"the story (and of the sea journey) that bring the novel to full life."" Another reviewer quotes some of the dialogue between Aubrey and Maturin, and remarks that the ""painstakingly researched details about 19th-Century life aboard ship, that elevates his tales into heady escapism. O'Brian won the Heywood Hill Literary Prize, with a cash award, for his writing and for this novel in 1995. The ""Surprise"", with bow guns blazing, is in close pursuit of the American privateer ""Franklin"" in the wine-dark waters of the South Pacific. The chase is interrupted by a submarine volcanic eruption that completely disables the"
"home only to night owls. These crumbling walls, these broken and mossy stones, this fickle and wild vegetation forming a dome above the cloister which is almost impenetrable to sunlight all gradually grip your heart despite itself and you are seized with such melancholy sadness, as if you were suddenly transported into the solitude so mournfully sung by the prophet of the Lamentations. And yet, an infinite poetry lies behind it all!’"" In the late 19th century the new owners had idea of using the basements and underground cellars to make and age sparkling wines under the name ‘MM.G.MEYNOT et"
"possessed a “direct style and faithful observation of nature.” He also found in the painting “a dry, latent humor and vigorous emphasis of character..” Today, Homer's reputation as one of America's greatest realist painters coincides with the critic's view of him as an artist quite capable of rendering a truthful scene. The description of the piece as humorous is less understandable, since Homer rarely injected levity into his work. However, in light of 19th century white male thinking, many viewers, including some art critics, saw the painting as a stereotypical reference to the perceived inherent laziness of dark-skinned people. Scholars"
"the Elder, describe the ancient Greek method of using partly dehydrated gypsum before fermentation and some type of lime after, in order to reduce the acidity of the wine. The Greek Theophrastus provides the oldest known description of this aspect of Greek winemaking. In Homeric mythology, wine is usually served in ""mixing bowls"" rather than consumed in an undiluted state. Dionysus, the Greek god of revelry and wine—frequently referred to in the works of Homer and Aesop—was sometimes given the epithet ""Acratophorus"", ""giver of unmixed wine"". Homer frequently refers to the ""wine-dark sea"" (, ""oīnōps póntos""): in lack of a"
"utmost vigor and subtlety, hymns to solitude, nature, and to outdoor life. Homer doesn't shrink from the savagery of blood sports nor the struggle for survival. The color effects are boldly and facilely applied. In terms of quality and invention, Homer's achievements as a watercolorist are unparalleled: ""Homer had used his singular vision and manner of painting to create a body of work that has not been matched."" In 1893, Homer painted one of his most famous ""Darwinian"" works, ""The Fox Hunt"", which depicts a flock of starving crows descending on a fox slowed by deep snow. This was Homer's"
"Hollow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy! He used to think of ghosts and devils while passing through dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night and used to get scared. He would have passed a pleasant life"
"a self-portrait. Cikovsky noted that the artist's signature is ""sinking like the fox into the deep snow and exactly mimicking its form and action"", and adds that the fox's tail, repeated by the 'R' in the signature, is called a brush. It is possible that Homer identified with slyness and social aloofness, qualities attributed to the fox. As well, the crows have been seen as omens of death, and for Hess, basing his interpretation on Freud's study of Leonardo da Vinci's work, they represent ""the nightmare of the flying 'penis'"". The influence of Japanese design on Homer's work has been"
"makes his way through the snow, looking sharply at his enemies— two huge crows which are swooping down to devour him, in which their hunger, made savage by the snowstorm which has covered their usual hunting-ground. Other crows hover restlessly in the distance. A twig or two of last summer's wild-rose bush is the grace note of the picture, redeeming sufficiently the sombre character of the scene"". Several writers on Homer's work have seen evidence of the artist's self-disclosure in ""The Fox Hunt"". Seeing the picture in Freudian terms, Thomas B. Hess believed the fox, ""dapper, small, inquisitive, shrewd"", was"
