| This literary use arose because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian. |
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| This racism reflected not only a pronounced theme of interwar adventure writing, such as the novels of Buchan, but also wider literary culture. |
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| Amis had already written a literary study of Fleming's Bond novels in his 1965 work The James Bond Dossier. |
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| Eliot also made significant contributions to the field of literary criticism, strongly influencing the school of New Criticism. |
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| Anthony Thwaite, one of Larkin's literary executors, became the society's first president. |
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| The Romantic interest in medievalism also resulted in a revival of interest in the literary fairy tale. |
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| The writer sent Gaiman an encouraging and informative letter back, along with literary advice. |
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| Other literary work that has survived includes that of the prolific poet Gille Brighde Albanach. |
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| While at the university Scott had become a friend of Adam Ferguson, the son of Professor Adam Ferguson who hosted literary salons. |
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| This was the first sign from a literary standpoint of his interest in Scottish history. |
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| Barrie moved in literary circles and had many famous friends in addition to his professional collaborators. |
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| A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. |
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| Colvin became Stevenson's literary adviser and after his death was the first editor of Stevenson's letters. |
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| His direct literary influences in the use of Scots in poetry were Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson. |
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| He is best known for his works written in 'synthetic Scots', a literary version of the Scots language that MacDiarmid himself developed. |
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| During the 1920s Gunn began to publish short stories, as well as poems and short essays, in various literary magazines. |
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| The Scottish Renaissance was a mainly literary movement of the early to mid 20th century that can be seen as the Scottish version of modernism. |
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| It was not until the literary efforts of Hugh MacDiarmid that the Scottish Renaissance can properly be said to have begun. |
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| The poem is written as a literary dream vision and is an example of medieval debate poetry. |
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| Thomas's refusal to align with any literary group or movement has made him and his work difficult to categorize. |
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| In the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature, many literary achievements were overlooked. |
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| The Nobel Prize in Literature is not the only literary prize for which all nationalities are eligible. |
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| Roberts also struck up a literary relationship with Saunders Lewis, which they maintained through letters over a period of forty years. |
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| These letters give a picture of life in Wales during the period and the comments of these two literary giants on events at home and abroad. |
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| Ransome concludes that Wilde succeeds precisely because the literary criticism is unveiled with such a deft touch. |
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| An annual festival takes place in Dublin, the birthplace of Bram Stoker, in honour of his literary achievements. |
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| Conrad used his own memories as literary material so often that readers are tempted to treat his life and work as a single whole. |
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| Pound wrote for Wyndham Lewis' literary magazine Blast, although only two issues were published. |
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| In 1925 the literary magazine This Quarter dedicated its first issue to Pound, including tributes from Hemingway and Joyce. |
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| In March 1927 he launched his own literary magazine, The Exile, but only four issues were published. |
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| In the epic poem, Pound disregards literary genres, mixing satire, hymns, elegies, essays and memoirs. |
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| Nadel's 2010 Pound in Context is a contextual literary approach to Pound scholarship. |
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| This can be seen as a literary reflection on the Japanese idea of mono no aware. |
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| In 1983 Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the UK's senior literary organisation. |
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| The most prominent regionalists were literary figures with a particular interest in folklore. |
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| There has been much discussion about Gilbert's proper place in British literary and dramatic history. |
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| Among his literary projects were editions of the works of George Buchanan and Julius Caesar Scaliger. |
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| In prose, the novel rose from a position of relative neglect during the 1830s to become the leading literary genre by the end of the era. |
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| They contributed to music, dance, theatre, film, and the Urdu literary tradition. |
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| They created the artificial language Old Church Slavonic, the first literary and liturgic language of the Slavs, and the Glagolitic alphabet. |
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| A more liberal definition incorporates all literary works written in the Czech lands regardless of language. |
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| The international literary award the Franz Kafka Prize is awarded in the Czech Republic. |
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| Chairil Anwar was considered as the greatest literary figure of Indonesia by American poet and translator, Burton Raffel. |
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| Some are more literary and classical, but some are more inclined to the vernacular. |
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| Romans who received an elite education studied Greek as a literary language, and most men of the governing classes could speak Greek. |
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| Roman literary theatre tradition is particularly well represented in Latin literature by the tragedies of Seneca. |
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| Unlike literary theatre, mimus was played without masks, and encouraged stylistic realism in acting. |
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| The multivolume Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius is an extended exploration of how Romans constructed their literary culture. |
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| There were no sports or fraternities and few extracurricular activities apart from literary societies. |
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| The literary critic Alexander Welsh suggests that Scott exhibits similar preoccupations within his own novels. |
