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1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
in American Poetry for the Use of Schools", was created specifically for that purpose. His knowledge in American poetry was emphasized by his claim that he had read every American poem published before 1850—an estimated 500 volumes. "He has more literary patriotism, if the phrase be allowable ... ... | 15,100 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Augustus Duyckinck commented that "the thought [of a national literature] seems to have entered and taken possession of [Griswold's] mind with the force of monomania". Poet Philip Pendleton Cooke questioned Griswold's sincerity, saying he "should have loved [it] ... better than to say it". By the ... | 15,101 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
works during his time as an editor, particularly with "The Brother Jonathan." A contemporary editor said of him, "He takes advantage of a state of things which he declares to be 'immoral, unjust and wicked,' and even while haranguing the loudest, is purloining the fastest." Even so, he was chosen ... | 15,102 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
of America" anthology, writing that he would be proud to see "one or two of them in the book". Griswold included three of these poems: "Coliseum", "The Haunted Palace", and "The Sleeper". In November of that year, Poe, who had previously praised Griswold in his "Autography" series as "a gentleman ... | 15,103 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
more praise and Poe privately told others he was not particularly impressed by the book, even calling it "a most outrageous humbug" in a letter to a friend. In another letter, this time to fellow writer Frederick W. Thomas, Poe suggested that Griswold's promise to help get the review published was... | 15,104 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Poets and Poetry of America", the first of which was given in Philadelphia on November 25, 1843. Poe openly attacked Griswold in front of his large audience and continued to do so in similar lectures. Graham said that during these lectures, Poe "gave Mr. Griswold some raps over the knuckles of for... | 15,105 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
the two carried on a public flirtation that resulted in much gossip among the literati. Griswold, who was smitten with Osgood, escorted her to literary salons and became her staunchest defender. "She is in all things the most admirable woman I ever knew", he wrote to publisher James T. Fields in 1... | 15,106 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
republished many times. Here he asserted that "few will be grieved" by Poe's death as he had few friends. He claimed that Poe often wandered the streets, either in "madness or melancholy", mumbling and cursing to himself, was easily irritated, was envious of others, and that he "regarded society a... | 15,107 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
the obituary but because it was his custom never to sign his newspaper and his magazine contributions. Regardless, Griswold's true identity was soon revealed. In a letter to Sarah Helen Whitman dated December 17, 1849, he admitted his role in writing Poe's death notice. "I was not his friend, nor ... | 15,108 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
attorney to Griswold, dated October 20, 1849, although there are no signed witnesses. Clemm, however, had no right to make such a decision; Poe's younger sister Rosalie was his closest next of kin. Although Griswold had acted as a literary agent for other American writers, it is unclear if Poe rea... | 15,109 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
January 1850. He did not share the profits of his edition with Poe's surviving relatives. This edition included a biographical sketch titled "Memoir of the Author" which has become notorious for its inaccuracy. The "Memoir" depicts Poe as a madman, addicted to drugs and chronically drunk. Many ele... | 15,110 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
coloring of his picture." Thomas Holley Chivers wrote a book called "New Life of Edgar Allan Poe" which directly responded to Griswold's accusations. He said that Griswold "is not only incompetent to Edit any of [Poe's] works, but totally unconscious of the duties which he and every man who sets h... | 15,111 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Griswold's attempts only drew attention to Poe's work; readers were thrilled at the idea of reading the works of an "evil" man. Griswold's characterization of Poe and the false information he originated appeared consistently in Poe biographies for the next two decades.
