I've added a new link to my sidebar. The John Milton Reading Room contains all of John Milton's poetry and a nice selection of his prose.
A short biography of John Milton (1608-1674)
John Milton wrote essays, sonnets and, most importantly, Paradise Lost, considered by many scholars the greatest epic poem of the English language. Milton was a Londoner and received his education at Cambridge (1625-32), where he wrote his famous poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." During his career Milton was an active voice on contemporary issues of politics and religion, and during the English Civil War he sided with the anti-royalists under Oliver Cromwell.
His rousing tracts supporting the Commonwealth -- which included an argument defending the execution of Charles I -- led to a position as a foreign secretary (1649). Milton somehow managed to escape serious punishment after the restoration of the monarchy (1660) and lived the remainder of his life quietly. Blind after 1652, he dictated the entirety of Paradise Lost (1667), the story of Satan's rebellion (and defeat) and the fall of Adam and Eve.
John Berger: Here is where we meet / Hier, wo wir uns begegnen Buchbesprechung auf Deutsch
Ich habe die englische Taschenbuchausgabe, die bei Vintage International erschienen ist, gelesen. John Bergers "Here is where we meet" ist Fiktion im besten Sinne und erzählt von Begegnungen des Ich-Erzählers in der Gegenwart mit längst verstorbenen Personen, die eine Rolle in seiner Vergangenheit gespielt haben. Eine deutsche Ausgabe ist im Carl Hanser Verlag erschienen.
Das Buch beginnt und endet mit einem Gespräch, das der Ich-Erzähler mit seiner toten Mutter führt. An verschiedenen Orten in Europa, wie beispielsweise in Lissabon oder auch in Polen, kommt es zu weiteren solchen Begnungen, in denen die Toten zu Gesprächspartnern und Begleitern werden.
John Berger: Here is where we meet Book review in English
I've read the English pocket edition which has been published by Vintage International. John Berger's "Here is where we meet" is fiction at it's best and tells the stories of the narrator's encounters with people that are dead for a long time. And these people played an important role in the narrator's past. By the way, there are also translations of this book into German and other languages.
The book starts and ends with a talk that the narrator has with his dead mother. At different places in Europe, like Lisbon, Poland and other locations, the narrator has more of those encounters in which the dead persons become interlocutors and companions.
Roger Moorhouse: Killing Hitler Die Attentäter, die Pläne und warum sie scheiterten (Deutscher Titel)
Buchbesprechung auf Deutsch
Das im Marix Verlag erschienene Buch "Killing Hitler" von Roger Moorhouse handelt von 20 Versuchen, Hitler umzubringen. Auf 430 Seiten, die spannend und interessant geschrieben sind, berichtet der britische Historiker Roger Moorhouse von Attentätern wie Maurice Bavaud, Georg Elser, Hans Oster, Claus von Stauffenberg und anderen.
Roger Moorhouse: Killing Hitler The Third Reich and the Plots against the Führer (English title)
Book review in English
"Killing Hitler" was originally published by Jonathan Cape, London. I've read the German translation. This book is about 20 attempts to kill Adolf Hitler. The book contains 430 pages, full of suspense and information. The British historian Roger Moorhouse talks about would-be assassins like Maurice Bavaud, Georg Elser, Hans Oster, Claus von Stauffenberg and others.
Madeleine Carroll (February 26, 1906 - October 2, 1987) was a British actress, who was popular in the 1930s and 1940s. She was born as Edith Madeleine Carroll in West Bromwich, England, and she graduated from the University of Birmingham, England. She became an American citizen in 1943.
During World War II, Madeleine Carroll was an American Red Cross voluntary worker. She served in the 61st Field Hospital, Bari, Italy in 1944, where many wounded American airmen flying out of air bases around Foggia were hospitalized.
She appeared in two Alfred Hitchcock movies The 39 Steps and Secret Agent. She also appeared in The Prisoner of Zenda, One Night in Lisbon, and My Favourite Blonde (with Bob Hope).
