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1 giorno fa · Great Lives. Great Lives is a BBC Radio 4 biography series, produced in Bristol. It has been presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and currently (since April 2006) Matthew Parris. A distinguished guest is asked to nominate the person they feel is truly deserving of the title "Great Life".
4 giorni fa · Humphrey Carpenter and Michael Oliver judge that Britten's abilities as an orchestrator were essentially self-taught; Donald Mitchell considers that Bridge had an important influence on the cycle. Public school and Royal College of Music Early influences, clockwise from top left: Mahler, Ireland, Shostakovich, Stravinsky
3 giorni fa · According to Humphrey Carpenter's biography of Tolkien, the author claimed to hold Wagner's interpretation of the relevant Germanic myths in contempt, even as a young man before reaching university.
9 mag 2024 · In a letter written by Tolkien, the author stated (via The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter): "I now deeply regret having used [the term] Elves, though this is a word in ancestry ...
10 mag 2024 · Humphrey Carpenter's J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography explained that a tarantula once bit Tolkien when he was growing up in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Many pointed to the incident as the source of Tolkien's fascination with evil spiders, but Tolkien denied this.
6 giorni fa · Humphrey Carpenter examines the lives and writings of Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, George Macdonald, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, A.A. Milne and others whose works make up the Golden Age of children's literature.
24 apr 2024 · Humphrey Carpenter. Mari Prichard. data. > Product: book. ISBN-10: 0-19-211582-0. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-211582-9. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA. Country: English language. Year: July 19, 1984. Edition: 1st U. S. Edition. Size: 6.50 x 9.56 x 1.75 inch. Number of pages: 602. Weight: 1,052 gr. Language: English. Binding/Media: hardback.
