The Tragic Muse is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1889–1890 and then as a book in 1890. This wide, cheerful...
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Melpomene (redirect from Muse of Tragedy)
and memory) along with the other Muses, and she is often portrayed with a tragic theatrical mask. Melpomene's name (implying the meaning "Songstress")...
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as the Tragic Muse, or Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, is a 1783–1784 painting by English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. The 1784 version is in the Huntington...
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Sarah Siddons (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Siddons as the Tragic Muse, in 1784. He told her that he had signed it on the hem of her dress because he had "resolved to go down to posterity on the hem of...
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The Reverberator (1888) The Tragic Muse (1890) The Other House (1896) The Spoils of Poynton (1897) What Maisie Knew (1897) The Awkward Age (1899) The...
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some critics have argued that the "pseudo-Aristotelian" concept of the tragic flaw does not apply to Shakespeare's tragic figures.) Revenge tragedy was...
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the Muses (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, romanized: Moûsai, Greek: Μούσες, romanized: Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the...
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Roderick Hudson 1890 Henry James's The Tragic Muse 1901 Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career 1903 Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh 1908 Henry Handel...
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Henry James (redirect from The Finer Grain)
from the 1880s was The Tragic Muse. Although he was following the precepts of Zola in his novels of the '80s, their tone and attitude are closer to the fiction...
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with the gods to revive his wife Euridice after she had been fatally injured. It opens with a simple melody by a singer representing the Tragic Muse, La...
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Rachel Félix (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Nuttall Encyclopedia)
maturité". Les Conférences de Mathilde. Brownstein, Rachel M., Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comédie-Française. Duke University Press, Durham and London; 1995...
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considered solely as a muse by Rendle and never as a woman, Mrs. Anerton finds herself in a tragic situation. The short story addresses the themes of love, tragedy...
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135–136. Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder (1 September 2009). "The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse". Victorian Literature and Culture. 37 (2): 501–522. doi:10...
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Miriam (given name) (category Articles needing the year an event occurred from April 2017)
character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Marble Faun (1860) Miriam Rooth in Henry James's novel The Tragic Muse (1890) Miriam Leveirs in D.H. Lawrence's...
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Varvara Bakhmeteva (category Romantic muses and models)
was the beloved and tragic muse of the great Romantic poet Mikhail Lermontov. Born into the ancient noble Lopukhin family, Varvara Lopukhina was the seventh...
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(locomotive), an electric locomotive on the London Underground from 1923 to 1962 Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a 1784 painting by Joshua Reynolds Sarah...
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poetry Clio, the Muse of history Erato, the Muse of love poetry Euterpe, the Muse of music Melpomene, the Muse of tragedy Polyhymnia, the Muse of hymns Terpsichore...
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tragedy. In ancient Greek theatre, actors in tragic roles wore a boot called a buskin (Latin cothurnus) while the actors with comedic roles wore only a thin-soled...
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Henry James Sr. (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
1882) was an American theologian and the father of the philosopher William James, the novelist Henry James, and the diarist Alice James. Following a dramatic...
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James McNeill Whistler (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
several fictional characters on the 'queer little Londonized Southerner,' most notably in Roderick Hudson and The Tragic Muse". Whistler "also appeared as...
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All About Eve (category Films that won the Best Sound Mixing Academy Award)
Achievement." The statuette is modeled after the famous painting of Siddons costumed as the tragic Muse by Joshua Reynolds, a copy of which hangs in the entrance...
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her disastrous, her tragic health was in a manner the only solution for her of the practical problems of life—as it suppressed the element of equality...
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Joshua Reynolds (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
Fitzherbert, 1788 The Infant Hercules (c. 1785–1789), Princeton University Art Museum Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1789), The Huntington Library...
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Una O'Connor (actress) (category Alumni of the Royal College of Art)
where she appeared in The Magic Jug, The Starlight Express (1915-16 at the Kingsway Theatre), and Paddy the Next Best Thing. In the early 1920s, she appeared...
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POLLITT, Jerome (1986). pp. 4-6 STEWART, Andrew. Baroque Classics: The Tragic Muse and the Exemplum. In PORTER, James (ed). Classical pasts. Princeton University...
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subject in a manner suggestive of Joshua Reynolds Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse. The painting also suggests Lambert was familiar with John Singer Sargent's...
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New York Edition (redirect from The Novels and Tales of Henry James)
two) The Tragic Muse (part one) The Tragic Muse (part two) The Awkward Age The Spoils of Poynton, A London Life, The Chaperon What Maisie Knew, In the Cage...
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Philip Horne (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
of James' works: A London Life and The Reverberator (1989) and The Tragic Muse (1995). Not surprisingly he used the New York Edition texts for all these...
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such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. Third stanza was first published on January 2nd, 1798 in the Morning Post entitled "To the Lord Mayor's...
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Over time, the project evolved, and the parts of the figures became separate sculptures, including Meditation, Tragic Muse, and Iris. The figure that...
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