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Resources for Literature and Composition: English 2.

Daniel Defoe Biography

Posted on March 2, 2019 by Jennifer Jessen

Daniel Defoe (c. 1659–1731) was an English author and political pamphleteer born in the parish of St Giles, Cripplegate, London, in the latter part of 1659 or early in 1660, of a nonconformist family. Other spellings of his name include D. … Continue reading →

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Joseph Conrad Biography

Posted on November 3, 2014 by EILeditor

This Joseph Conrad biography comes from the Yale Modernism Lab, where you’ll find a wealth of resources about modernist writers in the years 1914-1926. You can view their original works and find out how they influenced each other; search by … Continue reading →

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T. S. Eliot Biography

Posted on October 20, 2014 by EILeditor

This biography of T.S. Eliot comes from the Yale Modernism Lab, where you’ll find a wealth of resources about modernist writers in the years 1914-1926. You can view their original works and find out how they influenced each other; search … Continue reading →

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography

Posted on October 13, 2014 by EILeditor

Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) by Dr. Ann Woodlief Ralph Waldo Emerson is truly the center of the American transcendental movement, setting out most of its ideas and values in a little book, Nature, published in 1836, that represented at … Continue reading →

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C. S. Lewis Biography

Posted on October 6, 2014 by EILeditor

C. S. Lewis: Minibiography and Author’s Bibliography by Dr. Bruce Edwards Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 29, 1898, Clive Staples (“Jack”) Lewis was reared in a peculiarly bookish home, one in which the reality he found on the … Continue reading →

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Henry David Thoreau Biography

Posted on September 28, 2014 by EILeditor

Henry David Thoreau Biography by Dr. Ann Woodlief Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. Born in 1817, one of his first … Continue reading →

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Bulfinch’s Mythology Tales

Posted on September 10, 2014 by EILeditor

Enjoy these tales from Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable, by Thomas Bulfinch. Cupid and Psyche Pygmalion and Galatea Daedalus and Icarus

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Julius Caesar Video

Posted on April 8, 2014 by EILeditor

Here’s a video of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, performed on BBC Shakespeare. Enjoy! More details about this production: The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina … Continue reading →

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Composers in Death Comes for the Archbishop

Posted on April 8, 2014 by EILeditor

Among the composers mentioned in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop are Giuseppe Verdi, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Stephen Foster. Here are a few works of theirs to enjoy; your library may have other works by these composers. Giuseppe Verdi: … Continue reading →

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Heart of Darkness Opera

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Janice Campbell

Composer Tarik O’Regan has written a chamber opera based on Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness. Here is a video interview in which the composer discusses the process of creating the opera. This clip contains a spoiler, so be sure … Continue reading →

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