| 单词 | Lessing |
| 例句 | During the entire walk, across the heaths and fens near Cambridge, Lessing did all the talking; Watson said not one word. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In 1951, long before James Watson would become a household name around the world, the novelist Doris Lessing took a three-hour walk with the young Watson, whom she knew through a friend of a friend. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is true that there have been eight male and only three female winners – Lessing, Bainbridge and Muriel Spark. Michael Holroyd looks forward to the 2013 David Cohen literature prize 2013-03-01T16:00:02Z Lessing herself was characteristically dismissive: "I hate talking about literature in terms of men and women," she said. Doris Lessing 2011-03-08T00:05:26Z When Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007, she spoke of returning to Zimbabwe and the pressing needs of schools there. More than 3,000 of Doris Lessing's books heading to Zimbabwe 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z In Doris Lessing’s new novel — her 12th book, fifth to be published here, and a coruscating literary event — she bites off only one thing that she doesn’t properly chew. Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Most interesting is the case of Doris Lessing. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z When Lessing left her children in Southern Rhodesia, she told them, as she writes in her autobiography, that it was to build them a “beautiful and perfect world,” presumably through the Communist promise of liberation. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Doris Lessing capturing her family history in the clunky but rewarding “Alfred and Emily” as her mind tests her. David Bowie and the sad, inspiring history of making art while dying 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Lessing, who authored more than 50 works fiction, nonfiction and poetry ranging in subject, won the Nobel prize in 2007 and became the eldest recipient at age 88. Nobel Prize-Winning Author Doris Lessing Dead at 94 2013-11-17T15:38:38Z Unlike her male postcolonial contemporaries and fellow Nobel laureates V. S. Naipaul or J. M. Coetzee, Lessing — like Anna — is unafraid to dirty her hands in the quest for truth. Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z Early on, Diski, seeking reassurance, asked Lessing a question that had been bothering her: “If you don’t really like me, there’s nowhere you could send me back to, is there?” Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The game-changer for me was Doris Lessing’s “Children of Violence” series, a five-novel bildungsroman stretching from colonial Rhodesia to postwar London. Barbara Kingsolver: By the Book 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Sure, often literature is analysis after the event, as Doris Lessing wisely pointed out. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z At some point, Diski and Lessing agreed never to write about each other. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z And she does not proceed in a linear fashion; she describes her years with Lessing in between scenes of recent hospital visits, memories of her earlier childhood, and digressions on illness and mortality. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z She also chronicles her complicated relationship with the novelist Doris Lessing, whom Diski went to live with when she was fifteen. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, her acceptance speech was very much about the importance of books and reading for children. Reading in the Twenty-First Century 2012-06-29T08:00:00Z Lessing tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, only the 11th woman to do so. Nobel prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing dies aged 94 2013-11-17T15:37:19Z Best for: According to Lessing, robot vacuums are ideal for daily maintenance. Vacuums come in all shapes and sizes. Here’s how to choose — and use — one. 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z “This is a time when it is frightening to be alive,” Lessing wrote in the opening essay of her collection “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside,” which was published one year before “The Fifth Child.” Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z According to Williams, Lessing thought that she had been made to look "too glamorous". Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z They were intimately involved in each other’s lives until Lessing’s death, in 2013. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z But, however overwrought Anna’s sensibility sometimes is, Mrs. Lessing points such powerful significances therefrom that, in comparison, many other highly touted novels dealing with man’s acceptance — or defiance — of his fate seem picayune indeed. Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In “The Memoirs of a Survivor,” Nobelist Doris Lessing describes the first act of adulthood as “the finality of the acceptance of a wrong.” Growing older without growing up: Graffiti artist Borf 10 years later 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z I remember deciding at one point to drink as glamorously heavily as the crowd of young radicals in Doris Lessing's 1950s Salisbury: disappointingly it made me sick and I had to abandon that plan. Author, author: Tessa Hadley 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Lessing's departure into science fiction in the late 1970s raised some predictably snobbish responses from literary critics, one writing that she "propagandises on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz". Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z It’s about her tangled relationship with the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing, a rhinoceros of a personality, with whom she lived for four years while a teenager. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z While her work was often likened to that of postwar feminist novelists like Doris Lessing, Marge Piercy and Marilyn French, it was distinguished by its specifically Jewish focus. E. M. Broner, Jewish Feminist, Dies at 83 2011-06-23T05:09:08Z The movie, based on the Doris Lessing novella “The Grandmothers,” was shown in festivals as “Two Mothers.” Movie Review: ‘Adore’ Gives Young Lovers to Robin Wright and Naomi Watts 2013-09-05T21:32:42Z It is in this tortured ambivalence—her decision to leave her child and her even more despairing desire to retrieve him—that Harriet’s life begins to echo Lessing’s own. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Past recipients of the £40,000 prize, described by judges as the UK's Nobel Prize for Literature, include Harold Pinter and Doris Lessing. Lifetime honour for author Barnes 2011-03-18T10:27:47Z At first, Lessing figured they might be books, but further inspection revealed a much more valuable find: $42,000 in crisp bills. Oklahoma Goodwill employee finds $42G hidden in donated sweaters, helps return money to owner 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z British soccer louts, the First and Second World Wars, the brutalities of South African apartheid—to Lessing, all punctured the “sentimental” fiction that human beings are more than the sum of their atavistic urges. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Lessing does take care to emphasise the scientific basis of her speculation throughout the novel. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z “I wanted to show his photo-reportage, and I will do this with the Hungarian revolution, which was his breakthrough as a war reporter,” said Hannah Lessing, explaining her selections. At the Jewish Museum of Vienna, Enduring Images of Europe 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z When Ms. Diski acted like the teenager she was, sneaking out of windows or bringing boys home, Lessing would become empurpled with rage. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Mrs. Lessing’s special genius lies in the particular observation, and a firkinful of scorching aphorisms could be culled from nearly every page. Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z There’s a raw, almost feral quality to Ms. Diski’s writing about cowering in Lessing’s long shadow. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Like Lessing and Bennett, Frayn uses his father to study the impact of class, community and historical accident on a life. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z Lessing responded by wordlessly getting up and leaving the house. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z I had used a passage from Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” as my book’s epigraph, but so explicitly nudging my work into line with that of a Nobel Prize winner felt arrogant, unseemly. Our Autofiction Fixation 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z When British novelist Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel literature prize in 2007, she was too ill to travel. The $900,000 question behind Bob Dylan's Nobel prize 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Then, while she was at the Lady Chichester psychiatric hospital, she received the letter with Lessing’s offer. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Goodwill, too, commended Lessing for displaying the values they hope to instill in the communities they serve. Oklahoma Goodwill employee finds $42G hidden in donated sweaters, helps return money to owner 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Lessing’s son knew Ms. Diski from school and asked his mother to help her. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z More than 3,000 books from the personal collection of Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing are headed to the leading public library in Harare, Zimbabwe. More than 3,000 of Doris Lessing's books heading to Zimbabwe 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Directed by Anne Fontaine, from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on the novella “The Grandmothers” by Doris Lessing. ‘Adore’: Love and friendship on the Australian seaside 2013-09-05T21:30:56Z I was writing and working in a bookstore, with Doris Lessing, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir & co. Widow Walks Into Wall, Finds Hope 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z For cleaning bare floors, Lessing says, the model matters. Vacuums come in all shapes and sizes. Here’s how to choose — and use — one. 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z In a profile of Diski that appeared in The New York Times Magazine less than a year before she died, she described Lessing’s feelings toward others as consisting of “a sense of obligation without affection.” The Cant-Free Elegance of Jenny Diski’s Irresistible Mind 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “In her memoirs Doris Lessing often blames the undertow of history itself: if her feelings were neurotic, her thinking belonged to the ‘Zeitgeist.’ Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z But Lessing’s novel also illuminates some of the more troubling assumptions on which his theory rests. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Then, in an improbable stroke of luck, Doris Lessing, at the urging of her son, who remembered Diski from boarding school, entered the picture and invited Diski to live with her. The Cant-Free Elegance of Jenny Diski’s Irresistible Mind 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Some, like those who reviewed Doris Lessing’s “The Golden Notebook” and Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” just didn’t get it! James Baldwin’s Review, Babe Ruth and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But it was the Canopus in Argus sequence, identified by Lessing as her most important work, that the Nobel committee recognised when describing their author as "the epicist of the female experience". Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z Danielle Lessing, vice president of global product development at SharkNinja, says how often a person vacuums depends on their lifestyle and space. Vacuums come in all shapes and sizes. Here’s how to choose — and use — one. 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z But Lessing’s life, like her fiction, suggests that motherhood is nothing if not a series of impossible choices: between political struggle and parenting, between parenting and personal fulfillment. