What was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96)?
Gloriana was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96).
Gloriana was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96).
In Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus at Colonus (c. 406 B.C.), the blinded Oedipus wanders by accident into the sacred grove of the furies at Colonus in Attica, about a mile northwest of Athens.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme’s name is Monsieur Jourdain, a well-to-do tradesman in the play written by Moliere in 1670.
The name of Don Quixote’s horse was Rocinante. The scrawny old horse and its rider appeared in Cervantes’s Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605, 1615).
William Wordsworth said “The Child is father of the Man”, in the poem “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold” (1807).
The title character of the 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is named Clarissa.
Why Marry? by Jesse L. Williams won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.