‘Il Penseroso’
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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‘Il Penseroso’, a poem by
Milton, written ?1631, printed 1645. The poem is an invocation to the goddess Melancholy, bidding her bring Peace, Quiet, Leisure, and Contemplation. It describes the pleasures of the studious, meditative life, of tragedy, epic poetry, and music. It is a companion piece to ‘
L'Allegro’.
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Robert Wilson.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 2/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...to have been a naive painter like Robert Wilson." It isn't hard to see why...Laurence Shyer, in his fine early book Robert Wilson and His Collaborators, observed...collage techniques. In The Theatre of Robert Wilson, Arthur Holmberg attributes...
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What I think about: Robert Wilson.
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...by Siegel, we, the tyro scribes, performed a Robert Wilson piece. Not a real Robert Wilson piece, mind you, although it could easily...House. But none of us needed to be told what a Robert Wilson piece was like. It had to be very long...
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ROBERT WILSON HONORED WITH LIFETIME TRUSTEE AWARD
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/30/2006; 642 words
; ...University Foundation has given Robert C. Wilson of Corvallis the Lifetime Trustee...Corvallis construction company, Robert C. Wilson General Contractor...coursework. He also set up the Robert and Patricia Wilson Scholarship...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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Fishing made accessible for all; Robert Wilson finds second career guiding disabled and elderly anglers on outings.(Business)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/17/2006; 700+ words
; ...Business writer BALLSTON - Robert "Bob" Wilson has been an avid fisherman...Johnsons missed a bite, Wilson groaned along with them...VAN BUREN/TIMES UNION ROBERT WILSON looks on as Donald Johnson...AssistedFishing.com. TIGGER, Robert Wilson's dog, stands...
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The Theatre of Robert Wilson.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 2/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...to have been a naive painter like Robert Wilson." It isn't hard to see why...Laurence Shyer, in his fine early book Robert Wilson and His Collaborators, observed...collage techniques. In The Theatre of Robert Wilson, Arthur Holmberg attributes...
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Robert Wilson's vision thing An Ibsen blown away by a windstorm of effect
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/15/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Ibsen Adapted and directed by Robert Wilson. English version by Robert Brustein. Set design by John...the above is apparent from Wilson's treatment, which, by...from an English version by Robert Brustein. Candid as Wilson...
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Robert Wilson, first director of Fermilab
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/19/2000; ; 700+ words
; Robert Rathbun Wilson, 85, a scientist and sculptor who carved...Manhattan Project during World War II, Mr. Wilson went on to become director of the Fermi...Fermilab's current director, said: "Robert Wilson gave our laboratory the distinctive...
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 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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The key to Robert Wilson: his brilliant theater defies explanation--yet it's all based on his life, How did a gay kid from Texas become the high priest of the avant-garde?(ART)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 2/27/2007; ; 700+ words
; Don't bother looking for Robert Wilson's gay sensibility onstage: The...lovers over his four-decade career, Wilson has never drawn attention to the fact...not been men but art and fame. "Robert always really wanted to be famous...
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Pictures at a deconstruction: visionaries Heiner Muller and Robert Wilson in word and image.(postmodern playwright and painter)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 2/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...to have been a naive painter like Robert Wilson." It isn't hard to see why...Laurence Shyer, in his fine early book Robert Wilson and His Collaborators, observed...collage techniques. In The Theatre of Robert Wilson, Arthur Holmberg attributes...
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BIBLIOPHILE ROBERT WILSON OPENS EZRA POUND EXHIBIT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/10/2006; 700+ words
; ...benefactor and bibliophile Robert Wilson told those attending the...artist Dorothy Shakespear. Wilson, who met Rudge while...and after World War II. Wilson said that when Pound and...like Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost, Wilson said...
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Robert Wilson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Wilson 1941-, dramatist, director, and designer, b...s Fables. Bibliography: See C. Nelson, ed., Robert Wilson, The Theater of Images (1984); L. Shyer, Robert Wilson and His Collaborators (1989); A. Holmberg...
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Shufeldt, Robert Wilson
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Shufeldt, Robert Wilson ˈʃōōfelt (1822–95) Union naval officer and diplomat, born in New Jersey...
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Robert Woodrow Wilson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Woodrow Wilson 1936-, American radio astronomer, b. Houston, Tex., Ph.D...giant explosion billions of years ago (see cosmology ). Penzias and Wilson shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Kapitza .
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Wilson, Robert W. (1936- )
Book article from: World of Earth Science
Wilson, Robert W. (1936- ) American physicist Robert Woodrow Wilson is best known for the discovery, with co-researcher Arno Penzias , of the cosmic background radiation believed to be the remnant of the "big bang" that started the Universe...
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Wilson, Robert
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Wilson, Robert (b. 1941), director and designer. Born in Waco, Texas, the son of a lawyer, Wilson studied business at the University of Texas...that often border on performance art . Wilson's works are always very visual, usually...
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