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Henry L. Mencken. Henry Louis Mencken, im Amerikanischen meist H. L. Mencken (* 12. September 1880 in Baltimore, Maryland; † 29. Januar 1956 ebenda), war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Journalist, Literaturkritiker, Kolumnist, Satiriker und Kulturkritiker
4. Zitate über Männer von Henry Louis Mencken. „Jeder anständige Mann schämt sich für die Regierung, unter der er lebt.“. — Henry Louis Mencken. 2. „Ich kenne einige, die ständig von Büchern betrunken sind, wie andere Männer von Whisky betrunken sind.“. — Henry Louis Mencken. 0.
e. Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. [1] He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the ...
11. Apr. 2024 · H.L. Mencken was a controversial journalist and pungent critic of American life who powerfully influenced U.S. fiction through the 1920s. He jeered at American sham, pretension, provincialism, and prudery, and he ridiculed the nation’s organized religion, business, and middle class (or ‘booboisie’).
Mencken spent a great deal of time with Sara during their five year marriage, vacationing frequently in places like Havana and Cairo. Each trip brought with it the hope that Sara might recover some of the strength that she was constantly loosing. Sara’s death in 1935 brought their “beautiful adventure” to an end.
15. Okt. 2018 · H.L. Mencken was an American author and editor who rose to prominence in the 1920s. For a time, Mencken was considered one of the sharpest observers of American life and culture. His prose contained countless quotable phrases that worked their way into the national discourse. During his lifetime, the Baltimore native was often called "The Sage of Baltimore."
14. Mai 2024 · Henry Louis Mencken ( 12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956 ), known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche ". He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century.
4. Juli 2000 · H.L. Mencken was born September 12, 1880 in Baltimore. His father, August Mencken, owned a cigar factory. His mother Anna Abhau Mencken, like her husband, was a child of German immigrants. In 1883, the family moved to a three- story, red brick row house at 1524 Hollins Street with a 25‑foot- wide backyard which went back about a hundred feet. He lived here until he got married, and he move ...
H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: Fourth, Fifth, & Sixth Series LOA N°207. H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, & Third Series LOA N°206. Library of America. CURATOR. A champion of America’s great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring the exceptional writing that reflects the nation’s history ...
Mencken, Henry Louis, 1880-1956. Editor, essayist, and critic. Henry Louis Mencken was a writer of enormous national influence who also played a leading role in southern intellectual life of the 1920s. A native of Baltimore, he became a contributor to the Smart Set and the American Mercury.
H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”. 97 Copy quote. It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron. H. L. Mencken. Running, Classic, Moron. 55 Copy quote.
22. Apr. 2024 · H.L. Mencken. American journalist and critic H.L. Mencken, 1946. The reputation of the journalist and critic H.L. Mencken has seen its ups and downs since his death in 1956. His importance as an early and influential student of the variety of the English language peculiar to America is not seriously questioned, however.
1. Dez. 2002 · Mencken: America's Critic. In "The Sage of Baltimore" (December 2002 Atlantic ), a review of a new biography of the legendary journalist H. L. Mencken, Jonathan Yardley calls Mencken "the greatest ...
German-Americans • H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) The German-American "Sage of Baltimore" Henry Louis “H.L.” Mencken was born on September 12, 1880 at his family’s home in Baltimore, Maryland and never traveled very far from his hometown, despite a long and notable career as a journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, and a critic of American life and
14. Nov. 2016 · The influential scholar, journalist, satirist, and cultural commentator H.L. Mencken (September 12, 1880–January 29, 1956), celebrated as “the Sage of Baltimore,” explored precisely that in an incisive article for the Baltimore Sun published in July of 1920 and later included in the posthumous Mencken anothology On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (public library).
672 H. L. Mencken and The American Language prived themselves of the supreme amusements of the era. He himself was persuaded to stay at home, he said in a famous wise-crack, by the same low tastes that sent other people to circuses, but he was determined as well to make his mark on America. Even before The American Language was first published ...
376 quotes from H.L. Mencken: 'I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.', 'The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.', and 'As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.
1. Aug. 2013 · Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Title. The American Language. A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States. Credits. Produced by Bruce Albrecht, RichardW and the Online. Distributed Proofreading Team at http: //www.pgdp.net.
The Last Happy Days of H. L. Mencken. A graduate of Cambridge University, ALISTAIR COOKE first came to the United States for two years in the early 1930s on a Commonwealth Fellowship to Yale and ...
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