Madeleine Carroll was married four times: 1) Captain Philip Astley (1931-1940) 2) Sterling Hayden (1942-1946) 3) Andrew Heiskell (1950-1965) 4) Henri Lavorel
"Der Zinker" ("The Squeaker") by Alfred Vohrer with Heinz Drache, Barbara Rütting, Günther Pfitzmann, Jan Hendriks, Inge Langen, Agnes Windeck, Wolfgang Wahl, Siegfried Wischnewski, ... (Germany 1963)
Artist: Radiohead Album: Ok Computer Title: Karma Police Year: 1997
Lyrics
Karma police, arrest this man, he talks in maths He buzzes like a fridge, hes like a detuned radio Karma police, arrest this girl, her hitler hairdo, is making me feel ill And we have crashed her party This is what you get, this is what you get This is what you get, when you mess with us
Karma police, Ive given all I can, its not enough Ive given all I can, but were still on the payroll This is what you get, this is what you get This is what you get, when you mess with us And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
To listen to this song please click here: Karma Police
The premiere of the three-movement 4′33″ was given by David Tudor on 1952-08-29, at Woodstock, New York as part of a recital of contemporary piano music.
The audience saw him sit at the piano and lift the lid of the piano. Some time later, without having played any notes, he closed the lid. A while after that, again having played nothing, he lifted the lid. And after a period of time, he closed the lid again and rose from the piano.
The piece had passed without a note being played, in fact without Tudor or anyone else on stage having made any deliberate sound, although he timed the lengths on a stopwatch while turning the pages of the score.
Richard Kostelanetz suggests that the very fact that Tudor, a man known for championing experimental music, was the performer, and that Cage, a man known for introducing unexpected non-musical noise into his work, was the composer, would have led the audience to expect unexpected sounds.
Anybody listening intently would have heard them: while the performer produces no deliberately musical sound, there will nonetheless be sounds in the concert hall (just as there were sounds in the anechoic chamber at Harvard). It is these sounds, unpredictable and unintentional, that are to be regarded as constituting the music in this piece. The piece remains controversial to this day, and is seen as challenging the very definition of music.
The length of 4′33″ is in fact not designated by its score. The instructions for the work indicate that it consists of three movements, for each of which the only instruction is "tacet", indicating silence on the part of the performer or performers. The title of the piece in each performance is determined by the length of silence chosen.
"Der Würger von Schloß Blackmoor" ("The Strangler Of Blackmoor Castle") by Harald Reinl with Karin Dor, Rudolph Fernau, Harry Riebauer, Dieter Eppler, I. Zeisberg, ... Germany 1963
Ähnlich wie "Dracula" besteht diese Ausgabe von Penguin Books nicht nur aus dem eigentlichen Roman, sondern beinhaltet ebenfalls eine ausführliche Einleitung, Anmerkungen und so weiter.
Auch der Anfang des eigentlichen Romans erinnert von seiner Form her an "Dracula". "Frankenstein" beginnt mit vier Briefen eines Forschungsreisenden an seine Schwester.
Artist: Client Title: Silly, But I Loved You (Kenickies Disco Mix)
About Client
The original band members were formerly known only anonymously as Client A and Client B. It has since been revealed that they are Kate Holmes, formerly of Frazier Chorus and Technique, and Sarah Blackwood, lead singer of Dubstar.
Dieses Buch, erschienen bei Penguin Books, war meine Lektüre für das First Certificate In English. Das Original ist natürlich auf französisch geschrieben. Jules Verne (1828-1905) veröffentlichte diesen Abenteuerroman im Jahr 1873. Die Handlung des Romans fällt in das Jahr 1872.
Phileas Fogg wettet mit ein paar Mitgliedern aus dem vornehmen London Reform Club, dass er die Erde innerhalb von 80 Tagen umrunden werde. Begleitet von seinem treuen Diener, dem Franzosen Passepartout, macht er sich sofort auf die Reise ...
"Bram Stoker's Dracula" by Dan Curtis with Jack Palance, Nigel Davenport, Pamela Brown, ... (Great Britain 1973)
Plot
May, 1897. British real estate clerk Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to convey the purchase of a property in Whitby in England for Count Dracula.
But Dracula is a vampire and allows Jonathan to be taken by his three brides. Five weeks later Dr Van Helsing is called to Whitby to tend Jonathan's fiancée Mina Murray and then Lucy Westenra as they fall inexplicably ill.
"Der Zinker" ("The Squeaker")
Artist: Client
"Bram Stoker's Dracula"
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