Who wrote, “Hell is—other people”?
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, “Hell is—other people” in his existential play No Exit (1944).
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, “Hell is—other people” in his existential play No Exit (1944).
Philip Freneau (1752-1832), whose poems include “American Liberty” (1775) and “The Indian Burying Ground” (1788), is known as the “poet of the American Revolution”. He was a favorite of Thomas Jefferson’s.
Gloriana was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96).
The source of the title The Catcher in the Rye is a reference to Robert Burns’s poem “Comin’ Through the Rye” (1792), which Holden Caulfield quotes.
Albany-born Daniel Quinn, the protagonist of Quinn’s Book, is the grandfather of Danny Quinn of Ironweed (1983). Ironweed is part of the Albany Cycle, which also includes Legs (1975), Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game (1978), and Very Old Bones (1992).
In the Paradiso (1321), the highest of Dante’s heavens is the Empyrean, the tenth heaven. It contains God’s Court, seen as a many-petaled rose.
Northrop Frye’s first book was Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (1947). The influential scholar is best known for his Anatomy of Criticism (1957), in which he introduced a critical system based on analysis of literary archetypes.