When was the first copyright act passed?
The first national copyright act was passed in England in 1709.
The first national copyright act was passed in England in 1709.
In Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1901), Kim’s full name is Kimball O’Hara.
Maud Gonne did not marry William Butler Yeats, the poet who made the actress famous through his poems of unrequited love. In 1903, after knowing Yeats for fourteen years, Gonne married Major John MacBride, an Irish revolutionary characterized by Yeats as a “drunken, vainglorious lout.” MacBride was executed for his role in the Easter Rebellion…
Oedipus is crushed by fate in Jean Cocteau’s tragedy The Infernal Machine.
The author of On the Road (1957) Jack Kerouac died at age forty-seven on October 21, 1969, of a massive gastric hemorrhage associated with alcoholism, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Jonathan Swift first used the phrase “belles lettres” in Tatler 230 (1710): “The Traders in History and Politics, and the Belles Lettres.” In French the term means “beautiful letters, fine writing.” Swift added the pejorative connotation of light or trivial literature.
The Argonauts were the crew of the ship Argo, which sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.