Through engaging analysis, readers will appreciate the depth and impact of this writer's legacy in the Romantic era.
A portrait of one of the 20th century's, most radical and misunderstood writers. This book follows Lawrence, from his awkward youth in Nottinghamshire, through his turbulent relationship with Frieda, and the years of exile abroad to his premature death at the age of 44. It is a reappraisal of a man, who believed himself to be an outsider
Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's greatest composers This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. John Worthen's scrupulous attention to the original sources reveals Schumann to have been an astute, witty, articulate, and immensely determined individual, who--with little support from his family and friends in provincial Saxony--painstakingly taught himself his craft as a musician, overcame problem after problem in his professional life, and married the woman he loved after a tremendous battle with her father. Schumann was neither manic depressive nor schizophrenic, although he struggled with mental illness. He worked prodigiously hard to develop his range of musical styles and to earn his living, only to be struck down, at the age of forty-four, by a vile and incurable disease. Worthen's biography effectively de-mystifies a figure frequently regarded as a Romantic enigma. It frees Schumann from 150 years of mythmaking and unjustified psychological speculation. It reveals him, for the first time, as a brilliant, passionate, resolute musician and a thoroughly creative human being, the composer of arguably the best music of his generation.
In John Worthen's revelatory biography, Marten emerges from the shadows as a
brilliantly clever, lively-minded man, free of fundamentalist zeal so common
in many of his republican contemporaries.
Román zachycuje životné osudy troch generácií farmárskej rodiny žijúcej na anglickom vidieku v druhej polovici 19. storočia. Po smrti otca prevezme najmladší syn Tom starostlivosť o farmu, ktorá patrí rodu Brangwenovcov už dve storočia. Ožení sa s emigrantkou Lydiou Lenskou, vdovou po poľskom lekárovi, ktorá má z prvého manželstva dcéru Annu. Tá sa vo veľmi mladom veku vydá za svojho nevlastného bratranca. Po počiatočnej harmónii sa ich vzťah skomplikuje a dochádza medzi nimi k častým konfliktom. Anna nachádza naplnenie v materstve a v starostlivosti o domácnosť. Tretia generácia Brangwenovcov je reprezentovaná jej najstaršou dcérou Ursulou, ktorá už nie je spokojná so životom na vidieku a túži po vzdelaní a nezávislosti. Šťastie nenachádza ani v práci učiteľky, ani v štúdiu na vysokej škole. Próza sa nezameriava na tradičnú dejovú stránku, ale najviac priestoru venuje emocionálnemu životu svojich hrdinov, najmä zmenám vo vzájomnom vzťahu muža a ženy. Sugestívne zobrazuje nielen okamihy milostného okúzlenia a vášne, ale aj nedorozumenia, konflikty a odcudzenie.
This novel, considered by Lawrence to be his best, centres on the characters
of Birkin (a self portrait), Gerald, the son of a colliery owner, and the two
women, Gudrun and Ursula. The text has been cleared of accumulated errors and
omissions due to censorship.
This book is an endeavour to provide the reader with a general outline of Lawrence's writing career. It is also an account of the manner in which he made his way financially as a writer from the start of his career to the printing of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in 1928.
