The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both t...
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American writers of short stories a...
Eugène Delacroix

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school....