| Kazuki Tomokawa | ... wrote Japanese lyrics. Takada used modern Japanese poetry as lyrics, while | made an album using Chuya Nakahara's poems. Tomobe Masato, inspired by Bob ... |
| Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... e Irgun founded a new headquarters, staffed by Moshe Rosenberg at the head, | as secretary, David Raziel as head of the Jerusalem branch, Hanoch Kalai a ... |
| Euripides | In the Heracleidae of | , Macaria ("she who is blessed") is a daughter of Heracles. Even after Her ... |
| Stesichorus | ... m in which the ancient sacred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of | onwards. As Milton says, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of st ... |
| Peter of Blois | ... bury Cathedral after Walter's death. Another scholar employed by Walter was | , who served both Walter and his predecessor as a Latin secretary |
| Lord Byron | In contrast | and Walter Scott achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe wi ... |
| Clive James | ... llander wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence. | wrote a poem titled "A Line and a Theme from Noam Chomsky" in his book, . ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ertainers such as Gwen Stefani, Rob Zombie, Ozzy Osbourne, Josh Groban, and | . The annual Apollo Night talent show draws about 1,500 people to the Stoc ... |
| Ovid | ... tian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, | , Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized by bot ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... such as "I Love Louie", where Desi lived with Louis Armstrong. He also read | 's poem "Jabberwocky" in a heavy Cuban accent (he pronounced it "Habberwoc ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... Theatre. Until 1950, she also worked in the same theatre in other plays by | , Arthur Miller, Philip Jordan and André Roussin. She then moved to Paris, ... |
| Nas | ... , several other Wu-Tang members made appearances, as well as Black Thought, | and Rick Ross, among others. Shortly after Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang was complet ... |
| Thomas Hardy | ... nd a slug of rum added under the counter, plays a major role in the plot of | 's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. It is also mentioned in Lewis Carroll' ... |
| Plato's | Platonic idealism usually refers to | theory of forms or doctrine of ideas |
| Vyasa | ... srava's epic Mahabharata, the Kurukshetra War is narrated by a character in | 's Jaya, which itself is narrated by a character in Vaisampayana's Bharata ... |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | One evening in September, Merton was reading a book about | ' conversion to Catholicism and how he became a priest. Suddenly he could ... |
| Robert Penn Warren | ... e procedure and, at times, changed it. The 1946 novel All the King's Men by | described a lobotomy, saying it "would have made a Comanche brave look lik ... |
| Fulke Greville | ... erary contacts included membership, along with his friends and fellow poets | , Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictiti ... |
| Horace | ... on-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, | , Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized ... |
| A. E. Housman | ... ert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – | – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jenn ... |
| Milton | ... acred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of Stesichorus onwards. As | says, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed for the ... |
| Edward Fitzgerald | ... erman. He began to write poetry when he was fourteen under the influence of | 's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam. ... |
| Voltaire | ... orm, thus including him in a tradition that includes Cervantes, Diderot and | |
| Shen Kuo | ... uncing special times of the day. There was also the scientist and statesman | (1031–1095). Being the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, Shen Kuo ... |
| George Orwell | ... rld War I, with the creation of modest dwellings of the garden suburb type. | , who adopted this pseudonym while living here, lived and worked in 1932-3 ... |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | ... 24 August 1736, he married Mary Wortley Montagu (daughter of Sir Edward and | ), bringing the large Wortley estates to his family. In 1737, due to the i ... |
| John Denver | ... music. It started with pop music singers like Glen Campbell, Bobbie Gentry, | , Olivia Newton-John, Anne Murray, Marie Osmond, B. J. Thomas, The Bellamy ... |
| A. A. Milne | In 1926 | wrote Winnie-the-Pooh, chapter stories about an adorable bumbling teddy be ... |
| George Orwell | ... monstrated in the documentary “The Corporation”. In the early 20th-century, | originally wrote a preface for his book “”, which focused on the British s ... |
| Hesiod | ... o as a god capable of bringing disease and propitiated as a god of healing. | identifies Paeon as a separate god, and in later poetry Paeon is invoked i ... |
| Victor Anderson | ... e in the Neopagan community in the San Francisco Bay Area, and trained with | , founder of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with Zsuzsanna Budapest ... |
| Nelly Sachs | ... Literature. He was the first German-born author to receive this award since | in 1966. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he ... |
| Ibn Bajjah | The first planetary model without any epicycles was that of | (Avempace) in 12th century Andalusian Spain, but epicycles were not elimin ... |
| Eugenio Montale | ... exams in his first year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, | , Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, We ... |
| Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger | ... pecially influenced at this time by the study of Jens Immanuel Baggesen and | , during a visit to Copenhagen. Mellem Slagene was followed by Halte-Hulda ... |
| Zoroaster | ... c. AD 120) asserted that Ninus' opponent, the king of Bactria, was actually | (or first of several to bear this name), rather than Oxyartes |
| Terpander | ... ringing of the Greek lyre in the heroic age. Plutarch says that Olympus and | used but three strings to accompany their recitation. As the four strings ... |
| Plato | ... that truth is an abstraction. In other words, we are urged to believe that | 's theory of ideas is an abstraction, divorced from the so-called external ... |
| John Betjeman | ... d into writing. In 1980 he played the Funny Uncle in a dramatisation of the | poem "Indoor Games Near Newbury", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's ... |
| William Morris | ... a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Another socialist utopia is | ' News from Nowhere, written partially in response to the top-down (bureau ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... ay visit Hægstad Gård which contains woodcarvings, scenes from Peer Gynt by | , and in Geiranger the new Norwegian Fjord Centre shows local history and ... |
| Samuel Daniel | ... classical quantitative verse. Campion's theories on poetry were refuted by | in "Defence of Rhyme" (1603) |
| Osama bin Laden | ... n al-Shibh traveled to terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and met with | who recruited the four Hamburg cell members for the attacks in the United ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... g nonsense words; a famous such example is "The gostak distims the doshes". | 's Jabberwocky is also famous for using this technique, although in this c ... |
| Julian Beck | ... eers of performance based works of art. Groups like The Living Theater with | and Judith Malina collaborated with sculptors and painters creating enviro ... |
| Grazia Deledda | The writer | won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 |
| Ferdowsi | ... by the Persian literary tradition of Iran, particularly by the Shahnameh of | , which probably explains the fact that he named all of his sons after Sha ... |
| Bob Dylan | In late summer 1965, | was looking for a backup band for his first U.S. "electric" tour. Levon an ... |
| John Keats | ... sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by | . His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of though ... |
| Jacopo Sannazaro | ... to. He is there represented together with his patron Alfonso and his friend | in adoration before the dead Christ |
| Sanai | 5) | believes that in reality the foundation of poetry was established by Ferdo ... |
| Zeca Afonso | ... was also credited as one of the discoverers of the Newfoundland fisheries. | was a singer and composer |
| Alfonso the Chaste | In 1177, | went to the siege of Al- Madinat kunka (Cuenca) with a group armed and ide ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... ly preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with | 's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Nors ... |
| Asadi Tusi | 2) | was born in the same city as Ferdowsi. His Garshaspnama was inspired by th ... |
| Cesare Pavese | ... t year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, Eugenio Montale, | , Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg ... |
| Plato | The structure of The Symposium and Phaedo, attributed to | , is of a story within a story within a story |
| Bob Dylan | ... resley in the 1964 motion picture Viva Las Vegas, The Cadets, Roger Miller, | , Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Dax Riggs, Roger ... |
| Plato | ... . With the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Herodotus, | , Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, ... |
| Chaucer's | ... nded him for the part. He also appeared in Pier Paolo Pasolini's version of | The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a younger husband of the |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... especially the Matter of Britain and Matter of France, the former based on | 's Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... kawa made an album using Chuya Nakahara's poems. Tomobe Masato, inspired by | , wrote critically acclaimed lyrics. The Tigers was the most popular Group ... |
| Plato | ... vine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, | , and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized by both East and West, as one ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... io series of six episodes (called "Fits" after the names of the sections of | 's nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark") was broadcast in 1978 on BBC ... |
| Poliziano | ... d Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando Furioso). 15th century writers such as the poet | and the Platonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino made extensive translations ... |
| Matteo Maria Boiardo | ... arship of the Italian Renaissance. His cousin and contemporary was the poet | , who grew up under the influence of his own uncle, the Florentine patron ... |
| John Cage | Many of the later 20th-century composers, such as | , John Corigliano and Steve Reich, used modernist and minimalist technique ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... iverse as Pat Metheny, John Zorn, Lee Konitz, David Sylvian, Cyro Baptista, | , Keiji Haino, tap dancer Will Gaines, Drum 'n' Bass DJ Ninj, Susie Ibarra ... |
| John Betjeman | Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by | to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made pop ... |
| Jack Kerouac | ... n a cabin (which he dubbed "Marin-an") outside Mill Valley, California with | . It was also at this time that Snyder was an occasional student at the Am ... |
| Anvari | 1) | a famous poet in his own right remarks about the eloquence of the Shahname ... |
| Saitō Mokichi | ... on of his poetry anthology Sachio kashu in 1920. His own disciples included | and Tsuchiya Bunmei |
| Jean Cocteau | ... and Marcel Achard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as | , Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the ... |
| Natsume Sōseki | As an author, he studied under | , who was a teacher at his high school in Kumamoto. Terada is best known f ... |
| William Morris | ... generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably | and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists a ... |
| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey | ... son – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – | – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Ke ... |
| John Hollander | ... ersially nonsensical, and Chomsky's example remains by far the most famous. | wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence |
| Lewis Carroll's | ... commonly. "Brunch" is an example of a portmanteau word (breakfast + lunch). | "snark" (snake + shark) is also a portmanteau. Neologisms also can be crea ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... along with President Clinton at the public memorial service. He paraphrased | by saying of his nephew: "We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, t ... |
| Beah Richards | ... them a black man as their future son-in-law. John's parents (Roy E. Glenn, | ) fly up from Los Angeles to the Draytons' dinner but don't know that Joan ... |
| Annie Dillard | Norman Mailer's novel Tough Guys Don't Dance and | 's novel The Maytrees are primarily based in Provincetown |
| Aeschylus | The Greek poet | who took part in the Battle of Salamis, commented on the power of the paea ... |
| Lew Welch | ... s another who had a strong impact on the Beat poets, encouraging poets like | and writing an introduction for the book publication of Ginsberg's Howl (1 ... |
| Petrarch | ... st modern historian. The foundation of Bruni's conception can be found with | , who distinguished the classical period from later cultural decline, or t ... |
| Philip Sidney | ... ongs of Divers Noblemen and Gentlemen", appended to Newman's edition of Sir | 's Astrophel and Stella, which appeared in 1591. In 1595 "Poemata, a colle ... |
| Elizabeth Siddal | ... linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses | , Fanny Cornforth, and Jane Morris |
| Samuel Beckett | ... ok of the same name, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as | , Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albe ... |
| Robert Pipon Marett | ... n in Jersey include Elinor Glyn, John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, | , and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. Frederick Tennyson and Gerald Durrell were ... |
| Thomas Overbury | He was implicated in the murder of Sir | , but was eventually exonerated, as it was found that he had unwittingly d ... |
| Goethe | ... presentation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle. | defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his ideal of a ... |
| Euripides | If | ' tragedy, Protesilaos, had survived, his name would be more familiar toda ... |
| Teresa Hooley | ... thea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – | – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T ... |
| Plato | ... wrote a satyr play about the abduction called Orithyia which has been lost. | writes somewhat mockingly that there may have been a rational explanation ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... ters news agency. The photo included a protest sign that depicted Bert with | , an image that had been inadvertently placed there by the owner of a post ... |
| Karin Boye | ... include Vilhelm Ekelund, August Strindberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound and | |
| John Cage | ... Paxton and others collaborated with artists Robert Morris, Robert Whitman, | , Robert Rauschenberg, and engineers like Billy Klüver. These performances ... |
| Rowan Williams | ... appeared at the "The Gathering", organised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, | , at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society and journalism, amo ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... ters with Catholicism. Another author Merton began reading at this time was | , whose book Ends and Means introduced Merton to mysticism. In August of t ... |
| Lydia Lunch | ... ncluded, from the UK, The Fall, and from the US, Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, | , Elliott Sharp, Swans, the Ordinaires and Arto Lindsay. This was followed ... |
| Ole Torvalds | ... roadcast journalist, writer and politician. Torvalds is the son of the poet | , and the father of the computer programmer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel ... |
| Aristophanes | ... dicated to the nymphs and to Pan, and to the rivers Achelous and Cephisus." | mentions Iaso humorously in Ploutos, when one of the characters, Cario, re ... |
| William Carlos Williams | ... lar were influenced by the Imagist emphasis on Chinese and Japanese poetry. | was another who had a strong impact on the Beat poets, encouraging poets l ... |
| Jack Kerouac | ... twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, | 's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 19 ... |
| Charles Baudelaire | In the essay "The Painter of Modern Life" (1864), | gives a literary definition: "By modernity I mean the transitory, the fugi ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... er. At the Kotopouli-Rex Theatre, Mercouri starred in plays like Macbeth by | and L'Alouette by Jean Anouilh |
| Christina Rossetti | ... 1877), while also creating art to illustrate poems such as Goblin Market by | , his sister and celebrated poet |
| Thomas Hood | ... – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson – | – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Ea ... |
| Matthew Arnold | ... nnection of Georgian culture with that of Shahnama: Furthermore he remarks: | used a famous episode from the epic as the basis of his poem Sohrab and Ru ... |
| Girolamo Benivieni | trip to Florence, he met Angelo Poliziano, the courtly poet | , and probably the young Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola. For the rest ... |
| William Morris | ... , prosperous once more, left him indifferent. (Böll seemed to be a pupil of | – he made known that he would have preferred Cologne cathedral unfinished, ... |
| Aeschylus | ... ar the Erginos River in Thrace. There she was wrapped in a cloud and raped. | wrote a satyr play about the abduction called Orithyia which has been lost |
| Zoroaster | It has also been surmised by many researchers that the Aryan prophet | was born somewhere in ancient Aryana, possibly in the ancient northern Per ... |
| Patti Smith | # It Takes Time – | (With Fred Smith |
| Lord Byron | On 15 October 1816, the Romantic poet | visited the Ambrosian Library of Milan. He was delighted by the letters be ... |
| James I of Scotland | ... e David II of Scotland (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324 | ;(reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and Charles I of England, King of England, S ... |
| George MacDonald | ... l (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), | (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Franz Kafka (1883–1924) and Al ... |
| Oscar Wilde | He befriended | in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers. There, Wilde had the ... |
| Antonin Artaud | In his essay, The Theatre and Cruelty, | claimed that 'the misdeeds of the psychological theater descended from Rac ... |
| Augustus Asplet Le Gros | ... r Glyn, John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and | . Frederick Tennyson and Gerald Durrell were among authors who made Jersey ... |
| Frederick Tennyson | ... hilippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. | and Gerald Durrell were among authors who made Jersey their home. Contempo ... |
| Charles Baudelaire | ... an Poe (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), | (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), ... |
| Jens Immanuel Baggesen | ... produced in 1857. He was especially influenced at this time by the study of | and Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, during a visit to Copenhagen. Mellem Slag ... |
| Zoroaster | ... tire legal codes in his memory. He also wrote a Summary of the Doctrines of | and Plato, which detailed his own eclectic polytheistic beliefs. These wor ... |
| John Burnside | ... literature, the critically acclaimed author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist, | ; Robert Gilfillan and Robert Henryson who wrote about life in the royal b ... |
| Enid Blyton | ... S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who lived at Great Missenden, | who lived in Beaconsfield and Edgar Wallace who lived at Bourne End and is ... |
| Wilfred Owen | ... ar Requiem of Benjamin Britten juxtaposes the Latin text with the poetry of | , Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem includes a traditional Polish hymn ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... ole as Harvey Keitel's estranged daughter in Wayne Wang's Smoke and also as | 's wife in Michael Mann's Heat. That same year she also played the role of ... |
| Józef Wybicki | ... onal anthem - Dąbrowski's Mazurka - was written in praise of his actions by | in 1797. The Duchy of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was ... |
| Sophocles | ... nnos), also known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex, is an Athenian tragedy by | that was first performed c. 429 BCE. It was the second of Sophocles's thre ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist | . It is used in English to describe an intense feeling of apprehension, an ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | Among the Beats, Gary Snyder and | in particular were influenced by the Imagist emphasis on Chinese and Japan ... |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – | – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... liptical ring by 84 CE. With the famous statesman, astronomer, and inventor | (张衡, 78-139 CE), the sphere was totally complete in 125 CE, with horizon a ... |
| Dante | ... ther in The Hollow Men." This is a striking claim for a poem as indebted to | as anything else in Eliot’s early work, to say little of the modern Englis ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... d current affairs from a left wing perspective. It's named after the famous | poem. Suiting both Bell's anarchic artistic style and the paper's politica ... |
| Norman Mailer | ... Waters. Waters, a summer resident, is a major participant in the festival. | 's novel Tough Guys Don't Dance and Annie Dillard's novel The Maytrees are ... |
| Jean Genet | ... ame, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as Samuel Beckett, | , and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albert Camus' co ... |
| Dante Alighieri | ... lway, which also links Florence with Rome. The station is located at Piazza | , in the frazione of Santa Maria degli Angeli, about southwest of the city ... |
| Robert Gilfillan | ... e critically acclaimed author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist, John Burnside | ;and Robert Henryson who wrote about life in the royal burgh in the 15th c ... |
| Peter Abelard | ... ity during the Middle Ages and is most often associated in that period with | . Since the Reformation it has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel ... |
| Walter Scott | In contrast Lord Byron and | achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiti ... |
| John of the Cross | ... to set up two houses for men who wished to adopt the reforms; she convinced | and Anthony of Jesus to help with this. They founded the first convent of ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... Using a water clock, waterwheel and a series of gears, the Court Astronomer | (78–139 CE) was able to mechanically rotate his metal-ringed armillary sph ... |
| Ezra Pound | ... the Poetic Edda include Vilhelm Ekelund, August Strindberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, | and Karin Boye |
| Bernie Taupin | ... 85 and scored two No.1 hits. The first was "We Built This City", written by | , Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf and was engineered by Grammy ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... acuated to the UK for five years during the German occupation of 1940–1945. | wrote some of his best-known works while in exile in Guernsey, including L ... |
| G. S. Viereck | ... could not understand the nature of God in an interview published in 1930 in | 's book Glimpses of the Great explaining: "I'm not an atheist. I don't thi ... |
| William Blake | ... rd Catholicism. While doing his graduate work, he was writing his thesis on | , whose spiritual symbolism he was coming to appreciate in new ways |
| John Gambril Nicholson | The name Ernest, it has been posited, might also have an ulterior meaning. | wrote in 1892, "Though Frank may ring like silver bell, And Cecil softer m ... |
| Paul Scarron | ... hands. In 1649 he painted the Vision of St Paul (Louvre) for the comic poet | , and in 1651 the Holy Family (Louvre) for the duc de Créquy. Year by year ... |
| James Agee | ... and, Richard Brooks), Spartacus (1960), All the Way Home (1963) – a film of | 's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending (1969), again direc ... |
| Zoroaster | ... his character is taken from the ancient prophet usually known in English as | , the Persian founder of Zoroastrianism. Nietzsche is clearly portraying a ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... r death at their gloves' end as they piece and repiece the living wires" in | 's 1907 poem Sons of Martha. Electrically powered vehicles of every sort f ... |
| Gary Snyder | Among the Beats, | and Allen Ginsberg in particular were influenced by the Imagist emphasis o ... |
| Jane Siberry | # Calling All Angels (Remix Version) – | with k.d. lan |
| Isaac Rosenberg | ... oets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, | and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literature, producing a sl ... |
| John Gay | ... tion of the Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, | , John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St John, 1st Vi ... |
| Eyvindr skáldaspillir | ... in poems by known poets such evidence is difficult to evaluate. For example | , composing in the latter half of the 10th century, uses in his Hákonarmál ... |
| Jonas Lie | ... ur Greats (De Fire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, | , and Alexander Kielland. Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Nor ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... ften used a historical background for his plays - among his influences were | , Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and George Bernard Shaw. In his drama ... |
| Ban Gu | ... huanti history of dynasties, was codified in the second dynastic history by | ’s (班固) History of Han (漢書), but historians regard Sima’s work as their mo ... |
| Eugenio Montale | ... re, as were many other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including | , Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. ... |
| Charles Olson | ... the San Francisco Renaissance. In his seminal 1950 essay Projective Verse, | , the theorist of the Black Mountain group, wrote "ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMM ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... om novels, religion and philosophy. He liked classic literature, especially | , T. S. Eliot, and (and other Russian novelists) |
| Christina Rossetti | ... name Dante first (in honour of Dante Alighieri). He was the brother of poet | , the critic William Michael Rossetti, and author Maria Francesca Rossetti |