# Bibliography.
Anthologie... | 15,112 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
(1845)
- "Poetry of the Sentiments" (1846)
- "Scenes in the Life of the Savior" (1846)
- "Prose Writers of America" (1847)
- "Female Poets of America" (1848)
- "The Sacred Poets of England and America" (1848)
- "Gift Leaves of American Poetry" (1849)
- "Poetry of the Flowers" (1850)
- "The... | 15,113 |
1215064 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rufus%20Wilmot%20Griswold | Rufus Wilmot Griswold
853)
- "Gift of Love" (1853)
- "Gift of Sentiment" (1854)
Poetry
- "The Cypress Wreath: A Book of Consolation" (1844)
- "Illustrated Book of Christian Ballads" (1844)
Nonfiction
- "The Republican Court or, American Society in the Days of Washington" (1854)
# Further reading.
- "Passages f... | 15,114 |
1215127 | Henry Eric Harden | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry%20Eric%20Harden | Henry Eric Harden
Henry Eric Harden
Henry Eric Harden (23 February 1912 – 23 January 1945) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
# Details.
Harden was a 32-year-old, lance-c... | 15,115 |
1215127 | Henry Eric Harden | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry%20Eric%20Harden | Henry Eric Harden
The Commando section had come under heavy machine-gun fire in the open field that morning, and the men were seriously wounded. One of the casualties was Lieutenant Corey. Under intense mortar and machine-gun fire Harden was wounded in his side as he carried one man back to the aid post, which had been... | 15,116 |
1215127 | Henry Eric Harden | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry%20Eric%20Harden | Henry Eric Harden
through the head and killed instantly. Henry Eric Harden was then 32 years old, married and father of a son and daughter. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his fearless action. On the bridge near the mill there is a plaque to commemorate Lance Corporal Harden.
Lance-Corporal Harden's... | 15,117 |
1215127 | Henry Eric Harden | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry%20Eric%20Harden | Henry Eric Harden
near the mill there is a plaque to commemorate Lance Corporal Harden.
Lance-Corporal Harden's final resting place is in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Nederweert, Limburg, the Netherlands.
# The medal.
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum in Mytche... | 15,118 |
1215152 | Sky Real Lives | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sky%20Real%20Lives | Sky Real Lives
Sky Real Lives
Sky Real Lives was an in-house channel from BSkyB that showed extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies and documentaries. The channels closed on 19 August 2010.
# History.
Sky Real Lives first launched as Sky Travel on 3 October 1994, and became part of the Sky Mul... | 15,119 |
1215152 | Sky Real Lives | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sky%20Real%20Lives | Sky Real Lives
In February 2003, a spin-off of the channels, Sky Travel Shop, launched a dedicated travel retail channel in the Specialist, then Shopping section of the EPG. In September 2003 both channels were launched on the NTL platform. With increased distribution, Sky Travel changed its programming strategy to att... | 15,120 |
1215152 | Sky Real Lives | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sky%20Real%20Lives | Sky Real Lives
section on the Sky EPG, to the "Lifestyle and Culture" section.
In August 2006, Sky Travel began showing reality TV, whilst Sky Travel Extra dedicated its airtime to documentaries
Sky Real Lives 2, the replacement channel for Sky Travel Extra, gained additional broadcast hours from its launch.
From 20... | 15,121 |
1215152 | Sky Real Lives | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sky%20Real%20Lives | Sky Real Lives
with Sky's primary channel, Sky One. This led to rumours that the company had planned to turn Sky Travel into a general entertainment channel on Freeview. However, BSkyB's CEO, James Murdoch, had repeatedly denied the company had any plans to launch any new free-to-air services.
BSkyB's stance on the su... | 15,122 |
1215152 | Sky Real Lives | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sky%20Real%20Lives | Sky Real Lives
Real Lives.
On 17 September 2007, Sky announced plans to rebrand Sky Travel to Sky Real Lives from 7 November 2007. The new channel focused on programmes with a human interest story and was targeted more at women in the 35–54 age range.
Sky's managing director of entertainment Sophie Turner Laing said ... | 15,123 |
1215152 | Sky Real Lives | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sky%20Real%20Lives | Sky Real Lives
and Sky Arts 2 were launched on UPC Ireland, before being removed on 8 December 2008.
# Closure.
On 16 June 2010, it was announced that Sky Real Lives, and its portfolio of channels would close on 19 August 2010, with the channels budget shifting to Sky1 and Sky2.
