LORD BYRON, SELECTED POEMS

As the famous portrait by Thomas Phillips of Byron in Albanian costumesmakes clear, Byron himself impersonatedhis most famous portic creation ; the exotic, dashingly handsome, dangerous and seductive Byron hero. When visiting Teresa he had ben delighted by the very "magnifique" Albanian dresses as he wrote his mother, and purchased "some" for himself.
Reading the countenance for its animating sentimentrs and passions. Walter Scott and Coleridge were part of a burning Romantic-era romance with Byron, involving not only brother poets, but also women poets, among them Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon, enthralled by his dark and dazzling celebrity.
Byron was born in London on February 22th, 1788, the son of Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, a Scots heiress. The Captain having squandered hers fortune, the family withdrew to Aberdeen in 1789, and he soon decamped to the Continent. In 1798 the fifth Baron Byron "The wicked Lord" died and Byron unexpectedly inherited his title.

ABSOLUTE FRIENDS. - JOHN leCARRÉ

Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in an shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lhuteran pastor, first become friends as students in riot-torn West Berlinof the late Sixties. They meet again, in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies.
This is a book that offers a bitter warning even as it delivers inmense reading pleasure. No reader, whatever his politics, could fail to be moved by the passion and intelligence of le Carré.
Le Carré brilliantly manipulates an absorbing plot to give the reader a masterly tour of Cold War Europe. Few could fail to be thilled by the unbridled rage that fuels his storytelling. He has once again demonstrated his mastery of his chosen genre while at the same time giving lesser, ordinary novelists a masterclass in taking nothing for granted.

LA CONJURA DE EL ESCORIAL

Philip II ruled Spain between 1556 and 1598. In July 1561 he chose Madrid as the seat of the Spanish Royal Court, and the permanent residence of the Royal Family. For a host o reasons, the majority of the writers agree that Philip IIprobably made this decisicion to be closer to the El Escorial Monastery, whose construction and running was personally overseen by the monarch.
Once the Court was up and running Madrid became an indispensable stop for merchants, diplomats , soldiers, jesters , princes and members of the religious orders from all nations. The town underwent rapid growth, exceeding all expectations. By tthe end of the 16th Century, madrid had doubled in size and continue to grow at incredible rate. This growth was reflected with the building or squares, gardens, palaces, fountains. convents, churches, bridges etc., which in turn completely changed the makeup and appearance of the city. The different building projects took decades to complete and stretched across the reigns of several monarchs.
To experience Madrid in the times of Philip II, take a stroll through the history of a city that started life, as the seat of Spanish Royal Court. Today there are still numerous monuments and buildings that were designed during that period. Glimpse into the past as you walk past some of the most emblematic of these, sush as the Casa de La Panaderia ( The Bakery) the antigua Carcel de la Corte (former Gaol of the Sanish Court9, Imperial and Sacramento streets, the beautiful Plaza de la Villla of the area around the Descalzas Reales Monastery.

CALIBAN TO THE AUDIENCE : From the Sea and the Mirror.

Author : Wystan Hugh AUDEN.

If now, having dismissed your hired impersonators with verdicts ranging from laudatory orchid to the disgusted and disgusting egg, you ask and, of course, notwithstanding, the concius fact of his irrevocable absence, you instinctively do ask for our so good, so great, so dead author to stand before the finally lowered curtain and take his shyly rsponsible bow for this, his latest, ripest production, it is I _ my reluctance is, I can assure you co-equal with your dismay_ who will always loom thus wretchedly into your confuse picture, for, in default of the all-wise, all-explaining master you would speak to, who else at least can, who else indeed must respond to your bewildered cry, but is very echo, the begged question you would speak to him about.

THE WANDERER.
Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle
Upon what man is fall
In spring day-wishing flowers appearing
Avalanche sliding, white snowfrom rock-face
That he should leave his house
No cloud-soft hand can hold him, restraint by women;
But ever that man goes
Through place-keepers, through forest trees.
A stranger to strangers over undried sea,
Houses for fishes, suffocating water,
Or lonely on fell as chat,
By pot-holed becks
A bird stone-haunting, an unquiet bird.

¿QUE ES UN BLOG ?

Un Blog es un diario personal. Una tribuna de orador. Un espacio de colaboración, Un estrado politico. Una fuente de noticias importante. Una colección devinculos. Un medio pra expresar susu opiniones personales. Comunicados para todo el mundo.
Un Blog puede definirse de forma sencilla como un sitio WEB dónde el usuario puede escribir periodicamente sobre cualquier tema.
Los últimos escritos se muestran en la parte superior para que las personas que visistan el sitio, sepan cual es la información más reciente. Una vez leida esta información pueden comentarla, enlazar con ella, o escribir un mensaje al autor, aunque tambien pueden optar por no leer nada de esto.

Desde el lanzamiento de BLOGGER en 1999, los BLOGS han cambiado la naturaleza de la WEB, han inflluido en la politica, han rrevolucionado el periodismo, y han permitido a millones de personas tener voz propia y relacionarse con otros.

Source : INTERNET
Julio Serrano.

Curso de Internet

Estamos a punto de finalizar el curso 2007- 08 de Internet.
Hemos actualizado nuestros conocimientos de Internet. Espero que lo apliquemos en la práctica