| Patti Smith | ... rd is featured briefly in the film , a 2008 documentary about rock musician | |
| Thamyris | ... Turkey) bordering the Lydian empire. Some mythic masters like Musaeus, and | were believed to have been born in Thrace, another place of extensive Gree ... |
| Ptolemy | ... It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It is found in a reg ... |
| Nicander | ... ecially attracted him. He published editions of Aelian, De natura animalium | ;, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae; Aristotle, His ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... connotation. The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher | (1813–1855). In The Concept of Anxiety (also known as The Concept of Dread ... |
| Wace | | is Jersey's earliest known author. Printing arrived in Jersey only in the ... |
| Aeschylus | ... s 120 ships from the Greeks of Thrace and nearby islands as reinforcements. | , who fought at Salamis, also claims that he faced there 1,207 warships, o ... |
| Pindar | The most famous paeans are those of Bacchylides and | . Paeans were sung at the festivals of Apollo (especially the Hyacinthia), ... |
| Jean Chapelain | ... and served under Jean Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to King Louis XIV. | , Amable de Bourzeys, and Jacques Cassagne (the King's librarian) were als ... |
| Virgil | ... ol. Specifically, the authors derived from Erasmus are Cicero, Terence, and | |
| Samuel Rogers | ... he subject of a play The Two Foscari by Lord Byron (1821) and an episode in | ' long poem Italy. The Byron play served as the basis for the libretto wri ... |
| Antonin Artaud | ... s also celebrated by the Cinémathèque Française, who heralded Avary as "the | of cinema" during their Cinema of Cruelty retrospective |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... taste for the macabre combined with realism that influenced such authors as | (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charl ... |
| C. S. Lewis | Fantasy fiction is particularly rich in references to flat worlds. In | ' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the fictional world of Narnia is "round l ... |
| Charles Baudelaire | ... else; there could be nothing new to say about him. However, as writers like | and Gustave Flaubert came onto the scene to soundly shake the foundations ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... plays - among his influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, | , and George Bernard Shaw. In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... talian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, | , Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entir ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... 14, by the formation of the Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, | , John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St Jo ... |
| Plato | ... , such as the historian Philistus, the poet Philoxenus, and the philosopher | , but treated them in a most arbitrary manner. Once he had Philoxenus arre ... |
| Bacchylides | The most famous paeans are those of | and Pindar. Paeans were sung at the festivals of Apollo (especially the Hy ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... one of The Four Greats (De Fire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being | , Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland. Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... ion and philosophy. He liked classic literature, especially Samuel Beckett, | , and (and other Russian novelists) |
| Neal Cassady | ... he inspiration for the novel's main character, Japhy Ryder, in the same way | had inspired Dean Moriarty in On the Road. As the large majority of people ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... es who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like Friedrich Schiller and | dismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "courtly drama" too restricted by ... |
| Harriette Wilson | ... rom issuing an edition of the rather racy memoirs of one of his mistresses, | , in exchange for financial consideration. The Duke promptly returned the ... |
| C. S. Lewis | At least one line in the | book The Last Battle implies that Lewis learned of Narnia's events - and t ... |
| Johann Gottfried Herder | The term nationalism was coined by | (nationalismus) during the late 1770s. Precisely where and when nationalis ... |
| Lord Byron | ... Frari, Venice. Foscari's life was the subject of a play The Two Foscari by | (1821) and an episode in Samuel Rogers' long poem Italy. The Byron play se ... |
| Robert Henryson | ... author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist, John Burnside; Robert Gilfillan and | who wrote about life in the royal burgh in the 15th century have connectio ... |
| Michael Psellos | ... s (such as his father and father-in-law) Bryennios made use of the works of | , John Skylitzes and Michael Attaleiates. As might be expected, his views ... |
| John Keats | ... f Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – | – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry ... |
| Dante Alighieri | ... him Gabriel, but in publications he put the name Dante first (in honour of | ). He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, the critic William Micha ... |
| Musaeus | ... r, modern day Turkey) bordering the Lydian empire. Some mythic masters like | , and Thamyris were believed to have been born in Thrace, another place of ... |
| Sri Aurobindo | ... an society. The work of men like Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, | , Subramanya Bharathy, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Rab ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... ssic. The result is a compendium of Elizabethan England during the youth of | . "No work of the time contains so vivid and picturesque a sketch," was th ... |
| Mary Sidney | ... and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sister, | , married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Mary Sidney, who upon her m ... |
| Philip Whalen | Independently, some of the Beats, including | , had become interested in Zen, but Snyder was one of the more serious sch ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... n principles of guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of | and Che Guevara. His forces were considered the most effective of all the ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... by American Country and Western music. The lyrics were composed by the poet | in 1895. Other popular songs from this tradition include The Wild Colonial ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... and also, in 1714, by the formation of the Scriblerus Club, which included | , Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, ... |
| Zoroaster | ... original temple of Mithras was a natural cave, containing fountains, which | found in the mountains of Persia. To Zoroaster, this cave was an image of ... |
| William Morris | ... ip Webb designed Red House for the artist, reforming designer and socialist | on the western edge of the heath, in the hamlet of Upton — before Upton be ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... songs, experiments with sound collage, and a spoken word vocal by Beat poet | , it contained two "radio friendly" tracks. The leadoff single in the US w ... |
| Dick Higgins | ... orum Fluxus in Düsseldorf with George Maciunas, Wolf Vostell, Joseph Beuys, | , Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Emmett Williams and others |
| Ptolemy | ... f the ecliptic. Hipparchus probably used an armillary sphere of four rings. | describes his instrument in the Syntaxis (book v. chap. i). It consisted o ... |
| Bob Dylan | Smith mentioned his admiration for | in several interviews, citing him as an early musical influence. He once c ... |
| Pindar | ... g her cheeks in mourning him, and games were organised there in his honour, | noted. The tomb of Protesilaus at Elaeus in the Thracian Chersonese is doc ... |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | ... ange the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in | 's poem "The Last Leaf". Herman visited him in Boston, and his father turn ... |
| Huan Tan | The waterwheel appeared in Chinese records during the Han. As mentioned by | in about 20 CE, they were used to turn gears that lifted iron trip hammers ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... th Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – | – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – ... |
| Rigas Feraios | ... eece's struggle for independence as well as the modern Greek Enlightenment. | , the first revolutionary to envision an independent Greek state, publishe ... |
| Jacques Cassagne | ... finance minister to King Louis XIV. Jean Chapelain, Amable de Bourzeys, and | (the King's librarian) were also appointed. Using his influence as Colbert ... |
| Philippe Le Sueur Mourant | ... ourant in 1865. Writers born in Jersey include Elinor Glyn, John Lemprière, | , Robert Pipon Marett, and Augustus Asplet Le Gros. Frederick Tennyson and ... |
| Charles Donnelly | ... It suffered 120 killed and 175 wounded. Amongst the dead was the Irish poet | and Leo Greene |
| Scriblerus Club | ... n of the Tory and Whig parties - and also, in 1714, by the formation of the | , which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, ... |
| Ezra Pound | ... in Paris in March 1928. Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: | , W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway; and artist Pablo Picasso. Gershwin met wi ... |
| Ptolemy | Soon after, he wrote the Compendium of the Almagest, a commentary on | 's Almagest. Avicenna concluded that Venus is closer to the Earth than the ... |
| Dick Higgins | ... luded Fluxus founding members Jackson Mac Low, Al Hansen, George Brecht and | |
| C. S. Lewis | ... né Descartes, argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem. | argues that when talking about omnipotence, referencing "a rock so heavy t ... |
| Lin Huiyin | Zhang has been cast in the role of | in a 2011 film |
| Robert E. Howard | The fire spared the nearly century-old house (now a museum) of | , author of the Conan the Barbarian books |
| Nikos Gatsos | One of her first songs was by Manos Hadjidakis and | . It was titled Hartino to Fengaraki ("Papermoon") and was a part of the G ... |
| Jackson Mac Low | ... or no background in music. Cage's students included Fluxus founding members | , Al Hansen, George Brecht and Dick Higgins |
| John Cage | ... 931-78), a Lithuanian-born American artist. Fluxus traces its beginnings to | 's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at the New School for Soc ... |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | ... ce and interest in things rural, a refreshing and almost exotic individual. | later referred to Snyder as 'the Thoreau of the Beat Generation' |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | ... on of Christ, based on the 1951 (English translation 1960) novel written by | , who was introduced to the director by actress Barbara Hershey when they ... |
| Charles Mackay | ... rd Baruch was Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by | , first published in 1841. It was also a favorite book of his best friend, ... |
| Peter III of Aragon | ... of Anjou in Palermo, and the invasion of the Sicily by the Catalans of King | . Michael VIII was forced to drain the treasury to pay the enormous bribe ... |
| André Breton | ... and Merleau-Ponty, but Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, Louis Althusser, | and Jacques Lacan. A selection from Heidegger's Being and Time was publish ... |
| Nikos Kavvadias | ... hos. A famous Greek poet of the 20th century was also a Chinese-born seaman | |
| Kenneth Rexroth | ... t Allen Ginsberg when the latter sought Snyder out on the recommendation of | . Then, through Ginsberg, Snyder and Kerouac came to know each other. This ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... and biting satire of institutions and individuals became a popular weapon. | was one of the greatest of Anglo-Irish satirists, and one of the first to ... |
| Douglas LePan | | , an official from the Canadian High Commission, wrote |
| John Mayne | ... t spent the last five years of his life as the British consul in Barcelona. | was born in Dumfries in 1759 and contributed in the field of poetry. World ... |
| Subhash Kak | ... lism, addressed for example by K. D. Sethna and in Shrikant G. Talageri's . | (1994) claimed that there is an "astronomical code" in the organization of ... |
| Pindar | ... of many such archaic adversaries, or he was confined beneath Mount Aetna ( | , Pythian Ode 1.19–20; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 370), where "his bed sc ... |
| Elizabeth Jennings | ... – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – | – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Ki ... |
| John Cage | Precursors to conceptual art include the work of Duchamp, | 's 4' 33" which is four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence and Ra ... |
| Siegfried Sassoon | Leading war poets included: | , Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jone ... |
| Lord Byron | ... a 1972 film based on the life of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of | and wife of Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne. The film was written and di ... |
| Robert Bridges | ... . These impulses seem to have taken on a degree of specificity after he met | 's distant cousin, friend, and fellow Etonian Digby Mackworth Dolben, "a C ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | Snyder met | when the latter sought Snyder out on the recommendation of Kenneth Rexroth ... |
| Ovid | ... ed to the East in 27. Pompeius was the center of a literary circle to which | belonged; he was also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of th ... |
| Dick Higgins | ... e use of a number of different media together. Intermedia, a term coined by | and meant to convey new artforms along the lines of Fluxus, Concrete Poetr ... |
| John Keats | ... friendship. The painting illustrated a poem by the then still little-known | . Rossetti's own poem "The Blessed Damozel" was an imitation of Keats, so ... |
| Parmenides | ... in the Nag Hammadi Library, is "the same doctrine as found in the anonymous | commentary (Fragment XIV) ascribed by Hadot to Porphyry [...] and is also ... |
| Aurobindo Ghosh | ... ds political independence proposed by leaders such as the Lal, Bal, Pal and | |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... and sometimes written to be played by amateurs. The concept was inspired by | . An example of this is his Trauermusik (Funeral Music), written in Januar ... |
| Ibsen | ... hristiania to prepare for university. This was the same school that trained | , Lie, and Vinje |
| Masaoka Shiki | His interest in poetry led him to visit the famous author | , who accepted him as a student. Itō established the literary magazine Ara ... |
| Nas | ... In addition, Raekwon was selected as 'Emcee of the Year' (fellow New Yorker | had won in 2008). Their staff justified this pick with this description of ... |
| Donald Davidson | ... t-winged Dryad of the trees", in his Ode to a Nightingale. In the poetry of | they illustrate the themes of tradition and the importance of the past to ... |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ... f J M W Turner. In 1836, his son, Miles Edmund was appointed to assist him. | was one of his pupils |
| John Webster | ... l best actress awards. Among her roles with the RSC, she was the Duchess in | 's The Duchess of Malfi in 1971. In the Stratford 1976 season, and then at ... |
| Ptolemy | ... sources on the Seres (Greek and Roman name of China) (essentially Pliny and | ) gives the following account |
| Margaret Atwood | ... on, who narrates the story of a cabin dwelling family he secretly observes. | 's novel The Blind Assassin also uses this technique. The novel's exposito ... |
| T. E. Hulme | ... ey – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – | – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry Ki ... |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | ... iginal cast (Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon), and | , wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that 'Earnest' held any sexual ... |
| K. D. Sethna | ... topic of great significance in Hindu nationalism, addressed for example by | and in Shrikant G. Talageri's . Subhash Kak (1994) claimed that there is a ... |
| Wilfred Owen | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, | , John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar m ... |
| Osama bin Laden | Already long time affiliates of Al-Qaeda, Hazmi and Mihdhar were chosen by | as respected jihadists due to their extensive fighting experience for an a ... |
| Alcuin | ... s Eadbald's actions as a repudiation of his father's pro-Frankish policies. | , a later medieval writer, wrote that Laurence was "censured by apostolic ... |
| Che Guevara | ... guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of Mao Zedong and | . His forces were considered the most effective of all the various Afghan ... |
| Keats | ... Imperial War Museum. To all intents and purposes, Sassoon became to Owen " | and Christ and Elijah"; surviving documents demonstrate clearly the depth ... |
| Boscán | ... g his contemporaries, and the success of his innovation no doubt encouraged | to introduce the Italian metres into Castilian. His verses were transmitte ... |
| Aeschylus | ... saries, or he was confined beneath Mount Aetna (Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.19–20 | ;, Prometheus Bound 370), where "his bed scratches and goads the whole len ... |
| Hugo Grotius | ... e in the place of man . A variation that also falls within this metaphor is | ’ "", which sees Jesus receiving a punishment as a public example of the l ... |
| Erykah Badu | ... hievement Award by her five children and singer Alicia Keys. Stevie Wonder, | and Chaka Khan performed musical tributes to Ross, covering several of her ... |
| Goethe | ... es Brahms in his Rinaldo, that—like the Walpurgisnacht—was set to a text by | . Other cantatas, Beethoven's Meeresstille, works of Brahms and many notab ... |
| Hesiod | In Greece, | , Aristotle and Xenophon promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential we ... |
| L. Frank Baum | In 1900 | (1856–1919) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It has been constantly i ... |
| Wang Anshi | ... action at court, resolutely opposed to the reformist policies of Chancellor | . Sima presented increasingly critical memorials to the throne until 1070, ... |
| Hope Mirrlees | ... ish fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and | . It is concerned with the adventures of a young man from the village of W ... |
| Horace | ... rian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as Cato, Cicero, | , and Virgil. They all praised the virtues of a life devoted to the tillin ... |
| Thomas Parnell | ... ed Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, | , and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. This club included several ... |
| Aeschylus | According to the Athenian playwright | , who actually fought at Salamis, the Greek fleet numbered 310 triremes (t ... |
| Malcolm Arnold | ... r works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, | , Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin |
| Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... tand). The anthem adopted by the Irgun was "Anonymous Soldiers", written by | who was at the time a commander in the Irgun. Later on Stern defected from ... |
| Van Morrison | ... & roll. He broke open the door for everyone else. Suddenly, Eric Burdon and | weren't so weird — even Bob Dylan. |
| Emile Verhaeren | ... Rompuy, Herman - Van Rompuy I Government - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdinaso - | - Verhofstadt, Dirk - Verhofstadt, Guy - Verhofstadt III Government - Verl ... |
| Catullus | ... . At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Domitianus and | (or, less frequently, year 826 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 73 for t ... |
| Eratosthenes | The Greek astronomer Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) credited | (276 –194 BCE) as the inventor of the armillary sphere. The name of this d ... |
| John McCrae | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, | , Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar movement occur ... |
| Virgil | ... alongside the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as | , Averroes, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avic ... |
| Friedrich Schiller | ... iticism from many sources who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like | and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "co ... |
| Walter Scott | The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir | wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ... |
| Bob Dylan | "Love and Theft" is the 31st studio album by | , released by Columbia Records on September 11, 2001. It featured backing ... |
| Basil Bunting | ... arried the Imagist focus on formal concerns to a high level of development. | , another Objectivist poet, was a key figure in the early development of t ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... ry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – | – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip La ... |
| Fulke Greville | An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, | |
| Alessandro Manzoni | ... rds nationalism; and perhaps the most famous of proto-nationalist works was | 's I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). Some read this novel as a thinly veil ... |
| John Milton | ... have delivered if Charles had entered a plea, while Parliament commissioned | to write a rejoinder, the Eikonoklastes ("The Iconoclast"), but the respon ... |
| Louisa Albury | ... t at the goldfields of Pipeclay (now Eurunderee New South Wales), Niels and | (1848–1920) married on 7 July 1866; he was 32 and she, 18. On Henry's birt ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... ed to marry his fiancée until he cries "The earth is flat as a pancake". In | 's The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat, the protagonists spread the ... |
| Omar Khayyám | ... owne claims that the following Persian verses are incorrectly attributed to | , and were originally written by Ibn Sīnā |
| Virgil | ... Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as Cato, Cicero, Horace, and | . They all praised the virtues of a life devoted to the tilling of the soi ... |
| M. K. Asante, Jr. | ... ulty currently teaching at Morgan State University include author/filmmaker | , gerontologist Gaynell Simpson, and scholar Raymond Winbush who directs t ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and | . Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle and harmonica c ... |
| Basava | ... opments took place in present day Karnataka inspired by three philosophers, | , Madhvacharya and Ramanuja |
| Rupert Brooke | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, | , Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literatu ... |
| Digby Mackworth Dolben | ... ty after he met Robert Bridges's distant cousin, friend, and fellow Etonian | , "a Christian Uranian". The Hopkins biographer Robert Bernard Martin asse ... |
| Horace | The chicory plant is one of the earliest cited in recorded literature. | mentions it in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simpl ... |
| Dante Alighieri | As early as the 14th century when | depicted him in Limbo alongside the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his ... |
| Bryn Terfel | ... olitan Opera began a new Ring Cycle in 2010, conducted by James Levine with | as Wotan. Deborah Voigt was Brünnhilde in the April 2011 production of Die ... |
| Henry Lawson | ... haped by British and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers like | and Banjo Paterson. Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fidd ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... ould walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni." A fan of | 's The Jungle Book as a child, Calvino felt that his early interest in sto ... |
| Milton's | Dryads are mentioned in | Paradise Lost, in Coleridge, and in Thackeray's work The Virginians. Keats ... |
| Oliver Goldsmith | ... he nineteenth century it was largely rural with only scattered settlements. | lived at Hyde Farm in Kingsbury from 1771 to 1774. David William Murray, 3 ... |
| Qu Yuan | ... Xun (魯迅) regarded Shiji as "the unique work of all historians, the songs of | without rhyme |
| Bob Dylan | ... eryone else. Suddenly, Eric Burdon and Van Morrison weren't so weird — even | . |
| William Shakespeare | ... sh knight who fought for the House of York on many occasions. Some, notably | , regard him as the most likely culprit. Tyrrell was arrested by Henry VII ... |
| Aeschylus | ... murderous crimes by fruitlessly drawing water in pitchers with open bases. | wrote a now lost satyr play called Amymore about the seduction of Amymore ... |
| John Lydgate | ... s Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – | – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Me ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... hapter 31 of Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , Ullr is referred to as a son of Sif (with a father unrecorded in survivi ... |
| Lew Welch | ... or a time roomed with the education author, Carl Proujan, Philip Whalen and | . At Reed, Snyder published his first poems in a student journal. He also ... |
| William Shakespeare | The swallow is also notably cited in several of | 's plays for the swiftness of its flight; for example: "True hope is swift ... |
| Fulke Greville | ... es Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – | – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George ... |
| Sophocles | ... icles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and | . He gradually acquired such a high reputation that in 1892 he was offered ... |
| Jorge Luján | ... ez. Stepping up, he immediately beat former WBA World Bantamweight Champion | and then, on December 3 of that year, he and Gómez met as part of the Carn ... |
| Oliver St. John Gogarty | ... objectors was the property-owner, Dr Gogarty, the father of the Irish poet, | |
| William Shakespeare | The name "Horatio" was inspired by the character in | 's Hamlet and chosen also because of its association with contemporary fig ... |
| John Skelton | In 1507 the poet | (1460–1529) wrote of two destructive fires in his Lament for the City of N ... |
| John M. Ford | ... uch as Gene Roddenberry's novelization of , J. A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, | 's The Final Reflection, Margaret Wander Bonanno's Strangers from the Sky ... |
| Cyprian Norwid | ... stic minds, including the Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, | , and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the occupied and repressed Poland, some ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... ich was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, | , and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being cens ... |
