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not because it taught optimism but because it embodied the proper attitude to life’s challenges. Cervantes’ contemporaries, he insisted, were right to take it as a comedy. “They laughed themselves,” he wrote, “almost to death over...

alone. Though some people might not want to draw attention to themselves or feel the need to network with their contemporaries, these people still form a kind of community. It exists, says the poem, and should be celebrated. The speaker...

the work existed on the edge of "the incomprehensible," suggesting that Beethoven was no longer writing for his contemporaries but for a future humanity. 4. Hector Berlioz: The Terrifying Genius Berlioz was initially overwhelmed and even...

same time. Here we see John's naturally fiery zeal directed to a right end. Polycarp, the disciple of John, told contemporaries of Irenæus, who narrates the story on their authority, that on one occasion when John was about to bathe...