Sky Real Lives closed at midnight on ... | 15,124 |
1215152 | Sky Real Lives | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sky%20Real%20Lives | Sky Real Lives
Grimebusters Series 1: 2007 6x24' Series 2: 2008 10x24'
- HD Short Films
- Hoilday Airline
- How Long Will You Live?
- Ian Wright's Unfit Kids
- Intervention (TV series)
- Jodie Kidd's Fashion Avenue
- The Lion Man
- London Ambulance Series 1: 2007 6x24' Series 2: 2008 6x24'
- Love Behind Bars
... | 15,125 |
1215152 | Sky Real Lives | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sky%20Real%20Lives | Sky Real Lives
amous Wives
- Psychic Detectives
- Quintuplets
- Real A&E
- Redcoats
- Real Life Stories
- Risky Business
- Searching For My Son
- Secrets Revealed - DNA Stories
- Sky Travel
- Suicide In The Air
- Swapped Children
- Taken Away
- Teenage Gamblers
- The Clinic
- The Filth Files
- The Littl... | 15,126 |
1215167 | Ernst Goldenbaum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernst%20Goldenbaum | Ernst Goldenbaum
Ernst Goldenbaum
Ernst Goldenbaum (15 December 1898, Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin – 13 March 1990) was an East German politician.
# Biography.
Goldenbaum was born in Parchim. During World War I he served in the military and he participated in the German November Revolution. In 1919 he joined the le... | 15,127 |
1215167 | Ernst Goldenbaum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernst%20Goldenbaum | Ernst Goldenbaum
and he spent the last year of the war in concentration camp Neuengamme. In 1945, he was one of very few who survived the sinking of the SS "Cap Acrona" which claimed over 4000 lives.
After the war he joined the Socialist Unity Party (SED), but in 1948 he co-founded the communist-sponsored Democratic F... | 15,128 |
1215167 | Ernst Goldenbaum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernst%20Goldenbaum | Ernst Goldenbaum
a" which claimed over 4000 lives.
After the war he joined the Socialist Unity Party (SED), but in 1948 he co-founded the communist-sponsored Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (DBD). The DBD was a close ally of the SED. Until 1982, Goldenbaum was the Chairman of the party.
From 1949 to 1990 Goldenb... | 15,129 |
1215145 | Edmund Clarence Stedman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edmund%20Clarence%20Stedman | Edmund Clarence Stedman
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Edmund Clarence Stedman (October 8, 1833January 18, 1908) was an American poet, critic, essayist, banker, and scientist.
# Biography.
Edmund Clarence Stedman was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on October 8, 1833; his father, Major Edmund Burke Stedman died of tuberculo... | 15,130 |
1215145 | Edmund Clarence Stedman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edmund%20Clarence%20Stedman | Edmund Clarence Stedman
and stories to magazines including "Graham's Magazine", "Sartain's Magazine", "The Knickerbocker", and "Godey's Lady's Book" for income. Eventually, the children were taken in by their paternal grandfather, Griffin Stedman, and his brother James in Norwich, Connecticut.
Stedman studied two year... | 15,131 |
1215145 | Edmund Clarence Stedman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edmund%20Clarence%20Stedman | Edmund Clarence Stedman
1900. His first book, "Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic", appeared in 1860, followed by successive volumes of similar character, and by collected editions of his verse in 1873, 1884 and 1897. His longer poems are "Alice of Monmouth: an Idyl of the Great War" (1864); "The Blameless Prince" (1869), an a... | 15,132 |
1215145 | Edmund Clarence Stedman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edmund%20Clarence%20Stedman | Edmund Clarence Stedman
a volume of "Cameos" from Walter Savage Landor (with Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1874); a large Library of (selections from) American Literature (with Ellen M Hutchinson, 11 vols, 1888–1890); a "Victorian Anthology" (1895); and an "American Anthology, 1787–1899" (1900); the two last-named volumes bei... | 15,133 |
1215145 | Edmund Clarence Stedman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edmund%20Clarence%20Stedman | Edmund Clarence Stedman
to the Jubilee year in the edition of 1887) and "Poets of America" (1885), the two works forming the most symmetrical body of literary criticism yet published in the United States. Their value is increased by the treatise on "The Nature and Elements of Poetry" (Boston, 1892) a work of great crit... | 15,134 |
1215145 | Edmund Clarence Stedman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edmund%20Clarence%20Stedman | Edmund Clarence Stedman
by Bayard Taylor in his verse parody "The Echo Club and Other Literary Diversions".