| Dick Higgins | ... rs, including Hannah Higgins, daughter of fluxus artists Alison Knowles and | , assert that although Maciunas was a key participant, there were many mor ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... replaced, the well-known formal gardens of England which were criticized by | and others from the 1710s. Starting in 1719, William Kent replaced these w ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... , hosted 126,000 visitors annually. Famous visitors to the springs included | , Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Wagner, and Johannes Brahms. In those years t ... |
| Robert Burns | "Scots Wha Hae" is the title of a patriotic poem by | . The chorus of Scotland's unofficial national anthem refers to Scotland's ... |
| Emily's | ... vels of the Brontë family appeared, in particular Charlotte's Jane Eyre and | Wuthering Heights, which were both published in 1847 |
| Alicia Keys | ... presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by her five children and singer | . Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu and Chaka Khan performed musical tributes to ... |
| Lord Byron | ... y carefully analyzed the whole" of the latter text. D'Israeli also mentions | 's (1788–1824) praise for Piers Plowman |
| Aristophanes | ... s an indispensable adjunct to a lady of fashion in the late 5th century BC. | mentions it among the common articles of female use; they could apparently ... |
| Robert Rozhdestvensky | ... e war", and Dmitry Kabalevsky's War Requiem, a setting of a poem written by | especially for the composition. Herbert Howells's unaccompanied Requiem us ... |
| Anthony Munday | ... Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, | , William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary ... |
| Herbert Read | ... Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir | , Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist 'Vicky', Professor C. H. W ... |
| Michael Longley | ... bring Heaney into contact with other Belfast poets such as Derek Mahon and | . In August 1965 he married Marie Devlin, a school teacher and native of A ... |
| Edwin Markham | ... a junior at Campbell High School, he was the youngest person voted into the | Poetry Society, and won first place in the Society's student poetry contes ... |
| Samuel David Luzzatto | ... scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi | better known as Shadal. It was in Trieste that Achille La Guardia met and ... |
| Robert Burns | ... novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor John William Polidori. The lyrics of | in Scotland and Thomas Moore, from Ireland but based in London or elsewher ... |
| Zoroaster | ... aimed that he [Jesus] was created like the rest of humanity." and "Mani and | contradicted Moses, Jesus and Muhammad regarding the Eternal One, the comi ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... s chief court was in Caerleon in Wales; this was the king's primary base in | 's Historia Regum Britanniae and subsequent literature. Chrétien depicts A ... |
| George Orwell | ... only one work of that author. This includes such words as "Orwellian" (from | , referring to his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four) and "Ballardesque" or "Ball ... |
| Robert Graves | In The Greek Myths (1955), | views Oenopion as his perennial Year-King, at the stage where the king pre ... |
| Louis Zukofsky | ... nly in free verse. Clearly linking Objectivism's principles with Imagism's, | insisted, in his introduction to the 1931 Objectivist issue of Poetry, on ... |
| Thomas Tickell | The house and lands of the poet | were sold in 1790 to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin So ... |
| Fujiwara no Teika | ... writing over 700 poems between the ages of 17 and 22 while being tutored by | , even having one of his tanka included in the anthology Ogura Hyakunin Is ... |
| John Saltmarsh | ... mber at Lincoln College. Thence he put forth a witty and effective reply to | , who had attacked his views on ecclesiastical reform. Fuller subsequently ... |
| France Prešeren | ... published with some changes in 1848, is a poem by the Slovene Romantic poet | , considered the national poet of Slovenes. On 27 September 1989, it becam ... |
| Wallace Stevens | ... on their operations from positions won by the Imagists." On the other hand, | found shortcomings in the Imagist approach: "Not all objects are equal. Th ... |
| Che Guevara | ... classes for the purpose of suppressing the oppressed classes, withers away. | sought socialism based on the rural peasantry rather than the urban workin ... |
| Craig Raine | ... king Jews undesirable." Eliot never re-published this book nor the lecture. | , in his books In Defence of T.S. Eliot (2001) and T. S. Eliot (2006), has ... |
| Pindar | ... Ruhnken nicknamed him "Orpheomastix"); an essay on the life and writings of | and a collection of his fragments. His Eclogae physicae is a selection of ... |
| Luigi Pulci | ... s vernacular poets of the 15th century include the renaissance epic authors | (Morgante), Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando Innamorato), and Ludovico Ariost ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... ones are included, they are noted via tone marks. In pinyin, 毛泽东 is written | |
| Julian Beck | ... d during the 19th century as a religious zealot named Reverend Henry Kane ( | ). Kane was the leader of a utopian cult, who had sealed themselves in an ... |
| Henry King | ... E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – | – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Lon ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | In 1894 | published The Jungle Book, a collection of stories about a boy who lives i ... |
| Charlotte's | ... he undoubtedly Romantic novels of the Brontë family appeared, in particular | Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights, which were both published in 1847 |
| Sri Aurobindo | ... n Tagen, Stockhausen had read a biography by Satprem about the Bengali guru | (Guerreri 2009), and subsequently he also read many of the published writi ... |
| Leonard Cohen | ... ayed the huge Isle of Wight Festival alongside Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, and | |
| Marquis de Sade | ... r of Crash). The word "sadistic" is derived from the cruel sexual practices | described in his novels. Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle was the container of ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... Morrison was represented in the film, and the role was ultimately played by | |
| Ptolemy | ... ata that would convincingly support the heliocentric model did not exist in | 's time and would not come around for over fifteen hundred years after his ... |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The phrase was further popularised by | 's 1857 poem "Santa Filomena" |
| Edmund Waller | Buckinghamshire later became home to some notable literary characters. | was brought up in Beaconsfield and served as Member of Parliament for both ... |
| Cao Pi | ... cracy and military governors to become warlords and divide the empire. When | , King of Wei, usurped the throne from Emperor Xian, the Han Dynasty cease ... |
| Pindar | ... atises all arose in this period.The two major lyrical poets were Sappho and | |
| Mark Van Doren | ... 18th Century English literature course during the spring semester taught by | , a professor with whom he maintained a friendship until death. Van Doren ... |
| Zoroaster | ... in books to fall into my hands. They are Chaldean books [...] of Esdras, of | and of Melchior, oracles of the magi, which contain a brief and dry interp ... |
| Walter Scott | In the early 19th century, | wrote of Wallace in , and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wal ... |
| Louis MacNeice | ... – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – | – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William ... |
| Rowan Williams | ... f the Christian right, he is still a favorite of many Christian viewers. Dr | , the Archbishop of Canterbury, is a confessed Simpsons fan, and likes Fla ... |
| Andrei Bely | ... cians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, | , Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma La ... |
| Sima Qian | ... consists of more than one character, it too should be written as a unit: " | ", not "Si Ma Qian" or "Si Maqian". However, as the Chinese language makes ... |
| Attar | 8) | remarks about the poetry of Ferdowsi |
| Philemon | ... the Plutus and Nubes of Aristophanes, and on the fragments of Menander and | . He published the last work under the pen name of "Phileutherus Lipsiensi ... |
| Objectivist poets | The influence of Imagism can be seen clearly in the work of the | , who came to prominence in the 1930s under the auspices of Pound and Will ... |
| Jim Morrison | ... tion '84 - '90". In 1991, director Oliver Stone offered Astbury the role of | in Stone's film The Doors. He declined the role because he was not happy w ... |
| Blind Harry | ... d Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written around 1470 by | the minstrel. Harry wrote from oral tradition describing events 170 years ... |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... lege, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included | and Lord Byron. In 1805 he succeeded his elder brother as heir to his fath ... |
| Giannina Braschi | Latin American writer | wrote the philosophical novel "United States of Banana" based on Walter Ka ... |
| Pierre de Nolhac | | arrived at the Palace of Versailles in 1887 and was appointed curator of t ... |
| Gil Scott-Heron | ... lso a predecessor for beat poetry, as well as the rapping in hip hop music. | , a jazz poet/musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as "The R ... |
| Goethe | ... ble review of August Wilhelm Schlegel's Ion was withdrawn at the request of | . It was mainly as a schoolmaster in Weimar that he wrote his papers on th ... |
| Sappho | ... ophical treatises all arose in this period.The two major lyrical poets were | and Pindar |
| James Fenton | ... ported by literary critics such as , Christopher Ricks, George Steiner, and | |
| Cao Cao | ... that advocated practical systems of governance and administration, such as | and Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms Period, Wang Dao and Bao Jingyan of ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... rancis Bacon used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of | 's plays. Author and researcher Mark Finnan elaborated upon this theory. T ... |
| Andrew Marvell | ... – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – | – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin M ... |
| Osama bin Laden | The media focused on a large computer simulation of a former hideout of | by Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, as well as the fact that one of their exh ... |
| Jean de La Fontaine | ... n French history. This period saw the rise of literary giants like Molière, | , Boileau, and François de La Rochefoucauld as well as Louis Le Vau's hist ... |
| Nas | ... with hardcore rappers such as the Wu-Tang Clan and gangsta rappers such as | and The Notorious B.I.G coming to dominate the East Coast scene |
| Ovid | ... er their mistresses. Allusions to it are tolerably frequent in the poets. ( | Fast. lib. ii., 1. 31 I.; Martial, lib. xi., ch. 73.; lib. xiv, ch. 28, 13 ... |
| Emersonian | Eliot’s educational vision incorporated important elements of Unitarian and | ideas about character development, framed by a pragmatic understanding of ... |
| Henri Murger | ... y Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by | . The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1 ... |
| Eysteinn Valdason | Three skaldic poems, Þórsdrápa, Haustlöng and a fragment by | , refer to Thor as Ullr's stepfather, confirming Snorri's information |
| Sri Aurobindo | ... ome reformers like Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of the Arya Samaj and | have attempted to re-interpret the Vedas to conform to modern and establis ... |
| Van Morrison | ... , Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and | . However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delayed the release of ... |
| John Dryden | ... en blamed them for its destruction. For example, English Enlightenment poet | wrote, Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, / Did all the matchl ... |
| Thomas Campbell | ... m Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – | – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest ... |
| Robert E. Howard | The pulp fiction author | , creator of the character Conan the Barbarian among others, lived in Cros ... |
| Walter Lowenfels | In 1929, | jokingly suggested that Aldington should produce a new Imagist anthology. ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... itten in response to a rivalry with Thomas Shadwell and eventually inspired | to write his satirical The Rape of the Lock. Other satirical works by Pope ... |
| Ptolemy | ... s included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the Intern ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... nuclear disarmament and antiwar protester subculture. Folk rock songs like | 's 1963 Masters of War and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall articulated the drea ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... owy River starring Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton dramatised the classic | poem of that name and became one of the all time box-office successes of A ... |
| Oppian | ... litica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica; Theophrastus, Eclogae physicae | ;, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of Xenophon and Vitruvius ... |
| Alfonso II of Aragon | ... ueen of Aragon, and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, | who inherited all their respective territories creating the Crown of Arago ... |
| Statius | The Thebaid (c.80 AD) an epic poem by | , pictures Mithras in a cave, wrestling with something that has horns. The ... |
| Henry David Thoreau | ... ter. CORE was conceived as a pacifist organization based on the writings of | . It was modeled after Mohandas Gandhi's non-violent resistance against Br ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... break Hotel" and "All Shook Up", while the same year in True Romance, actor | performed an a cappella version. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman covered th ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... n years of U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia, cited among reasons by Saudi-born | for his September 11, 2001 attacks on America, most of U.S. forces were wi ... |
| William Bell Scott | ... (1849) and Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850) both portray Mary as a teenage girl. | saw Girlhood in progress in Hunt's studio and remarked on young Rossetti's ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... Winter Carnival starring Ann Sheridan and written by Budd Schulberg '36 and | |
| Dante Alighieri | ... years, Rossetti worked on English translations of Italian poetry including | 's La Vita Nuova (published as The Early Italian Poets in 1861). These and ... |
| Viktor Rydberg | In | 's idiosyncratic Teutonic Mythology Ullr is the son of Sif and Egill-Örvan ... |
| Attila the Stockbroker | The performers at the festival in 2009 included 3 Daft Monkeys, | , the Swanvesta Social Club, and Rory McLeod |
| Empedocles | ... generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of | , although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other Sophis ... |
| Adam Mickiewicz | ... e greatest Polish literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets | , Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the o ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | In the Heimskringla, | writes about several battles between Norwegians and Geats. He wrote that i ... |
| Patrick Kavanagh | ... hael McLaverty from County Monaghan, who introduced Heaney to the poetry of | . With McLaverty's mentorship, Heaney first started to publish poetry, beg ... |
| William Carlos Williams | ... e of her own that retained an Imagist concern with compression of language. | developed his poetic along distinctly American lines with his variable foo ... |
| Ouyang Xiu | ... family of the princess' husband). The Song dynasty statesman and historian | has noted that paper playing cards arose in connection to an earlier devel ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... lkloric tradition, and was only later published in print in volumes such as | 's Old Bush Songs, in the 1890s. The distinctive themes and origins of Aus ... |
| John of the Cross | ... e was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to be, along with | , a founder of the Discalced Carmelites |
| Plato | ... sm are still obscure and disputed, but they probably include influence from | , Middle Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism academies or schools of thought, ... |
| Hesiod | - | , Theogony 28 |
| Elizabeth Siddal | In 1850, Rossetti met | , an important early model for the Pre-Raphaelite painters. Over the next ... |
| Philip Larkin | ... el Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – | – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice ... |
| Giuseppe Giacosa | ... in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and | , based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The world premiere ... |
| Philip Whalen | ... Here he met, and for a time roomed with the education author, Carl Proujan, | and Lew Welch. At Reed, Snyder published his first poems in a student jour ... |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ... n Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – | – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masef ... |
| James Merrill's | ... within each other. A particularly ingenious example of nested narratives is | 1974 modernist poem "Lost in Translation" |
| Philip Hobsbaum | ... ntributing various articles to local magazines, he came to the attention of | , then an English lecturer at Queen's University. Hobsbaum was to set up a ... |
| W. H. Auden | ... and places it alongside Flatland, Phantastes, and The Wind in the Willows. | , in his review of the sequel The Fellowship of the Ring calls The Hobbit ... |
| Ovid | ... the results in his favor. In the disputes that followed, Remus was killed. | has Romulus invent the festival of Lemuria to appease Remus' resentful gho ... |
| John Milton | ... ed by Jill Paton Walsh and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from | 's Paradise Lost and refers to two categories of angel in the Christian an ... |
| John Dryden | ... ut the flaws in human society in general and English society in particular. | wrote an influential essay entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Original a ... |
| Milton | ... wo mulberry trees, of which the older was planted in 1608, the same year as | 's birth. Both trees have toppled sideways, the younger tree in the Great ... |
| Robert Browning | Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial is the title of a poem by | from his 1876 collection, Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper. It ... |
| John Milton | When | wrote his Latin grammar Accedence Commenc't Grammar (1669), over 60 percen ... |
| Peter Oresick | ... est for Sherwood Anderson (1947) and She Made the Big Town (1952). The poet | has also written about it in The Story of Glass (1977). A pictorial histor ... |
| Thomas Ford | ... – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – | – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Regi ... |
| Matteo Maria Boiardo | ... e 15th century include the renaissance epic authors Luigi Pulci (Morgante), | (Orlando Innamorato), and Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando Furioso). 15th century ... |
| Dante Alighieri | ... mies of the Visconti in Pisa soon removed the last judge, Nino, a friend of | , in 1288 |
| Ptolemy | ... and Romans, being noted by most major geographers of the period, including: | , iv. 5. § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. ... |
| Patti Smith | ... s asking various recording artists—Depeche Mode, U2, R.E.M., Talking Heads, | , Can, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc.—for music t ... |
| Plato | ... ns of people his starting-point. Aspects of Socrates were first united from | , who also combined with them many of the principles established by earlie ... |
| Marianne Moore | ... king him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist. | also became associated with the group during this period. However, with Wo ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | In 1883 | wrote the classic pirate adventure novel Treasure Island. Traditionally co ... |
| John Cage | ... noise attacks. (The sounds he produced have been compared to those made by | 's prepared piano.) Typically, he played a conventional instrument, in sta ... |
| Chrétien de Troyes | ... n of literature, including Andreas Capellanus, who served in her court, and | . She was literate in French and Latin and maintained her own library. A d ... |
| Thomas Moore | ... 's doctor John William Polidori. The lyrics of Robert Burns in Scotland and | , from Ireland but based in London or elsewhere reflected in different way ... |
| Thomas Shadwell | ... world. His satirical Mac Flecknoe was written in response to a rivalry with | and eventually inspired Alexander Pope to write his satirical The Rape of ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... nt stage was Japan instead of Chiang. But this received cold shoulders from | and his associates, who ruled CPC and greatly disagreed with Chiang's poli ... |
| John Davidson | ... ion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – | – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michae ... |
| Euripides | ... minated. The mangled Hippolyte is not brought back, as is the Hippolytus of | . The one exception to this is that Atalide stabs herself before the audie ... |
| Juliusz Słowacki | ... literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, | , Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the occupied and repres ... |
| Derek Mahon | ... ) and this would bring Heaney into contact with other Belfast poets such as | and Michael Longley. In August 1965 he married Marie Devlin, a school teac ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... attention to what they perceived as being the limitations of Paganism. Thus | wrote: "The Pagan set out, with admirable sense, to enjoy himself. By the ... |
| Richard Owen Cambridge | ... e compositions of grass, tree clumps and rather shapeless pools and lakes". | , the English poet and satirical author, declared that he hoped to die bef ... |
| William Morris | ... MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – | – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love P ... |
| Leon Battista Alberti | ... by influential Italian Renaissance architects such as Sebastiano Serlio and | and his library contained books by French architects,sculptors, illustrato ... |
| Xenophanes | ... ent places at one and the same time. With the exception of a few remarks by | , Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly de ... |
| Robert Stevenson | ... cated there. The Bass Rock features in numerous works of fiction, including | 's Catriona and The Lion is Rampant by contemporary Scottish novelist Ross ... |
| Emperor Xuanzong | The Pala Empire is founded in Bengal. Chinese | brings the Tang Dynasty to its pinnacle. Nara period in Japan |
| Bob Dylan | ... ts to increase the duration of their recordings. The breakthrough came with | 's "Like A Rolling Stone", although CBS tried to make the record more "rad ... |
| Virgil | ... made structures and bridges since time immemorial. An early reference is in | 's Georgics (29 BC) ...garrula quam tignis nidum suspendat hirundo (...the ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ps the law of buoyancy, also known as Archimedes' Principle. The astronomer | wrote the Almagest, a comprehensive astronomical text that formed the basi ... |
| K. Satchidanandan | ... t malayalam literary figures like Kovilan, Kunhunni Mash, Sukumar Azhikode, | , Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, P. ... |
| Emperor Frederick II | # Isabella (1214–1241), the wife of | , by whom she had issue |
| Søren Kierkegaard | The philosopher | claimed that divine omnipotence cannot be separated from divine goodness. ... |
| Plato | ... arning modelled by Murat on the caliphates of Cairo and Baghdad. He admired | so much that late in life he took the similar-meaning name Plethon. In c14 ... |
| Edmund Gosse | ... her novels in a thinly disguised version of the borough), Charles Kingsley, | and Rudyard Kipling. Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous comedy team with ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... gs, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and | ) and Richard Tarnas |
| Lu You | In 1170 the poet, politician and historian | travelled upon the Grand Canal from Shaoxing to the river Yangtze, recordi ... |
| William Allingham | ... illustration was "The Maids of Elfen-Mere" (1855), for a poem by his friend | , and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of A ... |
| C. S. Lewis | A version of Bacchus also appears in | ' Prince Caspian, part of The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis depicts him as d ... |
| Surdas | # Tulsidas or | # Marathi Abhangs on Lord Pandurang |
| Tulsidas | # | or Surda |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... most important trading-partner: Great Britain. (It is from this period that | took his subject, when he created his famous poem Terje Vigen.) It was sou ... |
| John Dryden | ... nd Hislop recounted the history of the post from the first official holder, | , to the then recently announced first female, first Scot and first openly ... |
| Boccaccio | ... ubtless intended that they should be to Spanish nearly what the novellas of | were to Italians. Some are mere anecdotes, some are romances in miniature, ... |
| Edward Neville da Costa Andrade | ... scribed as "the dullest problem imaginable") in the laboratory of physicist | at University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II (in p ... |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | ... ert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets Langston Hughes and | . Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, vi ... |
| Ludovico Ariosto | ... hors Luigi Pulci (Morgante), Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando Innamorato), and | (Orlando Furioso). 15th century writers such as the poet Poliziano and the ... |
| Jayadeva | # | Ashtapadi (Geeta Govindam |
| Bob Dylan | ... lapton, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, | , Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and Van Morrison. However, Scorsese's comm ... |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... ham, and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of | 's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister Christina Rosset ... |
| Susan Arnold Elston | On May 6, 1852, Wallace married | . They had one son, Henry Lane Wallace (born February 17, 1853) |
| Robinson Jeffers | ... on the first syllable in a foot. It is similar to the "rolling stresses" of | , another poet who rejected conventional metre. Hopkins saw sprung rhythm ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... les singing and playing acoustic guitar of the film's theme song written by | , "Man in Me |
| Christina Rossetti | ... red, Lord Tennyson's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister | |
