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James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell 1819-91, American poet, critic, and editor, b. Cambridge, Mass. He was influential in revitalizing the intellectual life of New England in the mid-19th cent. Educated at Harvard (B.A., 1838; LL.B., 1840), he abandoned law for literature. In 1843 he started a literary magazine,... Read more
Thomas Shadwell Thomas Shadwell
Thomas Shadwell 1642?-1692, English dramatist and poet. His plays, written in the tradition of Jonson's comedy of humours, are distinguished for their realistic pictures of London life and for their frank and witty dialogue. They include The Sullen Lovers (1668), Epsom Wells (1672), and The... Read more
Fitz-Greene Halleck Fitz-Greene Halleck
Fitz-Greene Halleck , 1790-1867, American poet, b. Guilford, Conn. He was joint author, with Joseph Rodman Drake, of the humorous lampoons "Croaker Papers," most of which were printed in the New York Evening Post in 1819. In the same year he published his long satire, Fanny (1819), in the... Read more
Satyre Menippee Satyre Menippee
Satyre Ménippée or Satire Ménippée , anonymous French political pamphlet (1st ed. 1594) circulated in Paris in the 1590s. A brilliant lampoon attacking the leaders of the League at the 1593 States-General, it helped sway Parisian opinion to the side of Henry IV. A... Read more
Thomas Harrison Thomas Harrison
Harrison, JimPERSONALCareer:Music editor.Awards, Honors:Golden Reel Award nomination, best sound editing in television, 2002, for Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows; Golden Reel Award nomination (with Richard Belgardt), best sound editing, 2002, for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.CREDITSFilm Music... Read more
iambus iambus
iambus a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. The word, which is Latin, comes from Greek iambos ‘iambus, lampoon’, from iaptein ‘attack verbally’ (because the iambic trimeter was first used by Greek... Read more
Timon of Phlius Timon of Phlius
TIMON OF PHLIUS(320–230 BCE) Most of Timon's importance rests upon his reputation as a reporter, but he was also responsible for one or two original twists to the philosophy of his master—Pyrrho. He was a literary virtuoso, composing in a variety of verse forms. Seventy-one fragments... Read more
Robert Henry Newell Robert Henry Newell
Newell, Robert Henry (1836–1901), New York journalist and humorist, best known for his comic treatment of contemporary matters in newspapers, written under the pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr. This name, a pun on the words “Office Seeker,” was suggested by the great number of... Read more
Frederick Ashton Frederick Ashton
Frederick Ashton The choreographer most responsible for the growth of ballet in modern-day England, Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–1988) was one of the most important twentieth-century inheritors of the classical ballet tradition, developed in France and nurtured in the late nineteenth century... Read more
Clemence Dane Clemence Dane
Clemence Dane pseud. of Winifred Ashton, 1888-1965, English novelist and playwright. She was an artist, teacher, and actress before she turned to writing. Her first novel, A Regiment of Women (1917), is a compelling study of the hothouse emotional life in a girls' school. Legend (1919),... Read more

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