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| This collection, as I have said, was designed not to revive MacDonald's literary reputation but to spread his religious teaching. |
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| There were immediate disputes of Macpherson's claims on both literary and political grounds. |
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| Language change has also threatened the survival of stateless languages with existing literary standards, such as Occitan. |
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| There are no equivalents of the local standard literary languages that developed in the numerous independent states of Europe. |
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| Traces of Scottish literary and musical influences can be found in both Donovan's and Bruce's work. |
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| As a child he was not surrounded by books, nor did he have any literary acquaintances. |
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| The Makars have often been referred to by literary critics as Scots Chaucerians. |
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| In the 19th and 20th centuries, writers again began using the name 'Gwent' in a romantic literary way to describe Monmouthshire. |
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| For centuries they had a great influence on the political, cultural, social and literary life of Wales. |
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| Edward was interested in buildings and paintings, but less so in literary works, which were not extensively sponsored at court. |
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| The city's literary community centres on the Munster Literature Centre and the Triskel Arts Centre. |
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| They contain similar accounts of the events in Jesus' life and his teaching, due to their literary interdependence. |
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| The fact of diversity is observed in comparing the diversity of time, culture, authors' perspectives, literary genre, and the theological themes. |
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| He was probably educated locally, and was certainly influenced by the literary traditions of the Vale of Clwyd. |
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| Conversely, historical and literary material may acquire mythological qualities over time. |
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| What has survived are literary creations based on native Welsh tales which would have been told by the storytellers. |
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| The stories that have survived are literary compositions based on oral tradition. |
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| They are written in Middle Welsh, the common literary language between the end of the eleventh century and the fourteenth century. |
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| The Welsh medieval history texts belong to the class of literary creations, but the split into two distinct groups. |
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| Many forms of creative or literary writing use prose, including novels and short stories. |
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| Her Enid was a literary influence on Tennyson, and her theories and sources influenced European artists, poets and writers. |
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| His book on Modern Tragedy may be read as a response to The Death of Tragedy by the conservative literary critic George Steiner. |
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| The Abbey was founded in 1904 by a group that included Yeats with the aim of promoting indigenous literary talent. |
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| Many significant literary movements in the later half of the 20th century were directly or indirectly influenced by Surrealism. |
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| The following year it won the Hawthornden Prize, at the time the only important British literary award. |
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| Along with two other literary magazines in Wales, New Welsh Review and Planet, Poetry Wales receives funding from the Welsh Books Council. |
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| The liner notes contained a literary quote for each of the album's eighteen songs and the album lasted just over seventy minutes. |
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| Francis of Assisi was considered the first Italian poet by literary critics, with his religious song Canticle of the Sun. |
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| In the early 17th century, some literary masterpieces were created, such as Giambattista Marino's long mythological poem, L'Adone. |
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| The latter were associations at a city level that fostered literary activities, like poetry, drama and discussions, often through contests. |
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| There are various folk tales and modern literary references to island life. |
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| The Meiji era saw the decline of traditional literary forms as Japanese literature integrated Western influences. |
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| In its literary forms, Japanese philosophy began about fourteen centuries ago. |
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| Greek speakers today still tend to regard literary works of ancient Greek as part of their own rather than a foreign language. |
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| Deer have been an integral part of fables and other literary works since the inception of writing. |
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| He has literary leanings, is reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, buying each volume as he can, in a paperbacked edition. |
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| Lithuanian literary works in the Lithuanian language started being first published in the 16th century. |
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| The oldest known Greek literary sources, Homer's epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, focus on the Trojan War and its aftermath. |
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| Among the earliest literary sources are Homer's two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. |
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| The poetry of the Hellenistic and Roman ages was primarily composed as a literary rather than cultic exercise. |
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| Secondly, visual sources sometimes represent myths or mythical scenes that are not attested in any extant literary source. |
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| The same mythological cycle also inspired a series of posterior European literary writings. |
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| The traditional literary mythology was increasingly dissociated from actual religious practice. |
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| Even without Homer, the Trojan War story had remained central to Western European medieval literary culture and its sense of identity. |
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| The Caribbean is the setting for countless literary efforts often related to piracy acts and swashbuckling. |
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| In 1932, a literary scholar and writer named John Robert Moore posited that Daniel Defoe be acknowledged the author of A General History. |
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| The Hellenistic period saw the literary epicentre of the Greek world move from Athens, where it had been in the classical period, to Alexandria. |
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| There are significant fragments of actual Greek musical notation as well as many literary references to ancient Greek music. |
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| Many of the manuscripts with literary versions are illuminated with miniatures. |
