How was Cotton Mather related to Increase Mather?
Increase Mather(1639-1723) was the father of Cotton Mather(16631728).
Both were clergymen, theologians, and prolific writers in Puritan New England.
Increase Mather(1639-1723) was the father of Cotton Mather(16631728).
Both were clergymen, theologians, and prolific writers in Puritan New England.
Rubaiyat is the plural of the Persian word meaning “a poem of four lines.” The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur is a poem composed of such quatrains. The twelfth-century Persian poem was translated freely into English by Edward FitzGerald in 1859.
The first part of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls is recognized as a comic masterpiece, but the second part never saw the light of day. Convinced by the radical priest Father Matthew Konstantinovsky that literature was sinful, Gogol (1809-52) burned the manuscript of Part Two in 1852. He died a few days later.
The seven virtues are: faith, hope, charity (or love), prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. The first three are called the theological virtues, the last four the cardinal virtues.
The glazier Heurtebise (literally “break wind”) aids the poet Orphee in rescuing his wife from Death. Cocteau has written that the name of Heurtebise in the play Orphee was revealed to him in an opium-induced vision. The name obsessed Cocteau to the point that he thought another being was living inside him.
“Jesus H. Christ” is the first line of Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and the first of many profanities in Albee’s look into a destructive marriage. A London production changed the first line to “Mary H. Magdalen.” “Jesus H. Christ” is the first line of the play, and the first of many…
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) said, “A poem should not mean/But be” in Ars Poetica.