| Shakespeare | ... s: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, | , Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giacomo Leopardi. Between 1972–1973 Calvino publ ... |
| Salvator Rosa | ... ning the work into a history painting in the manner of Claude Lorrain, like | a late Baroque artist whose landscapes had elements that Romantic painters ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... hinly disguised version of the borough), Charles Kingsley, Edmund Gosse and | . Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous comedy team with Dudley Moore); the ... |
| Purandara Dasa | # | # Sadasiva Brahmendr |
| Coleridge | ... ary." Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages.. "Wit," wrote | after reading the Church History, "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's ... |
| Plato | ... secutors of the philosopher Socrates, and is depicted as an interlocutor in | 's Meno |
| Alexander Esenin-Volpin | ... mathematicians accept the reality of countably infinite sets (however, see | for a counter-example) |
| Jeff Nuttall | ... ll articulated the dread caused by the threat of nuclear war. A key text is | 's book Bomb Culture (1968) which traced this pervasive theme in popular c ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... lier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright | , and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His plays were among the first ... |
| Hesiod | In | and most other accounts, Theseus abandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, and ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... erhaps the peak of this wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like | , Algernon Blackwood, and Arthur Machen |
| Lytton Strachey | ... ly involved, were relaxed about homosexuality. Keynes, together with writer | , had reshaped the Victorian attitudes of the influential Cambridge Apostl ... |
| Robert Lowell | ... rton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet | , cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs ... |
| Walter Scott | ... ques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on | 's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at the Théâtre-Italien in Pa ... |
| Sylvia Plath | ... themes of tradition and the importance of the past to the present. The poet | uses them to symbolize nature in her poetry in "On the Difficulty of Conju ... |
| Edwin Muir | ... Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – | – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – Geor ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow, T. S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, | who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Blyton who lived in Beaconsfield and Ed ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... den it; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired | 's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would ... |
| Tristan Tzara | ... t admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially his fellow countryman | . Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, who ... |
| Jane Siberry | ... E.M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, | , etc.—for music to be used in the film; specifically for the music that t ... |
| Ptolemy | ... n (it did so until 1925). The astronomical day had begun at noon ever since | chose to begin the days in his astronomical periods at noon. He chose noon ... |
| Marilyn Manson | ... des world-famous stars, such as Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie, The Black Eyed Peas, | and Placebo |
| Langston Hughes | ... Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets | and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionis ... |
| Shakespeare | ... hestral work, Il Sogno, was performed in New York. The work, a ballet after | 's A Midsummer Night's Dream, was commissioned by Italian dance troupe Ate ... |
| William Blake | ... y very largely abandoning classical drawing and proportions. These included | and Samuel Palmer and the other members of the Ancients in England, and in ... |
| Henri Murger | According to its title page, the libretto of La bohème is based on | 's novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, a collection of vignettes portraying ... |
| Filippo Turati | ... due to their shared ideological views. He also was already in contact with | , perhaps the most important leader of Italian Socialist Party, whom he al ... |
| Plato | ... , or lover of wisdom, and Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on | , and through him, all of Western philosophy |
| Henry Newbolt | ... hn Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – | – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexa ... |
| Ferdowsi | ... ment of poetry and historiography, being mainly the poetical recast of what | , his contemporaries, and his predecessors regarded as the account of Iran ... |
| Jacob Bronowski | ... ulian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir | , Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... for Aylesbury. Later authors include Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow, | who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Bl ... |
| William Morris | His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired | and Edward Burne-Jones. Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti perso ... |
| Manuel Quimper | In 1790, | of the Spanish Navy set sail from Nootka, a temporary settlement on Vancou ... |
| Michael Drayton | ... m Camden uses the Latinized form Molis in the 1586 edition of Britannia and | is the first to use Mole in his poem Poly-Olbion published in 1613. The Ox ... |
| John Gould Fletcher | ... of the original poets ,(also including imagist poetry by the American poet | ), with the exception of Pound, who had tried to persuade her to drop the ... |
| Robert Bridges | ... pkins was a supporter of linguistic purism in English. In an 1882 letter to | , Hopkins writes: "It makes one weep to think what English might have been ... |
| Saul Williams | Bigger Thomas is mentioned in one of the lyrical hooks of "The Ritual" in | 's The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust |
| Horace | ... l studies independently and published scholarly articles on such authors as | , Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acqui ... |
| Shakespeare | ... s in English, made by Thomas Shelton in 1608, but not published until 1612. | had evidently read Don Quixote, but it is most unlikely that Cervantes had ... |
| François Fénelon | The first archbishop appointed by the king of France was | . He came to be known as the "swan of Cambrai" ("le cygne de Cambrai"), in ... |
| Jean Genet | The French director | 's 1950 fantasy-erotic film Un chant d'amour shows two inmates in solitary ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... and he is left to be brought up by a graveyard. It is heavily influenced by | 's The Jungle Book. , it had been on the New York Times Bestseller childre ... |
| Ted Hughes | ... t Queen's University Belfast. During his time in Belfast he found a copy of | 's Lupercal, which spurred him to write poetry. "Suddenly, the matter of c ... |
| Ferdowsi | ... ma ( , "The Book of Kings") is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet | between c.977 and 1010 AD and is the national epic of Iran and related soc ... |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | ... in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, | , prosecuted for libel, a charge carrying a penalty of up to two years in ... |
| Horace | ... d and became heavily influenced by the achievements of Greek culture, hence | 's famous statement: Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit ("Greece, although ... |
| Thomas Love Peacock | ... e Mary lived for some time in Marlow, attracted to the town by their friend | who also lived there. John Milton lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cotta ... |
| Robert Graves | Karl Kerenyi (and | ) theorizes that Ariadne (whose name they derive from Hesychius' listing o ... |
| Maya Angelou | Latifah was asked by | , who was unable to attend, to recite a poem written by Angelou at the mem ... |
| Plato | Chronologically, the first recorded utopian proposal is | 's Republic. Part conversation, part fictional depiction, and part policy ... |
| Akka Mahadevi | ... n dance and music, and the 12th century Vachana poet and Lingayatism mystic | 's devotion to the bhakti movement is well known. Temple dancers (Devadasi ... |
| Jonathan Swift | Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of | 's satirical Gulliver's Travels. The name is pronounced either or .. (Swif ... |
| André Breton | ... ryman Tristan Tzara. Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, | , whom he revered. In Present Past, Past Present, Ionesco wrote, "Breton t ... |
| Thomas Moore | ... nal single version has an additional intro of a Celtic fiddle solo, playing | 's Irish folk song Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms |
| William Bell Scott | In February 1857, Rossetti wrote to | |
| Eratosthenes | ... and the Vulture - and still lying between them, whence the title Herculea. | claimed it as the arrow with which Apollo exterminated the |
| Ambrose Bierce | Twain's younger contemporary | gained notoriety as a cynic, pessimist and black humorist with his dark, b ... |
| Chrétien de Troyes | The castle is mentioned for the first time in | ' poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, dating to the 1170s, though it do ... |
| Van Morrison | People! performed about 200 concerts a year, appearing with | and Them, The Animals, The Dave Clark Five, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The ... |
| Paul-Jean Toulet | ... rnardin de Saint Pierre, Mark Twain, Nicholas Pike, Charles Baudelaire, and | . Mauritian writers like Malcolm de Chazal, Marcel Cabon, Moose Allain, Fé ... |
| Abu-Mansur Daqiqi | ... y such accounts already existed in prose, an example being the Shahnameh of | . A small portion of Ferdowsi's work, in passages scattered throughout the ... |
| John Masefield | ... Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – | – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbo ... |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... consfield and served as Member of Parliament for both Amersham and Wycombe. | and his wife Mary lived for some time in Marlow, attracted to the town by ... |
| Salvator Rosa | ... for in an ideal landscape, where the painterly inspiration would come from | rather than Claude Lorrain. During the nineteenth century he was widely cr ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... us love in the Pervigilium Veneris, a late Latin poem. In "The Waste Land", | quoted the line "Quando fiam uti chelidon [ut tacere desinam]?" ("When wil ... |
| Plato | ... uspicious day Ficino had chosen to publish his translations of the works of | from Greek into Latin under Lorenzo’s enthusiastic patronage. Giovanni app ... |
| Henrik Wergeland | From his youth and forwards, Bjørnson admired | , and became a vivid spokesman for the Norwegian Left-wing movement. In th ... |
| Statius | Later legends (beginning with a poem by | in the 1st century AD) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his ... |
| Thomas MacDonagh | ... ton St and saw Thomas MacDonagh in full uniform. He offered his services to | and was appointed second-in-command at the Jacob's factory. MacBride, afte ... |
| Alexander Pope | They couple were friends of Dean Jonathan Swift and, through him, of | . Pope encouraged the Delaneys to develop a garden in a style then becomin ... |
| Jim Morrison | ... he band of the same name. Kilmer memorized the lyrics to all of lead singer | 's songs prior to his audition, and sent a video of himself performing som ... |
| Zoroaster | ... ng only 1,000 verses. These verses, which deal with the rise of the prophet | , were afterward incorporated by Ferdowsi, with acknowledgment, in his own ... |
| Guido Cavalcanti | ... in poems written to be sung to music, such as those by the troubadours and | . The book met with little popular or critical success, at least partly be ... |
| Menander | The origin of Attila's name is unclear. | used the term Attila as the name of the Volga River. Pritsak considers it ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of | . In An Autobiography Christie admits, "I was still writing in the Sherloc ... |
| Robert Lowell | ... 1996. Heaney's personal papers are held by the National Library of Ireland. | called him "the most important Irish poet since Yeats" and many others, in ... |
| Charles Baudelaire | ... renowned of them are Bernardin de Saint Pierre, Mark Twain, Nicholas Pike, | , and Paul-Jean Toulet. Mauritian writers like Malcolm de Chazal, Marcel C ... |
| Plato | ... rojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. | named Achilles the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy |
| John Milton | Harris Fletcher (1892–1979), academic, author, and leading authority on | was born in Superior Townshi |
| Virgil | ... . But of the union of Hephaestus with Aphrodite, there was no issue, unless | was serious when he said that Eros was their child. Later authors might ex ... |
| John Keats | ... n image of the assembly of Swallows for their southward migration concludes | 's ode "To Autumn" |
| Gil Scott-Heron | ... lectic blend of poetry, jazz-funk and soul was practiced by such artists as | and The Last Poets, and featured critical political and social commentary ... |
| Spike Milligan | The show's chief creator and main writer was | . The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrase ... |
| Lewis Carroll | In 1865 | (1832–1898) published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in England. The tal ... |
| Oliver Goldsmith | ... lage (real or fictitious) featured in the 1770 poem The Deserted Village by | . Originally part of Cumberland County, the town became county seat of And ... |
| Shakespeare | ... d by Michael Almereyda, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the | play of the same name. Ethan Hawke plays Hamlet as a film student, Julia S ... |
| Alice Meynell | ... n Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – | – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noye ... |
| Ovid | ... tly and published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, | , Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high re ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ter unsuccessfully trying to plead his innocence (by reciting the lyrics of | 's "It Ain't Me Babe" and insisting that he did no more than "cross an ima ... |
| Girolamo Fracastoro | ... appeared in 1898. It may have been inspired by the non-Ptolemaic system of | , who used either 77 or 79 orbs in his system inspired by Eudoxus of Cnidu ... |
| John Cournos | ... ll, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and | |
| Francis Meynell | ... Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir | , Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, ... |
| Robert E. Howard | :For the metal band, see Atargatis (band). For the god in | 's Conan series, see Derketo (Conan |
| Joseph Addison | ... ny letters, owes much to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment like | and Jonathan Swift |
| Goethe | ... a during Mozart's lifetime, and throughout German-speaking Europe. In 1787, | wrote (concerning his own efforts as a librettist) |
| Ptolemy | ... the sense of "ascendant" and "observation of the ascendant" is in use since | (Tetrabiblos 33, 75) |
| Gerardo Diego | ... m all German speaking countries. as well as a bilingual edition of poems by | . In 1963–1964, Gudrun Ensslin earned her elementary school teacher's dipl ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... ch to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment like Joseph Addison and | |
| Bede | ... of Wessex, who ruled in the 680s, are recorded as pagan at their accession. | writes that after Wulfhere became king: "Free under their own king, they [ ... |
| James Whitcomb Riley | ... the highest point was Crown Hill Cemetery (the tomb of famed Hoosier writer | ) with an elevation of . The lowest point in Indianapolis lies at the Mari ... |
| James Joyce | ... g use of stream-of-consciousness would be utilised by such later authors as | , Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner |
| Aeschylus | ... d published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, | , Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high reputation th ... |
| Ebenezer Cooke | | , author of "The Sot-Weed Factor," was among the first American colonialis ... |
| William Shakespeare | As regards the unity of action, Racine differs sharply from | in excluding minor plots (compare the parallel themes of blind and unnatur ... |
| Cervantes | ... ical studies: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, | , Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giacomo Leopardi. Between 1972–1973 ... |
| Robert Lax | ... the Jester and the Columbia Review. Also on the Jesters staff were the poet | and the journalist Ed Rice. Lax and Merton became best friends and kept up ... |
| Khal Torabully | ... oetry. Other Port Louis born poets and writers, like Robert Edward Hart and | , also made of this intricate and fascinating town the setting of some of ... |
| John Milton | ... acted to the town by their friend Thomas Love Peacock who also lived there. | lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cottage can still be visited there and ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... of creation, a day that would every day be the first day of new creations." | , a former associate of Breton and a champion of Ionesco's work, was a mem ... |
| Kostas Karyotakis | ... as admitted to the National Theatre's Drama School after reciting a poem by | . Dimitris Rontiris was her teacher and she graduated in 1944 |
| José Agustín Goytisolo | ... created in 1960 by Ricardo Bofill. Its collaborators included poets such as | , politicians like Salvador Clotas, artists like Daniel Argimon and , actr ... |
| Harold Monro | ... . Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – | – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owe ... |
| Stephen Howarth | In 2009 the poet | and veteran theatre producer Andrew Hobbs collaborated on a play entitled ... |
| Carol Ann Duffy | ... ntly announced first female, first Scot and first openly bisexual laureate, | . His series on Victorian social reformers, Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Goo ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... nd they wanted Hello Kitty to be different. Shimizu got the name Kitty from | 's Through the Looking-Glass, where in a scene early in the book Alice pla ... |
| Philoxenus | ... of having literary men about him, such as the historian Philistus, the poet | , and the philosopher Plato, but treated them in a most arbitrary manner. ... |
| Joyce Carol Oates | ... and the conceited swapping of obvious quotations", but judged it a failure. | in the New York Times called the book "engrossing, intelligent and provoca ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... ventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by | ' Don Quixote. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their inco ... |
| Zabihollah Safa | ... rases and words which can be matched between these two sources according to | |
| Dante | ... s interests included classical studies: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, | , Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giaco ... |
| Che Guevara | ... . Hans Werner Henze's Das Floß der Medusa, written in 1968 as a requiem for | , is properly speaking an oratorio; Henze's Requiem is instrumental but re ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita by | |
| Tobias Smollett | Sarah died, in the words of | , "immensely rich and very little regretted, either by her own family or t ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of | 's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character ... |
| Dimitri Kitsikis | ... rived from the "Intermediate Region" geopolitical model first formulated by | and published in 1978. The Intermediate Region, which spans the Adriatic S ... |
| Euripides | ... scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, | and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high reputation that in 1892 h ... |
| John Keats | In Endymion (1818), | includes the line "Or blind Orion hungry for the morn", thought to be insp ... |
| Stella Gibbons | ... urzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, | , Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, ... |
| August Wilhelm Schlegel | ... amous thinkers that were faculty at the University of Bonn include the poet | , the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and Jos ... |
| Plato | These four studies compose the secondary part of the curriculum outlined by | in The Republic, and are described in the seventh book of that work |
| Aristophanes | ... rms cynicism and parody were used. Modern critics call the Greek playwright | one of the best known early satirists: his plays are known for their criti ... |
| George Orwell | In his classic essay on the topic | distinguishes nationalism from patriotism, which he defines as devotion to ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... sts were fundamental to The Band's existence and growth: Ronnie Hawkins and | . Other guests they admired (and in most cases had worked with before) inc ... |
| Bob Lewis | ... ent State as an art student, where he met Devo co-founders Jerry Casale and | . In early 1970, Lewis and Casale formed the idea of the "devolution" of t ... |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | ... irca 1309–1367), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani (c. 1275–1348), and | (1313–1375), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of C ... |
| Horace | ... directly to the Crown, and backed his application with a dedication of his | to the lord treasurer (Harley) |
| Parmenides | The argument has largely been seen as an ironic refutation of | ' thesis on Being. Gorgias set out to prove that it is as easy to demonstr ... |
| Ovid | In Metamorphoses, the poet | wrote the following depiction of Jupiter's seduction |
| John Reed | ... e also befriended many radicals, most notably Communist Labor Party founder | . O'Neill also had a brief romantic relationship with Reed's wife, writer ... |
| Robert Graves | ... ephone, for whom Leuce seems to be a doublet, as a goddess of regeneration. | used the myth of Leuce in developing his poetic theories of mythology. Gra ... |
| Tulsidas | ... tion are related to bhajan. Nanak, Kabir, Meera, Narottama Dasa, Surdas and | are notable composers. Traditions of bhajan such as Nirguni, Gorakhanathi, ... |
| Hanoch Levin | ... that period were written in advance, like those of the Pale Tracker trio or | 's cabarets. Another prominent stand-up performance in the 1970s was Yehon ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... Aurum Solis, Ragon, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Eliphas Lévi, Frederick Hockley, | , and Arthur Machen. Many Hermetic, or Hermetically influenced, groups exi ... |
| Surdas | ... idasi tradition are related to bhajan. Nanak, Kabir, Meera, Narottama Dasa, | and Tulsidas are notable composers. Traditions of bhajan such as Nirguni, ... |
| Heinrich Heine | ... 843 Autobiographical Sketch Wagner acknowledged he had taken the story from | 's retelling of the legend in his 1833 satirical novel The Memoirs of Mist ... |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | The Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's intimate friend | (who was on holiday in Algiers at the time), had planned to disrupt the pl ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... ewbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – | – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rosset ... |
| Snorri | ... tailed account of a venture to the region after the death of the god Baldr. | 's descriptions of Hel in the Prose Edda are not corroborated outside of B ... |
| Virgil | ... axon Chronicle. It is also clear from the text that Asser was familiar with | 's Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, a ... |
| Plato | ... as to his definite philosophical views. Everything of the kind mentioned by | and Aristotle is attributed not to Pythagoras, but to the Pythagoreans. He ... |
| Peter Dickinson | ... r consideration. The first author to be awarded a second Carnegie Medal was | in 1981 |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... . The Science Museum is next to Pisuerga river. The only surviving house of | is also located in Valladolid. Although unfinished, Cathedral of Valladoli ... |
| Plato | The Greek philosopher, | (429–347 BC), identified her with the Libyan deity Neith, the war goddess ... |
| Alcuin | ... astica gentis Anglorum; the Historia Brittonum, a Welsh source; the Life of | ; and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It is also clear from the text that Asser ... |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | ... s, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, | , Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine ... |
| Heinrich Heine | ... ssions. The composer showed the taste for social life and the dandyism that | emphasized in his literary portrait of Bellini (Florentinische Nächte, 183 ... |
| Ruhollah Khomeini | ... his books gaining him a religious fatwa for Rushdie's death from Ayatollah | which ultimately resulted in United Kingdom and Iran breaking diplomatic t ... |
| Milton | ... 'Whoever would assert an equality of genius and elegance between Ogilby and | , or Bunyan and Addison, would be thought to defend no less an extravaganc ... |
| Menander | ... mendations on the Plutus and Nubes of Aristophanes, and on the fragments of | and Philemon. He published the last work under the pen name of "Phileuther ... |
| Chico Buarque | ... ldwide success. But over the 1960s and 1970s, many artists who emerged—like | , Billy Blanco, Martinho da Vila, and Paulinho da Viola—advocated the retu ... |
| Kabir | Bhajans by | , Mirabai, Surdas, Tulsidas and a few others are considered to be classic. ... |
| Aristophanes | ... the following year, he published his emendations on the Plutus and Nubes of | , and on the fragments of Menander and Philemon. He published the last wor ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | At the turn of the century, | and Hillaire Belloc drew together the disparate experiences of the various ... |
| Molière | ... rneille’s Tite et Bérénice (1671) was inferior to Racine’s play (Bérénice). | was also prominent at the time and Corneille even composed the comedy Psyc ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The biggest influence was | . Lovecraft had many similarities with Poe; they both lost their fathers a ... |
| Scriblerus Club | Arbuthnot was one of the founding members of the | , and was regarded by the other wits of the group as the funniest, but he ... |
| Horace | ... and of Cajamai. He then wrote the Art of Love, a poem; and in 1709 imitated | in an Art of Cookery, which he published with some letters to Lister. The ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... as first exposed to and became interested in Eastern religions when he read | ’s Ends and Means in 1937, the year before his conversion to Catholicism. ... |