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| The new literary style spread rapidly, and in France influenced such writers as Eustache Deschamps and Guillaume de Machaut. |
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| This beautiful aquatic flower appears in the Sigiriya frescoes and has been mentioned in ancient Sanskrit, Pali and Sinhala literary works. |
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| Shute's final literary publication occurred more than 40 years after his death. |
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| After Victoria's death, her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, was appointed her literary executor. |
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| Miles Franklin is the namesake of Australia's most prestigious literary prize, awarded annually to the best novel about Australian life. |
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| Author David Malouf, playwright David Williamson and poet Les Murray are also renowned literary figures. |
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| All Lebanese laws are written in the standard literary form of Arabic, though parliamentary debate may be conducted in Lebanese Arabic. |
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| Two of the most famous literary examples occur in the Icelandic family sagas. |
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| The following is a list of all known references to the battle from the literary sources of classical antiquity. |
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| The various literary works of that time are often very readable for modern Dutch speakers, since Dutch is a rather conservative language. |
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| The earliest surviving literary evidence of the druids emerges from the classical world of Greece and Rome. |
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| The work of Domitian's court poets Martial and Statius constitutes virtually the only literary evidence concurrent with his reign. |
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| As far as ancient literary sources are concerned, an extant continuous account of Trajan's reign does not exist. |
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| There are hints, however, in contemporary literary sources that Trajan's adoption was imposed on Nerva. |
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| Gibbon's Memoires Litteraires failed to gain any notoriety, and was considered a flop by fellow historians and literary scholars. |
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| In the late 18th century, and throughout the 19th, Milan was an important centre for intellectual discussion and literary creativity. |
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| Charlemagne's death emotionally affected many of his subjects, particularly those of the literary clique who had surrounded him at Aachen. |
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| Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky have been described by literary critics as the greatest novelists of all time. |
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| They introduced such important literary forms as epic and lyric poetry, history, tragedy, and comedy. |
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| Although our literary sources are all relatively late, there are also indications of change over time. |
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| It is the most ambitious literary undertaking of medieval Denmark and is an essential source for the nation's early history. |
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| In 1825, he was hired as a professor of literary history, and in 1829, he was hired as a librarian at the University of Copenhagen. |
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| In the beginning of 1805, he received an invitation from Savigny, who had moved to Paris, to help him in his literary work. |
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| However, these works never became part of literary canon and are largely forgotten today as a result. |
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| The British character, customs and literary men are treated with a typically Poean vindictiveness. |
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| The new literary field of the moral guide to business ethics was developed during the late Ming period, for the readership of the merchant class. |
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| They published a diverse range of works, and printed educational, literary, medical, religious, and historical texts. |
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| Around the same time, a circle of writers emerged which was to have a profound and lasting literary influence. |
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| He was also known for his poetry, which constitutes a major contribution to the development of Portuguese as a literary language. |
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| Details were often lifted from literary and pseudohistorical accounts, such as the tale of Sinbad the Sailor. |
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| The eight scant years of his pontificate were important in the political, scientific, and literary history of the world. |
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| He is considered the most important author of the Shilha literary tradition. |
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| Haiti has always been a literary nation that has produced poetry, novels, and plays of international recognition. |
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| This letter is considered the first document of the Brazilian history as much as its first literary text. |
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| Sri Lankan literature spans at least two millennia, and is heir to the Aryan literary tradition as embodied in the hymns of the Rigveda. |
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| Even after the sack of Ayutthaya in 1767, many literary masterpieces in the Thai language still survived. |
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| By the 15th century, the Thai language had evolved into a distinctive medium along with a nascent literary identity of a new nation. |
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| To maximize this new literary medium, however, a rather intensive classical education in Pali was required. |
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| Ali Al Shargawi, a decorated longtime poet, was described in 2011 by Al Shorfa as the literary icon of Bahrain. |
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| During the 16th and 17th centuries, Classical Nahuatl was used as a literary language, and a large corpus of texts from that period exists today. |
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| In 1770 another decree, calling for the elimination of the indigenous languages, did away with Classical Nahuatl as a literary language. |
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| After independence, Costumbrism and Romanticism became the most common literary genres, as exemplified in the works of Ricardo Palma. |
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| The official Galician language has been standardized by the Real Academia Galega on the basis of literary tradition. |
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| Buryats in Russia have a separate literary standard, written in a Cyrillic alphabet. |
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| Ricci could speak Chinese as well as read and write classical Chinese, the literary language of scholars and officials. |
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| Venice also inspired the poetry of Ezra Pound, who wrote his first literary work in the city. |
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| Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio pioneered the use of the vernacular instead of the Latin used for most literary works at the time. |
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| The oldest literary pieces written in Florentine go as far back as the 13th century. |