"in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods; it was with ambrosia Hera ""cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh"", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away, and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her. On the other hand, in Alcman, nectar is the food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides, ambrosia is the drink. A character in Aristophanes' ""Knights"" says, ""I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your"
"Here, again, the critics were puzzled at first, ""A child with an ink bottle could not have done worse."" Another critic said that Homer ""made a sudden and desperate plunge into water color painting"". But his watercolors proved popular and enduring, and sold more readily, improving his financial condition considerably. They varied from highly detailed (""Blackboard"" – 1877) to broadly impressionistic (""Schooner at Sunset"" – 1880). Some watercolors were made as preparatory sketches for oil paintings (as for ""Breezing Up"") and some as finished works in themselves. Thereafter, he seldom traveled without paper, brushes and water based paints. As a"
"mentions that ""a dun-coloured veil hung over the house-tops.""; ""The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"" (1912) describes ""a dense yellow fog"" that has settled down over London, and later notes ""a greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops on the windowpane""; while in ""The Sign of Four"" (1890), Holmes soliloquises; ""What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses."", and, later; ""...the day had been a dreary one,"
"Cleitagora Cleitagora or Clitagora () was a lyric poet mentioned by Aristophanes in his ""Wasps"" and his lost play the ""Danaids""; a fragment of Cratinus also mentions her. She was called a ""female Homer"". A drinking song named ""Cleitagora"" is mentioned in Aristophanes' ""Lysistrata"". Aside from these few mentions, nothing is known of either Cleitagora or the song named after her. Sarah Pomeroy argues that Cleitagora was probably Spartan, as a scholiast on ""Lysistrata"" claims. As Spartan women, unlike other Greek women, drank wine in their daily life rather than only at religious festivals, it makes sense to name a"
"him in trouble during his life. In the ""Odyssey"" of Homer, Ithaca is described thus:""…""dwell in clear-seen Ithaca, wherein is a mountain, Neriton, covered with waving forests, conspicuous from afar; and round it lie many isles hard by one another, Dulichium, and Same, and wooded Zacynthus. Ithaca itself lies close in to the mainland the furthest toward the gloom, but the others lie apart toward the Dawn and the sun—a rugged isle, but a good nurse of young men""…"" However, the above description is derived from various translations which are now considered erroneous. It has sometimes been argued that this"
"sea, including ""The Great Wave off Kanagawa"" showing the destructive force of the sea at the same time as its ever-changing beauty. The 19th century Romantic artist Ivan Aivazovsky created some 6,000 paintings, the majority of which depict the sea. The sea has appeared in literature since at least the time of the Ancient Greek poet Homer who describes it as the """"wine dark sea"""" (oînops póntos). In his epic poem the ""Odyssey"", written in the 8th century BC, he describes the ten-year voyage of the Greek hero Odysseus who struggles to return home across the sea after the war"
"artists and writers who met frequently to exchange ideas and organize outings for painting, as well as foster the creation of decorative tiles. For a short time, he designed tiles for fireplaces. Homer's nickname in The Tile Club was ""The Obtuse Bard"". Other well known Tilers were painters William Merritt Chase, Arthur Quartley, and the sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens. Homer started painting with watercolors on a regular basis in 1873 during a summer stay in Gloucester, Massachusetts. From the beginning, his technique was natural, fluid and confident, demonstrating his innate talent for a difficult medium. His impact would be revolutionary."