| George William Russell | There are at least five plays based on Deirdre's story: | 's Deirdre (1902), William Butler Yeats' Deirdre (1907), J.M. Synge's Deir ... |
| Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... omnenos between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground | ;and King of Sicily, repaired the fortress of Baris but it was subsequentl ... |
| Surdas | Bhajans by Kabir, Mirabai, | , Tulsidas and a few others are considered to be classic. The language of ... |
| William Watson | ... he Edwardian era of the 1890s, such as Alfred Austin, Stephen Phillips, and | , had been working very much in the shadow of Tennyson, producing weak imi ... |
| Jonathan Swift | The term big-endian originally comes from | 's satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by way of Danny Cohen in 1980. In 17 ... |
| Vyacheslav Ivanov | The Russian poet and philosopher | elaborated the theory of Dionysianism, which traces the roots of literary ... |
| Walter Raleigh | ... parable to those they might expect outside; one such example was that while | was held in the Tower his rooms were altered to accommodate his family, in ... |
| Margaret Atwood | ... work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author | and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near fut ... |
| John Cage | ... sound of one drone could make music. Also in 1949, Pierre Boulez befriended | , who was visiting Paris to do research on the music of . John Cage had be ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... as L. Frank Baum and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and | , which are more often considered adult literature. The Hobbit has been ca ... |
| Blake | ... ar in Southey and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as | in the early 1790s and Wordsworth at the turn of the century." The term In ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... ed into a raven and serves as her magical familiar — this is a reference to | 's poem "The Raven". Poe replaces Ratface from the comics. A similar refer ... |
| Ridgely Torrence | ... esbyterian Hospital. Robeson then gave his theatrical debut as Simon in the | play about Simon of Cyrene. After a year of courtship, Essie and Robeson m ... |
| Edgell Rickword | ... omment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: Edmund Blunden, | and Henry Williamson |
| Plato | Much debate over both the nature and value of rhetoric begins with Gorgias. | ’s dialogue entitled Gorgias presents a counter-argument to Gorgias’ embra ... |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... 97, Brian's 1951 opera in eight scenes The Cenci, based on the 1819 play by | , was premiered in a concert performance by the Millennium Sinfonia, condu ... |
| Louise Bertin | ... te song on the piano – with only one finger. Hugo also worked with composer | , writing the libretto for her 1836 opera La Esmeralda which was based on ... |
| Van Morrison | ... wn features in the song Snow in San Anselmo by Irish born singer/songwriter | , about an unusual bout of winter weather that occurred when he was living ... |
| Plato | ... stronomy are claimed to have been frequented by Orpheus, Homer, Pythagoras, | , Solon, and other Greek philosophers. From Ichonuphys, who was lecturing ... |
| Ludwig Tieck | ... er for early German romanticism ("Jenaer Romantik"). Important writers were | , Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and Friedr ... |
| Dante Alighieri | Chronicle of Fredegar mentions Carantania as Sclauvinia, | (1265–1321) mentions Carantania as Chiarentana. The same name was also use ... |
| Boiardo | ... nd Count of Concordia (1415–1467), by his wife Giulia, daughter of Feltrino | , Count di Scandiano. The family had long dwelt in the Castle of Mirandola ... |
| Hesiod | The Greek poet | , around the 8th century BCE, in his compilation of the mythological tradi ... |
| Richard Henry Horne | ... cholas Poussin", published in Table Talk, Essays on Men and Manners (1822). | , writing in the generation after Keats and Hazlitt, penned the three volu ... |
| Helena Charles | ... ts and politicians from a number of political parties. Its first leader was | . Its first election win came in 1953, with its members running as indepen ... |
| Langston Hughes | ... rs exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, | , Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... xteenth century sense, marrano was used by rival "Old Christians" to insult | , supposedly of Muslim or Jewish descent, to disparage him as a "New Chris ... |
| Ovid | ... hne's arrogance, Athena set a contest between the two weavers. According to | , the goddess was so envious of the magnificent tapestry and the mortal we ... |
| Taliesin | ... n of the Head of Annwn. The narrator of the poem is possibly intended to be | himself. One line can be interpreted as implying that he received his gift ... |
| Oscar Wilde | ... young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?", written after the trial of | , addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality. In the po ... |
| Ptolemy | ... works of cosmology from Constantinople, including Aristotle's De caelo and | 's Almagest were translated into Arabic in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | ... rary version of his adventures comparable, for example, to that of Jason in | ' Argonautica or Euripides' Medea; the entry in Ovid's Fasti for May 11 is ... |
| Jorge Carrera Andrade | ... orary Ecuadorian writers include the novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum; the poet | ; the essayist Benjamín Carrión; the poets Medardo Angel Silva, Jorge Carr ... |
| Kabir | ... well known singers. Kabir refers to his body as a chadar, a sheet of cloth. | is the best-known exponent of Nirguni bhajan, which celebrate a formless ( ... |
| Herman Melville | ... lt Whitman. The poetry of Emily Dickinson—nearly unread in her own time—and | 's novel Moby-Dick can be taken as epitomes of American Romantic literatur ... |
| Lenny Bruce | ... about the Israeli society and was mainly inspired by the American comedian | |
| T. S. Eliot | ... inia Woolf's biographer tells an anecdote on how Virginia Woolf, Keynes and | would discuss religion at a dinner party, in the context of their struggle ... |
| Wordsworth | ... en 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1790s and | at the turn of the century." The term Industrial Revolution applied to tec ... |
| Adam Mickiewicz | ... by recalling both its shabbiness and the fact that the greatest Polish poet | died there from the cholera in 1855. Mickiewicz´ museum at Dolapdere, stil ... |
| Tulsidas | Bhajans by Kabir, Mirabai, Surdas, | and a few others are considered to be classic. The language of their works ... |
| Jean Racine | ... eer. Other writers were beginning to gain popularity. In 1670 Corneille and | , one of his dramatic rivals, were challenged to write plays on the same i ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... arth is a sphere ("round"), was generally known by all, and around 240 BCE, | (276 BCE – 194 BCE) accurately estimated its circumference. In contrast to ... |
| Yehonatan Geffen | ... h Levin's cabarets. Another prominent stand-up performance in the 1970s was | 's stand-up performance which was satirical about the Israeli society and ... |
| Thomas Hardy's | ... till had a large audience; volumes of verse published in that time included | The Dynasts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson ... |
| Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury | James I’s ambassador to Paris, | , who presented his credentials to Louis XIII in 1619, remarked on Louis’ ... |
| Gabriel Harvey | ... ops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both Thomas Nashe and | , two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a complete ban on a ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... , St. Augustine's Commentary on Genesis, and a 1542 edition of the works of | . Religious books from the time of the early printing press include the Bo ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... tine's mother Helena was a Briton, the daughter of King Cole of Colchester. | expanded this story in his highly fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, ... |
| Edmund Waller | ... enerall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), and | 's poem, Battle of the Summer Islands (1645) |
| Hesiod | ... d Osiris. The name's earliest recorded use dates from the 7th century BC in | 's poetic work Works and Days. Sirius has over 50 other designations and n ... |
| Janna | The Hoysala court supported scholars such as | , Rudrabhatta, Harihara and his nephew Raghavanka, whose works are endurin ... |
| Voltaire | ... in later years settled into a Rationalist Deism similar to that espoused by | . A census-taker asked Hugo in 1872 if he was a Catholic, and he replied, ... |
| Thomas Love Peacock | ... William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – | – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John ... |
| John Milton | ... avelli in turn influenced Francis Bacon , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , | , David Hume , and many others (Strauss 1958) |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er, and also in the "Song of the Bow", a poem from The White Company by Sir | |
| Lenny Bruce | ... don, presenting fellow comedians in a nightclub setting, including American | . Cook said it was a satirical venue modelled on "those wonderful Berlin c ... |
| Edmund Bolton | ... e texts. Perhaps it refers to Rogers' 1561 edition which put them together. | argued for the language of the court as the appropriate language for writi ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... 8. This conception of God influenced New England transcendentalists such as | . The term was popularized by Charles Hartshorne in his development of pro ... |
| Menander | ... filth and disease. His bawdy style was adopted by Greek dramatist-comedian | . His early play Drunkenness contains an attack on the politician |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... influential in the development of distributist theory were Catholic authors | and Hilaire Belloc, two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponent ... |
| Manuel Vázquez Montalbán | ... became 'More than a club' (Més que un club) for the Catalans. According to | , the best way for the Catalans to demonstrate their identity was by joini ... |
| Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and Joseph Ratzinger and the poet | |
| James Lipton | In an Actors Studio interview with | , Sheen admitted to being arrested 64 times for protests. "I don't look fo ... |
| Romantic | ... velopment of the poetic rules of "Classicism" that would dominate until the | s. The critical and restraining tendency of Malherbe who preached greater ... |
| Adam Dalgliesh | ... uding the USA on its PBS channel. These productions featured Roy Marsden as | . The BBC has since adapted Death in Holy Orders (2003) and The Murder Roo ... |
| Arctinus of Miletus | ... find description of the hero's death, Kúpria (unknown author), Aithiopis by | , Ilias Mikrá by Lesche of Mytilene, Iliou pérsis by Arctinus of Miletus, ... |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Prévert adapted several | tales into animated or mixed live-action/animated movies, often in version ... |
| Philip Larkin | ... St. John's College, Oxford, where he read English. It was there that he met | , with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. While at ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... ies have consulate presence in the island. The French Consulate is based at | 's former residence at Hauteville House. The is based at local design and ... |
| Lactantius | ... Tibur or the Greek Sibyl of Cumae is not always clear. The Christian author | had no hesitation in identifying the sibyl in question as the Tiburtine si ... |
| Francesco Redi | ... hrough their own experiments and interest in arthropods and death, Song Ci, | , Bergeret d’Arbois, Jean Pierre Mégnin and the German doctor Hermann Rein ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... s On), Charles Wood (Veterans), Edward Bond (Bingo, in which Gielgud played | ), David Storey (Home), and Harold Pinter (No Man's Land), the latter two ... |
| Van Morrison | ... (and in most cases had worked with before) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, | , Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamo ... |
| William Carlos Williams | ... by Tom Robbins, pennyroyal is used by Kudra to keep from becoming pregnant. | opens his "Kora in Hell: improvisations" city lights books wit |
| Rudrabhatta | ... title "Emperor among poets" (Kavichakravarthi) from King Veera Ballala II. | , a Smartist Brahmin, was the earliest well-known Brahminical writer whose ... |
| Bede | ... once imprisoned) represents Dinbaer; and the name of Coldingham is given by | as Coludi urbs ("town of Colud"), where Colud seems to represent the Briti ... |
| Plato | Aristotle (, Aristotélēs) (384 BCE – 322 BCE), a student of | , promoted the concept that observation of physical phenomena could ultima ... |
| Dean Jonathan Swift | They couple were friends of | and, through him, of Alexander Pope. Pope encouraged the Delaneys to devel ... |
| Edmund Blunden | ... also included comment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: | , Edgell Rickword and Henry Williamson |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... arallel to Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s in the United Kingdom and | 's in the United States |
| Buckminster Fuller | "High Tech" architecture moved forward as | continued his experiments in geodesic domes while the George Pompidou Cent ... |
| Wilfred Owen | ... ner. The inscription on the stone was written by friend and fellow War poet | . It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the ... |
| Southey | ... he idea of a new social order based on major industrial change was clear in | and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as | (1803–1882) and Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosoph ... |
| James Weldon Johnson | ... as well as white writers exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, | , Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
| Vincent Woods | ... ge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910), John Coulter's (playwright) (1944), and | ' A Cry from Heaven (2005). There are also three books: Deirdre (1923) by ... |
| Hilaire Belloc | ... velopment of distributist theory were Catholic authors G. K. Chesterton and | , two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponents |
| Nozhat al-Majales | ... m Ibn Sina is recorded in various manuscripts and later anthologies such as | |
| Osama bin Laden | ... rt was about to consider the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, supposed driver to | , who was challenging the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. A group ... |
| John Henry Newman | ... ed to Birmingham in September to consult the leader of the Oxford converts, | . Newman received him into the Church on 21 October 1866. On 5 May 1868 Ho ... |
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| Novalis | ... erman romanticism ("Jenaer Romantik"). Important writers were Ludwig Tieck, | (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Hölder ... |
| Bede | The sole source of original information about Cædmon's life and work is | 's Historia ecclesiastica. According to Bede, Cædmon was a lay brother who ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... nd Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach. He has also translated a | play into English. He appeared on the programme on BBC Four in 2012 called ... |
| Kostis Palamas | ... de Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, | , Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzak ... |
| Alessandro Manzoni | ... Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and | |
| Michael D. Higgins | Sheen maintains links with Galway and "heartily" supported | in the Irish presidential election, 2011, having become a "dear friend" of ... |
| Macaulay | ... iary to London, where he lived in constant companionship with the historian | and the poet Hallam. With the election of Zachary Taylor his post was not ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | #The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir | (1859–1930) |
| Matthew Arnold | ... reline buildings with the naked eye, and the lights of land at night, as in | 's poem "Dover Beach" |
| Plato | ... e two were inseparable, reading together the best Greek authors, especially | , and discussing, either during their walks by the sea-shore and the banks ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... his 2003 album Poodle Hat, consists of rhyming palindromes and parodies the | song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues". There is an accompanying video for th ... |
| Kabir | ... the kirtan or song in the Haridasi tradition are related to bhajan. Nanak, | , Meera, Narottama Dasa, Surdas and Tulsidas are notable composers. Tradit ... |
| Ptolemy | ... d by Apollonius of Perga at the end of the 3rd century BC and formalized by | of the Thebaid in his 2nd-century AD astronomical treatise the Almagest. I ... |
| Craig Charles | ... anley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir Jacob Bronowski, | , Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway ... |
| William Morris | ... rspersed with songs—may be following the model of The Icelandic Journals by | , an important literary influence on Tolkien |
| Heinrich von Kleist | ... ortant writers were Ludwig Tieck, Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), | and Friedrich Hölderlin |
| Romantic | ... s. . The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much | and Victorian poetry. This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Ge ... |
| Ptolemy | ... 4), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), | (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). The city was the capita ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... ngo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare), David Storey (Home), and | (No Man's Land), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph R ... |
| Bede | ... f Trier. It is possible that Asser may have known these works. He also knew | 's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; the Historia Brittonum, a Welsh ... |
| Tao Yuanming | The Peach Blossom Spring, a prose written by | , describes a utopian place. The narrative goes that a fisherman from Wuli ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... escribed and Odin, while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In | 's Prose Edda, Baldr goes to Hel upon death and subsequently Hermóðr uses ... |
| John Weever | ... well as its judgment and invention. He gives the author as Robert Langland. | (1631) also names Robert Langland, as does David Buchanan (1652). Buchanan ... |
| Smollett | Don Quixotes influence can be seen in the work of | , Defoe, Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century nove ... |
| Wilfred Owen | ... Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – | – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch ... |
| Andreas Kalvos | Leading literary figures of modern Greece include Dionysios Solomos, | , Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Ya ... |
| Raymond Carver | ... he used short, sharp sentences, with language as raw as Ernest Hemingway or | . With sparse adjectives and honed-to-the-bone description, Lawson created ... |
| Sylvia Plath | ... been home to 60 Pulitzer Prize winning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. | , Truman Capote, and David Sedaris have all been artists-in-residence. The ... |
| patron of the arts | ... a Boiardo, who grew up under the influence of his own uncle, the Florentine | and scholar-poet, |
| William Butler Yeats | ... ve plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre (1902), | ' Deirdre (1907), J.M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910), John Coulter ... |
| Lytton Strachey | ... r as an entirely sympathetic character and draws much characterisation from | 's biography of her in Eminent Victorians. It was adapted as a film of the ... |
| Leonard Cohen | On 26 February 2012, Costello paid tribute to music legends Chuck Berry and | who were the recipients of the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting exc ... |
| Plato | ... second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus and on | in his Satho. His style was pure and elegant, and Theopompus even said tha ... |
| William Empson | ... e one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century. The critic | once said, "I do not know for certain how much of my own mind [Eliot] inve ... |
| Naevius | ... this view on the grounds that it would make Livius younger than Plautus and | , though he was supposed to have been the first to produce a play. Livy sa ... |
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| Ovid | ... s master, claiming that Odysseus' violence was not unwarranted by the gods. | mentions the "cruel" Medon as one of the suitors; he is also included on t ... |
| Angelos Sikelianos | ... iterary figures of modern Greece include Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, | , Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexand ... |
| Henry David Thoreau | Important influences were | , Leo Tolstoy and Elisee Reclus. Anarcho-naturism advocated vegetarianism, ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by | in "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". These origins are related in the ... |
| Plato | ... rough all things" was "both willing and unwilling to be called Zeus (God)". | envisaged God as a Demiurge or 'craftsman'. Outside ancient Greece many ot ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... by Grape performed along with the Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, | , The Grateful Dead, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Jo ... |
| Alfred Noyes | ... lice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – | – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Fre ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Ronsard | ... was animated against Malherbe, not merely by reason of his own devotion to | but because of Malherbe's discourtesy towards Régnier's uncle Philippe Des ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... d Alexandra after Olivier recommended him for the part. He also appeared in | 's version of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a young ... |
| Mos Def | East Coast hip hop artists such as KRS One, Public Enemy, | , Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, Nas, The Notorious B.I.G., and dead prez are known f ... |
| Conrad Aiken | ... particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like Edmund Wilson, | , and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being written in the E ... |
| William S. Burroughs | Moore named | as one of his main influences during the conception of Watchmen. He admire ... |
| John Milton | ... found that publishers often served the interests of powerful social groups. | 's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, ... |
| Lactantius | ... ary and political events, to the neglect of cultural and religious matters. | ' De Mortibus Persecutorum, a political Christian pamphlet on the reigns o ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ght life. Caffè Lena was one of the first venues in the Eastern US at which | performed, in 1961. Arlo Guthrie played at Cafè Lena early in his career a ... |
| Horace | ... ucilius. The two most prominent and influential ancient Roman satirists are | and Juvenal, who wrote during the early days of the Roman Empire. Other im ... |
| John Webster | ... ts in 1963. Among his non-Shakespearean Renaissance roles, his Ferdinand in | 's The Duchess of Malfi was well-known |
| Martin Niemöller | Lutheran pastor and theologian | , founder of the Confessing Church resistance movement against the Nazis, ... |
| John Skelton | ... alter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – | – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevens ... |
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| Ovid | ... sed by Horace, who tells of his death at the hands of Diana/Artemis, and by | , in his Fasti for May 11, the middle day of the Lemuria, when (in Ovid's ... |
| Rudolfo Anaya | ... pared to Upton Sinclair and John Steinbeck. Other important writers include | , Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Author | lived in a cottage on Horton's estate for a time in the late 1930s |
| William Shakespeare | ... character of Fiddler's Green is modelled visually on G. K. Chesterton, both | and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as do several characters from w ... |
| Clemens Brentano | ... ater became a center of German romanticism, where writers and poets such as | , Achim von Arnim, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff met regularly in li ... |
| Boris Vian | ... instruments was sparked by his discovery at the Saint-Ouen flea market of a | Trumpet Violin. He often accompanied his mother to Le Chat Qui Pêche (The ... |
| Geoffrey Keating | In | 's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn Ireland's "ninth appellation it received likewise ... |
| James I of Scotland | The title reverted to the crown in 1424. King | restored the title to Margaret, whose son was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the I ... |
| Heinrich Heine | ... st prose draft of the story in Paris early in May 1840, basing the story on | 's satire "The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski" (Aus den Memoiren de ... |
| Plato | ... olini scoured the libraries in search of works by such classical authors as | , Cicero and Vitruvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers ... |
| Antonin Artaud | ... mposed significant electronic, vocal, and instrumental works. In late 1947, | recorded (To Have Done with the Judgment of God), an audio piece full of t ... |
| Dr. Seuss | ... om he grew up watching on I Love Lucy re-runs. He is a self-described "huge | fan", devoting an entire room in his Jackson, Mississippi, estate to Seuss ... |
| Robert Service's | ... humous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, George Meredith's Last Poems, | Ballads of a Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems. Future Nobe ... |
| Euripides | According to other reports in | ' lost play about Telephus, he went to Aulis pretending to be a beggar and ... |
| Dionysios Solomos | Leading literary figures of modern Greece include | , Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Pe ... |
| Pierre de Ronsard | ... tion, was a sober correction to the luxuriant importation and innovation of | and La Pléiade, but the lines of praise by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux begin ... |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | ... pop-rock band Tokio Hotel. In Asia, idols range from Japanese pop megastars | and Namie Amuro as well as Kana Nishino and Japanese music groups such as ... |
| Henry David Thoreau | ... wthorne's atmosphere and melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as | and Ralph Waldo Emerson still show elements of its influence and imaginati ... |
| Bob Dylan | A famous and widely bootlegged concert by | at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 17 May 1966 was mistakenly labelle ... |