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| Since 1997, the Culture 2000 programme has financed the translation of around 2,000 literary works from and into European languages. |
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| The literary language includes a few more such verbs, but the number is still very small. |
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| In Finnish, it is mostly a literary device, as it has virtually disappeared from daily spoken language in most dialects. |
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| The only literary texts preserved are Heliand and fragments of the Old Saxon Genesis. |
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| The Buryat language has been turned into a standard literary form itself in Russia. |
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| In Spain, Standard Spanish is based partly upon the speech of educated speakers from Madrid, but mainly upon the literary language. |
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| Chaucer is considered to be the father of the English language and the creator of English as a literary language. |
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| Learned loanwords are first used in written language, often for scholarly, scientific, or literary purposes. |
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| The folio edition also features full literary quotes by those authors that Johnson quoted, such as Dryden and Shakespeare. |
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| The abridged version did not feature the literary quotes, just the author quoted. |
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| Idiomatic forms derived from Indian literary languages and vernaculars have been absorbed into Indian English. |
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| Robert McCrum, literary editor of the London Observer, is quoted as supporting the efficacy of the language. |
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| The second, which is more literary and used for emphasis, is the relative use of welcher, welche, welches, comparable with English which. |
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| This was not universally accepted by all educated Scots of the period and a new literary Scots came into being. |
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| This modern literary Scots was exemplified by Allan Ramsay and his followers, and their successors such as Robert Burns. |
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| The regional novel from Quebec is called Terroir novel and is a literary tradition specific to the province. |
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| However, Standard English remains the more prestigious literary medium in Jamaican literature. |
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| Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles, Mrs. |
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| Antony had occupied the high offices of questor and tribune, the first calling for literary ability, the second for skill as an orator. |
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| It has also been associated through the years with high literary connections. |
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| Southey was also a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, essay writer, historian and biographer. |
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| This literary use is because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian. |
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| His editor has a talent for turning literary dross into gold. |
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| The Voyage is kaleidoscopic composite of dream-vision, ideal journey, literary testament, adoxography, and mock epic. |
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| At no point in her writing does Mary Lee Settle become an antinovelist or a player of literary games. |
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| But finally to return to literary conventions, it is plot, more than anything else, that came to seem antireal. |
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| His middle-of-the-road guidebook to the Georgians will be a useful Baedeker for literary sightseers. |
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| The literary scene is often defined bicoastally, with the emphasis on the east. |
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| Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States. |
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| Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention. |
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| Don't let this crumbum talk you into doing his dirty work. He's known as the literary pimp of Sixth Avenue. |
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| A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers. |
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| In ancient narrative literature, ethopoeia is a frequently used literary tool. |
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| It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. |
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| He is not of the people, this lordly magistrate. He is one of the privileged literati. His literary degrees are high and numerous. |
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| The great majority of literary works in Old English that survive to today are written in the Roman alphabet. |
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| The Kentish region, settled by the Jutes from Jutland, has the scantiest literary remains. |
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| Much of the Greek literary corpus remained in Greek, and few in the west could speak or read Greek. |
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| It is attested both in inscriptions and in some of the earliest extant Latin literary works, such as the comedies of Plautus and Terence. |
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| The word is known to date from the 10th century or earlier, as it appears in the literary Armes Prydein. |
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| In literary Welsh, on the other hand, inflection of the main verb is usual. |
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| As a standardised form, literary Welsh shows little if any of the dialectal variation found in colloquial Welsh. |
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| The Arthurian literary cycle is the best known part of the Matter of Britain. |
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| Celtic literary tradition begins with Old Irish texts around the 8th century. |
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| The literary and practical achievements of the jurists of this period gave Roman law its unique shape. |
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| There was a renewed interest in classical Greek philosophy, as well as an increase in literary output in vernacular Greek. |
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| But the change was dramatic if measured by the elimination of the English nobility or the loss of Old English as a literary language. |
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| Henry tried to maintain a sophisticated household that combined hunting and drinking with cosmopolitan literary discussion and courtly values. |
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| In many literary representations of the medieval past, however, Magna Carta remained a foundation of English national identity. |
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| This same period of economic and political uncertainty, however, produced an unsurpassed literary flowering in England. |
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| However, these works never became part of literary canon, and are largely forgotten today as a result. |
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| The first scientific and literary journals were established during the Enlightenment. |
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| The History of the Kings of Britain is now usually acknowledged as a literary work of national myth containing little reliable history. |