In 1904, Edmund Clarence Stedman was one of the first seven chosen for membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In addition to his literary achievements, Stedman pursued scientific and technical ... | 15,135 |
1215145 | Edmund Clarence Stedman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edmund%20Clarence%20Stedman | Edmund Clarence Stedman
vors. In 1879, he proposed a rigid airship inspired by the anatomy of a fish, with a framework of steel, brass, or copper tubing and a tractor propeller mounted on the crafts bow, later changed to an engine with two propellers suspended beneath the framework. The airship never was built, but its... | 15,136 |
1215144 | Al-Mawardi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Al-Mawardi | Al-Mawardi
Al-Mawardi
Abū al-Hasan 'Alī Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Habīb al-Māwardī ( أبو الحسن علي بن محمد بن حبيب البصري الماوردي ), known in Latin as Alboacen (972–1058 CE), was an Islamic jurist of the Shafi'i school most remembered for his works on religion, government, the caliphate, and public and constitutional law duri... | 15,137 |
1215144 | Al-Mawardi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Al-Mawardi | Al-Mawardi
a definition of the functions of caliphate government which, under the Buyids appeared to be rather indefinite and ambiguous.
# Biography.
Al-Mawardi was born in Basrah during the year 972 C.E. Some authors make the claim that his family was Kurdish, a claim which is unsubstantiated.
The Shafi'i historian... | 15,138 |
1215144 | Al-Mawardi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Al-Mawardi | Al-Mawardi
for his Mu'tazila sympathies. He was eventually appointed chief qadi of Baghdad, and subsequently was entrusted with various responsibilities on behalf of the Caliphate: On four occasions he served as a diplomat on behalf of Caliph al-Qa'im (422-1031, 428/1037, 434/1042 and 435/1043), his successor al-Qadir ... | 15,139 |
1215144 | Al-Mawardi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Al-Mawardi | Al-Mawardi
al-Diniyya" (The Ordinances of Government)
- "Qanun al-Wazarah" (Laws regarding the Ministers)
- "Kitab Nasihat al-Mulk" (The Book of Sincere Advice to Rulers)
- "Kitab Aadab al-Dunya w'al-Din" (The Ethics of Religion and of this World)
- "Personas of the Prophethood"
# On The Ordinances of the Governme... | 15,140 |
1215144 | Al-Mawardi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Al-Mawardi | Al-Mawardi
Ordinances] placed on the qualifications, power and duties pertinent to [a given office of government]... This approach to the matter would explain the working arrangement finally reached by the Buyids and the Abbasid caliphs, later followed also by the more efficient Seljuqs, whereby the military held actua... | 15,141 |
1215156 | The Hits | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hits | The Hits
The Hits
The Hits was a music video channel broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland, owned by Box Television. In 2008 it was rebranded as 4Music.
# Overview and availability.
The channel showcased a range of pop centred on chart hits and current favourites. Originally, the vast majority of music videos ... | 15,142 |
1215156 | The Hits | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hits | The Hits
digital terrestrial television service Freeview on channel 18. It was also available on Sky Digital, encrypted as a part of Sky's Music Pack. The Hits was also available on Virgin Media and was included in the basic package. It was also be seen through the British Forces Broadcasting Service.
# Programmes on ... | 15,143 |
1215156 | The Hits | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hits | The Hits
Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, "Saturday Night" by Whigfield and "C'est la Vie" by B*Witched which are all commonly regarded as "cheesy pop songs".
