Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, short as Arthur Rimbaud was born on October 20, 1854 in Charleville, France. His parents were Frederic Rimbaud and Marie Catherine Vitale Cuif (NNDB). His father was an irresponsible army captain who spent only a little time with his family and then left the family when Rimbaud was six (Encyclopedia Britannica). His mother, though under the hardships of life, raised up her children and made them become pious and well-mannered (Encyclopedia Britannica). Before Rimbaud was nine, his mother taught him at home, then they moved to the Cours d’Orleans in 1862 for a better neighborhood (Encyclopedia Britannica). His mother would punish the children by making them learn Latin verse in a strict way if they had made …show more content…
He had won a lot of prizes in writing and verse composing when he was only 13 years old; this brought him strong ambitions and confidences (POETS). Georges Izambard, his teacher, helped him a lot because he thought highly of Rimbaud’s talent and the devoting mind for literature (POETS). In 1870, the Franco-Prussian war occurred; Rimbaud started to show his interest in politics. And in July of the same year, his school closed due to the war (Encyclopedia Britannica). This is a symbol of the end of his formal education (Encyclopedia …show more content…
At that time Rimbaud had composed Le Bateau ivre(The Drunken Boat) which was considered as a high level work. Rimbaud stayed with Verlaine and his wife for some time and had met some famous poets but he annoyed almost all of them by his capricious moods and haughty attitudes. However, Verlaine still gave him supports and they soon became lovers. In May 1872 Verlaine abandoned his family as he had been attached too much to Rimbaud, fleeing to London with Rimbaud. “During this winter Ribaud composed a series of 40 prose poems to which he gave the title Illuminations.” This work influenced his latter composing, also brought some influences to the French poetry in later times. In 1873, Rimbaud returned to his family for starting a new work named Une Saison en enfer (A Season in Hell). Since this time, Rimbaud and Verlaine’s relation had faced many times of in and out. As an end of their love, Verlaine shot Rimbaud in his wrist and Verlaine was sentenced for two years’ imprisonment. Rimbaud finished Une Saison en enfer after that, it became a well-known remark of self-confession and psychological examination in the days to come. (Encyclopedia
Peter Salem : a slave who was freed by his owner, Jeremiah Belknap, to join the Framingham militia in Massachusetts. He was a patriot for over seven years, supporting the Americans fight the British, and became a militia himself and served for four years and eight months. In 1775, Peter took part in fighting the war’s first battle at Concord. He enrolled in Captain Drury’s Company of John Nixon’s 6th Massachusetts Regiment. He also took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he mortally wounded British Marine Major, John Pitcairn. Then in 1776, he reenlisted for another year in the 4th Continental Regiment. After his enlistment was over, he volunteer for three years in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment of Colonel Thomas Nixon. Achievement : Contribute to Concord battle(1775), Battle of the Bunker Hill(1775), and the Battles of Saratoga and Stony Point(1777).
Claude Monet played an essential role in a development of Impressionism. He created many paintings by capturing powerful art from the world around him. He was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. Later, his family moved to Le Havre, Normandy, France because of his father’s business. Claude Monet did drawings of the nature of Normandy and time spent along the beaches and noticing the nature. As a child, his father had always wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but he was interested in becoming an artist. He was known by people for his charcoal caricatures, this way he made money by selling them by the age of 15. Moreover, Claude went to take drawing lessons with a local artist, but his career in painting had not begun yet. He met artist Eugène Boudin, who became his teacher and taught him to use oil paints. Claude Monet
His life was a very tragic which was displayed through many of his works. Some of his poetry for example, could be construed as horrid accounts of death. "The Rave...
He was born on November 14, 1840 Paris, France. He is the person who started impressionism and had a very strong love for it. Monet described Impressionism as thinking of the colors and shapes. “When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here is an oblong of pink, here is a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you and the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own naive impression of the scene before.” From a young age, Monet loved drawing and being outside. He was accepted to the Salon of 1865 but after showing his work, he struggled financially. “Monet became so despondent over the situation that, in 1868, he attempted suicide by trying to drown himself in the Seine River.” While Monet was becoming well-known, he was in need of money and had asked his father to send him money. Monet’s father refused but finally he gained a patron, In June 1870, he married Camille Doncieux, who modelled for his paintings, but the Franco-Prussian War forced Monet, his wife and son to flee to London, England. Once there Monet met his first art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel. After the war, his family moved to Argenteuil, France. “Banding together with several other artists, Monet helped form the Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, as an alternative to the Salon and exhibited
Antoni Gaudi i Cornet was born on June 25, 1852. He lived in a town called Reus in Catalonia. His father worked as a coppersmith in a nearby village. Having four older siblings, Gaudi was the youngest child in his family. In his childhood, he suffered from rheumatism. That illness, as well as other factors such as his discovery of nature, made Gaudi pay more attention to the world that surrounded him (Duran 2-3).