"It was a dark and stormy night ""It was a dark and stormy night"" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase considered to represent ""the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing"", also known as purple prose. The phrase was first used by Washington Irving in his 1809 ""A History of New York"". Its status as a catchphrase for bad writing comes from the opening sentence of English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel ""Paul Clifford"": ""Writer's Digest"" described this sentence as ""the literary posterchild for bad story starters"". On the other hand, the ""American Book Review"" ranked it"
"buyers and he ""looked in vain for profits"". Homer lived frugally, however, and fortunately, his affluent brother Charles provided financial help when needed. Homer frequently visited Key West, Florida between 1888 and 1903. Some of his best-known works, ""A Norther, Key West, The Gulf Stream, Taking on Wet Provisions,"" and ""Palms in the Storm"", are said to have been produced there. Homer found inspiration in summer trips to the North Woods Club, near the hamlet of Minerva, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains. It was on these fishing vacations that he experimented with the watercolor medium, producing works of the"
"corn-cob pipe is in his mouth. Beyond, at the left, are commissariat wagons with rounded canvas tops, and near by (sic) are unharnessed mules. In the distance is the camp. In the immediate foreground, at the right, part of a barrel shows.” In 1856, Homer was elected to the National Academy of Design. That year, he sent three paintings to the academy's Fortieth Annual Exhibition in New York City. Critics thought ""The Bright Side"" to be his strongest work of the three, in terms of both subject matter and execution. According to the critic for The Evening Post, the work"
"cups called ""rhyta""; the name of Oinops (Greek: , ""wine-colored"") is twice attested in Linear B tablets at Knossos and repeated twice in Homer. Along with olives and grain, grapes were an important agricultural crop vital to sustenance and community development; the ancient Greek calendar followed the course of the vintner's year. One of the earliest known wine presses was discovered in Palekastro in Crete, from which island the Mycenaeans are believed to have spread viticulture to others in the Aegean Sea and quite possibly to mainland Greece. In the Mycenaean period, wine took on greater cultural, religious and economic"
"phrases. From the 19th century onwards, the area gained widespread notoriety for its hellish appearance, a depiction that made its way into the published works of the time. Charles Dickens's novel ""The Old Curiosity Shop"", written in 1841, described how the area's local factory chimneys """"Poured out their plague of smoke, obscured the light, and made foul the melancholy air""."" In 1862, Elihu Burritt, the American Consul in Birmingham, described the region as """"black by day and red by night"""", because of the smoke and grime generated by the intense manufacturing activity and the glow from furnaces at night. Early"
"dark place in which to develop the negative. In his memoirs he reports: ""I used many sorts of places for the purpose - a chicken coop, a stable many times, and once a cave when I took the group of Bards in Ruthin Eisteddfod..."" The darkest place he claimed to have found was a half-dug grave in Liverpool's Smithdown Lane Cemetery when taking the photograph of the grave of Rev Pearse. He found the empty grave nearby, with a ladder in it, and with the help of his assistant, arranged his apparatus and chemicals at the bottom, placed a second"
"archetypically wise poet, whose writings contain hidden wisdom, disguised through allegory. In western Europe during the Renaissance, Virgil was more widely read than Homer and Homer was often seen through a Virgilian lens. In 1664, contradicting the widespread praise of Homer as the epitome of wisdom, François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac wrote a scathing attack on the Homeric poems, declaring that they were incoherent, immoral, tasteless, and without style, that Homer never existed, and that the poems were hastily cobbled together by incompetent editors from unrelated oral songs. Fifty years later, the English scholar Richard Bentley concluded that Homer did exist,"
"the sacred lake"" Ninki, ""handles the dough and with a big shovel, mixing in a pit, the bappir with [date] honey, ... waters the malt set on the ground, ... soaks the malt in a jar, ... spreads the cooked mash on large reed mats, coolness overcomes, ... holds with both hands the great sweet wort, brewing it with honey"". Wine is a frequent topic in English literature, from the spiced French and Italian ""ypocras"", ""claree"", and ""vernage"" in Chaucer's ""The Merchant's Tale"" onwards. William Shakespeare's Falstaff drank Spanish ""sherris sack"", in contrast to Sir Toby Belch's preference for ""canary""."
