Who are Ahab’s harpooneers in Moby Dick?
Ahab’s harpooneers in Moby Dick were Queequeg, Tashtego, and Daggoo.
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What poem contains the line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”?
John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) contains the line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.
What are the names of the three tragedies in Aeschylus’s Oresteia?
The names of the three tragedies in Aeschylus’s Oresteia are: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, all first presented in 458 B.C.
How did Jean Cocteau come up with the name of the character Heurtebise in the play Orphee (1926)?
The glazier Heurtebise (literally “break wind”) aids the poet Orphee in rescuing his wife from Death. Cocteau has written that the name of Heurtebise in the play Orphee was revealed to him in an opium-induced vision. The name obsessed Cocteau to the point that he thought another being was living inside him.
Who were the enemies of the Lilliputians in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?
The people of Blefuscu, an island northeast of Lilliput, were the enemies of the Lilliputians. The people there were as tiny and mean-spirited as the Lilliputians. Swift meant Blefuscu to represent France, while Lilliput represented England.
When and where was Milton’s masque Comus first performed?
Milton’s masque Comus was first performed on Michaelmas Night (September 29), 1634, at Ludlow Castle to celebrate the Earl of Bridgewater’s becoming Lord President of Wales and the Marches. The Earl’s children enacted the roles of the Lady and her two brothers in the play.
Who led the critical movement of the “New Humanists”?
The leader of the intellectual group the “New Humanists” which, during the flowering of modernism, tried to spur interest in the classics, was Irving Babbitt, professor of romance languages at Harvard from 1894 to 1933.