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Doris Lessing is widely recognised as one of the great literary novelists of the 20th century. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z Then there were some books I think that are not on everybody’s reading list these days, but I remembered as being interesting, like “The Golden Notebook” by Doris Lessing, for example. Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z She wrote to Lessing demanding her help; the author replied that she needed to keep reading. Why reading fiction with friends is therapeutic too 2013-02-01T16:20:42Z In her final memoir before her death, Diski, who was quasi-adopted by Doris Lessing, examines the origin, and the close, of her life as a writer. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z “Oh, Christ,” Doris Lessing said in 2007, when, as she exited a taxi in front of her house in London, a waiting reporter informed her that she was the newest laureate. Bob Dylan Says He’ll Skip Nobel Ceremony (He’s Busy) 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Prolific, award-winning author Doris Lessing died in her sleep, her publisher said. Nobel Prize-Winning Author Doris Lessing Dead at 94 2013-11-17T15:38:38Z The world faced no such a dilemma from Doris Lessing. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Born in what was then Persia, now Iran, on October 22, 1919, Lessing was raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and moved to Britain at the age of 30. Nobel prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing dies aged 94 2013-11-17T15:37:19Z Ms. Lessing, who had left two children of her own behind when she moved from what was then Rhodesia, took her into her London home, where she stayed for three years. Jenny Diski, Author Who Wrote of Madness and Isolation, Dies at 68 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Some adult shelves had Tom Clancy on them, others had Doris Lessing, but they all had “A Man in Full.” Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z But if you don’t think we need plenty of poetry, too ... well, you aren’t reading your Doris Lessing. Possessed : Upon Reflection, Anne Fontaine’s Feminine Touch 2013-09-13T20:42:59Z She surely would have disliked Doris Lessing, a one-time Communist organizer who spent her life in pursuit of the political and sexual freedoms that Harriet defines herself against. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z We are, as Lessing describes the basic sickness of Shikasta, a world with "too little Spirit of We Feeling". Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z Ms. Lessing came to the rescue after Ms. Diski had been expelled from her boarding school and had taken an overdose of barbiturates, leading to another round of hospitalization for psychiatric treatment. Jenny Diski, Author Who Wrote of Madness and Isolation, Dies at 68 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z It's the latest addition to the center's significant collection of the papers of modern and contemporary authors, including Doris Lessing, Graham Greene and Don Delillo. Ian McEwan's archives acquired by the Ransom Center 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Diski felt enormously grateful, but also resented that she owed so much; Lessing insisted that gratitude wasn’t necessary, but also, apparently, expected her foundling to be appropriately appreciative, and to clean up her act. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Lessing's portrait of a divided world, forever at war with itself, is as relevant in our post-911 world of mass digital surveillance as ever. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z “I was attempting to mimic Doris Lessing,” he wrote in an email, “though it did not come out as planned.” Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s unclear if even Lessing, tortured by that moment for the rest of her life, truly believed that by abandoning her children she was saving them. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Anna, the protagonist, is, like Lessing, a novelist from Africa. Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z Doris Lessing also chose a theatre project, the outreach programme called The Art of Regeneration. Michael Holroyd looks forward to the 2013 David Cohen literature prize 2013-03-01T16:00:02Z What would, in a lesser book, be a heroic climax—repenting mother reclaims lost child—Lessing writes as plainly horrifying. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The sweep of Lessing's vision in Shikasta is staggering, beginning at the prehistory of Earth, taking in galaxy-spanning vistas, and homing in on details of modern society. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z Is what Dylan has done fundamentally comparable to what William Faulkner or Doris Lessing or V. S. Naipaul has done? A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z He read everything from classics by Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, Cervantes, to novels like “Under the Volcano” by Malcolm Lowry, Doris Lessing’s “The Golden Notebook,” and works by Robert Stone. Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z So it's a mark of Lessing's genius that she encapsualted the genre's most basic philosophical tenets and turned them, almost effortlessly, back on themselves. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z Andrea Lessing recently discovered the money while sorting through a pile of donations at her Goodwill location in Norman. Oklahoma Goodwill employee finds $42G hidden in donated sweaters, helps return money to owner 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z However, given that it also touches on the role of female writers, it portrays few of them, with only Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and Margaret Drabble getting a profile, in contrast to very many men. Dispatches 2010-08-23T05:45:00Z In Shikasta, Lessing challenges us to consider that we may be both. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z Lessing was born in Iran to British citizens; the young family moved to Southern Rhodesia when she was around 5 years old. More than 3,000 of Doris Lessing's books heading to Zimbabwe 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Born in what was then Persia, now Iran, on October 22, 1919, Lessing was raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing dies aged 94 2013-11-17T20:50:17Z Doris Lessing gave “Tracks” her blurby blessing; Ms. Davidson was involved with Salman Rushdie when he was writing “The Satanic Verses.” Mia Wasikowska Plays Robyn Davidson in ‘Tracks’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z In 2013, he won the Lessing Prize of the City of Hamburg for achievements in German culture. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Polymathic Cultural Historian, Dies at 81 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, Lessing's novel is shot through with mystical and religious ideas. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z She met Lessing’s son at one of those schools. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z In the L.R.B., the first essay about Lessing was titled “What to Call Her?” Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z But while the growing feminist movement claimed it as a defining statement, Lessing saw her work as much more complex, and resisted being co-opted into the "sisterhood". Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing dies aged 94 2013-11-17T20:50:17Z Previous winners of the prize - given for a body of work, rather than a book - have included Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Bob Dylan. Jon Fosse: Norwegian author and playwright wins Nobel Literature Prize 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Marguerite Duras and Thomas Hardy, Gornick astutely shows how books are intertwined with ourselves, shifting and evolving over time even as we do. Get into the back-to-school spirit with these 5 audiobooks 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z But based on their track record, the outlook for Simon & Schuster, publisher of important authors like Ernest Hemingway, Siddhartha Mukherjee and Doris Lessing, darkened considerably this week. Opinion: Wall Street predators destroyed Toys 'R' Us. Now they're coming for Simon & Schuster 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z His credits included fiction by future Nobel laureates Morrison,Doris Lessing and V.S. Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z But during the four years they lived together, Lessing never offered notes or advice; anything Diski learned was through observation and osmosis. What Georgia O’Keeffe Taught Yayoi Kusama 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z He stepped down last year to focus on completing his authorized biography of another novelist and Nobel laureate, Doris Lessing, who died in 2013. Patrick French, renowned biographer of V.S. Naipaul, dies at 56 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z This question isn’t new; Virginia Woolf famously declared the need for a room of one’s own; so did Alice Munro, in her story “The Office,” and Doris Lessing, in “To Room Nineteen.” Review | ‘Forbidden Notebook’ is a slyly subversive novel by a writer once banned 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The new documentary tells of Caro’s long and complicated relationship with Gottlieb, whose other authors have included the Nobel laureates Toni Morrison and Doris Lessing. Caro still working away on fifth LBJ book, no pub date set 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The heightened and sometimes hasty reactions on Tuesday night were a warning, Mr. Lessing said. The Missile Hit on Poland Shows the Heightened Risk of Escalation 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Warmth and encouragement did not define the relationship between the writers Doris Lessing and Jenny Diski. What Georgia O’Keeffe Taught Yayoi Kusama 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Lessing was sentenced to time in a “female reformatory” in Missouri, where she occupied herself teaching her insights to incarcerated ladies of the evening. Does L.A. have an 'addiction to cults and cultists'? Sure seems like it 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Written in 1779 by the German free thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, it has been brought to the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater at the D.C. Review | Theater J’s ‘Nathan the Wise’ highlights religious harmony — in 1192 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z But the playwright, who has written a new adaptation of “Nathan the Wise,” a 1779 play by German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, begs to differ. At Theater J, a new version of a 1779 play shows multiculturalism is a lot older than we think 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “Wonderful Doris Lessing has died” is a striking example of an opener that captures both the spontaneity of the commission and authentic emotion. Review | In ‘Burning Questions,’ Margaret Atwood ponders an astonishing array of subjects 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z They are portraits from and of a woman in motion, a punk heiress to Doris Lessing and M.F.K. Grounded by COVID, Patti Smith joined Substack and Instagram. But nothing replaced playing live 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z As a troubled teenager, she was taken in by Doris Lessing, launching a fraught relationship with the celebrated writer that she only wrote about after Lessing’s 2013 death. Review: New collection of columns by the late Jenny Diski 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z But now that debate over the site, size, scope, schedule, cost and funding has subsided, even a historic pandemic hasn’t slowed progress, said UI Art Museum Director Lauren Lessing. UI Museum of Art makes progress toward completion 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Lessing’s drama, Bloom argues, “was a multicultural play back in the 18th century: It presented the first positive portrayal of a Muslim in Western theater.” At Theater J, a new version of a 1779 play shows multiculturalism is a lot older than we think 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Her awkward chat trudged along from there — echoing British author