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| By the end of the 17th century, Scots had practically ceased to exist, at least in literary form. |
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| Changes also took place among laymen, as aristocratic culture focused on great feasts held in halls rather than on literary pursuits. |
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| They base this notion on evidence provided by both archaeology and Welsh literary legend. |
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| The title reflects Nottingham's literary heritage, with Lord Byron, DH Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe having links to the city. |
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| More contemporary Portsmouth literary figures include social critic, journalist, and author Christopher Hitchens, who was born in the city. |
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| Sajjad Zaheer was the linkman with the literary community on behalf of the nascent communist movement of India. |
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| He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. |
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| However, a recently unearthed love ballad testifies to literary activity in the local tongue from the Medieval period. |
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| Malta followed a Romantic literary tradition, culminating in the works of Dun Karm Psaila, Malta's National Poet. |
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| Most contemporary literary and written sources on the Vikings come from other cultures that were in contact with them. |
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| The works of this literary age lasted through Roman times, and are classics. |
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| The Pakistan Academy of Letters is a large literary community that promotes literature and poetry in Pakistan and abroad. |
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| These represent the different developments and particular literary histories of the varieties of Norman. |
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| More literary sources of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries include Lawman's Brut and The Owl and the Nightingale. |
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| This policy shifts the burden of assessing and developing writers out of the publisher and onto the literary agents. |
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| Established authors may be represented by a literary agent to market their work to publishers and negotiate contracts. |
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| Punjabi has had a rich literary history and a wide geographical for back centuries, but before 1947 it had never been official language. |
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| At independence, Pakistan established a highly Persianized literary form of Urdu as its national language. |
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| Mutual intelligibility decreases in literary and specialized contexts that rely on educated vocabulary. |
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| Utopia gave rise to a literary genre, Utopian and dystopian fiction, which features ideal societies or perfect cities, or their opposite. |
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| No sources survive to confirm what the wall was called in antiquity, and no historical literary source gives it a name. |
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| From literary evidence, there may well have been panel icons which, like almost all classical painting, have disappeared. |
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| The Romantic movement in America created a new literary genre that continues to influence American writers. |
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| In German literature, the Gothic Revival also had a grounding in literary fashions. |
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| The earliest literary references to Arthur come from Welsh and Breton sources. |
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| A great deal of the literary work produced by Roman authors in the early Republic was political or satirical in nature. |
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| The Satires and Epistles discuss ethical and literary problems in an urbane, witty manner. |
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| Political power was no longer in English hands, so the West Saxon literary language had no more influence than any other dialect. |
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| Alongside Chaucer's Works, the most impressive literary monument of the period is John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. |
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| It is unclear to what extent Chaucer was seminal in this evolution of literary preference. |
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| These developments represented a fundamental change in literary criticism, which came to focus more on character and less on plot. |
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| Feminist literary critics argue that the blame for the family feud lies in Verona's patriarchal society. |
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| Also in 1961, Frank Kermode wrote on the themes of the play and their literary sources. |
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| His younger sister, Mary, married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and was a writer, translator and literary patron. |
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| Having converted to the Anglican Church, Donne focused his literary career on religious literature. |
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| As with other English Renaissance dramatists, a portion of Ben Jonson's literary output has not survived. |
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| Lyly's mannered literary style, originating in his first books, is known as euphuism. |
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| In addition to these literary defences of the Commonwealth and his character, Milton continued to translate official correspondence into Latin. |
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| The official break in literary culture caused by censorship and radically moralist standards effectively created a gap in literary tradition. |
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| Today, the Restoration total theatre experience is again valued, both by postmodern literary critics and on the stage. |
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| His works were dominated with his intent to use them for literary criticism. |
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| As well as direct literary criticism, Johnson emphasised the need to establish a text that accurately reflects what an author wrote. |
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| He is said to have read his Rime of the Ancient Mariner at a literary evening in Mardol. |
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| His philosophy of poetry, which he developed over many years, has been deeply influential in the field of literary criticism. |
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| Dallas as his literary agent to publish his poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which Byron thought of little account. |
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| The Egoist, an important Modernist literary magazine, published some of his work. |
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| Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats's work was the most significant literary experience of his life. |
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| He was also regularly meeting William Hazlitt, a powerful literary figure of the day. |
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| Few of Keats's letters are extant from the period before he joined his literary circle. |
