Biography of William Faulkner

William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for [...]

Dostoevsky and Hermann Hesse: Analogies and Congruences

Hermann Hesse was strongly influenced by Dostoevsky’s artistic method, especially by his treatment of the fragmentation of the human personality and his portrayal of the decaying West. Their novels depict the tragedy of intellect – man’s problematic exist-ence taking place amidst the silent loneliness and disharmony characteristic of a diseased city, of modern culture, civilization, [...]

Biography of Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was born into a family of Pietist missionaries and religious publishers in the Black Forest town of Calw, in the German state of Wüttenberg. Johannes Hesse, his father, was born a Russian citizen in Weissenstein, Estonia. Hesse’s mother, Marie Gundert, was born in Talatscheri, India, as the daughter of the Pietist missionary [...]

Artist Needed for Graphic Novel

Reply to: amwilson81@hotmail.comDate: 2007-08-27, 3:01PM EDT
Twofold Comics, a new comic book company preparing to launch in the industry, is in need of a reliable artist to work on their first featured graphic novel. We are looking for someone who can handle all the artwork for the book themselves. This is a great opportunity to get [...]

Friedrich Schiller: Poet of The American Revolution

For only can a great and noble causeArouse humanity’s profoundest nature.In smaller spheres, the mind of man contracts;But with a nobler purpose, grows the greater.
And as this century is gravely ending,And even what is real to fable turns,When we behold huge forces locked in battleAnd our portentous goal is hov’ring near,
And war is waged for [...]

Friedrich Schiller’s Philosophical Letters

Translated by William F. Wertz, Jr.
Preamble
Reason has its epochs, its destinies, like the heart, but its history is far more rarely treated. One seems to be satisfied therewith, to develop the passions in their extreme, their aberrations and consequences, without taking into consideration, how exactly they cohere with the intellectual system of the individual. The [...]

Friedrich Schiller’ Poem: " The Artists"

translated by Marianna Wertz
How fair, O Man, do you, your palm branch holdingStand at the century’s unfoldingIn proud and noble manhood’s primeWith faculties revealed, with spirit’s fullnessFull earnest mild, in action-wealthy stillness,The ripest son of time,Free through reason, strong through law’s measure,Through meekness great, and rich in treasure,Which long your breast to you did not [...]

Friedrich Schiller’ Poem: "The Ring of Polycrates"

translated by Melanie Morris
He stood upon his castle’s turret,He gazed out with delighted spiritO’er mastered Samos down below.“The whole of this to me is subject,”Began he to the King of Egypt,“That I am fortunate, avow.”
“Thou has enjoyed the godly favor!Those formerly thine equals ever,Bend now beneath thy sceptor’s might.Yet one still lives, their vengeance seeking,Thy [...]

Friedrich Schiller’ Poem: "Hope"

translated by Daniel Platt
A stream of rain from fissured mountains,It comes with thunder’s vehemence,A shattered peak pursues its fountains,And oaks beneath it tumble hence;Amazed, with dread anticipation,The wanderer listens, and he harks,He hears the roaring inundation,Yet knows not, whence its rush embarks;And so a wave of singing coursesFrom out of ne’er discovered sources.
In league with [...]

Friedrich Schiller, The Poet of America

“Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended man to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.”
— Abraham Lincoln, Feb. 23, 1861.
“When I consider that there are [...]