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angry young men angry young men
angry young men term applied to a group of English writers of the 1950s whose heroes share certain rebellious and critical attitudes toward society. This phrase, which was originally taken from the title of Leslie Allen Paul's autobiography, Angry Young Man (1951), became current with the... Read more
Robert Blair Robert Blair
Robert Blair 1699-1746, English poet and clergyman. His literary reputation rests solely on his didactic, blank-verse poem on death, The Grave (1743).... Read more
George Douglas George Douglas
George Douglas pseud. of George Douglas Brown, 1869-1902, English novelist, b. Scotland. His reputation rests on his single novel, The House with the Green Shutters (1901), a somber story of Scottish life.... Read more
James Clarence Mangan James Clarence Mangan
James Clarence Mangan , 1803-49, Irish poet. He spent most of his life as a clerk, eventually slipping into alcoholism and opium addiction. His reputation rests on his English renderings of Gaelic poems, such as the excellent "Dark Rosaleen." Bibliography: See study by J. Joyce (1930).... Read more
Edward Moore Edward Moore
Edward Moore 1712-57, English dramatist. He wrote two comedies in the sentimental tradition, The Foundling (1748) and Gil Blas (1751), but his reputation as a dramatist rests primarily on his prose tragedy The Gamester (1753).... Read more
John Webster John Webster
Webster, John (1580–1634) English dramatist whose reputation rests upon his two great tragedies: The White Devil (c.1612), and The Duchess of Malfi (1614). Both plays explore the theme of revenge using macabre language.... Read more
George Chinnery George Chinnery
Chinnery, George (b London, 7 Jan. 1774; d Macao, 30 May 1852). English painter, active for almost all his career in the Eastern world. After leaving London in 1802 he worked in India until 1825 and then for the rest of his life in Macao, from which he made visits to Canton and Hong Kong. He made... Read more
Awake and Sing! Awake and Sing!
Awake and Sing! (1935), a drama by Clifford Odets. [Belasco Theatre, 184 perf.] The Bergers, a lower‐middle‐class Jewish family in the Bronx, are a miserable lot. The mother, Bessie ( Stella Adler), is shrill and selfish; the father, Myron ( Art Smith), a drudging... Read more
Francis Hutcheson Francis Hutcheson
Francis Hutcheson , 1694-1746, British philosopher, b. Co. Down, Ireland. He was a professor at the Univ. of Glasgow from 1729 until his death. His reputation rests on four essays published anonymously while he was living in Dublin, prior to his college teaching. Two of them were included in An... Read more

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