Beauties Of Literature

2016-06-25 02:12:00 @en_literature Open / Comment

2016-06-18 04:28:29 #italian_literature
#Dante
Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante(1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. Dante was born in Florence, Republic of Florence, present-day Italy.The exact date of his birth is unknown, although it is generally believed to be around 1265. This can be deduced from autobiographic allusions in the Divine Comedy. Its first section, the Inferno, begins, "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita" ("Midway upon the journey of our life"), implying that Dante was around 35 years old, since the average lifespan according to the Bible (Psalm 89:10, Vulgate) is 70 years; and since his imaginary travel to the nether world took place in 1300, he was most probably born around 1265.
His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
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2016-06-10 02:36:47 An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep!
___African proverb___ Open / Comment

2016-06-05 23:22:35 "It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali Open / Comment

2016-06-05 18:06:02 It’s dark, despite the moon above. For many, life may turn out better, - Inside my soul, the spring of love Will not replace the stormy weather. The night’s spread out in the street, And to my spirit’s muted stare, That’s soaked in poison, hot and sweet, It… Open / Comment

2016-06-05 18:05:46 It’s dark, despite the moon above.
For many, life may turn out better, -
Inside my soul, the spring of love
Will not replace the stormy weather.
The night’s spread out in the street,
And to my spirit’s muted stare,
That’s soaked in poison, hot and sweet,
It answers with a deathly glare.
I try to keep my passions down,
Out in the cold and dawning mist,
I wander, lost among the crowd,
Engrossed, with thoughts of only this:
It’s dark, despite the moon above.
For many, life may turn out better, -
Inside my soul, the spring of love
Will not replace the stormy weather.
#Alexander_Blok
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2016-06-05 18:05:34 #russian_literature
#silver_age
#part4
While the Silver Age is considered to be the development of the 19th-century Russian literature tradition, some avant-garde poets tried to overturn it: Velimir Khlebnikov, David Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Though the Silver Age is famous mostly for its poetry, it produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely, though most of them wrote poetry as well as prose.
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2016-06-05 18:05:11 #russian_literature
#silver_age
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The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry. Well-known poets of the period include: Alexander Blok, Sergei Yesenin, Valery Bryusov, Konstantin Balmont, Mikhail Kuzmin, Igor Severyanin, Sasha Chorny, Nikolay Gumilyov, Maximilian Voloshin, Innokenty Annensky, Zinaida Gippius. The poets most often associated with the "Silver Age" are Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak.
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2016-06-04 09:43:25 Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
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