Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

For many music is a way to communicate and express someone’s emotions. This is one of the many beauties people find in this art form. This researcher paper is about the life and work of Anton Bruckner, a great composer of the romantic period. The research paper will be focus from Bruckner’s early life to his last moments. Anton Bruckner was born on September 4 1824 in the village of Ansfelden, Austria to a family known for being craftsman and farmers. Bruckner was the first of 11 children. Bruckner’s

General Overview of the Humanities Meaning, Importance, And Scope Methods of Presenting the Art Subjects With the advent of the computer age, advanced science and technology have overwhelmed many aspects of our lives, and even our possibilities of survival are affected. The humanities can provide enjoyment and stimulation, especially when we try to understand what it covers. The Meaning, Importance, and Scope of humanities The word humanities come from the Latin humanus, which means human

the principal motivation behind the Greeks' disparaging attitude towards their women stemmed from fear of female sexual power.  In both The Odyssey and other myths, we hear of men imprisoned by their passions for nymphs.  For instance, the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (5) reports that Anchises frets after sleeping with Aphrodite "for no man retains his full strength who sleeps with an immortal goddess (Morford 140)."  Greeks feared the mental side effects of sexual domination as much as the physical

poet Petrarch in the fourteenth century, the sonnet is still used by many contemporary writers. The appeal of the sonnet lies in its two-part structure, which easily lends itself to the dynamics of much human emotional experience and to the intellectual mode of human sensibility for argument based on complication and resolution. In the last decade of the sixteenth century, sonnet writing became highly fashionable following the publication of Sir Philip Sydney’s sonnet sequence Astrophel

the nineteenth century decided to rewrite early history with the new disciplines of anthropology and archeology as guides. Moreover, focusing on a flattering view of female imaging by attuning their polytheistic religions to agree with their own intellectual fallacies and desires; just as our

Romanticism as a movement is as rebellious as its content. Lynch and Stillinger attempt to define it historically rather than continuously, naming it the “shortest … period in British literary history” (3). They place it within the timespan of 1785 to 1832, beginning between the American War of Independence and the French Revolution and ending with the passage of the Reform Act in British Parliament. In this time of reflection and change, authors re-examined the previously discarded medieval romances

There is some debate on the true purpose behind Mary Shelley’s legendary novel Frankenstein. There are those that believe Mary Shelley was a Supporter of the Romantic Movement and that her work challenges the, previously accepted, neoclassical beliefs of avoiding extremes. However, there seems to be more evidence showing that Mary Shelley, in fact, reinforced neoclassical values. Rather than making her main character, Frankenstein, a tragic hero, glorifying his faults, and ultimately supporting the

Europe has federal, multi-regional and multinational identities. The transmission of the religious ideologies of Europe has been essential to the development of the continent as both a practical and an imagined idea. The formation of these characterizations is complex, but music is a practical way to better understand the traditional, functional and socio-historical underpinnings that have formed the tapestry of European identity. Gregorian chant is musically and culturally significant to the evolution

Lilit Markosyan Different countries have different cultures, traditions and values. They represent the image of the nation, people’s mentality, how they think and behave, and what they strive for and struggle for. With the help of them we judge of what is important in life of a person, of a nation, of a country. America is not an exception. Despite the great number of various ethnic groups that inhabit United States, there are things that unite all the people. Among them are such values like freedom

Sin and Death in Paradise Lost       Abstract: Death assumes in his original argument, with most readers of Paradise Lost, that Satan is all bad, having rejected God, and presumably that his charisma is illusory. Sin assumes, with Empson, that Satan's entire career, including his corruption of Eve, is the project of an all-powerful and sinister God. By the time Satan gets to Mt. Niphates in Book IV he is convinced of both; he recognizes that his misery is his own fault for rejecting