Another type of programme on The Hits was where one hundred songs are played, usually counting down to a song that is featured as "number one". This varies fr... | 15,144 |
1215156 | The Hits | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hits | The Hits
played every number one of the nineties back to back. It was played over a bank holiday weekend in two parts, the first part on the Sunday and the second part on the Monday. "Every Number One of the Nineties" has been played on 4Music in small segments. A similar programme was "Every Number One of the Twenty-f... | 15,145 |
1215156 | The Hits | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hits | The Hits
Hits would be replaced by 4Music later in the year, and a trial period broadcast on Sundays under the 4Music banner was broadcast on Sunday evenings during the spring. In June 2008 it was further announced that this replacement was to take place during the V Festival weekend on 15 August. The replaced station ... | 15,146 |
1215156 | The Hits | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hits | The Hits
was named the 4Music stage.
The Hits ceased broadcasting music videos on Friday 15 August 2008 at 06:00. The last video played on The Hits was "Thank You for the Music" by ABBA, before fading in to a promo for 4Music.
# Ofcom controversy.
In November 2007, Ofcom found The Hits had breached broadcast licence... | 15,147 |
1215156 | The Hits | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hits | The Hits
gramme in question because of "problems with its logging system". Condition 11 of a Television Licensable Content Service licence requires the broadcaster to keep recordings of all output for 60 days after transmission, providing Ofcom with any material on request.
"Failure to supply these recordings is a ser... | 15,148 |
1215169 | River East | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=River%20East | River East
River East
River East is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was officially created by redistribution in 1979, and has formally existed since the provincial election of 1981. The riding is located on the northeast corner of the City of Winnipeg. It is bordered by the Red... | 15,149 |
1215169 | River East | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=River%20East | River East
9% list Ukrainian. The riding's total population in 1996 was 19,840.
# History.
River East was the only riding in the northern part of Winnipeg to be represented by a Progressive Conservative up until the 2016 general election. Bonnie Mitchelson was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the area from ... | 15,150 |
1215169 | River East | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=River%20East | River East
by a Progressive Conservative up until the 2016 general election. Bonnie Mitchelson was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the area from 1986 to 2016, and was re-elected five times. Bonnie Mitchelson announced her retirement in October, 2014, and did not seek re-election in the 2016 general election.... | 15,151 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis (January 20, 1806 – January 20, 1867), also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazi... | 15,152 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
"Youth's Companion", the first newspaper specifically for children. Willis developed an interest in literature while attending Yale College and began publishing poetry. After graduation, he worked as an overseas correspondent for the "New York Mirror". He eventually moved to New York and began t... | 15,153 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
into his writing and addressed his readers personally, specifically in his travel writings, so that his reputation was built in part because of his character. Critics, including his sister in her novel "Ruth Hall", occasionally described him as being effeminate and Europeanized. Willis also publ... | 15,154 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
Hannah Willis ("née" Parker) from Holliston, Massachusetts and it was her husband's offer to edit the "Eastern Argus" in Maine that caused their move to Portland. Willis's younger sister was Sara Willis Parton, who would later become a writer under the pseudonym Fanny Fern. His brother, Richard ... | 15,155 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
Companion", the world's first newspaper for children. The elder Willis's emphasis on religious themes earned him the nickname "Deacon" Willis. After attending a Boston grammar school and Phillips Academy at Andover, Nathaniel Parker Willis entered Yale College in October 1823 where he roomed wit... | 15,156 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
with whom he would become a lifelong friend. Years later, Harding referred to Willis during this period as "the 'lion' of the town". Willis began publishing poetry in his father's "Boston Periodical", often using one of two literary personalities under the pen names "Roy" (for religious subjects... | 15,157 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
That year, Willis founded the "American Monthly Magazine", which began publishing in April 1829 until it was discontinued in August 1831. He blamed its failure on the "tight purses of Boston culture" and moved to Europe to serve as foreign editor and correspondent of the "New York Mirror". In 18... | 15,158 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
popular and boosted Willis's literary reputation enough that an American edition was soon issued.
