What is Daisy Miller’s real name in Henry James’s short novel Daisy Miller?
Daisy Miller’s real name is Annie Miller.
She appears in Henry James’s short novel Daisy Miller (1878).
Daisy Miller’s real name is Annie Miller.
She appears in Henry James’s short novel Daisy Miller (1878).
Bellow’s friend Delmore Schwartz (1913-66), poet, fiction writer, and critic, was the model for Saul Bellow’s hard-drinking poet Von Humboldt Fleisher in the novel Humboldt’s Gift.
John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) contains the line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky translated Eugenie Grandet (1833) into Russian. Dostoyevsky’s 1844 translation was his first publication.
The original title of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake was Work in Progress during the seventeen years of its composition (1922-39). Parts of it were published under that title before the work was completed.
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) said, “A poem should not mean/But be” in Ars Poetica.
It was not Mark Twain who said the phrase. The quote first appeared in an editorial in the Hartford Courant of August 24, 1897, probably written by associate editor Charles Dudley Warner. Warner had collaborated with Twain on The Gilded Age (1873).