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FEATURE Image: “English sitting room” by quinet is licensed under CC BY 2.0. BRITAIN. E.M. Forster (1879-1970), A ROOM WITH A VIEW (1908). – CORRIDORS│An Educational Website in the Arts and History. Featuring My Photography and Videos.
FRANCE. STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ (1842-1898), Symbolist poet.
FEATURE Image: Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé, 1891. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337818 – retrieved August 27, 2025. Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) is an important Symbolist poet of the last half of the 19th century in France. Throughout his writing career, Mallarmé helped formulate and express the rising anti-naturalism in contemporary art. This movement’s inclinations mainly took the…
Wisdom of the Heart.
FEATURE image: 16th century/Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), The Daoist Immortal Lü Dongbin (detail), artist unknown, China. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Public Domain. Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) grew up in Sangamon County in Central Illinois. In Chicago he built a successful law practice, and for eight years he was the partner of Clarence Darrow (1857-1938). At 30…
UNITED STATES. Henry Miller (1891-1980), Author.
FEATURE image: Henry Miller, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1940. Public Domain. This work is from the Carl Van Vechtan Photographs collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work. As the restrictions on this collection expired in 1986, the Library of Congress…
BRITAIN. Lord Byron, George Gordon (1788-1824), Romantic Poet.
FEATURE Image: Lord Byron in Albanian Dress, 1813, Thomas Phillips (1770-1856). Public Domain. Lord Byron (George Gordon), 1788-1824, Letter to poet Thomas Moore, October 28, 1815. Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 4 (1973-81; edited by Leslie A. Marchand). Lord Byron (George Gordon), 1788-1824, Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 8 (1973-81; edited by Leslie A. Marchand).…
BRITAIN. John Keats (1795-1821) Poet.
FEATURE image: The poet John Keats, c. 1822, by William Hilton after Joseph Severn (1819), oil on canvas, 30 in. x 25 in., Nation Portrait Gallery, London. Public Domain. John Keats’s first book of poems was published in 1817 when the English poet was 22 years old. From an early age, Keats, studying under the…
BRITAIN. E.M. Forster (1879-1970), A ROOM WITH A VIEW (1908).
FEATURE image: E.M. Forster. Public Domain. Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. He wrote numerous short stories, essays, biographies and plays, although he is best known for his novels, particularly A Room With A View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), all of which have been made into award-winning…