Doris Lessing’s underwhelmed reaction to her win in 2007 — with the interviewer asking about the importance of “lived experience.” Louise Glück's reaction to her Nobel Prize win is all of us before coffee 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist Lessing’s experiences in the Communist party made her a great chronicler of political group life. From Donna Tartt to Irvine Welsh: 10 great novels about friendship 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z But he took comfort from philosopher Gotthold Lessing’s dictum: “The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” Rehabilitating the Vandals, the bearded ladies of geology, and how to get a job in academia: Books in brief 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z “Many of these … will continue in the new building,” Lessing said, elaborating on “one example of a successful online pivot.” UI Museum of Art makes progress toward completion 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Lessing’s play premiered in 1783, two years after his death, a time when the spirit of enlightenment was up against more reactionary forces in Europe. At Theater J, a new version of a 1779 play shows multiculturalism is a lot older than we think 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, iconic tome of socialist feminism, is flashed. Normal People is little more than a gutless soap opera for millennials | Jessa Crispin 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessing’s “They Don’t Represent Us,” published only two months ago, asks important questions about American democracy and offers a series of concrete proposals for mending it. The sorry state of political literature today 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Many years ago, a gentleman at a hotel check-in desk in Tehran looked up from my passport and said: “Zimbabwe. Used to be Rhodesia. My father once worked there. He knew Doris Lessing.” Tsitsi Dangarembga: ‘Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved changed my life’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z “We are particularly proud that we are able to continue serving this important audience that has been so affected by COVID-19,” Lessing said. UI Museum of Art makes progress toward completion 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z On the centenary of the Nobel laureate’s birth, biographer Patrick French explores Doris Lessing’s science-infused series Canopus in Argos. Daily briefing: Why squaring the circle is catnip for cranks 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z In The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Lessing examines human behaviour in the face of a brutal ice age. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z For Mo Yan, the first Chinese citizen to win the prize, it was “hallucinatory realism”, while Doris Lessing “an epicist of the female experience” subjected “a divided civilisation to scrutiny”. What's the point of Nobel prizes? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Lessing was able to write in an amazingly human way about empire and its oppression. Tsitsi Dangarembga: ‘Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved changed my life’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z But when I reread these letters, I realised that despite my concession in 2001, I still see Lessing’s fiction as deeply feminist. Margaret Atwood’s new work is full of feminist hope. But don’t dumb it down | Natasha Walter 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Doris Lessing once said that literature was analysis after the event. ‘Police officers demanded to see my books’: Elif Shafak on Turkey's war on free-speech 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Lessing intended the first book, Shikasta, to break the bounds of her earlier work. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The women I grew up admiring – Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Doris Lessing – chose not to live in this way. How free is free love? How polyamory lost its allure 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Doris Lessing, 94, an independent and often irascible author who won the Nobel Prize in 2007, died in London. Today in History 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Lessing’s heroines are too complicated to be easily understood, and they struggle to understand themselves. Margaret Atwood’s new work is full of feminist hope. But don’t dumb it down | Natasha Walter 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Lessing’s 1973 novel The Summer Before the Dark is a great portrayal of this moment of transition, and a book ready to be rediscovered. 'A different way of living': why writers are celebrating middle-age 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z The last book, The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, is a tonal shift: a farcical study of imperialism or, as Lessing asserted, “old-fashioned satire in space fiction terms”. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Benjamin Lessing, author of Making Peace in Drug Wars, said he was encouraged by Amlo’s willingness to consider taboo policies such as decriminalisation and amnesty, even if the latter word was needlessly inflammatory. Mexico's failing war on drugs: after 200,000 dead, Amlo pledges to end the violence 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Like Doris Lessing and Alice Munro, he writes with the seemingly incompatible qualities of passionate coldness and desperate passion. Madeleine Thien: ‘I can read a book over years, and not feel I have to finish it’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Right now, ensconced in that “Motherbaby” state that Lessing and Cusk describe so well, grateful for my miraculous child, I almost never feel ambivalence. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z In this context, the acceptance of middle age becomes a feminist act, and the same seems to have been true for Lessing in 1973, whatever her crotchety scepticism about women’s lib. 'A different way of living': why writers are celebrating middle-age 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Lessing wrote the five books at typically breakneck speed. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Instead, Lessing said he believed Amlo should adopt a “violence minimisation” strategy designed to slash Mexico’s homicide rate by targeting cartels that insisted in perpetrating acts of deadly violence such as those ravaging Tecomán. Mexico's failing war on drugs: after 200,000 dead, Amlo pledges to end the violence 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Many years ago, I interviewed Doris Lessing, and this is what she said: “It was a different attitude then. We just got on with it.” Germaine Greer is wrong: women are yelling ‘stop’ because we want the world to hear | Emma Brockes 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Certainly, it may be telling that when Lessing did relax into motherhood with her third child, she did so outside marriage, in a setting that looked nothing like the middle-class family. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z One of Lessing’s achievements was to find a structural equivalent for the mental state of middle age. 'A different way of living': why writers are celebrating middle-age 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z They see it as a set of deliberate choices, and this interpretation can be stoked by the writer offering confident justifications in interviews, as Lessing did for Canopus in Argos. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Doris Lessing once said that besides the unrealised, there are also those projects that we self-censor, those which we do not dare to do. Zadie Smith: ‘I have a very messy and chaotic mind’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z The prolific scholar and reviewer on the life and works of Doris Lessing. 2018 in books: a literary calendar 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z In reading my way across the past century of literature, I’ve been reminded that we are as historically contingent as Lessing was and that no generation will get it right. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z And when she returns home, she insists on keeping her hair as it is: plain, greying, tied neatly behind her head, as Lessing’s was when she wrote it. 'A different way of living': why writers are celebrating middle-age 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z There are echoes of Southern Rhodesia, where white settlers had seeded themselves at the end of the nineteenth century: Lessing described it as “a very nasty little police state”. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Other prizes such as literature often fare better in terms of gender equality, with previous winners including Alice Munroe, Doris Lessing and Toni Morrison. Nobel Prize: Where are the women? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z At the end of that decade he fled to London, where he began a relationship with the novelist Doris Lessing and became a darling of the London left. Clancy Sigal obituary 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z That’s why we gain so little in judging Lessing as a mother. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z He moved in 1957 to London, where he rented a room from writer Doris Lessing, who 50 years later won the Nobel Prize for literature. Clancy Sigal, radical, agent and writer whose ‘sin is enthusiasm,’ dies at 90 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Undeterred, Lessing worked her way through the series, declaring bloody-mindedly that “space fiction, with science fiction, makes up the most original branch of literature now”. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z In England, he moved in with Lessing, attended protest rallies and anti-nuclear demonstration and spent years undergoing strange and unorthodox therapy sessions with Laing, then a leader in the anti-psychiatry movement. Clancy Sigal, novelist who wrote 'Going Away' after being blacklisted in Hollywood, dies at 91 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z He entered London illegally and, in partnership with Lessing, brought a splash of colour to every CND rally and leftwing demonstration that the glamorous couple attended. Clancy Sigal obituary 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z If Lessing was held up as a role model by women’s liberation feminists, then it seems to have been not in spite of but partly because of her complicated feelings about motherhood. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Sigal was clearly the basis for the character of Saul Green, a handsome “American lefty” who was the lover of Anna Wulf, the protagonist of Lessing’s 1962 novel “The Golden Notebook.” Clancy Sigal, radical, agent and writer whose ‘sin is enthusiasm,’ dies at 90 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Canopus in Argos also offered Lessing a way to address her own past, present and alternative futures. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The first songwriter to receive the prestigious award, Dylan joins a celebrated group of laureates including Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Doris Lessing. Bob Dylan finally accepts Nobel prize in literature at private ceremony in Stockholm 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z She was not an auntie, nor even a longstanding family friend; in fact, when Diski moved in, as a result of knowing Lessing’s son, they didn’t know one another at all. 2016 – a year of celebrating women writers 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z This seems no more radical than the sentiments expressed by Lessing or certainly by Rich. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z The 2007 winner, Doris Lessing, also British, is the oldest at 88. AP PHOTOS: Notable Nobel literature winners from the past 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Lessing wove space exploration, migration, climate change and social disintegration into novels that seem astonishingly prescient today. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Of his first meeting with Doris Lessing, he writes: “She made no attempt to be charming, and I wouldn’t have been foolish enough to try to charm her,” he writes. Robert Gottlieb: the editor who changed American literature 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z This collective might happily list Malcolm Bradbury and Kingsley Amis as the most important British contemporary writers, while at the same time omitting Doris Lessing, “the only one with a really huge international reputation”. 