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2 giorni fa · Most work on the Enlightenment emphasizes the ideals discussed by intellectuals, rather than the actual state of education at the time. Leading educational theorists like England's John Locke and Switzerland's Jean Jacques Rousseau both emphasized the importance of shaping young minds early.
5 giorni fa · John R. Jewitt (1783–1821), an English armourer who spent three years as a captive of Maquinna of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) people on the Pacific coast of what is now Canada. John Punch (fl. 1630s, living 1640), an enslaved African man in the Virginia Colony in the 17th century.
3 giorni fa · This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British ...
5 giorni fa · John Keats (born October 31, 1795, London, England—died February 23, 1821, Rome, Papal States [Italy]) was an English Romantic lyric poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend.
- John Keats was an English Romantic lyric poet whose verse is known for its vivid imagery and great sensuous appeal. His reputation grew after his e...
- John Keats’s father, a livery-stable manager, died when he was eight, and his mother remarried almost immediately. Throughout his life, Keats was c...
- John Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon in 1811. He broke off the apprenticeship in 1814 and went to London, where he worked as a dresser, or junio...
- John Keats wrote sonnets, odes, and epics. All his greatest poetry was written in a single year, 1819: “Lamia,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,” the great o...
- John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome in 1821 at the age of 25.
3 giorni fa · In the 19th century Cuba imported more than 600,000 African slaves, most of whom arrived after 1820, the date that Spain and Great Britain had agreed would mark the end of slave trading in the Spanish colonies.
2 giorni fa · African Americans - Slavery, Resistance, Abolition: Enslaved people played a major, though unwilling and generally unrewarded, role in laying the economic foundations of the United States—especially in the South. Black people also played a leading role in the development of Southern speech, folklore, music, dancing, and food ...
6 giorni fa · The Neoclassical Period of English literature (1660 - 1785) can be divided into three subsets: the Restoration, the Augustan Age, and the Age of Sensibility. The literature of this time is known for its use of philosophy, reason, skepticism, wit, and refinement.
