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Eliot, John
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Eliot, John (1604–90), English‐born missionary, educated at Cambridge, came to Boston (1631), where, as the first to preach to the Indians in their native tongue, he obtained the sobriquet
Apostle to the Indians. In 1651 he established the first of his 14 villages of Praying Indians, numbering 1100 converts, but mainly destroyed in King Philip's War. By the pamphlets known as
Eliot's Indian Tracts he aroused interest that led to the formation of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (1649). His translation of the Bible into the language of the Massachuset Indians (New Testament, 1661; Old Testament, 1663) was the first complete Bible printed in the English colonies. Other works include a
Catechism in the Indian language (1654),
The Christian Commonwealth (1659),
The Indian Primer (1669), and a part of the
Bay Psalm Book (1640). Cotton Mather wrote a biography of Eliot (1691); Eliot's correspondence with Richard Baxter was published in 1931.
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George Eliot and the British Empire.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Woman Studies; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...University Press, 2002. In George Eliot and the British Empire Nancy Henry...intriguing: the first, that, although Eliot and Lewes had sent his sons to Natal...other is the central role played by John Cross, Eliot's long-time banker, financial...
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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 sources and "a cumulative plausibility": Austin Dobson, John Ford, Kipling, Norman Cameron. (T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling)(T.S. Eliot at 110)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...poems being listed among Eliot's books, c. August 1920...none of these Dobson > Eliot instances is a knock-down...remember the principle that Eliot himself invoked when reviewing Violet M. Jeffery's John Lyly and the Italian Renaissance...
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George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...of course, well known that Eliot and her companion G. H. Lewes...transform society. Many friends of Eliot and Lewes were followers of...Charles Bray. Others, such as John Morley (perhaps the most influential...strong liberals. We know from Eliot's letters and from articles...
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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 and Pyre of Youth: The Fugitive Poetry of Robert Penn Warren.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...strong-willed leader, John Crowe Ransom, Tate championed...was reluctant to endorse Eliot as heartily as his precocious...his head was "too full of John Ford and John Webster and William Blake and T. S. Eliot" (Talking 29). Yet his...
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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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T. S. Eliot's "Uranian Muse": The Verdenal Letters.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...caesarean Operation," pointed Eliot in the direction of obscuring...his poetry? My book T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism...poem to my enterprise, as had John Peter earlier in two important...young man who died by drowning. Eliot's solicitor threatened a libel...
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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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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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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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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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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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George Eliot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
George Eliot pseud. of Mary Ann or Marian Evans...pseudonym Lewes chose for her, George Eliot. Although not a popular success...friend of both Lewes and herself, John W. Cross, who later edited George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters...
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