July 1, 1925, was the son of an English mother and a Parisian music publisher.
In conclusion, it is the combination of Baudelaire’s eccentricity as well as the influence that his life and culture had on his writing that have made him such a significant figure in French 19-century literature. By selecting and analyzing “Elevation,” “Spleen,” and “To One Who Is
Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg in 1809. His father Abraham Mendelssohn was a banker, while his mum Lea Mendelssohn was a highly educated artist and musician. Mendelssohn first had his piano lesson from his mum, but soon he was sent to study with the best teachers at that time such as Marie Bigot and Ludwig Burger. He also took composition lessons with Karl Zelter, who was the professor of the University of Berlin. Under their proper guidance, he completely showed his music talent- he first appeared as pianist at nine and as a composer at ten. At his age of twelve, he already composed nine fugues, five symphonies for strings, two operas and a huge number of smaller pieces. When he was sixteen, the publication of his Octet in E-flat Major for strings and Overture to A Mid Summer Night’s Dream marked his full maturity.
Francis Poulenc was born in Paris, France on January 7, 1899 into a well–to–do family. His father, Emile Poulenc, was one of the directors of the pharmaceutical firm Rhone-Poulenc. Never one to be without money, Poulenc’s composing was often viewed as more of a hobby than a necessity. Poulenc never studied at the famed Paris Conservatory or any other musical institution, which later made it difficult for him to be accepted by his peers.
He rose to his position from rather modest beginnings in the south London village of Camberwell. Browning was born in 1812, to middle-class parents, his father, Robert, Sr., was a clerk for the Bank of England, and had refined artistic literary tastes. His mother Sarah Anne Widedemann, a devout Christian, pursued interests in music and nature. Browning read at age five and composed his first poetry ...
Baudelaire’s most famous body of work is a collection of 140 poems, called Les Fleurs du mal. Collection is divided into 6 thematically segregated sections. Through the book, poet is confessing his dreams, hopes, failures and sins. Unlike traditional poetry, he doesn’t rely on the serene beauty of the
His life and art work was greatly influenced by this small town in France. He was the son of a shrewd business man, Louis-Auguste Cezanne. As a boy growing up in Aix, Cezanne loved to study Greek and Latin literature. At the age of thirteen, Paul met Emile Zola at the College Bourbon.
Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell (a suburb of London), the first child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. His mother was a fervent and an accomplished pianist. Mr. Browning had angered his own father and forgone a fortune: the poet's grandfather had sent his son to oversee a West Indies sugar plantation, but the young man had found the institution of slavery so abhorrent that he gave up his prospects and returned home, to become a clerk in the Bank of England. On this very modest salary he was able to marry, raise a family, and to acquire a library of 6000 volumes. He was an exceedingly well-read man who could recreate the siege of Troy with the household chairs and tables for the benefit of his inquisitive son.
On August 5, 1850, Maupassant was born near Normandy, France, where he lived for the majority of his childhood. He was the first son of Laure Le Poittevin and Gustave de Maupassant, who were both from prestigious bourgeois families. When Maupassant was eleven years old, his parents were legally divorced and both he and his brother lived with their mother until the age of thirteen when he attended a Catholic seminary school. It was apparent that Maupassant displayed hostility towards religion, however, because soon afterwards he deliberately got himself expelled. Despite this setback, Maupassant’s education did not end there – he finished his general schooling at a Rauen boarding school where he studied poetry and had a prominent part in theatricals (Wilson 167).
Robert Browning was born in 1812 in Camberwell, London. His father was a bank clerk who had and impressive book collection, which Browning enjoyed reading through very much. Browning gained and education from home that was artistically inclined. Supposedly, Browning was a fluent writer and reader by age five. At ten years old he attended his first school, Peckam School, where he stayed for four years. Once he read Percy Shelley’s poetry at age thirteen he declared himself a devote poet. In 1833, he published his first long poem “Pauline,” then from 1841-1846 he published his works under the alias, Bells and Pomegranates, which were not received well at that time. Surprisingly, this is when some of his most famous poems were published. During this time he also met his wife, Elizabeth Barret. Elizabeth is also a very well established Victorian era poet.