Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Stephen Collins Foster: (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864). Known as “the father of American music”, was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs, including “Oh! Susanna”, “Hard Times Come Again No More”, “Camptown Races”, “Old Folks at Home” (“Swanee… Lees verder Stephen Foster

Charlotte Smith: (née Turner; 4 May 1749 – 28 October 1806). English novelist and poet of the School of Sensibility whose Elegiac Sonnets (1784) contributed to the revival of the form in England. She also helped to set conventions for Gothic fiction and wrote political novels of sensibility. Despite ten novels, four children’s books and… Lees verder Charlotte Smith

Victoria Abbott Riccardi: American write + author. I cover travel and luxury lifestyle topics including hotels and spas, food and wine, architecture and design, health and wellness, gardening and conservation. Along with the greening of May came the rain. Then the clouds disappeared, and a soft pale lightness fell over the city as if Kyoto… Lees verder Victoria Abbott Riccardi

Nicholas Breton: (also Britton or Brittaine) (c. 1545/53 – c. 1625/6). English poet and prose writer of the English Renaissance. It is now May. It is the month wherein nature hath her fill of mirth and the senses are filled with delights. I conclude it is from the Heavens, a grace, and to Earth, a… Lees verder Nicholas Breton

Edwin Way Teale: (June 2, 1899 – October 18, 1980). American naturalist, photographer and writer. Teale’s works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930–1980. He is perhaps best known for his series The American Seasons, four books documenting over 75,000 miles (121,000 km) of automobile travel across North America… Lees verder Edwin Way Teale

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: (Ottery St Mary, Devonshire, 21 October 1772 – Highgate, London, 25 July 1834). English poet, thinker and literary critic. Come, come thou bleak December wind, and blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a love-thought, thro’me, death and take a life that wearies me. Common sense in an uncommon degree… Lees verder Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Scoville Jr.: (June 9, 1872 – December 4, 1950). American writer, naturalist, and lawyer. At last came the golden month of the wild folk honey-sweet May. When the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.

Thomas Malory: (circa 1405 – 14 March 1471). Author or compiler of Le Morte d’Arthur, the best and most complete Middle English prose treatment of the story of King Arthur and his knights. With this adaptation of mostly French romances, Malory was the first English writer to prove that prose could be as delicate a… Lees verder Thomas Malory

Lucy Larcom: (March 5, 1824 – April 17, 1893). American teacher, poet, and author. She was one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in Norton, Massachusetts, teaching there from 1854 to 1862. During that time, she co-founded Rushlight Literary Magazine, a submission-based student literary magazine which is still published. From… Lees verder Lucy Larcom

James Thomson: (Ednam, Roxburghshire, 11 September 1700 – Richmond upon Thames, 27 August 1748). Scottish poet, playwright and prose writer. Thomson is best known for his poetic work, particularly his cycle of poems about the seasons, which would eventually be published in 1730 under the title The Seasons, and his long poem The Castle of… Lees verder James Thomson