What was the first American novel?
In 1789, The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown was published.
This first American novel, written by the son of a Boston clockmaker, concerned seduction, incest, rape, and suicide.
In 1789, The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown was published.
This first American novel, written by the son of a Boston clockmaker, concerned seduction, incest, rape, and suicide.
In The Iliad (ninth century B.C.), Venus is Aeneas’s mother?
Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919) comprised of twenty-three stories.
Henry James called Death “the Distinguished Thing”. James used the phrase when he said “so it has come at last, the Distinguished Thing” after suffering a stroke on December 2, 1915, two months before his death in 1916.
Only Good Deeds goes with Everyman to face Judgment. In the 1495 morality play, Everyman is deserted by Beauty, Strength, Discretion, and Five Wits.
The German word for “overman” or “superperson” first appears in Goethe’s Faust (1808,1833), referring to an extraordinarily gifted person. Nietzsche used the term iibermensch for his transcendent man in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-91). The Nazis adopted the term as part of their doctrine of Aryan supremacy.
William Butler Yeats’ epitaph that he wrote for himself was: “Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!” The epitaph appears on Yeats’s tombstone in Drum-cliff churchyard under a mountain called Ben Bulben in County Sligo, Ireland, just as Yeats wrote in his poem “Under Ben Bulben” (1939).