Despite this popularity, he was censured by some critics for indiscretion in reporting private conversations. At one point he fought a bloodless duel with Captain Frederick Marryat, then editor of ... | 15,159 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
General William Stace of Woolwich, on October 1, 1835, after a month-long engagement. The couple took a two-week honeymoon in Paris. The couple moved to London where, in 1836, Willis met Charles Dickens, who was working for the "Morning Chronicle" at the time.
In 1837, Willis and his wife retur... | 15,160 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
Elizabeth Landon and editor William Jordan. The article caused some scandal, for which Willis's publisher had to apologize.
On June 20, 1839, Willis's play "Tortesa, the Usurer" premiered in Philadelphia at the Walnut Street Theatre. Edgar Allan Poe called it "by far the best play from the pen ... | 15,161 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
child was stillborn on December 4, 1840. He and Stace had a second daughter, Imogen, who was born June 20, 1842.
Later that year, Willis attended a ball in honor of Charles Dickens in New York. After dancing with Dickens's wife, Willis and Dickens went out for "rum toddy and broiled oysters". B... | 15,162 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
$4,800 a year. As a later journalist remarked, this made Willis "the first magazine writer who was tolerably well paid".
In 1842, Willis employed Harriet Jacobs, an escaped slave from North Carolina, as a house servant and nanny. When her owners sought to have her returned to their plantation, ... | 15,163 |
1215089 | Nathaniel Parker Willis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Parker%20Willis | Nathaniel Parker Willis
"The Night Funeral of a Slave", featured an abolitionist who visits the South and regrets his anti-slavery views; Frederick Douglass later used the work to criticize Northerners who were pro-slavery.
## "Evening Mirror".
Returning to New York City, Willis reorganized, along with George Pope Mo... | 15,164 |
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the first editor of the annual gift book "The Opal" founded by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. During this time, he became the highest-paid magazine writer in America, earning about $100 per article and $5,000 per year, a number which would soon double. Even the popular poet Longfellow admitted his jealo... | 15,165 |
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and Morris and the two demonstrated that the American public could support literary endeavors. Willis was becoming an expert in American literature and so, in 1845, Willis and Morris issued an anthology, "The Prose and Poetry of America".
While Willis was editor of the "Evening Mirror", its iss... | 15,166 |
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during his wife Virginia's illness and while Poe was suing Thomas Dunn English for libel. Willis often tried to persuade Poe to be less destructive in his criticism and concentrate on his poetry. Even so, Willis published many pieces of what would later be referred to as "The Longfellow War", a ... | 15,167 |
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fault or foible". He brought his surviving daughter Imogen to England to be with her mother's family and left her behind when he returned to the United States. In October 1846, he married Cornelia Grinnell, a wealthy Quaker from New Bedford and the adopted daughter of a local Congressman. She wa... | 15,168 |
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publication, published November 21, 1846, announced their intentions to create a magazine "to circle around the family table". Willis intended the magazine for the middle and lower classes and included the message of upward social mobility, using himself as an example, often describing in detail... | 15,169 |
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Frances Sargent Osgood, Anne Lynch Botta, Grace Greenwood, and Julia Ward Howe. Willis and his editors favorably reviewed many works now considered important today, including Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Blithedale Romance".
## Idlewild.
In 1846, Willis settled... | 15,170 |
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the architect, Calvert Vaux, to carefully plan each gable and piazza to fully take advantage of the dramatic view of the river and mountains.
Because of failing health Willis spent the remainder of his life chiefly in retirement at Idlewild. His wife Cornelia was also recovering from a difficul... | 15,171 |
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Willis continued contributing a weekly letter to the "Home Journal". In 1850 he assisted Rufus Wilmot Griswold in preparing an anthology of the works of Poe, who had died mysteriously the year before. Griswold also wrote the first biography of Poe in which he purposely set out to ruin the dead a... | 15,172 |
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Norton Sinclair Forrest. In January 1849, Forrest had found a love letter to his wife from fellow actor George W. Jamieson. As a result, he and Catherine separated in April 1849. He moved to Philadelphia and filed for divorce in February 1850 though the Pennsylvania legislature denied his applic... | 15,173 |
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divorce in the New York Supreme Court, Forrest beat Willis with a gutta-percha whip in New York's Washington Square, shouting "this man is the seducer of my wife". Willis, who was recovering from a rheumatic fever at the time, was unable to fight back. His wife soon received an anonymous letter ... | 15,174 |
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couple "lying on each other". As the press reported, "thousands and thousands of the anxious public" awaited the court's verdict; ultimately, the court sided with Catherine Forrest and Willis's name was cleared.
