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2) Claude Monet
Author
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life, work, and legacy of nineteenth-century French Impressionist artist Claude Monet.
6) Dryden
Author
Publisher
Gale Research Co
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
Saintsbury examines the life of John Dryden (1631—1700), England's first Poet Laureate and one of the most important writers of the late seventeenth century. He is best known for his poems, plays, literary essays and translations, including such satirical works as MacFlecknoe. Saintsbury focuses on his literary work, fall from grace, and transformation in the period known as the "Age of Dryden."
9) Swift
Author
Publisher
Gale Research Co
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) came from a distinguished family of politicians, jurists and writers, and was the father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. His literary career began with writing about his great passion, the Alps, and he became a noted author and critic, and the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. He was a friend of John Morley (1838–1923), the general editor of English Men of Letters, who commissioned him
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