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Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...essayist. Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the most original and complex poets of the twentieth century, led a life of fierce passion...followed by Mileposts I ( Versty I ), which celebrates her complex friendship with poet Osip Mandelshtam and abounds with innovation...rejected the Russian Revolution, but her views ...
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George Meredith
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and poet. One of the great English novelists, Meredith wrote complex, often comic yet highly cerebral works that contain striking...Adventures of Harry Richmond (1871), The Egoist (1879), and Diana of the Crossways (1885). His famous critical essay, On the Idea...
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Lillian Gish
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...became known as the "First Lady of the Silent Screen." Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893 (some sources say 1896), in...Gish because, though she had the look of an angel, there were complex feelings below the surface as well. To gain a better understanding...
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Hunting
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...of other animals, as one component of "foraging," a broader complex of subsistence activities that also includes the "gathering...significance in the form of deities such as Apollo and Artemis/Diana. In later European art, literature, and phil
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Michael Ellis DeBakey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...at the universities of Strasbourg and Heidelberg. He married Diana Cooper on Oct. 15, 1936. In 1937, DeBakey became a member of...Houston's Ben Taub General Hospital. In the 1950s DeBakey originated complex surgical procedures for the correction of aneurysms and blockages...
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Blok, Alexander Alexandrovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...twelve, 1918) suggests deep ambivalence. Among the most complex and controversial of Blok's works, it mixes voices...1982). Alexander Blok as Man and Poet, tr. and ed. Diana Burgin and Katherine O'Connor. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis. Diana Senechal
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Lorenzo Lotto
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Raphael and Michelangelo, who were then working in Rome. Lotto's complex and rich paintings executed in Bergamo between 1513 and 1526...more colorful light of Venice. Lotto was often pointedly complex in his choice of gestures and figure poses, as well as in...treasures, holds out to us an antique statuette ...
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Jean Goujon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and his generation swiftly adopted the attenuated figures, complex linear patterns, and extreme technical sophistication of their...slim, fashionable figures stands with an effortless grace; complex positions seem easy and natural as infinitely subtle gradations...one freestanding group traditionally attributed ...
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...original texts, of which there were few (for example, L'arbore di Diana, to music by Mart í n y Soler, and Cos ì fan tutte...excellent collaboration with Mart í n y Soler was L'arbore di Diana, though some critics lambasted it as being indecent. One of...ever been written. In Cos ì fan tutte ...
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Akhmatova, Anna Andreyevna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...but maintains directness and simplicity. Akhmatova's next long poem, the complex, dense, polyphonic Poema bez geroya ( Poem without a Hero , 1943) interprets...Akhmatova's Petersburg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Diana Senechal
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