Who was first called “Pooh-Bah”?

Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for The Second World War.

“II Penseroso,” written in 1632 is Milton’s companion work to “L’Allegro”.

Hans Christian Andersen’s first novel The Improvisatore was published in 1835. Later the same year, Andersen published Tales Told for Children, which included well-known tales as well as an original story, “Little Ida’s Flowers.”

Ernest Hemingway won one Pulitzer prize, for The Old Man and the Sea (1952).

Mocha Dick was a legendary white whale said to have killed more than thirty men and attacked several ships in the 1800s. His story was told in The Knickerbocker Magazine in 1839. Melville’s Moby-Dick of 1851 may have been influenced by the story.

In the 1898 essay “What is Art?” Leo Tolstoy defines art as: “a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.”