What Langston Hughes poem refers to a “raisin in the sun”?
Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” (1951) refers to a “raisin in the sun”. Hughes asks:
“What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
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The title of Carlyle’s 1833-34 satire on German philosophy Sartor Resartus means “the tailor retailored” in Latin. It comments on the work of the fictitious Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, philosopher of clothes.
What Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel begins, “It was a dark and stormy night”?
Paul Clifford (1830) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel begins, “It was a dark and stormy night”. It is also the opening line of numerous novels by Snoopy.
What poet wrote as his own epitaph, “Here lies one whose name was writ in water”?
John Keats wrote as his own epitaph, “Here lies one whose name was writ in water”, he died at the age of twenty-five, believing his art would not be remembered.
What was the first book published by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)?
The first book published by Dr. Seuss was And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It was published in 1937 by Vanguard Press, after being rejected by twenty-three other publishers.
When did Raphael Holinshed write his chronicles?
Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland appeared in 1577. This history was Shakespeare’s source for much of Macbeth, King Lear, and Cymbeline. Holinshed died about 1580.
Who coined the term “willing suspension of disbelief”?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the term “willing suspension of disbelief” in his critical treatise Biographia Literaria (1817). Coleridge used the term to refer to the “poetic faith” of a reader in accepting imaginary elements in a literary work.