## Ruth Hall.
Willis arbitrarily refused to print the work of his sister Sara Will... | 15,175 |
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copies the year before. Willis, however, did not encourage his sister's writings. "You overstrain the pathetic, and your humor runs into dreadful vulgarity sometimes ... I am sorry that any editor knows that a sister of mine wrote some of these which you sent me", he wrote. In 1854 she published... | 15,176 |
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his best to support his sister during her difficult times, especially after the death of her first husband.
Among his later works, following in his traditional sketches about his life and people he has met, were "Hurry-Graphs" (1851), "Out-Doors at Idlewild" (1854), and "Ragbag" (1855). Willis ... | 15,177 |
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Irving at Sunnyside.
## Final years and death.
In July 1860, Willis took his last major trip. Along with his wife, he stopped in Chicago and Yellow Springs, Ohio, as far west as Madison, Wisconsin, and also took a steamboat down the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Missouri, and returned throug... | 15,178 |
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invite Edward Everett to speak in New York on behalf of maintaining the Union. The "Home Journal" lost many subscribers during the American Civil War, Morris died in 1864, and the Willis family had to take in boarders and for a time turned Idlewild into a girls' school for income.
Willis was ve... | 15,179 |
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His pallbearers included Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel Gridley Howe, and James Thomas Fields.
# Reputation.
Throughout his literary career, Willis was well liked and known for his good nature amongst friends. Well traveled and clever, he had a striking appeara... | 15,180 |
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Willis put considerable effort into his appearance and his fashion sense, presenting himself as a member of an upcoming American aristocracy. As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. once said, Willis was "something between a remembrance of Count D'Orsay and an anticipation of Oscar Wilde". Publisher Charl... | 15,181 |
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friend George Washington Greene. "And his poetry has now lost one of its greatest charms for me—its sincerity". E. Burke Fisher, a journalist in Pittsburgh, wrote that "Willis is a kind of national pet and we must regard his faults as we do those of a spoiled stripling, in the hope that he will ... | 15,182 |
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and modest persona, questioned his own literary merit, and purposely used titles, such as "Pencillings by the Way" and "Dashes at Life With Free Pencil", which downplayed their own quality. His informally toned editorials, which covered a variety of topics, were also very successful. Using whims... | 15,183 |
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and focused on sentimental and moral subjects.
In the publishing world, Willis was known as a shrewd magazinist and an innovator who focused on appealing to readers' special interests while still recognizing new talent. In fact, Willis became the standard by which other magazinists were judged.... | 15,184 |
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emotion." Minor Southern writer Joseph Beckham Cobb wrote: "No sane person, we are persuaded, can read his poetry". Future senator Charles Sumner reported: "I find Willis is much laughed at for his sketches". Even so, most contemporaries recognized how prolific he was as a writer and how much ti... | 15,185 |
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in the heaven of heavens". After Willis's death, obituaries reported that he had outlived his fame. One remarked, "the man who withdraws from the whirling currents of active life is speedily forgotten". This obituary also stated that Americans "will ever remember and cherish Nathaniel P. Willis ... | 15,186 |
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Thomas N. Baker wrote, Willis is today only referred to as a footnote in relation to other authors.
