Who is Ernest Hemingway?

Ernest Hemingway

• Ernest Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899.
• He was an American writer and journalist.
• When he left high school, he worked for a few months as a reporter.
• He later became an ambulance driver during World War I.
• His first novel, The Sun Also Rises>, was written in 1924.
• He returned to the United Sates in the following year because he was seriously wounded.
• Ernest Hemingway married 4 times.
  
• He first married Hadley Richardson in 1922 with whom he travelled to Paris.
• In Paris he met famous expatriate who who formed a community called the lost generation.
• After divorcing Hadley Richardson in 1927 Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer.
• They divorced following Hemingway's return from covering the Spanish Civil War.
• After the Spanish Civil war he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls.
• He then married Martha Gellhorn in 1940, but he left her for Mary Welsh Hemingway after World War II,
• During World War II, was present at D-Day and the liberation of Paris.
• In 1952 Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life.
• Before he went to Africa, he published The Old Man and the Sea. for which he got a Nobel Prize in 1954.
  
• In 1959 he moved from Cuba to Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.
• Hemingway's distinctive writing is called the iceberg theory is characterized by economy and understatement.
• Hemingway's fiction is considered successful because the characters he presents exhibit an authenticity that reverberates with the audience.

Works

Some of Ernest hemingway's works:

• "Indian Camp" (1926)
• The Sun Also Rises (1927)
• A Farewell to Arms (1929)
• "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1935)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
• The Old Man and the Sea (1951)
• True at First Light (1999)

Who is Charles Baudelaire?

Charles Pierre Baudelaire

• Charles Baudelaire was born on April 9, 1821.
• He died on August 31, 1867.
• He was a nineteenth-century French poet, critic, and translator.
• Famous for his book of poetry Les fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)
• Baudelaire's father, François Baudelaire, a senior civil servant and amateur artist, was 34 years older than his mother, Caroline.
  
• Baudelaire's father died during his childhood and remained very close to his mother.
• Charles Baudelaire's relationship with his mother was comlex and dominated his life.
• His mother married Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Aupick a year after his father's death.
• Charles Baudelaire was forced to to board away from his mother (even during holidays) and accept his stepfather's rigid methods.
• Baudelaire
  
• Baudelaire's stepfather was concerned about his future.
• At 18 years old, Charles was still undecided about his future.
• He began to frequent prostitutes.
  
• Trying to change Charles' mind and behavior, his stepfather sent him to India.
• The arduous trip, however, did nothing to turn Baudelaire's mind away from a literary career or from his casual attitude toward life.
• He retuned home and spent a life of and squandred his money and his inheritance and even gone into depth.
• The most important work Baudelaire wrote was "Les fleurs du mal". When it was first published it was criticised and found a small, appreciative audience. But later "Les fleurs du mal" was supported by a number of notables like Victor Hugo and Flaubert
  

Charles Baudelaire's Work

BEAUTY
by: Charles Baudelaire

AM as lovely as a dream in stone,

And this my heart where each finds death in turn,

Inspires the poet with a love as lone

As clay eternal and as taciturn.




Swan-white of heart, a sphinx no mortal knows,

My throne is in the heaven's azure deep;

I hate all movements that disturb my pose,

I smile not ever, neither do I weep.




Before my monumental attitudes,

That breathe a soul into the plastic arts,

My poets pray in austere studious moods,




For I, to fold enchantment round their hearts,

Have pools of light where beauty flames and dies,

The placid mirrors of my luminous eyes.

'Beauty' is reprinted from The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire. Ed. James Huneker. New York: Brentano's, 1919.
More poems here:
Poems by Charles Baudelaire