Friday, April 17, 2009
RANDOM E BRITANNICA
DEFOE, DANIEL- 1661-1731. b london. no exact date or place. no record as his famly non-conformist. nothing known of ancestors. his grandpa said to have been a squire or yeoman.
his father was a butcher. nothing known of mother. educated at a dissenting academy-mr morton's blah blah. took arms in monmouth's expedition + escaped the king's troops being a londoner.blah blah'civit-cat merchant'. blah BLAH 1719 robinson crusoe big seller 3 parts, but pt 3. less. 5+ pages. married twice. 7 kids, 1 daughter died young.
bet he'd have been a blogger.
DEISM- seeking above all to establish the certainty + sufficiency of natural religion in opposition to the positive religions + deny the supernatural. famous deists-blount, tindal, bolingbroke, blah blah 33-37.
DELACROIX, FERDINAND VICTOR EUGENE- 1798-1863 french painter, father a partisan, violent during the revolution. the family affairs conducted in the wildest manner + the accidents that befell D, authenticated, make it a miracle he survived. nearly burned to death in his cradle when his nurse fell asleep reading a novel, the candle fell on the blankets + he was scared on his face + arms. next dropped in the sea by another one, who was climbing a ship's ladder to see her lover, nearly poisoned + nearly choked + he tried to hang himself, not suicide, his horoscope preserved. "cet enfant deviendra un homme celebre, mais sa vvie sera des plus laborienses, des plus tourmentees, et tonjours livre'e a la contrdiclion."
he 'pa' died when he was 7, little success w/ artists + critics. his style not like 'the times'. his 1st important 'dante + virgil' in 1822 controversial. blah blah after sardanas? became abomination to critics + public. "j'etais echante du moimeme!" lived on his enheritance + painted his large historical pictures. 1831 entered salon again w/ 6 paintings + left for morocco,where he found subjects. never went to italy on principle. keep masters from polluting his style. loved poetry. byron, shakespeare, not effusive.
