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Ballet, beauty and the beast Sergei Diaghilev had charm, cunning and the unique ability to intimidate the likes of Picasso or Matisse. Yet for all his genius, the trailblazing Ballet Russes founder was forever on the brink of catastrophe.
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On August 21 1929 a funeral barge set off from the Grand Hotel on
the Lido for the little island of San Michele, where the city of
Venice has buried its dead since the beginning of the 19th century.
The body in the barge, bound for the Greek Orthodox section of the
cemetery, was that of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, founder and leader
of the Ballets Russes and one of the most influential pioneers of
modern art in the 20th century. In the course of a 23-year career,
Diaghilev had made his mark in Europe and the Americas, and in this
relatively short space of time he transformed the world of ...
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The secret life of the Della Cruscan sonnet: William Gifford's Baviad and Maeviad.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...group of poets in particular, the Della Cruscans, and on their primary critic...indispensable in his crusade against the Della Cruscans. The Della Cruscan school of...landed in Britain in 1787. The Della Cruscans owe their name to one of the main...
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The Satiric Eye: Forms of Satire in the Romantic Period.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: CLIO
; ...tinsel school" of sentimental Della Cruscanism on the one hand or from...against the infinitely scapegoatable Della Cruscans, among others), that which aligned...culture, satiric attacks upon the Della Cruscans, satire of interracial and especially...
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Borrowing from Robert Merry in Wordsworth's Descriptive Sketches (1793).(William Wordsworth's usage of the phrase "sultry ray")
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle
; ...Books (1787) by the much maligned Della Cruscan poet Robert Merry (1755...the lists as a dedicated foe of the Della Cruscans, as Jerome McGann observes (74...Wordsworth's opposition to the Della Cruscan aesthetics has been duly...
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General materials.(Guide to the Year's Work)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry
; ...characteristic of the age of electricity and the telegraph. He argues that while the poets of Sensibility (for example, the Della Cruscans) and the Romantics had some allegiance to the idea of electric communication of emotion, it was the Victorians who...
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Jeffrey C. Robinson. Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism
; ...His diverting series of chapters (on Fanciphobia, the Della Cruscans, "cheerfulness," "expiration," boxing, and Romantic...anthology of close readings and freshly chosen texts in the Della Cruscan, Huntian, Hemansian veins and more. Alongside...
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British Satire 1785-1840.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle
; ...Longer Satires ed. David Walker Vol. III Complete Longer Satires ed. Benjamin Colbert Vol. IV Gifford and the Della Cruscans ed. John Strachan Vol. V The Satires of Thomas Moore ed. Jane Moore British Satire 1785-1840 is a mould-breaking...
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Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism.(Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle
; ...do they dominate. For the most part, centre stage is given to less celebrated writers; Mary Robinson and the Della Cruscans, Leigh Hunt, John Clare, Felicia Hemans, and John Hamilton Reynolds. The claim, pointed by the presentation...
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