Translators of William Shakespeare - August Wilhelm Schlegel, Avraham Shlonsky, Boris Pasternak, Carl August Hagberg, Dorothea Tieck, Franti Ek Doucha, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: August Wilhelm Schlegel, Avraham Shlonsky, Boris Pasternak, Carl August Hagberg, Dorothea Tieck, Franti ek Doucha, Friedrich Schiller, Gala Galaction, Ivane Machabeli, Jaroslav Vrchlicky, Johannes Slok, Josef Ji i Kolar, Josef Kajetan Tyl, Leon Levi chi, M rg rita Miller Verghy, Martin Hilsky, Miroslav Macek, Petre P. Carp, Ramachandra Deva, Stefan George. Excerpt: Petre P. Carp (Romanian pronunciation: also Petrache Carp, Francized Pierre Carp, occasionally Comte Carpe; June 28 or 29, 1837 - June 19, 1919) was a Moldavian-born Romanian statesman, political scientist and culture critic, one of the major representatives of Romanian liberal conservatism, and twice the country's Prime Minister (1900-1901, 1910-1912). His youth was intertwined with the activity of Junimea club, which he co-founded with critic Titu Maiorescu as a literary society, and then helped transform into a political club. He left behind a budding career as Junimeas polemicist and cultural journalist, joining the state bureaucracy of the United Principalities, the Romanian diplomatic corps, and ultimately electoral politics. A speaker for aristocratic sentiment and the Romanian gentry, Carp helped create the Conservative Party from the various "White" conservative clubs (1880), but also led a Junimist dissident wing against the Conservative mainstream leaders Lasc r Catargiu and Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino. He was a contributor to the Junimea platform Convorbiri Literare, and founder of the newspapers Terra (1868) and Moldova (1915). Widely seen as unyielding and trenchant in his public stance, and respected as an orator, P. P. Carp stood against the majority current in various political debates. His entire discourse was an alternative to the protectionist, antisemitic and populist tendencies of "Red" Romanian liberalism....