Showing posts with label Literary Milestone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literary Milestone. Show all posts

Saturday, September 26, 2015

"Literary Birthday, September 26, 1888 -- T.S. Eliot

"T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 26, 1888." 
Credit:  "A Book of Days for the Literary Year"


"Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical poems by T.S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology ... It is the basis for the musical Cats.”


See the related posting under "Fabulous Finds" or "Video Included" ...

"Memory" from the Musical "Cats" -- Susan Boyle



Monday, August 24, 2015

"Gutenberg Bible" -- August 24, 1456

Picture Credits:  Guttenberg Bible -- Genesis: commons.wikimedia.org
Press Printing Letters:  rennaissancebcs6.wikispaces.com
Quote Source:  "A Book of Days for the Literary Year"

August 24, 1456
Printing of the Gutenberg Bible is Completed in Mainz