The gentlewoman, also slightly blushing, said: You know well that I want you to serve me; and reaching me the lily, told me to take it away; and gave me besides twenty golden crowns which she had in her bag, and added: Set me the jewel after the fashion you have sketched, and keep for me the old gold in which it is now set. On this the Roman lady ...
The artistic genius of Michelangelo (1475-1564) is beyond question. One the most important figures in the history of art, his monumental paintings in the Sistine Chapel, his sculpture David in Florence, and his Pieta at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome are among the greatest human achievements of all time and remain the most visited and admired works ...
This book does not pretend to retrace the history of the Italian arts, but rather to define their relation to the main movement of Renaissance culture. Keeping this object in mind, Symonds explains the dependence of the arts on medieval Christianity at their commencement, their gradual emancipation from ecclesiastical control, and their final ...
1893. With portrait and four illustrations. A study of Walt Whitman, who is considered by many to be the greatest of all American poets, by Symonds who, himself, was in the forefront of the bourgeois radical men and women with socialist ideals who were destined to reform public opinion in the 1890s. Whitman's poetry celebrates the freedom and ...
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CONTENTS Birth and Apprenticeship First Period of Manhood Jonson's Dramatic Style The Masterpieces Masques at Court and Lyrics Second Period of Manhood Old Age
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. LITERATURE?DESCRIPTIVE. Sexual inversion can boast a voluminous modern literature, little known to general readers. A considerable part of this is pornographic, ...
Homosexuality and pederasty in Greece and the modern age, an ethical reconsideration. Part one, a problem in Greek ethics, contains, among other chapters, Homer had no knowledge of pederasty - Achilles - treatment of Homer by the later Greeks; Romance of Achilles and Partroclus; Heroic ideal of masculine love; Vulgar pederasty - how introduced ...
The Catholic Revival was by its nature reactionary. Symonds analyses the position of Spain in the Italian peninsula, the conduct of the Tridentine Council, the specific organization of the Holy Office and the Company of Jesus, and the state of society upon which those forces were brought to bear. Poet, essayist, and literary historian, John ...
John Addington Symonds, the Younger (1840-1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as l'amour de l'impossible. At Oxford, Symonds began to reveal his academic ability. In 1860 he took a ...
A collection of Uranian sonnets from this English Anglican clergyman and poet with a "soul lodged in Hellas," a graduate of Keble College, Oxford, who died young owing to a heart condition. His poems were initially published as four pamphlets in 1883-84 and collected, in a single volume containing many more sonnets in 1885 under the present title. ...
Symonds (1840-93) was an English essayist, poet, and biographer best known for his monumental seven-volume cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. Since the work was more a series of extended essays rather than a systematic history, it lends itself well to this selection and abridgement performed by his friend and approved by Symond's wife, ...
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From the 13th-century manuscript known as the Carmina Burana come these love songs, drinking songs, hymns to spring, and more. Sung by the wandering students of the Middle Ages, these verses include "Welcome to Spring," "Love Among the Maidens," "Wine and Venus," "Death Takes All," many others. 6 black-and-white illustrations.
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