John Osborne and his Age

 John Osborne and His Age:-A British playwright, screenplay writer, actor, and theatre director, John Osborne (1929-1994) was born on 12 December 1929 in Fulham, London. His father Thomas Godfrey Osborne, was a lower-middle-class commercial artist and copywriter from Wales, and his mother, Nellie Beatrice Grove, belonged to a working-class family of publication. His father died of tuberculosis in 1941, and his death left an impact on Osborne and his writing. He began his education in a State school but was transferred to Devon, a lesser...

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Explanation of Poem Musee des Beaux Arts

The free verse poem "Musee des Beaux Arts" (Museum of Fine Arts) was composed by British-American poet Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) in December 1938 when he was in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. It was published in 1939 under the title "Palais des Beaux-Arts" (Palace of Fine Arts). The title of this poem is derived from 'Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique'; it's a French name for the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. The museum is famous for its collection of early Netherlandish paintings.The poem has two parts. The first...

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