"in color, dull(ing), dry, sour"") was likely chosen to parallel the feminine ""khamr"" (, ""wine""), and originally meant ""the dark one"". There are several legendary accounts of the origin of the drink itself. One account involves the Moroccan Sufi mystic Ghothul Akbar Nooruddin Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili. When traveling in Ethiopia, the legend goes, he observed birds of unusual vitality, and, upon trying the berries that the birds had been eating, experienced the same vitality. Other accounts attribute the discovery of coffee to Sheikh Abu al-Hasan ash-Shadhili's disciple, Omar. According to the ancient chronicle (preserved in the Abd-Al-Kadir manuscript), Omar, who"
"His many writings on the area helped make Cornwall a popular spot for health-seekers. Winslow Homer, the famous water color artist, spent Summers in the Hamlet of Mountainville - then known as Ketcham Town - as a young artist and many of his pastoral themed water colors were made there and depict the local scenery. Shifting attitudes toward a more healthy lifestyle began to make the Hudson Valley popular for outdoor activities and exercise. Hiking, rowing, swimming, fishing, hunting and biking all contributed to the development in the area of summer camps as well as the notion of the summer"
"Strabo, quoting Posidonius notes that Homer sometimes used epithets of qualitative attributes to append ordinal directions to the cardinal winds, e.g. as western winds bring rain, then when Homer says a ""stormy Boreas"" he means a different wind from a ""loud Boreas"" (i.e. wet north = NW, loud north = N) Nonetheless, while it seems that Homer may have realized that there were more than four winds, he did not use those epithets systematically enough to permit us to conclude that he also embraced a six- or eight-point windrose. Other classical writers, e.g. Pliny the Elder, are adamant that Homer"
"deep color and robust nature and compared it to the pale red color of Champagne and the ""instability"" of the wine to travel long distances and the flaws of the bubbles from when secondary fermentation would take place. The text of his speech was published in newspapers and pamphlets throughout France and had a damaging effect on Champagne sales. The war of words would continue for another 130 years with endless commentary from doctors, poets, playwrights and authors all arguing for their favorite region and their polemics being reproduced in advertisements for Burgundy and Champagne. On a few occasions, the"
"two-thirds of the sales of living poets in the UK. His work often deals with the local surroundings of Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland, where he was born and lived until young adulthood. Speaking of his early life and education, he commented, ""I learned that my local County Derry experience, which I had considered archaic and irrelevant to 'the modern world', was to be trusted. They taught me that trust and helped me to articulate it."" ""Death of a Naturalist"" (1966) and ""Door into the Dark"" (1969) mostly focus on the details of rural, parochial life. In a number of"
"be subject to contradictory views among scholars and other concerned parties. Homer is connected with the valley of Smyrna and the banks of the Meles. His figure was one of the stock types on coins of Smyrna, one class of which showed the poet sitting, holding a volumen on his knees, and supporting his chin on his right hand was called ""Homerian"" by numismatists. The epithet ""Melesigenes"" (which means, ""son of Meles"" was applied to him. The cave where he was to compose his poems was described as being near the source of the river, his temple, the Homereion, stood"
"the robbers to justice as they stole from a man he knew. Flim-flam merchants and larger-than-life paraphernalia appear in several stories. One features a snake-oil salesman—Professor Atmos P. H. Ear—offloading an odorless, colorless, tasteless chemical called ""Ever-So-Much-More-So"" that when sprinkled on things, supposedly enhances everything; a soft bed would become softer, a fast car becomes faster, and so on. Many of the male residents of Centerburg share first names with classical figures; ""Grandpa Hercules"", ""Uncle Ulysses"", ""Uncle Telemachus"", and Homer himself. African-American characters appear in the books, portrayed positively as ordinary citizens. During a centennial celebration of Centerburg, a chorus"
"poet (in newspapers). His poems spoke of courage, loss, the glory of war and tales of gallantry. He led the Irish troops (the most recent immigrants to the U.S.) and was so admired by his troops that six weeks before his death they presented him with a medal to show their affection. His most famous poem, ""Antony and Cleopatra"", was beloved by both North and South in antebellum America and regularly memorized by school children in the U.S. through the 1940s. General William Haines Lytle died leading a charge at Chickamauga in the Civil War. Lytle Hill, in Chickamauga and"
"the paintings at Cullercoats took as their subjects working men and women and their daily heroism, imbued with a solidity and sobriety which was new to Homer's art, presaging the direction of his future work. He wrote, ""The women are the working bees. Stout hardy creatures."" His works from this period are almost exclusively watercolors. His palette became constrained and sober; his paintings larger, more ambitious, and more deliberately conceived and executed. His subjects more universal and less nationalistic, more heroic by virtue of his unsentimental rendering. Although he moved away from the spontaneity and bright innocence of the American"
"this and the vipers are “slain for food.” Paley continues, saying “associations of millennial imagery are consistently invoked to be bitterly frustrated."" Darkness (poem) ""Darkness"" is a poem written by Lord Byron in July 1816. That year was known as the Year Without a Summer, because Mount Tambora had erupted in the Dutch East Indies the previous year, casting enough sulphur into the atmosphere to reduce global temperatures and cause abnormal weather across much of north-east America and northern Europe. This pall of darkness inspired Byron to write his poem. Literary critics were initially content to classify it as a"