Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lavengro," "The New Arabian Nights," "Across the Plains," and "When a Man's Single,"- which bear upon the lecture of this week-will be reserved within a few days...
...Lavengro," "The New Arabian Nights," "Across the Plains," and "When a Man's Single,"- which bear upon the lecture of this week-will be reserved within a few days...
...Lavengro," "The New Arabian Nights," "Across the Plains," and "When a Man's Single,"- which bear upon the lecture of this week-will be reserved within a few days...
...children. His father was a Manchester merchant and died at the age of thirty-nine, leaving an estate valued at thirty thousand pounds. At the age of six, De Quincey was sorely grieved by the death of an elder sister, who had read to him the story of the Arabian Nights, which aroused in him such a great spirit of imagination. He stole into the death chamber of his sister and received those impressions, which make up his charming and vivid narrative published many years later...
...poetry of Keats we have as good a painting of nature as there is. It was when the new poetical style of Cowley and Burns had done its work through Keats that Tennyson came into prominence. Among his early poems two are especially prominent, the Recollections of Arabian Knights and Marianna. In 1833 Tennyson published his second volume with The Lady of Shalott as its first poem. These two volumes mark the lyrical period of his life. After 1833 came the idyllic period. He was an ideal descriptive writer, and from now on his touches of nature were especially delicate...