2016 – a year of celebrating women writers 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z When I say I’m writing the book partly as a memoir, and that it began with a process of intense identification with Lessing, I feel implicated in the judgment. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Lessing, whose work ranged from memoir to science fiction, is one of only 14 female laureates. AP PHOTOS: Notable Nobel literature winners from the past 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Doris Lessing visited NASA’s spaceflight centre in Houston, Texas, in 1988.Credit: Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The book opens with this quote from Lawrence P. Lessing: “Florida is a study in abnormal psychology, useful in signaling the … hidden derangements of the national mood.” Florida Man Explains His State's Weirdness 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z She was writing about Doris Lessing, who took her in to her home when Diski was 15. 2016 – a year of celebrating women writers 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Once I started reading and writing about Lessing and motherhood, I found that I needed to own the assertion of selfhood implicit in my trips away from my son. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z The memoir examines Diski's relationship over 50 years with the late novelist Doris Lessing, who took her in at the age of 15. Writer Jenny Diski dies aged 68 - BBC News 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z And with Lessing, the biographical aspect is important. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Reading Lessing’s subtly brilliant short story Out of the Fountain, I had that Keatsian feeling of a new world coming into view. 10 inspiring female writers you need to read 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z He is currently writing the authorised biography of Doris Lessing. ‘Big books by blokes about battles’: Why is history still written mainly by men? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z There is also the role of IVF and the physical and financial price that women are willing to pay to have children, often because they have left it later than the women of Lessing’s day. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z "Silence is noble," Lessing frequently told his fellow club members. How Germany's love of silence led to the first earplug - BBC News 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Today, as I research Lessing’s authorized biography, I rarely find readers who appreciate both the space-based and the earthbound books. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z "He's a world-class human being, which in turn made him a world-class skier," Lessing Stern, owner of Deer Valley Resort, said in a phone interview. Stein Eriksen dies at 88; Norwegian Olympic champion ushered in modern skiing 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Starting in the 1940s, Lessing happily took on subjects ranging from genetics and imperialism to revolutionary activism and ideas of space and time. ‘Big books by blokes about battles’: Why is history still written mainly by men? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z When I tell people that I’m writing a book about freedom and Doris Lessing, their first response is often the same. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z So he travelled around Germany, selling them to sanitariums and factories that were proliferating in the rapidly industrialising world his contemporary, Lessing, loathed. How Germany's love of silence led to the first earplug - BBC News 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Lawrence Lessing, the Harvard professor who began a late campaign for president, announced that he was ending his bid for the Democratic nomination, citing his exclusion from the debate stage. Lawrence Lessig Ends His Long-Shot Presidential Bid 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z BST06:47 It's never a bad time to revisit the Doris Lessing reaction video We’re 15 minutes away from the announcement... Nobel prize in literature – live 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In 2007, 88-year-old Doris Lessing became the oldest Nobel literature laureate ever by picking up the prize that many said was long overdue. Nobel Prize in literature: Who's hot and what to look out for 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Some writers, such as Lessing, have lives in which the strain of this becomes impossible. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Most analysis – including Lessing – deemed the effort a failure. Lawrence Lessig announces ad buy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Later, speaking about her Communist Party affiliations, Lessing said: "I can't understand why I was so gullible." Doris Lessing trailed by MI5 for 20 years - BBC News 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Several of Lessing's 1950s annual membership cards of the Communist Party of Great Britain feature in the file. British spies reveal file on Nobel winner Doris Lessing 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Lessing headed client-relationship management and was the face of the firm to many money managers, hedge funds and insurance companies. How Jeb Bush Spent His Years on Wall Street 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Thinking about Lessing, I have found that the term “freedom” has meant less and less, especially in relation to motherhood. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z In 1963, when Diski was 15, she received a letter from Doris Lessing, the future Nobel laureate, asking if she would like to come and live with her. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing was spied on by security services for more than 20 years over suspicions of her communist sympathies, newly declassified records show. Doris Lessing trailed by MI5 for 20 years - BBC News 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Later that year, the file documents how Lessing left the Communist Party in protest over its support for the crushing of the Hungarian uprising by Soviet forces. British spies reveal file on Nobel winner Doris Lessing 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Talent Nyathi, a Zimbabwean who co-founded the book trust with Lessing, remembered writing book catalogues on "paper used to wrap meat" and nailing them on trees for villagers to read. Zimbabwe gets Doris Lessing's book collection 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z He has published forty volumes of them, records of interactions with everyone from Doris Lessing to the video artist Ryan Trecartin. Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Curator Who Never Sleeps 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z After the cancer diagnosis, it occurred to her that she might tackle the two subjects, Lessing and her illness, together. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Lessing was particularly vocal about the poor treatment of black Africans. Doris Lessing trailed by MI5 for 20 years - BBC News 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Looking back years later on her years as a Communist Party member, Lessing said: "I can't understand why I was so gullible." British spies reveal file on Nobel winner Doris Lessing 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Lessing went to what was then Southern Rhodesia with her parents as a child, staying from 1924 for 25 years until she moved to London. Zimbabwe gets Doris Lessing's book collection 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Last year, however, Munro was told of her win by her daughter, while in 2007 Doris Lessing was enlightened by reporters as she exited a London cab. Haruki Murakami joint favourite to win Nobel prize for literature 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Lessing suggested she simply write down her life story: “It’s interesting enough, and there are editors who can deal with sorting out your sentences and that kind of thing.” Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z While some may have been overlooked early in their careers, widely known authors such as Britain’s Doris Lessing, Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa and Canada’s Alice Munro eventually did walk off with the coveted prize. Nobel Prize in literature: Oh really? Or finally? 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z MI5, Britain's internal intelligence service, had built up a five-volume secret file on Lessing that has now been placed in the National Archives and was made public on Friday. British spies reveal file on Nobel winner Doris Lessing 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z In her writing, Lessing explored topics ranging from colonial Africa to dystopian Britain, from the mystery of being female to the unknown worlds of science fiction. Zimbabwe gets Doris Lessing's book collection 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z While some may have been overlooked early in their careers, widely known authors such as Britain's Doris Lessing, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa and Canada's Alice Munro eventually did walk off with the coveted prize. Nobel Prize in literature: Oh really? Or finally? 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Lessing was in her mid-40s and had recently published “The Golden Notebook,” which was widely, if not universally, hailed as an epochal masterpiece, when Diski came to live with her. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Throughout her life, Lessing fostered several programmes in Zimbabwe to aid literacy through libraries and studying. Lessing leaves her library to Zimbabwe 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z More than half a century ago a young Lessing was telling us: Letter from Africa: Readers need writers 2013-11-29T08:52:48Z "She's going to be remembered as one of the great writers of her time," said Terry Karten, an executive editor at the Harper imprint in New York, who started working with Ms. Lessing in 1991. Nobel Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94 2013-11-17T23:41:00Z Doris Lessing incurred the wrath of many Americans by suggesting that the 9/11 attacks were not that terrible when compared with the IRA campaign in the UK. Obituary: Doris Lessing 2013-11-17T14:59:36Z In it, Lessing attacked her for her “demanding and threatening behavior” and accused her of emotional blackmail. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Lessing lived in Zimbabwe from 1924-1949, when it was known as Southern Rhodesia. Lessing leaves her library to Zimbabwe 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z On winning the Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy described Lessing as an "epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Author Doris Lessing dies aged 94 2013-11-17T15:00:23Z Ms. Lessing was born to British parents living in Persia. Nobel Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94 2013-11-17T23:41:00Z By the late 1970s Lessing abandoned social themes for science fiction with her Canopus in Argus series, which she describes as her best work. Obituary: Doris Lessing 2013-11-17T14:59:36Z For all the imaginative sympathy of her foster daughter’s portrayal, it seems doubtful that Lessing would have been altogether pleased with Diski’s scrutiny. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z "The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed," wrote the late novelist Doris Lessing. Aging Is Recorded in Our Genes 2012-06-11T20:10:00Z The erudite Lessing styles a preface "the history of a book." Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z Most famous for her 1962 novel, "The Golden Notebook," long a touchstone for feminists, Ms. Lessing was also known for her "Children of Violence" series that culminated in the apocalyptic "The Four-Gated City" in 1969. Nobel Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94 2013-11-17T23:41:00Z Remaining in Salisbury, she became involved with a Communist book club, one of whose central members was Gottfried Lessing. Obituary: Doris Lessing 2013-11-17T14:59:36Z Lessing got her new foster daughter into another school and paid for her to be psychoanalyzed. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Under the impulse given by Lessing and Kant he turned to the original records of Christianity, and attempted to construe for himself the real significance of Christ. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Like Lessing, whose work he immediately continued, he was a pioneer of the golden age of this literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Although many of her novels touched politics, and she was banned for decades in South Africa and Zimbabwe for her forthright critique of apartheid, Ms. Lessing insisted that she wasn't a political writer. Nobel Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94 2013-11-17T23:41:00Z The book made Lessing an icon of the fast-growing feminist movement. Obituary: Doris Lessing 2013-11-17T14:59:36Z Diski, dismayed that Lessing thought her sentences needed fixing, recoiled from the simplicity of this approach. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z The whole number of facts and ideas in an ignorant mind may not exceed two hundred; while in the intellect of a Goethe or a Lessing there may live and revolve twenty thousand. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Lessing had given the first impetus to the formation of a national literature by exposing the folly of the current imitation of French writers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Ms. Lessing, who died Sunday at age 94, was recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. Nobel Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94 2013-11-17T23:41:00Z Lessing became disillusioned both with Communism and with Africa and moved to London where her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1949. Obituary: Doris Lessing 2013-11-17T14:59:36Z Once Diski did get going as a writer, she and Lessing agreed to a kind of literary nonaggression pact: Lessing would not write about Diski if Diski would not write about Lessing. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Lessing thought no man could write a good tragedy till he was thirty. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Lessing was the exponent of German classicism; Herder, on the contrary, was a pioneer of the romantic movement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Nobel Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94 Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning and often-polarizing author of "The Golden Notebook" and other novels, died at age 94. Nobel Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94 2013-11-17T23:41:00Z The most unlike minds and characters receive their dues with entire impartiality; Goethe, Lessing, Novalis, Jean Paul, were each in kind honored. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z One night, after Lessing asked her what was wrong, Diski stuttered out a question: Did Lessing even like her, and if she didn’t, where else could she go? Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Like Lessing and Goethe, he had no respect for his professors. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z He ridicules the ambition of German writers to be classic, as Lessing had ridiculed their eagerness to be French. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Ms. Lessing told her powerful stories in settings that ranged from her childhood home in Africa to outer space, where she set the five volumes of her "Canopus in Argos" series. Nobel Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94 2013-11-17T23:41:00Z Of course there are dangers to be avoided, and the chief of them is that mechanical correctness, "so praiseworthy and so intolerable," as Lowell says in his essay on Lessing. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z Lessing did not honor the terms of the agreement that she and Diski made. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Through Diderot and Lessing and, a little later, through German translations of Lillo's plays, domestic tragedy continued its leavening work in the German drama. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Beyond this, he eloquently pleaded the cause of painting as a distinct art, which Lessing in his desire to mark off the formative arts from poetry and music had confounded with sculpture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z His translation of Bürger’s Lenore one now only recalls by its effect upon Scott; his translation of Lessing’s Nathan the Wise has been superseded. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Dr. Lessing and others concur with him in this conclusion. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z A fictionalized version of her foster daughter appears in Lessing’s dystopian novel “Memoirs of a Survivor,” which was published in 1974, eight years after Diski moved out. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z If fighting in itself, be it offensive or defensive, is, as Quakers rightly testify, brutal and wrong, we can still say with Lessing, 'We know from what failings our virtue springs.' Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Like his contemporary Lessing, Herder had throughout his life to struggle against adverse circumstances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Even so eminently practical a mind as Lessing's was bewildered by the difficulties surrounding this question, and he declared that "here his wits were at an end." Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z The Laocoon formed for Lessing the theme, or at least the text of a work of his own, and both before and after him a great deal has been written on the subject. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The head psychiatrist at Lady Chichester gave his blessing to the idea, and before long she was installed in the spare room of Lessing’s Camden home. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z French and Italian he seems to have been acquainted with so far as he deemed it necessary; but his principal literary studies were confined to Lessing, Bürger, Wieland, and Klopstock. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z Towards the close of his life he occupied himself, like Lessing, with speculative questions in philosophy and theology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The first that occurs to me is Tyndarus, the slave hero of the Captivi of Plautus, pronounced by the great critic Lessing to be the most beautiful play ever brought upon the stage. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Because beauty is obviously the chief aim of sculpture, Lessing tried to explain the fact that the Laocoon does not cry out, by saying that crying out is incompatible with beauty. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Lessing, perhaps, still lives to-day—but among a young and ever younger band of scholars. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Before the romantic movement in France Diderot in that country, Lessing and some of his successors in Germany, Hazlitt, Coleridge and Lamb in England, had been admirable critics and reviewers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z He was fond of reading, and read Lessing's and Mendelssohn's works, and this caused him to get new ideas of the world, and to keep aloof from the Talmud. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z Lessing celebrated the virtues of his friend, Moses Mendelssohn, in "Nathan the Wise," and in the parable of the rings showed how the true religion is to be sought and found. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Now Lessing criticised this opinion of Winckelmann's in his Laocoon, and improved it in the way mentioned above. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Lessing.—Lessing had a genuine French talent, and, as writer, went most assiduously to the French school. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z His writings are marked by sweetness and melody, qualities which were warmly appreciated by Lessing, Herder and Goethe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z But before turning to that movement we must consider two writers who, strictly speaking, also belong to the age under consideration—Lessing and Wieland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z On the afternoon of the Jewish Sabbath he was accustomed to assemble many of the choice spirits of the Prussian capital, among whom we may mention Lessing, Nikolai, and Gleim, in his home. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Who of us would have ever heard of that Klotz on whom Lessing wasted so much wit and scorn? The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The theological standpoint of Lessing, a.d. 1729-1781, is set forth in one of his letters to his brother. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Most of the great writers who revived German literature towards the beginning of this century—Lessing, Herder, Wieland, Goethe—have all disparaged it. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Here Lessing identified himself with the best critical principles of the rationalistic movement—principles which, in the later years of his life, he employed in a fierce onslaught on Lutheran orthodoxy and intolerance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z His translations of Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing promoted greatly the study of German literature in England. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z I say that Lessing continued the work of Luther. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z “Lessing: his Life and Works,” translated by G. Evans. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z There was a hidden sympathy between the qualities of his own mind and the exquisite critical genius and reasoning power of Lessing, which made him find the writers of the first class insipid and trivial. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 2011-08-13T02:00:20.940Z Lessing waged war upon theories of art, but he kept up no fight with individual authors. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z He spoke and wrote German fluently; he read the Vienna papers regularly, and even occasionally a poet, such as Schiller or Lessing. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z Lessing died in Brunswick, in the year 1781, misunderstood, hated, and denounced. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Smith, “Lessing as a Theologian,” in the Theological Review, July, 1868.79.Russell, Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z M. Laemmer followed the course of the controversy, and found to his dismay that the arguments of Lessing had brought home to him the conviction that Lutheranism rested on a false basis. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 2011-08-13T02:00:20.940Z The tomahawk and the scalping-knife are not the critical apparatus, and they are not to be found in the armory of Lessing and of Sainte-Beuve, of Matthew Arnold and of James Russell Lowell. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z The nation of Lessing, Goethe and Schiller schools its children in a gospel of hate toward the nation of Shakespeare and Milton and a long line of glorious poets from Chaucer to Browning. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z German can pronounce the name of Lessing without a responsive echo in his breast. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Mesmer, who lived nearly three hundred years after him, reaped the glory of a discovery made, as Lessing says, by the martyred fire-philosopher who died in Salzburg hospital. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Being thus deprived of a fixed belief, he was more open to the action of Lessing's principles of universal tolerance, which amounted to the coldest indifferentism and doubt. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 2011-08-13T02:00:20.940Z Herder.—Herder, on the other hand, Lessing’s contemporary, treated the subject of man’s development in a thoroughly naturalistic spirit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z The theologians of the orthodox period exaggerated the authority of the Bible to such an extent that critics like Lessing could speak of Bibliolatry or Bible-worship. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z Since Luther, Germany has produced no greater and better man than Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z As Lessing points out, in the printed page we can stand a free treatment of social question after social question which on the stage we should find revolting. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The German Muse attained a higher flight through Lessing, and finally displayed herself to the world in the two noble forms of Schiller and Goethe. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z Phaedrus’s style is simple, clear and brief, but dry and unpoetical; and, as Lessing has pointed out, he often falls into absurdities when he deserts his original. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z The German classic writers Herder, Wieland, Klopstock, Lessing, Schiller, Goethe were all trained from their childhood by the language of this Bible. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z Like Luther, Lessing's achievements consisted not only in effecting something definite, but in agitating the German people to its depths, and in awakening through his criticism and polemics a wholesome intellectual activity. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Lessing in his Hamburg Dramaturgy, speaking of Colman’s The English Merchant, says it has not action enough for the English critics. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z None the less, to Lessing, not to Goethe, is due the new point of view from which the story was approached by most of those who, after about the year 1770, attempted to tell it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z In German, Hagedorn and Gellert, both famous in their day and the latter extolled by Goethe, are quite forgotten; and even Lessing’s fables are read by few but schoolboys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z This invention was the subject of considerable discussion in Europe in the eighteenth century, in which Reynolds, Falconet, Lessing, and others took part. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z The third man will come who will perfect what Luther began and what Lessing carried on—the third Liberator. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z A number of modern writers, among them Lessing and Shelley, have returned more or less to the original Italian form. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z This revolutionary conception is the measure of Goethe’s debt to Lessing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The fables of Lessing represent the reaction against the French school of fabulists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Unquestionably Lessing was justified, for nothing more is demanded of the painter than to impress the imagination of the observer with the intensity of the grief depicted, and in this he succeeds. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Lessing, as he himself confessed, needed conflict for the full development of his powers. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z This interpretation was a literary tradition of centuries, and may be found in such diverse writers as Corneille and Lessing, Racine and Dryden, Dacier and Rapin. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The day afterwards the steamship Lessing arrived from Hamburg with an entire German Company for the Metropolitan Opera-house. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z “With La Fontaine himself,” says Lessing, “I have no quarrel, but against the imitators of La Fontaine I enter my protest.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Apparently Lessing did not observe that inasmuch as the painter cannot present the beginning and end of an incident, he must necessarily take his moment of action from the literary arts or from nature. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Lessing's wit does not resemble that enjouement, that ga�t�, those lively saillies, which are so well known here in France. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z It may be noted here, however, that in the critical writings of Lessing there is represented the climax of the Italian tradition in European letters, especially on the side of Aristotelianism. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Madge Lessing then and there established herself as the exception that proved the rule. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Lessing’s fables, like all that he wrote, display his vigorous common sense. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z The premisses of Lessing's argument therefore will not stand, for the painter cannot originate a fable by means of a picture. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z For Lessing, art was a tribune, and when he was thrust from the pulpit or the professor's chair he sprang on to the stage, speaking out more boldly, and gaining a more numerous audience. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Echoing the views of many participants, Professor Lessing suggested that governments should exercise light touch regulation or risk damaging the still-young internet. Web pioneers warn on regulation 2011-05-25T21:36:38Z It is a thankless task, that of successorship which results inevitably in direct comparisons, but Miss Lessing met the test surprisingly well. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z According to Lessing the ideal fable is that of Aesop. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z According to Lessing and Watts-Dunton, what the former calls the dazzling antithesis of Simonides—"Poetry is speaking painting, and painting dumb poetry"—has had a wide and deleterious effect upon art criticism. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Lessing was the literary Arminius who emancipated our theatre from that foreign rule. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Lessing has been able, with the exactest justice, to compare Homer to the most perfect sculptor; with such precision are the forms which that marvellous chisel gives to all beings determined! Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z With memories of "Jack and the Beanstalk"—they seem inevitable where Miss Lessing is concerned—one was a little bewildered at Priscilla's embarrassment in her ballet costume during the scene in Thea's dressing-room. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z The reason, according to Lessing, is that animals have distinct characters which are known and recognized by all. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z It is necessary to dissent from the conclusion of Lessing as to the representation of ugliness by the poet. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z I desire here to call attention to another author, who worked in the same spirit and with the same aim, and who may be regarded as Lessing's most legitimate successor. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The German Lessing had himself found in his literary countrymen the same fault that Madame de Stael, near the beginning of her book, points out as follows: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z This bewilderment was due to Miss Lessing's inability to impersonate. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Lessing’s analysis and definition of the fable, though he seems himself unconscious of the scope of his argument, is in truth its death-warrant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z A successive enumeration of its component parts, does not therefore diminish the effect of ugliness, as Lessing claims, but increases it. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z And when, among the corpses of so many petty men, I behold the noble features of a Lessing or a Herder, my heart throbs with emotion. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z He is out at George Lessing's encampment, you know. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z She is always Madge Lessing acting,—never Madge Lessing identified with another and wholly different personality; and at the sight of Madge Lessing embarrassed because she wore tights, one had a right to be bewildered. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z At the Düsseldorf Gallery, Lessing's "Martyrdom of Huss" is still the great attraction. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z "The force of natural signs," says Lessing, "consists in their resemblance to the things they represent." Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z This is not the place to discuss Lessing more fully, but I cannot refrain from saying that, in the whole range of literary history, he is the author whom I most love. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Lessing's Martyrdom of Huss has been for some time exhibiting in a collection of paintings of the Düsseldorf school. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z At that time everybody made the discovery that no one knew exactly who she was, and Miss Lessing has succeeded even to this day in shrouding her early life in mystery. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z In Germany, Lessing by precept and example inaugurated the 'romantic movement'; Schiller and Goethe are the two greatest names associated with the stage. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Lessing apparently overlooked the possibilities of landscape painting in his dictum as to progressive actions. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z After Lessing, he is probably the greatest citizen in German literature. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z That Lessing and Balzac should be names pronounced in relation itself throws a light on the temper of the speaker. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Miss Lessing belonged, in "Jack and the Beanstalk," to the class of womanly women. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z The best starting-point for the history of philosophy is a famous passage from Lessing. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Strange to say, De Quincey, in an explanatory note to Lessing's observations, also overlooks the movement of water broken by rocks, though he refers specially to landscape painting. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Here the Schlegels reveal the same impotency that we seem to discover in Lessing. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z A German play, entitled Schatz, by the celebrated dramatist Lessing, is also borrowed from this Latin original. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z During the Spring of 1900 Miss Lessing also appeared in the title r�le of "The Lady Slavey" when that musical farce was revived in Boston. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Lessing is of this last opinion; and, according to his interpretation, the line implies, that it was discovered by some one whose name is the French word for quills or pens, that is, plumes. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Lessing definitely settled the point in favour of the poet as the author of the design, and since his time this decision has been confirmed over and over again by practical evidence. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Lessing was more deeply interested in political questions than was imagined,—a characteristic which we entirely miss in his contemporaries. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z And this is the sum of the conditions concerning the respective functions of the three arts of imitation which had been overlooked, in theory at least, until the time of Lessing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Archimedes is further credited with the authorship of the famous Cattle-Problem enunciated in a Greek epigram edited by Lessing in 1773. Archimedes Men of Science 2011-03-13T03:00:23.660Z We are going to the Lessing Theatre afterwards. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Fred W. Lessing, another German Jewish donor, built such a vast book collection at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y., that he ordered catalog cards from the Library of Congress to keep track of it all. Jewish Texts Lost in War Are Surfacing in New York 2011-03-08T03:40:56Z The fragments "Concerning the Education of the Human race," which have been translated into French by Eugene Rodrigue, will perhaps suffice to give the French an idea of the wide scope of Lessing's genius. