“A little Madness in the Spring...” by Emily Dickinson ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 Today is the birthday of the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett, born in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock (1906). He studied French and Italian at Trinity College, and, for a while, divided his time between Paris and Dublin. He taught English at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and taught French at Trinity College, and traveled around Europe for several years. He settled in Paris permanently in 1937. It was there that he met and befriended fellow Irish ex-pat James Joyce. Joyce’s eyesight was failing by this time, so Beckett would read to him and help him as he worked on
TWA for Thursday, April 13, 2017
TWA for Thursday, April 13, 2017
TWA for Thursday, April 13, 2017
“A little Madness in the Spring...” by Emily Dickinson ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 Today is the birthday of the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett, born in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock (1906). He studied French and Italian at Trinity College, and, for a while, divided his time between Paris and Dublin. He taught English at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and taught French at Trinity College, and traveled around Europe for several years. He settled in Paris permanently in 1937. It was there that he met and befriended fellow Irish ex-pat James Joyce. Joyce’s eyesight was failing by this time, so Beckett would read to him and help him as he worked on