Who is the psychiatrist to whom Alexander Portnoy tells his story in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)?
Dr. Spielvogel is the psychiatrist to whom Alexander Portnoy tells his story in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.
Dr. Spielvogel is the psychiatrist to whom Alexander Portnoy tells his story in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.
The annual prize for poetry, the Bollingen Prize, was first awarded in 1949 to Ezra Pound for his Pisan Cantos (1948).
Beatrice was probably Beatrice Portinari, daughter of a noble Florentine family and wife of Simone de’ Bardi. She died at the age of twenty-four on June 8,1290, more than two decades before the Divine Comedy was completed. Dante fell in love with her when they were both children and dedicated most of his poetry to…
The Koran existed first in oral form as a series of revelations recited by the prophet Muhammad (570-632), founder of Islam. His followers wrote down or committed to memory the individual surahs, or chapters, but these were not collected in authoritative form until about 650.
Poet Vachel Lindsay killed himself by drinking Lysol, in 1931 at age fifty-two.
The subtitle of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is A Tale of the Seaboard.
Odysseus descends into the underworld in Book XI of XXIV of Homer’s Odyssey .