Gwen Verdon was an American actress and a dancer. Gwen won four Tony awards for the musical comedy performances that she has done. She was well known on Broadway in the 1950’s through the 1970’s. Gwen was born in “Culver City‚ California”. She was the second child of Gertrude Lilian and Joseph William Verdon. They were “British immigrants to the United States”. When she was at the age of 11 years old she appeared as a “solo ballerina” in the musical romance film “The King Steps
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Is William Shakespeare the famous writer everyone thinks he is‚ or was he given credit where it was not due? Some critics say that William Shakespeare did not write his plays. There is evidence showing that Shakespeare did not write his plays‚ but there is also evidence that he indeed did write his plays. Most of Shakespeare’s plays were not his in the first place‚ he wrote most of them based off of previous writers and historical events. There were no copywrite laws back then so all of his actions
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Philip Larkin was born in 1922 in Coventry‚ England. Like Thomas Hardy‚ he focused on intense personal emotion but strictly avoided sentimentality or self-pity. Deeply anti-social and a great lover (and published critic) of American jazz‚ Larkin never married and conducted an uneventful life as a librarian in the provincial city of Hull‚ where he died in 1985. This short poem touches on a favourite theme of Larkin’s - the distance between what we originally plan and what‚ in the end‚ we achieve
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When “An Arundel Tomb” was first published in The Whitsun Weddings in 1964‚ a number of reviewers singled the poem out for comment. Christopher Ricks‚ in The New York Review of Books‚ described Larkin as “the best poet England now has‚” and said of the collection “people will be grateful for its best poems for a long time.” Ricks listed “An Arundel Tomb” as one of the six best poems. Praise came also from Joseph L. Feather-stone‚ in New Republic‚ who used the last two lines of the poem to illustrate
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William Shakespeare: Shakespearean Authorship Many individuals say that William Shakespeare of Stratford is the original writer of all 38 plays and 154 sonnets. It is argued that someone else other than Shakespeare wrote these plays. William Shakespeare was born April 23‚ 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Shakespreare was a lower middle-class man. William Shakespaeare‚ son of John Shakespeare‚ a glove maker and town official and Mary Arden who belonged to a family of the local gentry. Also‚ father
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"Afternoons" is a melancholy poem‚ about the inevitability of change and the passing of youth. The poem‚ written by Philip Larkin‚ forces the reader to reflect upon the lifestyle of a young woman with a husband and family. Previously‚ I thought this would be a very fulfilling lifestyle; however‚ Larkin has changed my opinion on this matter. Although Larkin’s thoughts on this life are completely biased‚ Larkin does make a valid point‚ which is that these young women lead a quite monotonous lifestyle
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Larkin and abse discussing relationships Philip Larkin and Dannie Abse have very different and contrating attitudes to relationships. On the whole‚ Larkin presents the concepts of love and marriage as very superficial and meaningless‚ whereas Abse appears to be less such nihilistic and more open and positive about such topics. The essay will discuss this contrast by examing Larkin’s “Whitsun Weddings”‚ “Wild Oats” and “Arundel Tomb”‚ and Dannie Abse’s “Imitations” and “Sons”.
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Compare how the theme ‘passion’ is expressed by the poets Larkin and Plath Passion is an integral theme demonstrated in several poems by Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin through their conscience use of literary devices which are explored in a number of auxiliary themes. The variety in techniques used‚ in addition to their differing attitudes towards the subjects of their poems express dissimilar versions of passion; there is a contrast in the levels of passion displayed: In Larkin’s poetry‚ a deficiency
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Character Analysis on Mr. Bleaney Mr. Bleaney is a poem written by Phillip Larkin‚ which portrays the life of an isolated man in a confined room. The poem is a metaphor of Mr. Bleaney’s life. The poem is written through the voice of an unknown speaker. From the poem we gather that Mr Bleaney is a man who cares little about the material possessions‚ shown by the fact he lives in a rented room with poor conditions such as the “curtains‚ thin and frayed”. He does not own very much‚ so this gives
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of the most important decisions by me as it helped me leverage my position in the job market along with extensive understanding of accounting concepts. Other than that‚ I selected it as it provided me an opportunity to get the BSc. Honors degree of Oxford Brookes University. While studying as an accounting student in United Kingdom‚ I really needed a locally recognized degree on my resume to enhance my exposure in the competitive market of UK. The topic I chose for my research is “Financial and business
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