| Statius | ... ufferer from unrequited love: "Pale Orion wandered in the forest for Side." | mentions Orion four times in his Thebaïd; twice as the constellation, a pe ... |
| George Woodcock | ... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. For | this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ... |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | ... ig Tieck, Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... e first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson was Joseph Bell who | has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based on from Bell's observa ... |
| Jien | ... scovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned. | records that Suinin was the third son of Emperor Sujin, and that he ruled ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... from the underworld; In Sondheim and Shevelove's, George Bernard Shaw faces | |
| Raghavanka | ... (poems in blank verse) in praise of Lord Virupaksha (a form of Lord Shiva). | was the first to introduce the Shatpadi metre into Kannada literature in h ... |
| August Wilhelm Schlegel | ... ed in since his time as a drama critic in Weimar; his unfavorable review of | 's Ion was withdrawn at the request of Goethe. It was mainly as a schoolma ... |
| Constantin Mille | ... cques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, librarian of the École Normale Supérieure. | , a Romanian socialist writer and émigré in Paris, described the anti-Drey ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... reen is modelled visually on G. K. Chesterton, both William Shakespeare and | appear as characters, as do several characters from within A Midsummer Nig ... |
| Mos Def | ... 75 out of 100 on review aggregation site . The group also collaborated with | on the track "I Against I", which appeared on the "Special Cases" single a ... |
| Carl Sandburg | ... 963). He was personal friends with such literary figures as T. S. Eliot and | . Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is feat ... |
| La Pléiade | ... ection to the luxuriant importation and innovation of Pierre de Ronsard and | , but the lines of praise by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux beginning Enfin Mal ... |
| Rigas Feraios | ... of Greek enlightenment (Diafotismos), writers such as Adamantios Korais and | will prepare with their works the Greek Revolution (1821–1830) |
| Dante Alighieri | ... Emperor Otto III and lamented as the root of papal worldliness by the poet | . The 15th century philologist Lorenzo Valla proved the document was indee ... |
| Nonnus | ... s of Tanagra, one of the defenders of Thebes. The very late Greek epic poet | mentions the oxhide story in brief, while listing the Hyrians in his Catal ... |
| Henry David Thoreau | ... ers included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) and | (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce (1855–1916), botanis ... |
| Bob Dylan | American singer/songwriter | refers to Rainey in the song "Tombstone Blues" on his 1965 album, Highway ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Yeats | ... dancing, and films. The Abbey was founded in 1904 by a group that included | with the aim of promoting indigenous literary talent. It went on to provid ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... Bradstreet (1612–72), brought a copy of Crowley's Piers Plowman to America. | (1688–1744) owned a copy of Rogers' reprint of Crowley's edition of Piers ... |
| Philippe Desportes | ... on to Ronsard but because of Malherbe's discourtesy towards Régnier's uncle | , whom the Norman poet had at first distinctly plagiarized |
| Thomas of Celano | ... if present). The sequence employed in the Requiem, Dies Irae, attributed to | (c. 1200 – c. 1260–1270), has been called "the greatest of hymns", worthy ... |
| Ptolemy | It is called Ptolemaic after the Greek astronomer | , although it had been developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apo ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Plato | In | 's Symposium, written around the 4th century BC, Aristophanes relates a cr ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... mmission that produced The Revised Psalter (1963). A harsh critic of Eliot, | , was also a member of the commission, where their antagonism turned into ... |
| Agathon | ... lcibiades who were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were already old. | too, the tragic poet, whom Comedy regards as wise and eloquent, often Gorg ... |
| Plato | ... and Vitruvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as | , Aristotle, Euclid, and Ptolemy) and Muslim scientists were imported into ... |
| Tupac Shakur | ... sta" music scene had however fallen out of the spotlight since the death of | in 1996, and it was only after Dr. Dre's successful patronage of Eminem an ... |
| Johann Gottfried Herder | ... of Saxony, and educated at Schulpforta and Leipzig. Under the influence of | , he was for 13 years headmaster at the gymnasium and consistorial council ... |
| William Shakespeare | The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by | (1605) |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | ... erences to the female Pope abound in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. | wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). The Chronicon of Adam of U ... |
| Arctinus of Miletus | ... by Arctinus of Miletus, Ilias Mikrá by Lesche of Mytilene, Iliou pérsis by | , there is no trace of any reference to his general invulnerability or his ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... a Mangy Lover (1963). He was personal friends with such literary figures as | and Carl Sandburg. Much of his personal correspondence with those and othe ... |
| Nas | ... hip hop artists such as KRS One, Public Enemy, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, | , The Notorious B.I.G., and dead prez are known for their sociopolitical s ... |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | ... innovation of Pierre de Ronsard and La Pléiade, but the lines of praise by | beginning Enfin Malherbe vint ("Finally Malherbe arrived") are rendered on ... |
| Andrew Young | ... Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – William Butler Yeats – | |
| Sandra Cisneros | ... Sinclair and John Steinbeck. Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya, | , Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, De ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... biogenic theory was first introduced by Georg Agricola in 1556 and later by | in the 18th century |
| Edmund Wilson | ... liot's poetry, particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like | , Conrad Aiken, and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being wr ... |
| Siegfried Sassoon | ... rederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – | – John Skelton – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Rober ... |
| Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff | ... ism, where writers and poets such as Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, and | met regularly in literary circles |
| John Cage | Riley also cites | and "the really great chamber music groups of John Coltrane and Miles Davi ... |
| Herman Melville | ... 90s, Stella created a large body of work that responded in a general way to | ’s Moby-Dick. During this time, the increasingly deep relief of Stella’s p ... |
| Ptolemy | ... one of the 48 Greek constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the Intern ... |
| Joyce Carol Oates | ... is, immortalized in the motion picture "The Express", bestselling novelists | , John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pu ... |
| Zoroaster | Astrology—The Operation of the Moon: Hermes claims that | discovered this part of the wisdom of the whole universe, astrology, and t ... |
| Arthur O'Shaughnessy | ... Marseillaise" in his choral work The Music Makers, Op. 69 (1912), based on | 's Ode, at the line "We fashion an empire's glory", where he also quoted t ... |
| Brecht | Like Shaw and | , Ionesco also contributed to the theatre with his theoretical writings (W ... |
| Mos Def | ... dates is available at the IMDb.) The movie stars Martin Freeman as Arthur, | as Ford, Sam Rockwell as President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox and Zoo ... |
| Voltaire | ... of the country. A notable example of enlightened despot, a correspondent of | and an amateur opera librettist, Catherine presided over the age of the Ru ... |
| John Lithgow | ... playing a human, Dr. Mary Albright, opposite the alien family, composed of | , Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As with SNL, ... |
| Apostolo Zeno | In 1707, | and Pietro Pariati wrote a libretto entitled Flavio Anicio Olibrio. The st ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ty with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as Archimedes and | . Meanwhile, philosophy, including what was called “physics”, focused on e ... |
| Aristophanes | ... censor it or prosecute its practitioners. In a very early instance of this, | was persecuted by the demagogue Cleon |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... or" elements in Washington Irving's essays and especially his travel books. | 's tales of the macabre and his balladic poetry were more influential in F ... |
| Mathurin Régnier | ... theory and practice is excellently described by his contemporary and rival | , who was animated against Malherbe, not merely by reason of his own devot ... |
| Critias | ... tus, "I understand that he attracted the attention of the most admired men, | and Alcibiades who were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were alread ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Adam Dalgliesh | ... isters' chambers, a theological college, an island or a private clinic. The | novel, The Private Patient, was published in August 2008 in the U.K. by Fa ... |
| Voltaire | ... rial visitor to Earth had already been used by the philosopher and satirist | in his story Micromégas of 1752—a classic work in French literature which ... |
| Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff | ... of, for example, E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (The Sandman), 1817, and | 's Das Marmorbild (The Marble Statue), 1819, was darker in its motifs and ... |
| Xenophanes | ... ythagoreans. Heraclitus stated that he was a man of extensive learning; and | claimed that he believed in the transmigration of souls. Xenophanes mentio ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... mpositions as well as covers of songs by Memphis Minnie, Sleepy John Estes, | , Neil Young, and others |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... is mentioned in the Heimskringla (The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway) by | . In 1021, King Olaf laid hold of all the best men, both at Lesja and Dovr ... |
| Luigi Tansillo | ... n of his life during this period. His Larmes de Saint Pierre, imitated from | , appeared in 1587 |
| Aristophanes | ... vived: those of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The surviving plays by | are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while Herodotus and Thucy ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... tion of Bermuda and provided the inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest. | 's play The Tempest (1611) was based on the following incident. Sir Thomas ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... ntheism was a major force in the Unitarian church for a long time, based on | 's concept of the Oversoul. This survives today as the panentheistic relig ... |
| Aldhelm | ... omposition of a large of vernacular religious poetry. In contrast to Saints | and Dunstan, Cædmon’s poetry is said to have been exclusively religious. B ... |
| Aldhelm | ... sser was familiar with Virgil's Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, | 's De Virginitate, and Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni ("Life of Charlemagne") ... |
| Edward Thomas | ... Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – | – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... lations included English and American poetry and a masterpiece in rendering | 's epic, Peer Gynt, into Icelandic. Einar Benediktsson was buried at Icela ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... an't You Hear Me Knocking" by The Rolling Stones, "All the Tired Horses" by | , "Rumble" by Link Wray, "Glad and Sorry" by Faces, "Strange Brew" by Crea ... |
| Jonathan Swift | More was greatly admired by the Anglican writer | . Swift wrote that More was "a person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ated dodo fossils, the newly vindicated bird was featured as a character in | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With the popularity of the book, the ... |
| Pindar | ... write of him: The brief passages in Aratus and Vergil are mentioned above. | celebrates the pancratist Melissus of Thebes "who was not granted the buil ... |
| Robert Sherard | ... him to move to Paris between February and mid-May 1883. Whilst there he met | , whom he entertained constantly. "We are dining on the Duchess tonight", ... |
| Wendell Berry | ... ldo Leopold (1887–1948), Ralph Borsodi (1886–1977), and present-day authors | (b. 1934), Gene Logsdon (b. 1932), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson (b. ... |
| Ovid | He survived Tibullus (d. 19 BC), but was no longer alive when | wrote (c. AD 12) the epistle from Pontus (E Ponto, iv. 16) containing a li ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... An die Nachgeborenen based on diverse texts, the title taken from a poem of | . Mikis Theodorakis composed the cantatas According to the Sadducees and C ... |
| Euripides | ... able, for example, to that of Jason in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica or | ' Medea; the entry in Ovid's Fasti for May 11 is a poem on the birth of Or ... |
| Charles Wolfe | ... – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – | – William Wordsworth – William Butler Yeats – Andrew Youn |
| Hesiod | ... Charis "the grace" or Aglaia "the glorious", the youngest of the Graces, as | calls her |
| Bede | ... Brito" to distinguish him from a different man called Pelagius of Tarentum. | refers to him as "Pelagius Bretto". St. Jerome suggests he was of Scottish ... |
| Emily Dickinson | ... nd imagination, as does the romantic realism of Walt Whitman. The poetry of | —nearly unread in her own time—and Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick can b ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | The English Roman Catholic writer | said of More that "He may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or a ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | In literature, "The Maltese Cat" is the title of a short story by | . The story is about a polo match set in British colonial , told from the ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... d many successful and influential stand-up comedians, including Dave Allen, | , Andrew Maxwell, Dylan Moran, Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O'Hanlo ... |
| Helena Charles | ... founded as a pressure group on 6 January 1951 at a meeting held in Redruth. | was elected the organisation's first chair. At the first meeting, MK adopt ... |
| Henry David Thoreau | ... cal view mainly in the writings of American anarchist and transcendentalist | . In his book Walden he advocates simple living and self-sufficiency among ... |
| Gary Soto | ... Steinbeck. Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, | , Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez ... |
| James Weldon Johnson | ... ncement of Colored People (NAACP). NAACP leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and | were frequent guests in the Rustin home. With these influences in his earl ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... various means by which they gain agency. The novel's title was inspired by | 's , which is a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The P ... |
| Horace | ... Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of Virgil and Tibullus, and contemporary of | |
| Christina Rossetti's | ... olumes of verse published in that time included Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts, | posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, George Meredith's Last P ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – | – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir ... |
| Zarathustra | ... of Bactria (which later became Balkh), is believed to have been the home of | , who founded the Zoroastrian religion. The Avesta refers to eastern Bactr ... |
| Thomas Campbell | ... t bequests to Southey (who would later write Telford’s biography), the poet | (1777–1844) and to the publishers of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (to which ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... tion) of the leader of the cymeks who gave himself the pseudonym Agamemnon. | 's short story, "The Purloined Letter", makes reference to Atreus and Thye ... |
| Tibullus | Domitius Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of Virgil and | , and contemporary of Horace |
| Ptolemy | ... ncient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and | ) and Muslim scientists were imported into the Christian world, providing ... |
| Horace | ... t is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin. Varro, Cicero, and | , all men of letters during the subsequent Classical Latin period, conside ... |
| Aristophanes | ... ord for horse, like Hipparchus and Xanthippe; the character Pheidippides in | ' Clouds has his grandfather's name with hipp- inserted to sound more aris ... |
| John Crowe Ransom | ... enging poem like "The Waste Land." Of course, there were some critics, like | , who wrote mostly negative criticisms of Eliot's work but who also had so ... |
| Hipponax | ... eiled ironic terms. In contrast, Pliny reports that the 6th century BC poet | wrote satirae that were so cruel that the offended hanged themselves |
| Baba Bulleh Shah | ... nirguna) divinity, encouraging listeners to shed dogma and look at reality. | is another and the Bauls of Bengal have developed from these roots. The Si ... |
| Aeschylus | ... ge, only a limited number of plays by three authors have survived: those of | , Sophocles, and Euripides. The surviving plays by Aristophanes are also a ... |
| Horace | Orion is used by | , who tells of his death at the hands of Diana/Artemis, and by Ovid, in hi ... |
| Thomas Middleton | ... he decree ordered the burning of certain volumes of satire by John Marston, | , Joseph Hall, and others; it also required histories and plays to be spec ... |
| Walt Whitman | ... elements of its influence and imagination, as does the romantic realism of | . The poetry of Emily Dickinson—nearly unread in her own time—and Herman M ... |
| Virgil | Domitius Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of | and Tibullus, and contemporary of Horace |
| Mao Zedong | ... ation") magazine entitled “Destroy the Ideas of Bourgeois Legal Ownership.” | ordered the reproduction of the article in Renmin Ribao ("People’s Daily") ... |
| John Crowe Ransom | ... acock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – | – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – ... |
| Jean de La Fontaine | The cicada has represented since classical antiquity. | began his collection of fables Les fables de La Fontaine with the story La ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... an accompanying “Editor’s Note” giving mild approval. He was seen as one of | 's full supporters as he was starting a struggle with rival leader Liu Sha ... |
| Ana Castillo | ... a, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, | , Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, Alicia Gaspar de Al ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... umerism on society has often been fiercely criticized by intellectuals like | and film directors like Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica and Ettore Scola, that ... |
| Petrarch | ... ultural achievements. Accounts of Renaissance literature usually begin with | (best known for the elegantly polished vernacular sonnet sequence of the C ... |
| John Suckling | ... obert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – | – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dy ... |
| Heinrich Heine | ... luence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and | , but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his ... |
| Brendan Behan | ... popular works. He also references the music of The Pogues and the poetry of | , both of these being relevant to Ennis' Irish heritage |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as Henry David Thoreau and | still show elements of its influence and imagination, as does the romantic ... |
| George Meredith's | ... sts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, | Last Poems, Robert Service's Ballads of a Cheechako and John Masefield's B ... |
| Euripides | ... of plays by three authors have survived: those of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and | . The surviving plays by Aristophanes are also a treasure trove of comic p ... |
| Frederic Prokosch | ... oyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – | – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sasso ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with | and Wilkie Collins. In the absence of a more appropriate puzzle, he solves ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... wks for a recording session for Atco later in 1965. At about the same time, | recruited Helm and Robertson for two concerts, then the entire group for h ... |
| Shelley's | ... is also used metaphorically to refer to the work or skill of a poet, as in | "Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is" or Byron's "I wish to tune my qu ... |
| Ennius | ... " by the Romans. Suetonius later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and | (referring to their genre, not their ethnic backgrounds). The genre was im ... |
| Ovid | ... ason in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica or Euripides' Medea; the entry in | 's Fasti for May 11 is a poem on the birth of Orion, but that is one versi ... |
| Tupac Shakur | ... Coast counterparts include Emcee Lynx, The Coup, Paris, and Michael Franti. | was also known for rapping about social issues such as police brutality, t ... |
| Euripides | ... and Joshua Barnes with a warning as to the spuriousness of the Epistles of | . Barnes printed the epistles anyway and declared that no one could doubt ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... e is used by folk musicians, "one man bands" and singer/songwriters such as | , Tom Harmon, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singer ... |
| Sophocles | ... limited number of plays by three authors have survived: those of Aeschylus, | , and Euripides. The surviving plays by Aristophanes are also a treasure t ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... f lost content'. Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of | , the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied ... |
| Henry Rollins | In 1990, Bad Brains backed longtime friend, fan, and protege | on a cover version of The MC5's "Kick out the Jams". The recording appears ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... ters appear often; the character of Fiddler's Green is modelled visually on | , both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as d ... |
| Henry David Thoreau | ... ues. An important early influence was the thought of the American anarchist | and his book Walden. In the late 19th century there emerged anarcho-naturi ... |
| Gaston Bachelard | ... r, properly Marxist texts, borrowing a term from the philosopher of science | . His essay "Marxism and Humanism" is a strong statement of anti-humanism ... |
| Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti | The son of émigré Italian scholar | and his wife Frances Polidori, Rossetti was born in London, England and or ... |
| Plato | Such practices are presumably very ancient. | wrote in his Phaedrus that the "first prophecies were the words of an oak" ... |
| Zarathustra | ... of their problems. Nietzsche achieves all of this through the character of | (referring to the traditional prophet of Zoroastrianism), who makes speech ... |
| Paul Éluard | ... ted to Paris on the outbreak of World War II. Thanks to the intercession of | and other friends, including the journalist Varian Fry, he was discharged ... |
| John Dryden | ... iers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, William Prynne, possibly John Milton, and | .) Given the diffusion of different Piers/Ploughman texts, it is usually n ... |
| Buckminster Fuller | ... voluntary groupings to form the institutions and social forms they prefer. | presented a theoretical basis for technological utopianism and set out to ... |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | ... Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – | – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – ... |
| Wendell Berry | ... thinkers are sometimes referred to as neo-Agrarian and include the likes of | , Paul B. Thompson, and Gene Logsdon. They are characterized by seeing the ... |
| Jackson Mac Low | ... when Maciunas met them through minimalist composer La Monte Young and poet | in the early 1960s. John Cage's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition clas ... |
| Vinicius de Moraes | ... and Garoto, this sub-genre was inaugurated by João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, and | . It then had a generation of disciples and followers including Carlos Lyr ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... Leicester Square house was the inspiration for the home of Dr Jekyll of the | novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Hunter's house had two en ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... . He proposes to teach people to lie well. Similar lists and systems are in | 's Peri Bathos and John Gay and Pope's Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. Als ... |
| Jia Yi | The famous Han poet and statesman | concluded his essay The Faults of Qin (過秦論) with what was to become the st ... |
| Stephen Crane | ... William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, | 's , Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... s well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( | 's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Kn ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ahead with their next album, Cahoots (1971). Cahoots included tunes such as | 's "When I Paint My Masterpiece," "4% Pantomime" (with Van Morrison), and ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... in 1998. His final (silent) acting performance was in a film adaptation of | 's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator Harold Pinter an ... |
| Walter Raleigh | ... Queen Elizabeth I made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir | also had residences here in this era. It was at this time that Mitcham bec ... |
| Guillaume Colletet | ... ts”; also translated as “the society of the five authors”). The others were | , Boisrobert, Jean Rotrou, and Claude de L'Estoile |
| George Orwell | ... nd with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell, named Nineteen Eighty-Four after | 's novel of the same name. He left Hampton Grammar School with ten GCE Ord ... |