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Which has the higher degree of intellect, Mozart or Lessing, who, with all his genius, detested music? Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z With all its complexity and subdivisions, it has as real a unity as the age of Pericles, or that of Petrarch and Boccaccio, or the period in Germany that includes both Lessing and Heine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Painting, according to Lessing, was descriptive, poetry was narrative. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Mr. Lessing scoured auction catalogs for treasures, with a special focus on the history of the Enlightenment. Jewish Texts Lost in War Are Surfacing in New York 2011-03-08T03:40:56Z In the history of Germany it was her two great intellectual liberators, Luther and Lessing, to whom Heine looked up with the most unqualified love and reverence. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Lessing had been the first to break away from an enfeebling imitation of French Sentimentlalism. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z On the one hand, Lessing and George Eliot; on the other, the stock dramatist and novelist, with their low-comedy villain.' The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z Whatever Lessing says about poetry in the Laocoon applies equally well to prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z His children knew enough not to touch his “good books,” said his daughter Joan Lessing. Jewish Texts Lost in War Are Surfacing in New York 2011-03-08T03:40:56Z Yes, polemics were our Lessing's delight, and so he never reflected long whether an opponent was worthy of him,—thus through his controversies he has saved many a name from well-merited oblivion. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Lessing, one of the greatest Germans of that time, said, "Of the love of country I have no conception!" A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z And Lessing points the moral in adding: “Genius is condemned to utter only absurdities when it is unfaithful to its mission.” Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Even Lessing erroneously thought that this was Aristotle's meaning. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z His versatility may be judged from the fact that in the comedies of Goldoni and Moli�re he was no less successful than in the tragedies of Lessing and Shakespeare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Lessing contributed the most to the emancipation from the tyranny of the letter. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Among the names of those who discuss the "trick" Lessing's is, of course, wanting. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z "Everybody walked everywhere, or used horses," Lessing said. The history of the bicycle 2010-09-15T04:00:00Z In his Appreciations in the essay on "Style" Pater identifies beauty with expression, just as Croce did after him, and Lessing and Winckelmann before him. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z In his works on aesthetics he combined the views of Schelling with those of Winckelmann, Lessing, Kant, Herder, Schiller and others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Lessing made not the least concession to falsehood, even if thereby, after the manner of the worldly-wise, he could advance the victory of truth itself. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The relation to Lessing is again at once clear. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z His prestige was greatest during the century of French ascendency in modern literature, that, namely, between the age of Milton and that of Lessing. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Such a training seems to be more or less a response to Lessing’s definition of painting as “the imitation of solid bodies upon a plane surface.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Lessing in 1773, which purports to have been sent by Archimedes to the mathematicians at Alexandria in a letter to Eratosthenes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Among his pupils were many famous men of Germany, including Goethe and Lessing. The Story of Our Hymns On the other hand, and here he departs constantly from the canon of Lessing, there is no striving for abstract beauty. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Even the Berlin censorship required alterations before it could permit the production of the drama on the stage of the Lessing Theatre. The Wish A Novel We see Pietists and followers of Wolf; Klopstock and Lessing; Schiller and Kant; Germans and Prussians; a rich contemplative mind, and a persevering energy, which subjects the external world to itself. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. It has been customary to consider the intellectual sway of Italy and France, from Opiz to Lessing, as a great calamity. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. It was the golden age of German literature, but such geniuses as Goethe, Schiller, Lessing and Wieland were not filled with the Christian zeal of earlier poets, and they wrote no hymns. The Story of Our Hymns He then goes on to indicate the relation of what he had sed to Lessing and confesses his indetedness to him in the matter. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z A certain Lessing tried all that a hundred years ago, and broke his teeth on the hard wood. The Children of the World And it was not different with Lessing, to say nothing of the minor poets. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. Yet he was never pretentious; and he said frankly of himself that a criticism like that of Lessing in his 'Laocoön,' or of Goethe on 'Hamlet,' filled him with wonder and despair. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 At this juncture an invitation from Hamburg reached him, which at the first aspect seemed to open out a future peculiarly suited to Lessing's tastes and idiosyncrasies. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise The article has a total lack of coloristic reflexes; it emfasizes form, if not line; its thoro reasonableness takes into consideration all that Lessing has stood for in the domain of art. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z The r�le of Rota, although insignificant, is quite a graceful one, and, in this, Lessing has proved himself the master. On the Heights A Novel Lessing—The dulness of the German theater up to the middle of the eighteenth century. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women My grammars I regarded as mines whose ores were to enrich me; and my well-thumbed copy of Telemachus, and an odd volume of Lessing's comedies, were in themselves stores of pleasure and amusement. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience A dramatic critic and adviser was to belong to the establishment, and this post was offered to Lessing with a salary of 800 thalers. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Among men of this stamp who have suffered in this way was Lessing, a famous German writer of plays and books of criticism. Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 Nor am I in this case," replied Gunther; "I can safely say that I honor Lessing with all my heart and perhaps, indeed, with undue partiality. On the Heights A Novel German art has been influenced greatly by those who have written about his philosophy, Lessing, Goethe, the Sehlegels, and others. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women “Oh, very well!” replied Lessing, composedly walking away; “I shall call another time.” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 Cameos and engraved gems form the ground-work of the controversy that was waged fast and furiously for some months, until at last Lessing silenced his adversary. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Lessing stretched his tired limbs, and drew a deep, grateful breath. What a Man Wills It is not without reason that Lessing depicted Hettore as young and handsome, and on the eve of consummating a lawful marriage. On the Heights A Novel Could I imagine a Lessing, in his old age, in this house of refuge which I would found? Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Lessing vindicated its real laws to the drama, made clear the difference between the Greeks and their would-be representatives, and established the claims of Shakespeare as the modern master of both tragedy and comedy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Lessing's contemporaries were not slow to recognise that he had presented them with a master-piece. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Lessing looked from one to the other with an air of haughty displeasure. What a Man Wills Or, to put it differently, the language of Lessing and Goethe is like the beautiful butterfly that has left the chrysalis to which it can never more return. On the Heights A Novel For my part, I say with Lessing, It is better to live among bad people, than to live apart from everybody. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine His influence upon Lessing is a remarkable fact in the international history of dramatic literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" He wished to have Lessing as his travelling companion. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Lessing stood with his ears to the chink of the door listening intently. What a Man Wills This last work of Mozart's has a companion piece in Lessing's last work: "Nathan the Wise." On the Heights A Novel And with pain that she sought to repress, but could not wholly conceal, calling to mind a saying of Lessing, she saw her son standing in the marketplace and asking for work. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine But “at a distance,” as was well said, the effect of Diderot’s endeavours, the earlier in particular, was extremely great, and Lessing, though very critical as to particular points, greatly helped to spread it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" A private feud gave occasion to this publication, but, like all that Lessing wrote, it is full of matter of permanent worth. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise At the hour when you least—” Lessing seized his arm in a grip of steel. What a Man Wills But in Lessing's play, the deed takes place at the end, and leads to no results. On the Heights A Novel Besides Caroline Neuberin, the pioneer and founder of a respectable German stage, only one important woman played a role in the life of the grand Lessing. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Had not Lessing affirmed that history is an education of the human race? Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History The well-known Goetze Controversy is to be thanked for the appearance of this, the longest, and in many respects the most important of Lessing's dramatic works. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise There was more than one man in the room who envied Lessing the possession of his delightful wife! What a Man Wills But in this play, Lessing had not yet arrived at the repose of freedom. On the Heights A Novel Gifted women and Lessing an extraordinary combination indeed! had founded it! Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Miss Lessing was married and the younger girl engaged. Helen Grant's Schooldays Lessing was born in the early years of the eighteenth century, at a time therefore when Germany may be said practically to have had no literature. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise The affectionate camaraderie of the Lessings and Maplestones was a good and pleasant thing to witness, but the bond which bound these two was finer, more exalted. What a Man Wills Lessing had acted wisely, substituting for the name of Melchisedek--Boccaccio's Jew--that of Nathan, for the very name reminds one of an all-embracing garment. On the Heights A Novel These two, and Ackermann, with his daughter, Frau Lowen, and others, became so to speak the charter members of the newly founded National Theatre of Hamburg, for which Lessing was appointed dramaturgiste. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Mrs. Lessing said she did not see the need of half the tests, or of College education for women. Helen Grant's Schooldays Lessing wished to destroy this unthinking veneration, and lead his nation back to the true sources of inspiration, and he fought with an iconoclastic zeal against all distortions, and all confusions of �sthetic boundaries. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise There was no glitter of gems, but Val Lessing noticed with a thrill of remembrance that round her throat there were ropes of pearls,—lustrous, shimmering pearls, for which a man might venture his life. What a Man Wills It was his opinion that in naming his intriguant Marinelli, Lessing had intended an allusion to Machiavelli, to whose character the last century had not been able to do justice. On the Heights A Novel Lessing's correspondence with Eva Konig is but an additional proof that among the most valuable documents adduced for the characterization of German womanhood are love letters to and from German women. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Miss Lessing would jump at the offer she had made Clara Gage. Helen Grant's Schooldays This remark applies, indeed, to all Lessing's prose writings. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise She paused just for a moment, then with a challenging smile turned towards Val Lessing, who sat on her right. What a Man Wills It has been heralded in Germany by the writings of Lessing, and in France by those of Diderot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" She performed two great services: she purified the German drama, and she introduced Lessing to the world. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Miss Lessing spoke of two famous singers who had been in New York during the winter. Helen Grant's Schooldays The 'Dramaturgy' was not the only work that occupied Lessing at Hamburg. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise So far all had gone with almost incredible ease, but Lessing was aware that he was not yet out of the wood. What a Man Wills Such is the case with the æsthetic systems, with the truths and errors of men like Winckelmann, Lessing, Hegel, or Taine; but it is not so with the æsthetic system of Ruskin. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions Lessing's inherent nobility of intellect is said to have been typified in his manner of study. Methods of Authors His influence upon the dramatic literature of Germany was direct and immediate; it appeared in the plays of Lessing and Schiller, and much of Lessing's criticism was inspired by Diderot. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Receptions, formal dinners, deputations, at all of which Lessing had to be present, engrossed the precious time that should have been devoted to more intellectual pursuits. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Lessing knew by the distinctness of the sound that the ascent had been made at but a short distance from where he lay, and the knowledge sent a chill through his blood. What a Man Wills He came into it as an apostle and a reformer, but as an apostle and a reformer strangely different from Winckelmann and Schlegel, from Lessing and Goethe. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions This injustice in literature will persist until some great genius possessing the broad-mindedness of a Lessing and the dramatic power of a Shakespeare shall arise among English-speaking people and create an English Nathan the Wise. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 Why, I remember throwing a quarto Lessing at my brother's head, for which he beat me unmercifully with 'Sophy's Journey from Memel to Saxony.' The Wine-ghosts of Bremen Then followed a very heyday of happiness to Lessing; he was at last content, at peace; his wife understood him and felt with him; she was his stay, his pride, his joy. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Lessing looked at it and felt a creeping of the blood. What a Man Wills In other directions he laid under tribute Herder and Lessing; yet all the while he cast severe imputations of plagiarism upon Hume and others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" In literature, its leading names were Winckelmann, Lessing and Voss, and Herder, Goethe and Schiller. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Do you recollect what Lessing wrote to Claudius? Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Their publication drew down upon Lessing a fury of rancorous abuse, and involved him in a vortex of controversy that lasted till his death. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Lessing watched her go, and then deliberately moved a chair to the centre of the entrance to the summer-house, seated himself astride, and bent his head on the rail. What a Man Wills Coleridge was in England the creator of that higher criticism which had already in Germany accomplished so much in the hands of Lessing and Goethe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" He was a Jewish philosopher and a friend of Lessing's, who, it is supposed, took him as his model for "Nathan the Wise." Atta Troll You have probably never heard of Lessing,—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part On the removal of Kleist to active service, Lessing determined to quit Leipzig, which had grown distasteful to him in its military hubbub. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise “For Heaven’s sake, don’t torture me,” cried Lessing wildly. What a Man Wills Shortly afterwards he went to Germany, where he began to study Kant, and was much captivated by Lessing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" This refers to the heroine of Lessing's drama of the same name, in which old Odoardo Galotti slays his daughter in order to protect her from dishonour. Atta Troll I accept Lessing’s words, but cavil at your interpretation of them. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Kleist was certainly in Lessing's mind when he began. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise He touched his cap as Lessing approached, saying in an interrogative tone: “Beg pardon, sir—Mr Lessing?” What a Man Wills The frequent occurrence in it of the word ‘bibliolatry’, borrowed from Lessing, would sufficiently account for this pious hatred. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century And Lessing makes a man excuse himself for marrying a deaf woman on the ground that she was also dumb. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects With Lessing he believes: "There is, at most, but one disagreeable woman in the world; a pity then that every man gets her for himself." Ivory Apes and Peacocks But the evil fortune that seemed to run like a fatal thread through Lessing's life whenever he found himself near the fulfilment of an ardent desire again asserted itself. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise “Right,” said Lessing, and handed over his bag. What a Man Wills A new religion, heralded by a new evangel, that of Diderot and Montesquieu, Lessing, Beccaria, and Voltaire, and sanctified by the blood of new martyrs, the Girondins, offered itself to the world. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe German literature is fortunately very rich in treatises of this kind in the works of Lessing, Herder, Kant, Fichte, Schleiermacher, Humboldt, and Schiller. Pedagogics as a System I recall a few offhand—Lessing, Molière, Scribe, Wagner, Ibsen, these will suffice. An Ocean Tramp The journey extended to nine months, and was a period of misery to Lessing. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise And once again Lessing was conscious of that tingling in his veins which was rather exhilaration than dread. What a Man Wills That a native German literature exists, is the work of Lessing as pioneer; that it is worth studying, is the result of his criticism and influence. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion But Lessing did not, however, mean by them to charter Pharisaical pedantry. Pedagogics as a System Such books as Lessing's "Laocoon," such passages as the criticism on "Hamlet" in "Wilhelm Meister," fill me with wonder and despair.' Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Lessing had progressed beyond the comprehension of his age, and the inevitable consequences ensued,--misconstruction and mental loneliness. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Lessing studied the road on either side, searching for landmarks which might be registered for future use. What a Man Wills The one, earnest and scholarlike, formed chiefly on the model of English deism, is represented by Lessing. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The celebrated Lessing was at that time his secretary. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Lessing, the philosophers of the French revolution, James Mill, Schopenhauer and others fell into this error. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion His step-daughter was his tender and attentive companion, for since his wife's death Lessing's health had declined, and he required care. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Lessing bent forward in his chair, his hands clasped loosely together between his knees; there was a look in his eyes which brought the colour surging into Delia’s cheeks. What a Man Wills The German literature bore the marks either of the old scholasticism, or of the materialism introduced from France, or of the classic culture introduced by Lessing and his coadjutors. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The poet Lessing by his books roused the ancient spirit of liberty, long dormant in the German mind. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 In common with his successors, Leonardo could not escape from this fallacy, which, in overlooking all save descriptive verse, was destined to burden aesthetic until demolished by Lessing. Thoughts on Art and Life Three years after its publication, Lessing told a friend that hardly any one seemed to know at what goal he had aimed in his 'Laokoon.' The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Lessing’s jaw fell; the blood buzzed in his ears. What a Man Wills The first two697 fragments, published by Lessing, touched only upon the question of tolerating deists, and on the custom of declaiming against human reason in the pulpits. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Looming on the sight, or as contemporaries, are Handel, Leibnitz, Wolf, Klopstock, Lessing, and Winckelmann. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 I lent the manuscript to Lessing, observing jestingly that I, too, could write like Shaftesbury, the Englishman. Dreamers of the Ghetto Critics arose in plenty, but their criticism was of such a character that Lessing, usually so combative, did not hold them worthy of a reply. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Val Lessing’s thirtieth birthday found him strong, handsome, prosperous, and—discontented. What a Man Wills The materials for understanding the awakening of literary tastes in the last century in Germany, through Lessing's influence, are furnished by Schlosser, History of the Eighteenth Century. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion He starts to discuss it, and does so with a clearness and fairness that have not been equaled since the days of Lessing—and then he drifts off in a new direction. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays But Mendelssohn gravely bade her mend her faults, and Maimon saw Lessing's harassed eyes light up for the first time with a gleam of humor. Dreamers of the Ghetto Lessing showed the divergence between real and absolute, and fanciful and perverted rules. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise By this time Lessing had reached the end of the cross-road, at which was situated an eating-house of a rough and unsavoury appearance. What a Man Wills In these two periods Klopstock, Wieland, and Lessing, were the intellectual triumvirs. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Lessing in Germany was soon outstripped by the vast mind of Schiller. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 No, no, it is Montesquieu, it is Dohm, it is my dear Lessing. Dreamers of the Ghetto Though they were issued anonymously, Lessing was now sufficiently known, and it was not long before they were universally attributed to him. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Lessing hung out of the window, his eyes sweeping the wall to right and left. What a Man Wills Lessing was allowed to take a copy, and showed the MS. to Mendelssohn in 1771. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion |
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