Cervantes : Miguel de Cervantes (Saavedra) (1547-1616), creator of Don Quixote.
... and Shaw's part in it, at least in preparing and making it possible, is undeniable." 1 And what about Cervantes with his immortal creation Don Quixote? He wrote his book as a satire upon the silly romances Page 371 of chivalry. And what was the result? "It was Cervantes," remarks Prof. Stephen Leacock, "who, as has been said a thousand times, helped to laugh out of existence what... what remained of mediaeval chivalry." Prof. Leacock continues: "If we grasp just what [with progressive degeneration] had happened to feudalism and chivalry, we can realize what it was that Cervantes did with Don Quixote and appreciate the glorious humour that lies at the base of it.... It can make us realize again the great power of humorous writing as a social force. Books of tears move the... von Hutten, etc. Sir Thomas Moore, although himself not a satirist, became the inspirer of much subsequent satire through his idea of an imaginary commonwealth, Utopia. We have already talked about Cervantes who came at a later period: his Don Quixote was a satire and so much more. In the writings of John Donne we may detect the direct imitation of the Roman satirists. Most of the great dramatists ...
... school in London. Along with the normal curriculum, by following which he made rapid progress in Latin, Greek and French, he also taught himself Italian, German and Spanish to read Dante, Goethe and Cervantes in the original. As to English literature, he showed much interest in the Elizabethan theatre and for the great romantic poetry, particularly that of Keats, Shelley and Byron. He was also fascinated ...
... when we have seen the romantic spirit of Spain, its pride, punctilious sense of honour, courage, cruelty, intrigue, passion and the humour & pathos of its decline mirrored in the work of Calderon & Cervantes we seem to have exhausted all that need interest the student of humanity in Spanish literature. Similar instances offer themselves in the Sagas of the Scandinavian peoples and Germany's Nibelungenlied ...
... biologist, author of a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection, known by the name of Darwinism. Don Quixote: Tragicomic hero of a Cervantes novel. Don Quixote's main quest in life is to revive chivalric virtues and values. Honest and idealistic, he wants to save the world and dispense justice. He is the symbol of an absurd dreamer living ...
... managed to escape after two years. He spent these two years in prison in philosophic and literary work. There have been many famous literary gaolbirds, the two best known perhaps being the Spaniard, Cervantes, who wrote Don Quixote, and the Englishman, John Bunyan, the author of The Pilgrim's Progress. I am not a man of letters, and I am not prepared to say that the many years I Page 384 ...
... of literatures of different countries, we come across a procession of remarkable humorous characters created by the great masters of fiction. Some of the more well-known names in this field are: Cervantes's Don Quixote with Sancho Panza beside him, Shakespeare's Falstaff, Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain the 'Bourgeois Gentilhomme', Dickens's Mr. Picwick, Daudet's Tartarin of Tarascon, Wode-house's Jeeves ...
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