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| Mary Shelley busied herself with editing her husband's poems, among other literary endeavours, but concern for her son restricted her options. |
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| She was in fact challenging the political and literary influences of her circle in her first work. |
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| Shelley took part in the literary circle that surrounded Leigh Hunt, and during this period he met John Keats. |
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| Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. |
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| During this period he also undertook his first journalistic work, as a freelance art and literary critic. |
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| The area was also the scene of some of the events of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, and this literary connection pleased him. |
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| According to Ackroyd, other than these, perhaps the most important literary influence on him was derived from the fables of The Arabian Nights. |
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| American literary critic Harold Bloom placed Dickens among the greatest Western Writers of all time. |
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| Indeed, the parsonage at Haworth is one of the most visited literary sites in the world. |
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| Austen has inspired a large number of critical essays and literary anthologies. |
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| Part of Austen's fame rests on the historical and literary significance that she was the first woman to write great comic novels. |
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| Austen had many admiring readers in the 19th century who considered themselves part of a literary elite. |
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| Around the start of the 20th century, members of the literary elite reacted against the popularisation of Austen. |
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| Women writers were common at the time, but Evans's role as the female editor of a literary magazine was quite unusual. |
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| In 1994, literary critic Harold Bloom placed Eliot among the most important Western writers of all time. |
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| In a 2007 authors' poll by TIME, Middlemarch was voted the tenth greatest literary work ever written. |
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| He decided to use this money to make his way to London, the literary centre of the British Empire. |
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| Far from the Madding Crowd was successful enough for Hardy to give up architectural work and pursue a literary career. |
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| Sites associated with Hardy's own life and which inspired the settings of his novels continue to attract literary tourists and casual visitors. |
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| Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. |
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| Mabel Fierz put him in contact with Leonard Moore, who became his literary agent. |
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| In November 1943, Orwell was appointed literary editor at Tribune, where his assistant was his old friend Jon Kimche. |
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| Orwell returned to London in late 1946 and picked up his literary journalism again. |
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| Orwell had met her when she was assistant to Cyril Connolly, at Horizon literary magazine. |
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| Though this instability often affected her social life, her literary productivity continued with few breaks throughout her life. |
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| They both served on the English faculty at Oxford University, and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. |
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| Flowers were laid by Walter Hooper, trustee and literary advisor to the Lewis Estate. |
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| Most of Lewis's posthumous work has been edited by his literary executor Walter Hooper. |
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| The novel won Huxley a British literary award, the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. |
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| She was known to be in a depressed state from literary overwork, her mother's death earlier that year, and her husband's infidelity. |
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| Some critics, however, regarded Christie's plotting abilities as considerably greater than her literary ones. |
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| During his life in retirement, from 1959 up to his death in 1973, Tolkien received steadily increasing public attention and literary fame. |
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| As well as his fiction, Tolkien was also a leading author of academic literary criticism. |
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| Both Tolkien's academic career and his literary production are inseparable from his love of language and philology. |
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| An inflatable representation of Lord Voldemort and other children's literary characters accompanied her reading. |
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| He was also a noted literary figure and served as a patron of both the October Club and the Scriblerus Club. |
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| He, along with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, contributed to the literary productions of the Club. |
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| His family's wealth enabled him to live a life of leisure while devoting himself to his literary and musical interests. |
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| Harry Potter is the kind of timeless literary achievement that comes around once in a lifetime. |
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| Oral tradition was very strong in early English culture and most literary works were written to be performed. |
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| The considerable loss felt by the English literary community at his death was evident from the elegies that it inspired. |
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| Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. |
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| The Lost World literary genre was inspired by real stories of archaeological discoveries by imperial adventurers. |
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| It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. |
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| Ransom Reading Room at the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin, which maintains the papers of literary agent Audrey Wood. |
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| Olivier Basselin wrote of the Vaux de Vire, the origin of literary vaudeville. |
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| The typical medium for literary expression in Norman has traditionally been newspaper columns and almanacs. |
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| The earliest extant French literary texts date from the ninth century, but very few texts before the 11th century have survived. |
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| Edinburgh has a long literary tradition, which became especially evident during the Scottish Enlightenment. |
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| The question is, then, what is the relationship of biblical narrative to its literary milieu? |
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| Alfred's own literary output was mainly of translations, though he wrote introductions and amended manuscripts as well. |
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