Collins's first literary attempt, begun when he was twenty, was a lurid tale with hints of human sacrifice set in Tahiti, which went unpublished.
Lady Wardlaw's "Hardyknute" (1719), perhaps the earliest literary attempt at a folk ballad, was dishonestly passed off as a genuine product of tradition.
Soon, it had become a cultural phenomenon and was discussed on Newsnight and Radio 4. The first real literary attempt to capture the essence of the idea was Iain Sinclair's London Orbital, an evocative account of a journey round the M25.
Now, any man or woman who has experienced sexual tantric practice knows it is irrefutably powerful (guilty and charged) — but it's a tough sell to everyone else, because even the best literary attempts to teach it appear silly or simply absurd.
As a student, Hauch was strongly attracted by the idealism and spiritual aspirations expressed by Romanticism; however, after such early literary attempts as Contrasterne, to dramatiske digte (1816; "The Contrasts: Two Dramatic Poems"), he turned to the natural sciences, particularly zoology.
These last three are all literary attempts at grief, all were excerpted in the New Yorker, all come packaged with stellar endorsements from fellow writers (and sometimes colleagues – JCO, a professor of creative writing at Princeton University, supplies a blurb for O'Rourke, visiting lecturer in creative writing at Princeton University).
In any case, perhaps because his literary attempts were "complete failures," he decided to give "up literary creation and devoted all his exertions to the writing of critical essays and philosophical treatises" (Furukawa 1961, 218).
Many of the existentialists' literary creations attempt to describe the entanglements of human freedom in these fundamental ontological features of the world.
There were even debates on whether sci-fi ought to belong to the domain of science or of literature; Chinese authors made effort to pull it back to its literary origin, attempting to change the way that sci-fi had been treated as a mere tool for disseminating scientific knowledge".
She is Macron's literary analogue, attempting to renew an entrenched intellectual order with an urgent, sometimes unpredictable, centrist vision.
He made a precocious literary debut, attempting a comedy at age 9 and having his first tragedy, Méléagre, produced at the Comédie-Française before he was 16.