| Anne Cecil | ... l, to Lord Rich. Sidney was knighted in 1583. An early arrangement to marry | , daughter of Sir William Cecil and eventual wife of de Vere, had fallen t ... |
| James Agee | ... there is the Huston look". The "Huston look" was also noted by screenwriter | , who adds that this "look proceeds from Huston's sense of what is natural ... |
| Samuel Beckett | Like | , Ionesco began his theatre career late: he did not write his first play u ... |
| James Laughlin | ... pt Merton had given to friend Robert Lax the previous year was published by | at New Directions: a book of poetry titled Thirty Poems. Merton had mixed ... |
| Tupac Shakur | ... member of the Black Panther Party and, more famously, the mother of rapper | - was born in Lumberton on January 10, 1947 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... the action of the plot of the outer story. An example is "The Mad Trist" in | 's The Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means t ... |
| Hesiod | ... s was born of the union of Zeus and Hera. In another tradition, attested by | , Hera bore Hephaestus alone |
| Robert Conquest | ... ther displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the Sovietologist | , the science fiction anthology series Spectrum I–V, which drew heavily up ... |
| Catullus | ... poetry; for example, Homer incorporated Nightingales into his Odyssey, and | used a sparrow as an erotic symbol in his Catullus 2. The relationship bet ... |
| Siegfried Sassoon | ... cked soldiers during World War I. Rivers's most famous patient was the poet | . He is also famous for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition ... |
| Shakespeare | ... d Henry's decision to fight the Agincourt campaign. The account was used by | as the basis for a scene in his play Henry V |
| Isobel Armstrong | ... ce centre. There, Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor | , the literary critic) and Ursula spent a childhood left chiefly to their ... |
| Edmund Spenser | Crowley's (or Rogers') edition may have reached | , Michael Drayton, John Milton, and John Bunyan, but no records, citations ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... er years promoting causes that were rejected by most of his contemporaries. | quipped: "Mr. Wells is a born storyteller who has sold his birthright for ... |
| Odysseas Elytis | ... . Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and | are among the most important poets of the 20th century. Novel is also repr ... |
| Samuel Roth | ... en, in 1957, the Supreme Court upheld the obscenity conviction of publisher | for distributing adult magazines. As late as 1953, books such as Tropic of ... |
| John Gay | ... lie well. Similar lists and systems are in Alexander Pope's Peri Bathos and | and Pope's Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. Also in 1713, Arbuthnot was mad ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... of Samuel Beckett's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator | and directed by American playwright David Mamet; Gielgud died mere weeks a ... |
| Plato | ... aissance movement, combining the classical concepts of perfect societies of | and Aristotle with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, Quintilian, epide ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... the other characters. In addition to having his name be a reference to the | poem "The Raven", Poe often ends his stanzas with the word "nevermore" |
| Robert Lax | ... and leather belt. In November 1944 a manuscript Merton had given to friend | the previous year was published by James Laughlin at New Directions: a boo ... |
| Parmenides | ... -Existence is taken to be critical of the Eleatic tradition and its founder | , describes philosophy as a type of seduction, but he does not deny philos ... |
| William John Gruffydd | ... and the Mabinogion does not contain the only version of them. Welsh scholar | noted that 15th- and 16th-century poets apparently knew an alternate tradi ... |
| Louisa Lawson | ... lia's "greatest writer". He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist | |
| Gabriel Harvey | ... is friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and | , of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopagus', a humanist endeavour to classi ... |
| Van Morrison | ... nes such as Bob Dylan's "When I Paint My Masterpiece," "4% Pantomime" (with | ), and "Life Is A Carnival," the last featuring a horn arrangement from Al ... |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | ... m foreign music, today the most powerful singers and bands in the genre are | , Namie Amuro, Koda Kumi and the new popular DJ Kawasaki knowns in all the ... |
| Buckminster Fuller | ... ean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University. The name was an homage to | , whose geodesic domes it resembles. The structure was also identified som ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... The grotesque and tragic life of Victor Hugo a satirical biography mocking | 's status as a great figure in French literature. The Hugoliade includes e ... |
| John Cage | ... luence of Henry Cowell in San Francisco in the late 1940s, Lou Harrison and | began composing music for junk (waste) percussion ensembles, scouring junk ... |
| John Cage | The origins of Fluxus lie in many of the concepts explored by composer | in his experimental music of the 1950s. Cage explored notions of indetermi ... |
| William Blake | Hunter was the basis for the character "Jack Tearguts" in | 's unfinished satirical novel, An Island in the Moon. He is a principal ch ... |
| Ptolemy | The earliest mention of the Geats may appear in | (2nd century A.D.), where they are referred to as Goutai. In the 6th centu ... |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson | ... as Mrs. Miggins. The series features rotten boroughs (or "robber buttons"), | (played by Robbie Coltrane), William Pitt the Younger (Simon Osborne), the ... |
| Beckett's | ... Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in | Endgame, saying that the play offered "nothing but loneliness and despair" ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... tember 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary | , Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of t ... |
| Adam Dalgliesh | ... 1950s. Her first novel, Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator and poet | of New Scotland Yard, named after a teacher at Cambridge High School, was ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both | and J. R. R. Tolkien before graduating in 1956. In the same year she marri ... |
| Edward Dyer | ... ncluded membership, along with his friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, | , Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopag ... |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | ... the 20th century. Novel is also represented by Alexandros Papadiamantis and | |
| Plato | ... the point, begetting lines, etc. This was also clarified in the writings of | , Aristotle and Plotinus. This teaching being largely Neopythagorean via N ... |
| Emperor Go-Toba | In 1221, because of the Jōkyū Incident, an unsuccessful attempt by | to seize real power, the Kamakura shogunate completely excluded those of t ... |
| Michael Drayton | Crowley's (or Rogers') edition may have reached Edmund Spenser, | , John Milton, and John Bunyan, but no records, citations, borrowed lines, ... |
| Ennius | | (fl. 180s BC) refers to Romulus as a divinity without reference to Quirinu ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... s The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and | ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... t the time to name towns after the birthplace of prominent British men. The | 'connection' led to the naming of 67 streets after Shakespearian character ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... Munster in the 1560s and 1570s, actions which earned the praise of the poet | in his A View of the Present State of Ireland in 1596 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | ... ist, discovered that microorganisms can cause disease. A few years earlier, | , the American physician, poet and essayist, noted that sepsis in women fo ... |
| Plato | | is one of Gorgias’ greatest critics. Plato’s dislike for sophistic doctrin ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... draft of The Arcadia and A Defense of Poetry. Somewhat earlier, he had met | , who dedicated the Shepheardes Calendar to him. Other literary contacts i ... |
| Aeschylus | ... vided into three plays with themes corresponding to The Oresteia trilogy by | . In order, the three plays are titled Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Hau ... |
| Edwin Muir | Many critics were particularly enthusiastic about it. | maintained that it is one of the most moving poems Eliot wrote, and perhap ... |
| Baldassare Castiglione | ... rary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, | 's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... in Ireland. Much of the entire province of Munster was laid waste. The poet | left an account of it |
| Iakovos Kambanelis | ... : Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, Melina Mercouri, Nikos Tsiforos, | , Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, Ellie Lambeti, Irene Papas etc. More t ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... al; members of the audience included not only Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but | , Georges Bataille, Louis Althusser, André Breton and Jacques Lacan. A sel ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... his wife. When his wife then calls demanding to know why he is late for the | play, he tries to call Vicky, but is unable to reach her. Vicky sees Steve ... |
| Paruyr Sevak | On 27 September 2004, Yerevan adopted a hymn, "Erebuni-Yerevan", written by | and composed by Edgar Hovhanissian. It was selected in a competition for a ... |
| John Milton | ... ey's (or Rogers') edition may have reached Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, | , and John Bunyan, but no records, citations, borrowed lines, or clear all ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... n 1934, Grofé announced that he was working on an opera, to be based on the | story "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| Ptolemy | ... n once it had been discovered by Hipparchus around 130 BC. Today, some read | as dropping the concept of a fixed celestial sphere and adopting what is r ... |
| Scriblerus Club | ... rovided him with a house. It was this house that hosted the meetings of the | , which had as its members Harley (now Earl of Oxford), St. John (now Vico ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... n the Mesabi Range in Hibbing; Robert Allen Zimmerman, later to be known as | , was raised in Hibbing. His song "North Country Blues" is about the decli ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... ver a local road is named after Haggard). He was visited here by his friend | . In a letter to Haggard dated 20 July 1912, his daughter Lillias document ... |
| Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ration of Ireland in a lengthy document. More seriously, he quarrelled with | , probably because of Sidney's opposition to the French marriage, which de ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... he title The Cruise of the Janet Nichol, together with photographs taken by | and |
| George Orwell | ... lves destroying gentler, more-human places such as gardens. In 1984, author | described the Ministry of Truth as an "enormous, pyramidal structure of wh ... |
| Phillis Wheatley | Whitefield is remembered as one of the first to preach to the enslaved. | wrote a poem in his memory after he died. In an age when crossing the Atla ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... at the Young Vic Theatre in London celebrating the work of German dramatist | , where a series of newly-translated versions of some of his short plays w ... |
| Samuel Wesley (the Younger) | ... he younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman | , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... The relationship between an albatross and a sailor is the central theme of | 's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which led to the use of the term as a ... |
| Hans Christian Andersen | ... by the Brothers Grimm was published in 1812. Unlike the much later work of | , who was publishing his invented tales in Danish from 1835, these German ... |
| Pindar | ... her clarion cry of war. And Ouranos trembled to hear, and Mother Gaia..." ( | , Seventh Olympian Ode). Plato, in the Laws, attributes the cult of Athena ... |
| John Donne | During her reign Queen Elizabeth I made at least five visits to the area. | and Sir Walter Raleigh also had residences here in this era. It was at thi ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... assoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – | – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lo ... |
| Robert Burns | ... the supernatural associated with the night, "Bogies" (ghosts), influencing | ' Halloween 1785. Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins, corn hu ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... the classics The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Brave New World, by | |
| William Shakespeare | ... does not appear on old documents, in the play The Merry Wives of Windsor by | , there is a reference of swords presumably made of Biscayan iron to which ... |
| Robert E. Howard | ... omas and Barry Windsor-Smith, and loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in | 's 1934 short story "The Shadow of the Vulture". She first appeared in the ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – | – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Char ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Two Will-o-the-wisps appear in | 's fairy tale The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795). They are desc ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... y the Barratt Band, recorded songs for Before and After, a tribute album of | covers scheduled to be released in 1982 to celebrate the 20th anniversary ... |
| Aeschylus | ... rst extensive works of literature in Attica are the plays of the dramatists | , Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes in the 5th century BC. The militar ... |
| Bob Dylan | In the 1960s, Japanese bands imitated The Beatles, | and the Rolling Stones, along with other Appalachian folk music, psychedel ... |
| Edward Dowden | ... lassical schools, set him with scholars such as R.Y. Tyrell, Arthur Palmer, | and his tutor, J.P. Mahaffy who inspired his interest in Greek literature. ... |
| Aristophanes | In Plato's Symposium, written around the 4th century BC, | relates a creation myth involving three original sexes: female, male and a ... |
| John Mayne | ... one of the earliest works on the subject of Halloween is from Scottish poet | , who, in 1780, made note of pranks at Halloween; "What fearfu' pranks ens ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... participated actively in the Surrealist movement. Together with the writer | and artist Marcel Duchamp, he was a member of the Rue du Château group. He ... |
| James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose | ... ort time only to become a covenanter again and was present at the defeat of | in 1650. During the Civil War at the Battle of Carbisdale the Clan Ross an ... |
| Willie Wilde | ... ty College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874, sharing rooms with his older brother | . Trinity, one of the leading classical schools, set him with scholars suc ... |
| Constantine P. Cavafy | ... lamas, Dionysios Solomos, Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian | and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis are among the most ... |
| Walt Whitman | ... r the American writers he admired, notably Henry Miller, Jackson Pollock or | |
| Dick Higgins | ... ch in New York City were attended by Mac Low, Al Hansen, George Brecht, and | , many of whom were working in other media with little or no background in ... |
| Paul Verlaine | ... so illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (1937) and Chansons pour elle by | (1939) |
| Oscar Wilde | ... portance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by | . First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it ... |
| Lyndsay | ... ces of Middle Scots literature. It contains many works by Henryson, Dunbar, | , Alexander Scott and Alexander Montgomerie |
| Raymond Queneau | ... ed until a few established writers and critics, among them Jean Anouilh and | , championed the play |
| Anatole France | ... unds of higher principle – such as Émile Zola, novelists Octave Mirbeau and | , mathematicians Henri Poincaré and Jacques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, lib ... |
| Sima Qian | The Chinese historian | , writing a century after the First Emperor's death, wrote that it took 70 ... |
| Adam Dalgliesh | ... s, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet | |
| C. S. Lewis | ... at on other planets beings could exist in an unfallen state was explored by | in his novel |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... g of Eve to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil: | 's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner describes the Will o' the wisp |
| Osama bin Laden | ... Though Reid proclaimed he was a soldier of God (Allah) under the command of | , Judge Young declared: Reid reportedly demonstrated a lack of remorse and ... |
| Alfred de Vigny | ... y among nineteenth-century French Romantics, poet, playwright, and novelist | created a French translation of Othello, titled Le More de Venise, which p ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... theorized that many of Treebeard's mannerisms are based on Tolkien's friend | , a loud, bombastic man known for his powerful stride and overwhelming pre ... |
| Molière | ... as one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with | and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produce ... |
| Michael Drayton | ... place in a leek field. This story may have been made up by the English poet | , but it is known that the leek has been a symbol of Wales for a long time ... |
| Aeschylus | ... Ctesias of Cnidus, and are alluded by other authors, such as the playwright | . Archaeological evidence, such as the , also supports some of Herodotus's ... |
| Wendell Berry | ... essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1953). | Wendell Berry is an author of several books, essays, and poems whose writi ... |
| James Joyce | ... n the Oxford English Dictionary is the onomatopoeic tattarrattat, coined by | in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gi ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... nces abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include | 's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, a ... |
| Margaret Atwood | ... talitarian regimes are also depicted in the classics The Handmaid's Tale by | and Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley |
| Henryson | ... of the great sources of Middle Scots literature. It contains many works by | , Dunbar, Lyndsay, Alexander Scott and Alexander Montgomerie |
| Lactantius | ... were purely military; he left politics to Diocletian. The Christian rhetor | suggested that Maximian shared Diocletian's basic attitudes but was less p ... |
| Dante | ... edieval than in the modern side of the movement, working on translations of | and other Medieval Italian poets, and adopting the stylistic characteristi ... |
| John Milton | In Book IX of | 's Paradise Lost, Satan is compared to a "will-o-the-wisp" in tempting of ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... ons suggested a pirate theme, and Moore agreed in part because he is "a big | fan": the Black Freighter alludes to the song "Seeräuberjenny" ("Pirate Je ... |
| François Maynard | Malherbe's two most important disciples were | and Racan; Claude Favre de Vaugelas is credited with having purified Frenc ... |
| Ptolemy | ... Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by Pliny the Elder, or with Flaviobriga, by | . There are also ancient walls, discovered below the Church of San Antón, ... |
| William Wordsworth | ... p of poets now considered the key figures of the Romantic movement includes | , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... y Television. Playing themselves, they were in Toronto during their tour of | 's No Man's Land. According to Dave Thomas, in his book, , their sketch wa ... |
| Euripides | ... n the world will fix all nature of earthly problems. In Aristophanes' play, | competes against Aeschylus to be recovered from the underworld; In Sondhei ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... l. All classes of men and women are defined by the colours they wear (as in | 's dystopia Brave New World), drawing on color symbolism and psychology. A ... |
| Heberto Padilla | ... the so-called 'Padilla Affair', when the Castro regime imprisoned the poet | for a month in 1971. Vargas Llosa, along with other intellectuals of the t ... |
| Plato | ... ing both from the exact meaning of the original Greek term and its usage in | nist philosophy |
| Bob Dylan | ... hortened to the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of | , George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, accompanied by d ... |
| Don Blanding | ... otable authors include Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday, poet | , and Hugo Award winner, C.J. Cherryh |
| Leonard Nimoy | "Exquisite chemistry" among Kelley, William Shatner and | manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk an ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... d (1500–1750), holds the world's largest collection of the printed works of | , as well as collections of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts. ... |
| Oscar Wildian | ... itings of men like H.G. Wells and Graham Wallas, wrenching us away from the | dilettantism which had possessed undergraduate litterateurs for generation ... |
| Agathias of Myrina | ... rocopius' work was written after Procopius' death by the poet and historian | |
| Emperor Frederick II | ... d after the Third Crusade allowed for Christian pilgrims to visit the site. | regained the city and the church by treaty in the 13th century, while he h ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... s. By then, the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under | had signed a ceasefire to create the Second United Front and fight the Jap ... |
| Su Shi | The poet | (1036–1101) popularized Hainan's isolation and exoticism when he was exile ... |
| Plato | ... ad, he studied at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin. At Göttingen he studied | with Arnold Heeren; history with Heeren and Gottlieb Jakob Planck; Arabic, ... |
| Robert Southey | ... John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – | – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Sucklin ... |
| Lessing | ... aelis, he was compensated for this by the esteem of Frederick the Great, of | , Carsten Niebuhr, and many foreign scholars |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... dered the key figures of the Romantic movement includes William Wordsworth, | , John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake, foll ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | | might have consulted with a native speaker of Hawaiian in Berlin, Germany, ... |
| Giorgos Seferis | ... os and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates | and Odysseas Elytis are among the most important poets of the 20th century ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... nken main road and then routed. , note 18 An episode famously used later by | in Les Miserables. The sunken lane acted as a trap which funnelled the fli ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... s of the kinetic theory (which were neglected by their contemporaries) were | (1747), Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1 ... |
| Sima Qian | ... opened and there is evidence suggesting that it remains relatively intact. | 's description of the tomb includes replicas of palaces and scenic towers, ... |
| Ubayd Zakani | ... he term "comedy" thus gained a new semantic meaning in Medieval literature. | introduced satire in Persian literature during the 14th century. His work ... |
| Empedocles | ... ted from the nearby harbour of Porto Empedocle (named after the philosopher | who lived in ancient Akragas). However, nowadays Agrigento is one of the p ... |
| Patrick Pearse | ... olly out of any such rash action, the IRB leaders, including Tom Clarke and | , met with Connolly to see if an agreement could be reached. During the me ... |
| John Milton | ... thought it was Piers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, William Prynne, possibly | , and John Dryden.) Given the diffusion of different Piers/Ploughman texts ... |
| Sonia Sanchez | ... d the Black House political/cultural center in San Francisco. Amiri Baraka, | , Askia Toure, Sarah Webster Fabio, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Avotcja, Regi ... |
| John Keats | ... the Romantic movement includes William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, | , Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake, followed later b ... |
| Gonçalves Dias | ... examples include José de Alencar, who wrote "Iracema" and "O Guarani", and | , renowned by the poem "Canção do Exílio" (Song of the Exile). The second ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... rm their way into organs of political authority and usurp important posts." | , chairman of the People's Republic of China, was reviled for his persecut ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... early 1960s. Besides reading the works of writers such as Jack Kerouac and | , he discovered African American music - jazz, blues and R&B. Inspired by ... |
| Banjo Paterson | ... tic idyll of brave horsemen and beautiful scenery depicted in the poetry of | " |
| Bahadur Shah | ... native Indian ones, and only allowed British soldiers to handle artillery. | was exiled to Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), where he died in 1862 |
| Victor Hugo | ... Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier, a character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame by | , and the mention in Dumas's The Three Musketeers of the old custom of bra ... |
| Herman Melville | ... leases of films. An example of this is the chapter The Town Ho's Story from | 's famous novel Moby-Dick, which tells a fully formed story of an exciting ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... lioz's treatise on orchestration. He found time to read the works of Homer, | , Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he saw London, Ni ... |
| William Ernest Henley | | is known to most people by virtue of this single poem |
| George MacDonald | ... like Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie and The Princess and the Goblin by | , both of which influenced Tolkien and contain fantasy elements, it is pri ... |
| Philip Larkin | ... ped in a pattern which was the inverse of that followed by his close friend | . Before becoming known as a poet, Larkin had published two novels; Amis, ... |
| Thomas Middleton | ... of Elizabethan and Jacobean verse drama; witness his allusions to Webster, | , William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd in The Waste Land. In a 1933 lecture ... |
