The disintegration of the literary culture of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the gradual disappearance after 1900 of the
man of letters himself.
The rise & fall of the intellectual
Nevertheless, it is important that this error be corrected, lest it lead to a misinterpretation of Donne posing deliberately as a
man of letters, rather than in the more conventional posture of melancholic gentleman armed with sword.
The Lothian portrait of John Donne: a correction
Puerto Rican educator and
man of letters. Hostos was educated in Spain, where he wrote La peregrinacion de Bayoan (1863), a political novel, and fought for the short-lived republic of 1868.
Hostos, Eugenio Maria de (1839-1903)
(1694 - 1773) Statesman and
man of letters. A friend of Alexander Pope and an important patron of letters, Lord Chesterfield was unsuccessful in his belated attempt to patronize Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language after it had been completed.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of
We have lost a humble scholar, who in one of his last interviews called himself a passionate learner; which is the mark of a genuine
man of letters and certainly Joyo Sahib was always so modest about his scholarship', they said.
Sindh, Mehran Universities' VCs condole the death of Ibrahim Joyo
In his first official statement defending his new boss, he wrote: "I am Marc Kasowitz, Predisent Trump's personal lawyer." Mr Kasowitz is clearly a
man of letters. But, like the President, he has a nasty habit of putting them in the wrong order.
Mr Trump's got himself the right typo lawyer
Ong considers central issues that emerge from scholar-official and
man of letters Li Mengyang's (1473-1530) defense of poetry, and addresses larger questions about Ming intellectual history.
Li Mengyang, the North-South Divide, and Literati Learning in Ming China
Which famous
man of letters said: "When a Committee become in 1906?
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Man of quality,
man of letters; the Abbe Prevost between novel and newspaper.
Man of quality, man of letters; the Abbe Prevost between novel and newspaper
Man Of Letters looks a good bet in the Sharp Minds Call 0870 90 80 121Handicap.
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ALL the twenty-first century instruments agree that in this cybernetic age that quaint Victorian artefact, that wily old literary bird, the
Man of Letters, has virtually joined the inept dodo and misfortunate great auk, along with the woolly mammoth and the muffin-man, in the categories of extinction.
The vanishing man of letters
Malvasia (1616-1693) was a Bolognese lawyer and
man of letters, who carefully researched the lives of these artists, collecting and publishing primary sources and gathering anecdotal information from eyewitnesses, weaving these into rivetingly detailed biographical narratives.
Malvasia's Life of the Carracci: Commentary and Translation. (Reviews)
The 65-year-old claimed the London Evening Standard's column: "Alan Clark's Secret Political Diary" was damaging his reputation as a serious historian and
man of letters.
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The contingency of his death, even as he was preparing the materials for the latest edition of Sancho's Letters, reflects the enduring fascination this remarkable African
man of letters, avid reader and informed commentator, bon vivant and shopkeeper held over Edwards's imagination.
Letters of Ignatius Sancho
Barclay was a well-traveled cosmopolitan
man of letters. His Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon (1603-07; Euphormio's Satyricon), a severe social satire filled with villains and rogues, contributed to the later development of the picaresque novel.
Barclay, John