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Eliot, Sir John
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Eliot, Sir John (1592–1632). Eliot, a parliamentarian, was initially a client of the royal favourite
Buckingham, but turned against him. In 1626 he took part in the impeachment proceedings against Buckingham, comparing him to Sejanus, the notorious favourite of Tiberius. For this, Charles I imprisoned him in the Tower. Further imprisonment followed in 1627, when Eliot refused to pay the
forced loan. In 1629 he led the Commons' attack on
Arminianism and prerogative taxation, and organized the coup on 2 May when the Speaker was held down in his chair to prevent him foreclosing debate, as the king had ordered. Eliot was again sent to the Tower, where he spent the rest of his life composing a treatise exalting royal authority. His commitment to parliamentary liberties was undoubted, but by preferring the role of demagogue to that of constructive statesman he blocked the way to compromise.
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George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento.(Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...as the Five Days, precipitated Eliot to write that she "should not be...Lombardy" (p. 32). One year before Eliot saw Lombardy for herself, Italy...sovereignty. As an assistant to John Chapman, Eliot commissioned for The Westminster...
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Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Schuchard evidently began to see that Eliot's relation to French and Italian...the March Hare drew attention to Eliot's sources not only in Dante...Kipling, Lionel Johnson, and John Davidson. "Eliot was the last of the poets of the...
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T.S. Eliot: a life.
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/28/1984; ; 700+ words
; ...perceptively points out that Eliot expressed his deepest feelings...poetry. The central drama of Eliot's life was his marriage to...Dostoyevsky novel badly rewritten by John Middleton Murry. Lady Ottoline Morrell noted that the young Eliot had already "lost all spontaneity...
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George Eliot and Schiller. Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; George Eliot and Schiller. Intertextuality and Cross...00 [pounds sterling]. Although George Eliot's preoccupation with Goethe is better...knowledge, which is plentiful, and argues that Eliot was particularly drawn to the force of his...
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George Eliot and culture.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 12/22/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...biblical prophecy. George Eliot's early letters reveal...the Apocalypse of St. John as a mirror of 'continuous...schemes), Daniel Deronda (Eliot's radical interpretation...The Legend of Jubal (Eliot's feminist and humanist...patriarchal and elitist poems in John Keble's The Christian...
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TS Eliot voted Nation's Favourite Poet in BBC Poetry Poll for National Poetry Day.
M2 Presswire; 10/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...RDATE:08102009 TS Eliot is voted the Nation's favourite poet, beating John Donne, Benjamin Zephaniah...poets in order are: TS Eliot, John Donne, Benjamin Zephaniah...Coleridge, Wendy Cope, John Donne, Carol Ann Duffy, TS Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Seamus...
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T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888-1922.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...of The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism...argues that in Paris in 1910 Eliot fell in love with Jean Verdenal...Miller acknowledges that John Peter originated this idea (suppressed by Eliot in 1952), and has drawn encouragement...
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Remembering Eliot's Criterion.(Reconsiderations)(T.S Eliot's periodical, The Criterion)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Marianne Moore's The Dial, John Crowe Ransom's The Fugitive...autocrat was unquestionably T. S. Eliot. Allen Tate spoke for the majority...contemporaries when he averred that Eliot's Criterion "has been the...death of The Egoist in 1919. Eliot had served as its assistant...
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T. S. Eliot's achievements.(WORDS ALONE: THE POET T. S. ELIOT)(Denis Donoghue)
Magazine article from: Partisan Review; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...forefronts as a crucial aperture into Eliot's deeper purposes, that understanding...Prufrock"--foreshadowed Eliot's later, developed, religious...either--or Baudelaire, John Webster, Ovid, Verlaine...Whatever else, following Eliot's allusions was a marvelous...
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Melodramatic transformation: George Eliot and the refashioning of Mansfield Park.(Miscellany)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...short story, "Amos Barton." Eliot had begun "Amos Barton" in September...Henry Lewes. Lewes had shepherded Eliot's first story to John Blackwood, editor of Blackwood...in early February of 1857, Eliot had just completed the first chapter...
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Eliot, Charles (1834–1926)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
ELIOT, CHARLES (1834 – 1926) During Charles Eliot's forty-year tenure as president of Harvard, he helped...The son of a prominent Bostonian businessman, Charles Eliot entered Harvard in 1849. After graduating second in his...
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Eliot, T. S.
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
T. S. Eliot Born: September 26, 1888...and commentary was written. Eliot was also writing anonymous...Sacred Wood (1920), Homage to John Dryden (1924), Selected...recovering from exhaustion in 1921, Eliot wrote The Waste Land, one...
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John Eliot
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Eliot John Eliot (1604-1690), English-born clergyman of the first New England generation and missionary to the Massachusetts Native Americans, translated the Bible and other books into the Algonquian tongue. John Eliot's baptismal...
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Indian Bible, Eliot's
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...ELIOT'S INDIAN BIBLE, ELIOT'S. Eliot's Indian Bible was a translation into Algonquian by John Eliot, a minister at Roxborough, Massachusetts...BIBLIOGRAPHY Cogley, Richard W. John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before...
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Eliot, John
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Eliot, John (1604–90), English‐...Philip's War. By the pamphlets known as Eliot's Indian Tracts he aroused interest that...1640). Cotton Mather wrote a biography of Eliot (1691); Eliot's correspondence with...
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