# Selected list of works.
Prose
- "Sketches" (1827)
- "Pencillings by the Way" (1835)
- "Inklings of Adventure" (1836)
- "À l'Abri; or, The Tent Pitched" (1839)
- "Loiterings of Travel" (18... | 15,187 |
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a Pen to" (1853)
- "Health Trip to the Tropics" (1854)
- "Ephemera" (1854)
- "Famous Persons and Places" (1854)
- "Out-Doors at Idlewild; or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson" (1855)
- "The Rag Bag. A Collection of Ephemera" (1855)
- "Paul Fane; or, Parts of a Life Else Unt... | 15,188 |
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Humorous" (1868)
# References.
## Sources.
- Auser, Cortland P. "Nathaniel P. Willis". New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1969.
- Baker, Thomas N. "Sentiment and Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame". New York, Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Bayless, Joy. "Ru... | 15,189 |
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Square Press, 1992.
- Pattee, Fred Lewis. "The First Century of American Literature: 1770–1870". New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966.
- Phillips, Mary E. "Edgar Allan Poe: The Man". Volume II. Chicago: The John C. Winston Co., 1926.
- Quinn, Arthur Hobson. "Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Bi... | 15,190 |
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York: Harper Perennial, 1991.
- Tomc, Sandra. "An Idle Industry: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Workings of Literary Leisure", "American Quarterly". Vol. 49, Issue 4, December 1997: 780–805.
- Yellin, Jean Fagan. "Harriet Jacobs: A Life". Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basic Civitas Books, 2004.
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Gonzo (company)
# History.
- September 1992: Gonzo Inc. established by former Gainax members.
- May 1996: Digimation K.K. established.
- May 1999: Gonzo Inc. changed its company name to Gonzo K.K.
- February 2000: GDH established.
- May 2000: Creators.com K.K. established.
- April 2002: Gonzo K.K... | 15,192 |
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Online K.K. becomes subsidiary.
- December 2005: GDH Capital K.K. established and Warp Gate Online K.K. changed its company name to Gonzo Rosso Online K.K.
- February 2006: GK Entertainment established.
- April 2009: GDH K.K. merged with its subsidiary, Gonzo K.K., and changed its name to Gonzo K.K.
... | 15,193 |
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in March 2008 that the studio's financial liabilities exceeded its total financial assets. Since Gonzo was unable to reverse this, paperwork for delisting was filed at the end of June.
The studio is still able to operate, and its parent company GDH has absorbed it in an effort to consolidate management... | 15,194 |
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Bank of Japan, Limited) on 2009-03-31.
Since this deficit, Gonzo has started to post better earnings due to the release of titles such as Rosario + Vampire to western online streaming websites such as Netflix. The marketing of these products to western audiences has returned Gonzo to financial stabilit... | 15,195 |
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21"
- 2002–2005 – "Yukikaze (anime)"
- 2004 – "Kaleido Star Aratanaru Tsubasa Extra Stage"
- 2007 – "Bakuretsu Tenshi -Infinity", "Strike Witches", ""
- 2018 – "Hori-san to Miyamura-kun" (Ep 4)
## Films.
- January 2006 – "Gin-iro no Kami no Agito" Also known as ""
- July 2006 – "Brave Story"
- J... | 15,196 |
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intro FMV and character stills
- 2001: "" – contributed intro FMV and character stills
- 2001: "SkyGunner" – contributed anime sequences
- 2002: "Suikoden III" – contributed intro FMV
- 2003: "" – contributed anime sequences
- 2009: "" – contributed anime sequences in home version
- 2010: "Super S... | 15,197 |
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(Kiddy Grade Versus)
- 2003: "Kiddy Grade" (Kiddy Grade Reverse)
- 2004: "Bakuretsu Tenshi" (Angel's Adolescence)
- 2005: "Gankutsuou"
- 2005: "Speed Grapher"
- 2007: "Romeo x Juliet"
- 2007: "Red Garden"
- 2007: "Getsumen to Heiki Miina"
- 2008: "Blassreiter – Genetic"
# International distribu... | 15,198 |
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although they're no longer licensed since the company's closure. MVM Films was the UK licensee for the majority of Gonzo titles licensed by Funimation in the US, with the exception of "Afro Samurai", which was initially distributed directly in the UK by GDH and later by Manga Entertainment UK who also l... | 15,199 |
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