21-10-17 1. The representatives of the enlightenment in English literature were the following writers but _____. A Joseph Addison B Richard Steele C William Blake D Alexander pope 2. Joseph Addison，Richard Steele and Alexander pope belonged to the school of...

17-03-25 Kevin Cazad, a software programmer, resorted to drugs to alleviate his pain after breaking up with his girlfriend. Severe drug addiction caused him physical and mental pain, even threatening his life at times. But things changed in 2014, when Cazad...

15-11-26 Loiterature , a portmanteau of loitering and literature, refers to articles, posts, books, or other material that a person reads while waiting for someone, bus, elevator, or in line for service. If you are loitering somewhere, you remain there or wa...

13-10-11 Canadian author Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. 加拿大作家爱丽丝门罗获得2013年度诺贝尔文学奖。 Making the announcement, Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, called her a master of the contemporary short...

11-10-07 Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. 瑞典诗人托马斯特朗斯特罗姆被授予2011年诺贝尔文学奖。 Transtroemer is Scandinavia's best-known living poet The Royal Swedish Academy named him the recipient because...

10-08-06 Poet Virginia Woolf dressed in overcoat（大衣，外套） , pockets filled with stones, walked into a river in 1941 and drowned. Two decades later, novelist Ernest Hemingway put his shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger. Journalist and author, Hunt...

10-04-29 One of the earliest known writing systems came from India, probably around 2500 BC. Unfortunately, we can't read the Harappan（哈拉帕的） writing yet. But we know people were using this writing to mark their property, so other people couldnt steal i...

09-09-30 Mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for literature, Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific writer (3,000 poems, 2,000 songs, 8 novels, 40 volumes of essays and short stories, 50 plays), who drew inspiration both from his native Bengal and from English li...