| Ptolemy | ... an anciently recognized constellation, catalogued along with many others in | 's Almagest, but not historically referred to as a zodiac constellation |
| John Cage | ... asis of noise. In remarking on Varese's contributions the American composer | stated that Varese had "established the present nature of music" and that ... |
| August Wilhelm Schlegel | He moved in the circles of | , Adelbert von Chamisso, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rahel Levin, and Da ... |
| Jack Kerouac | ... in the 1950s and early 1960s. Besides reading the works of writers such as | and Allen Ginsberg, he discovered African American music - jazz, blues and ... |
| Octavio Paz | A month after losing the election, at the invitation of | , Vargas Llosa attended a conference in Mexico entitled, "The 20th Century ... |
| Nipsey Russell | ... as part of a sketch on Late Night. Celebrities such as Dr. Joyce Brothers, | , Abe Vigoda, James Lipton, Bob Saget and William Preston as the character ... |
| Basil Bunting | ... a major venue for poetry readings in the North East, being the place where | gave the first reading of Briggflatts in 1965 |
| Tino Villanueva | The Chicano poet and writer | traces the first documented use of the term to 1911, as referenced in a th ... |
| Narai | ... as one of the biggest and wealthiest cities in the East. The court of King | (1656–88) had strong links with that of King Louis XIV of France, whose am ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... tics, Le Chant du styrène. Poetry was brought to the project, literally, by | who wrote the narration for the film in rhyming couplets |
| Alan Seeger | ... stic volunteers and the hardened mercenaries of the old Legion, as the poet | pointed out, making assimilation difficult. Nevertheless, the old and the ... |
| Alexander Montgomerie | ... e. It contains many works by Henryson, Dunbar, Lyndsay, Alexander Scott and | |
| Plato | ... res Atticae (1838–1850); with Orelli and Winckelmann, a critical edition of | (1839–1842), which marked a distinct advance in the text, two new manuscri ... |
| Edmund Wilson | ... oversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: | alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, ... |
| Digby Mackworth Dolben | ... accept his sexual attraction to other men, including a deep infatuation for | . There is nothing to suggest, however, any physical consummation and inde ... |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch | ... patron. The title "Invictus" (Latin for "unconquered") was added by editor | when the poem was included in The Oxford Book of English Verse |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | He moved in the circles of August Wilhelm Schlegel, | , Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rahel Levin, and David Ferdinand Koreff |
| Hilaire Belloc | ... jection of this new program was due to the direct influence of the ideas of | over American distributists |
| Roald Dahl | In 1964 | wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the story of Charlie Bucket's adv ... |
| Margaret Atwood | The Republic of Gilead is a fictional country that is the setting of the | dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... species for s, so bluebell woods are likely to date back to at least 1600. | , one of the romantic poets, was very keen on the plant as revealed by the ... |
| William Ernest Henley | "Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet | (1849–1903) |
| Goethe | ... condemned and executed by the Vehmgericht. Scott drew his inspiration from | 's play Goetz von Berlichingen which he had translated, incorrectly |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... movement includes William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, | , and the much older William Blake, followed later by the isolated figure ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , Heimskringla, also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and ... |
| Osama bin Laden | | held Hazmi and Mihdhar in high respect, with their experience fighting dur ... |
| Yang Wanli | ... f China, a poem named "詠冰酪" (Ode to the ice cheese) was written by the poet | . Actually, this poem was named "詠酥” (Ode to the pastry; 酥 is a kind of fo ... |
| Angelos Sikelianos | ... rldwide Nana Mouskouri and poets such as Kostis Palamas, Dionysios Solomos, | and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates G ... |
| Ernesto Cardenal | ... ion was published in 1961. In a letter to a Latin-American Catholic writer, | , Merton wrote: "The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, ... |
| F. L. Lucas's | ... hology (VII.141) on Protesilaus by Antiphilus of Byzantium in turn inspired | poem 'The Elms of Protesilaus' (1927) |
| Friedrich Schiller | ... chestration. He found time to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, | and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio ... |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | ... the Paul Schrader-scripted The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988. Based on | 's controversial 1960 book, it retold the life of Christ in human rather t ... |
| Georges de Scudéry | ... mie française sur la tragi-comédie du Cid (1638). Even the prominent writer | harshly criticized the play in his Observations sur le Cid (1637). The int ... |
| Shakespeare | ... olfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. | was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and ... |
| Dionysios Solomos | ... -selling singers worldwide Nana Mouskouri and poets such as Kostis Palamas, | , Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy ... |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ... he long-running British legal programme Crown Court. In 1975, he starred as | in the BBCs historical drama The Love School. He found fame only years lat ... |
| Jean Cayrol | ... of the sites in long tracking shots. The accompanying narration (written by | , himself a survivor of the camps) was intentionally understated to add to ... |
| James Lipton | ... Night. Celebrities such as Dr. Joyce Brothers, Nipsey Russell, Abe Vigoda, | , Bob Saget and William Preston as the character, Carl 'Oldy' Olsen, also ... |
| Steve Turner | ... no organized three book deals for Norman: a biography by English journalist | , which would be published by Word; a book of Norman's photographs; and an ... |
| Hesiod | | narrates Typhon's birth in this poem |
| William Blake | ... muel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older | , followed later by the isolated figure of John Clare. The publication in ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... obert Straker wrote that Mann had been “crucified by crusading sectarians.” | lamented “what seems the fatal waste of labor and life at Antioch.” Mann’s ... |
| Aristophanes | ... Attica are the plays of the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and | in the 5th century BC. The military exploits of the Athenians led to some ... |
| C. S. Lewis | In 1950 | (1898–1963) published the first of installment of his Chronicles of Narnia ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... her Hitchens author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth, | , poet and author of the Jungle Book, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnig ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... hed patients, most notably The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (better known as | ) who had been a regular visitor to Ore House |
| Euripides | ... literature in Attica are the plays of the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, | and Aristophanes in the 5th century BC. The military exploits of the Athen ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... , and his posthumous acclaim. Hopkins was deeply impressed with the work of | and she became one of his greatest contemporary influences, meeting him in ... |
| Tom Pickard | ... e has a strong reputation as a poetry centre. The Morden Tower, run by poet | is a major venue for poetry readings in the North East, being the place wh ... |
| R. S. Thomas | ... e – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – | – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Towns ... |
| Han Shan | ... translation of the "Cold Mountain" poems by the 8th-century Chinese recluse | ; this work appeared in chapbook-form in 1969, under the title Riprap & Co ... |
| Odysseas Elytis | ... have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: George Seferis in 1963 and | in 1979 |
| Nicolae Iorga | ... i people came to Wallachia and Moldavia as free men or as slaves. Historian | associated the Roma people's arrival with the 1241 Mongol invasion of Euro ... |
| Goethe | ... he late 16th century Faust chapbooks. In the 1725 version which was read by | , Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust i ... |
| Alicia Keys | ... Furtado also hosted a program about AIDS on MTV, which also featured guests | and Justin Timberlake. On September 27, 2011, Furtado announced during Fre ... |
| Aristophanes | ... red wine but accepts a drink of barley, water and pennyroyal called kykeon. | made reference to pennyroyal as abortifacient in Lysistrata and Peace. Mar ... |
| Sophocles | ... ve works of literature in Attica are the plays of the dramatists Aeschylus, | , Euripides and Aristophanes in the 5th century BC. The military exploits ... |
| Jean Chapelain | ... tion. The Académie's recommendations concerning the play are articulated in | 's Sentiments de l'Académie française sur la tragi-comédie du Cid (1638). ... |
| Ivor Gurney | ... h's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music | ;, another most important setter of Housman (Ludlow and Teme, a work for v ... |
| Ferdowsi | In Persia, works such as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Epic of Kings by | provided evidence of political analysis, while the Middle Eastern Aristote ... |
| Kostis Palamas | ... one of the best-selling singers worldwide Nana Mouskouri and poets such as | , Dionysios Solomos, Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos. Alexandrian Con ... |
| Amiri Baraka | ... a Wyatt, formed the Black House political/cultural center in San Francisco. | , Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure, Sarah Webster Fabio, Art Ensemble of Chicago ... |
| Horace | ... for the Tauchnitz series (1860–1869). New editions of Orelli's Tacitus and | were also due to him. It is worth noting that, with Sauppe, he translated ... |
| John Davidson's | A colourful description of a visit to the Crystal Palace was described in | poem 'The Crystal Palace' published in 1909 |
| Robert Bridges | ... y poetic pieces. It was at Oxford that he forged a lifelong friendship with | (eventual Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom) which would be of importanc ... |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | ... reer but also heralded his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, father of | , an intimate friend of Wilde, planned to present Wilde a bouquet of rotte ... |
| Plato | Like | does, Gnosticism presents a distinction between a supranatural, unknowable ... |
| António Nobre | ... 20th century, notably through the works of poets such as Cesário Verde and | . However, an early Portuguese expression of Romanticism is found already ... |
| Piet Hein | The game was invented by the Danish mathematician | , who introduced it in 1942 at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was independen ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... litics of his time, he was memorialised as the flower of English manhood in | 's Astrophel, one of the greatest English Renaissance elegies |
| John Clare | ... and the much older William Blake, followed later by the isolated figure of | . The publication in 1798 of Lyrical Ballads, with many of the finest poem ... |
| Zacharias Werner | ... the same atmosphere he had enjoyed in Berlin, renewing his friendship with | , and meeting his future biographer, a neighbour and fellow jurist called ... |
| William Morris | ... ious materials, was founded in Mitcham as a silk-printing business in 1781. | opened a factory on the River Wandle at Merton Abbey. Merton Abbey Mills w ... |
| George Woodcock | ... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. For | this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ... |
| Alfred Mombert | ... died of hunger and diseases. Among the deportees from Heidelberg, the poet | (1872–1942) left the camp in April 1941 thanks to the Swiss poet Hans Rein ... |
| Cesário Verde | ... e beginning of the 20th century, notably through the works of poets such as | and António Nobre. However, an early Portuguese expression of Romanticism ... |
| Johannes Dantiscus | The canon of Warmia Georg Donner and the bishop of Warmia | were both patrons of Rheticus. Rheticus was also commissioned to make a st ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... Amantis of John Gower and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of | 's Pericles, Prince of Tyre (particularly in Act III) |
| Dylan Thomas | ... ing – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – | – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chid ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | The tower story is repeated and embellished by | in his Historia Regum Britanniae, though he attributes it to Merlin, sayin ... |
| William Wordsworth | ... impious lord, the flying hart To chase for ever through aërial grounds," ( | ), "Though narrow be that old man's cares" (1807), quoted in ; "Gabriel's ... |
| Andrejs Pumpurs | #Lāčplēsis is an epic poem by | , a Latvian poet, who wrote it between 1872-1887 based on local legends. L ... |
| Iolo Morganwg | ... Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, but this is one of the discredited theories of | . There are two lakes near the abbey ruins, which was used for fish farmin ... |
| Marc Chagall | ... he following year. Along with other artists and friends (Marcel Duchamp and | ) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Ernst helped inspi ... |
| Novalis | ... rlin literary group called the Nordstern, and he gave Hoffmann the works of | , Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Gotthilf Heinrich von S ... |
| Leonard Nimoy | ... nclude Herschel Bernardi (in the original Broadway run), Theodore Bikel and | . Mostel's understudy in the original production, Paul Lipson, went on to ... |
| W. S. Gilbert | ... d, an American critic, claims that Wilde drew inspiration for his plot from | 's Engaged. Meticulous revisions continued throughout the Autumn—such that ... |
| Thomas Parnell | ... Earl of Oxford), St. John (now Vicount Bolingbroke), Pope, Gay, Swift, and | . According to all the members of the Club, Arbuthnot was the one who cont ... |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ... , or sexual at all — a famous early sexless example being Herland (1915) by | . Charlene Ball writes in Women's studies encyclopedia that use of specula ... |
| James Joyce | ... y comes from the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake by | . On June 27, 1978, Gell-Mann wrote a private letter to the editor of the ... |
| Ludwig Tieck | ... rary group called the Nordstern, and he gave Hoffmann the works of Novalis, | , Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Carlo ... |
| Tennyson's | ... of two illustrations by Rossetti for Edward Moxon's illustrated edition of | Poems (1857 |
| Bede | ... itain from northwestern Europe, starting in the early 5th century. The monk | , who wrote in the 8th century, considered the Mercians to be descended fr ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... an legend, and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by | , and a speculative explanation of the writing of Kubla Khan, and what the ... |
| Charles Péguy | ... res has been a site of Christian pilgrimage since the Middle Ages. The poet | (1873–1914) revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before ... |
| Constantine P. Cavafy | ... s Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, | , and Demetrius Vikelas. Two Greek authors have been awarded the Nobel Pri ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... ime to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller and | , and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio de Janeiro during his stops in ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... ind" are heard in the movie Places in the Heart, by the character Mr. Will. | dedicated his popular detective novel on anarchist terrorism, The Man Who ... |
| Francesco Redi | ... eved, for example, that maggots could spontaneously appear in decaying meat | ;carried out experiments which disproved this notion and coined the maxim ... |
| George Szirtes | ... ire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – | – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Fr ... |
| Theognis of Megara | ... lides (Φωκυλίδης ὁ Μιλήσιος), Greek gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of | , was born about 560 BC |
| Dafydd ap Gwilym | ... it was once claimed to be the site of the grave of the medieval Welsh poet | , but this is one of the discredited theories of Iolo Morganwg. There are ... |
| John Gower | ... offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the Confessio Amantis of | and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of William Shakespeare' ... |
| Hans Christian Andersen | ... te a chamber opera by the Danish Royal Opera, Copenhagen, on the subject of | 's infatuation with Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. Called The Secret Songs it ... |
| Abraham Fraunce | ... edge of the poem is indirect. Francis Meres later repeated Webbe's remarks. | mentions Piers Plowman, but he merely repeats the identifying features pri ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... the earliest Christian scholars to estimate the circumference of Earth with | ' method. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the most important and widely taught ... |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | ... were borrowed from people or places the author had known; Lady Queensberry, | ' mother, for example, lived at Bracknell. Michael Feingold, an American c ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... to live in Dulwich and Chelsea before and after her time in Downing Street. | , the comedian who was the chief creator and main writer of The Goon Show, ... |
| Clemens Brentano | ... , and he gave Hoffmann the works of Novalis, Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, | , Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Carlo Gozzi, and Calderon. These relativ ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | Visited by Somerset Maugham, | , Noël Coward and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always ... |
| Attila the Stockbroker | ... ll of his albums. In the 1990s, he toured as "Headbutts and Halibuts", with | with whom he wrote a surreal rock opera called Cheryl. In 1992 Otway appea ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art, including | , Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhe ... |
| Castro Alves | ... especially the abolitionist movement; the greatest writer of this period is | |
| Marilyn Manson | ... ott's 2001 short film, , alongside Clive Owen, Gary Oldman, Danny Trejo and | . Brown also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 Jackie Chan film The Tuxe ... |
| John Keats | Manley Hopkins moved his family to Hampstead in 1852, near to where | had lived thirty years before and close to the wide green spaces of Hampst ... |
| John Cage | ... n Young visited Darmstadt in 1959, he encountered the music and writings of | . There he also met Cage's collaborator, pianist David Tudor, who subseque ... |
| Blake | ... een. As Roger Fry wrote in 1916, "Rossetti more than any other artist since | may be hailed as a forerunner of the new ideas" in English Art |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... fter high school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, | , and, in 1969, started to play in a small local theatre together with som ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... eam music, Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne music, and Edvard Grieg's music for | 's Peer Gynt. Parts of all of these are often performed in concerts outsid ... |
| Serge Gainsbourg | ... ican singers Joan Baez and Nat King Cole. In 1961, French singer-songwriter | paid tribute to "Les feuilles mortes" in his own song "La chanson de Préve ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... Silver Spurs Arena has been host to many acts, ranging from Hilary Duff and | to an annual rodeo event. Jehovah's Witnesses also use The Silver Spurs Ar ... |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... s Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – | – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... d Jacobean verse drama; witness his allusions to Webster, Thomas Middleton, | and Thomas Kyd in The Waste Land. In a 1933 lecture he said "Every poet wo ... |
| Schiller | ... ällino, der grosse Bandit (1793; subsequently also dramatized), modelled on | 's Die Räuber, and the melodramatic tragedy Julius von Sassen (1796) |
| Robert E. Howard | The character was loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in | 's short story "The Shadow of the Vulture" (The Magic Carpet, January 1934 ... |
| Jean Rotrou | ... iety of the five authors”). The others were Guillaume Colletet, Boisrobert, | , and Claude de L'Estoile |
| L. Frank Baum | ... e definitions of high fantasy include works for children by authors such as | and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and Jonathan Swift, ... |
| Kostas Karyotakis | ... is Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, | , Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, and Demetrius Vikelas. Two ... |
| E. B. White | In 1945 | (co-author of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style), wrote Stuart Litt ... |
| Claude de L'Estoile | ... authors”). The others were Guillaume Colletet, Boisrobert, Jean Rotrou, and | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | Two major satirists of Europe in the Renaissance were | and François Rabelais. Other examples of Renaissance satire include Till E ... |
| Almeida Garrett | ... uguese poetry develops its character from the work of its Romantic epitome, | , a very prolific writer who helped shape the genre with the masterpiece ( ... |
| Roald Hoffmann | ... sigma and pi electrons, and has its origins in work by William Lipscomb and | for nonplanar molecules in 1962 |
| Mikołaj Rej | ... ng most important Protestants of the Commonwealth, there are such names, as | , Marcin Czechowic, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and Symon Budny |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... was deemed excellent by doctors and recommended for lung disease patients. | , who suffered from tuberculosis, wintered in Davos in 1880 at the recomme ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | | had at least one strong connection with the Bass, as his cousin, David Ste ... |
| Walt Whitman | ... nal ballads and folk songs, Native American songs and poems, William Blake, | , Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, Federico García Lorca, an ... |
| Donald Wandrei | Lovecraft protégés and part owners of Arkham House, August Derleth and | , often claimed copyrights over Lovecraft's works. On October 9, 1947, Der ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... ic place name Oddi, site of the church and school where students, including | , were educated. The derivation of the word "Edda" as the name of Snorri S ... |
| Ovid | ... re firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, | , Lucan, and Juvenal. Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic ex ... |
| James Agee | ... Paramount Pictures. The quality and variety of her roles began to improve. | , in his review for The Dark Mirror (1946), noted the change, and stated t ... |
| Aratus | Libra is a constellation not mentioned by Eudoxus or | . In Roman mythology, Libra is considered to depict the scales held by Ast ... |
| Aeschylus | ... uary that was dedicated to Apollo during the classical period. According to | in the prologue of the Eumenides, it had origins in prehistoric times and ... |
| Chaucer's | ... s within stories, and even within some of these, more stories are narrated. | The Canterbury Tales is also a frame story |
| Norman Cameron | ... rca, where they were visited by writers and artists including James Reeves, | , John Aldridge, Len Lye, Jacob Bronowski, and Honor Wyatt. The house is n ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... r characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Comparisons have also been drawn to | 's Waiting For Godot, for the presence of two central characters who almos ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ion Home is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese that tells of the life of | , and his impact on American popular music and culture of the 20th century ... |
| William Blake | ... interest in this technique is a result of the influence of artists such as | and , and the style of political editorial cartoons |
| Brel, Jacques | ... raine-le-Comte - Brakel - Brasschaat - Brecht - Bredene - Bree - Bree BBC - | - Brepols - Brepols, Philippus Jacobus - Brueghel, Pieter the Elder - Brug ... |
| Bede | | tells of Æthelfrith's great successes over the Britons, while also noting ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... staVision with Dolby Sound. Imagine a Star Wars-style space opera penned by | in the throes of a religious conversion. Wolfe has continued in full diapa ... |
| Pearl Poet | ... ther Arthurian tales (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the | 's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.) |
| Virgil | ... llowed in 1674, changed into twelve books (in the manner of the division of | 's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification |
| Ovid | ... no evidence for the conflated Romulus-Quirinus before the first century BC. | in Book 14, lines 812-828, of the Metamorphoses gives a description of the ... |
| Robert Graves | ... nd never drop below the horizon, hence explaining why they are circumpolar. | interprets the use of the term nurse in Classical myths as identifying dei ... |
| Anatole France | ... ench society between those who supported Dreyfus (the Dreyfusards), such as | , Henri Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau, and those who condemned him (the ... |
| Virgil | ... s that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal. | 's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic example of Latin hexameter |
| Walter Scott | ... e of poems had widespread influence on such writers as Goethe and the young | , but there was controversy from the outset about Macpherson's claims to h ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... d questionable. There is no confirmation for the view - as fictionalised in | 's Richard III (Act 3, Scene 5) - that Richard made any claims about his b ... |
| William Blake | ... ighted traditional ballads and folk songs, Native American songs and poems, | , Walt Whitman, Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, Federico Ga ... |
| C. J. Dennis | ... ver 80 shorts and several stage productions. Notable collaborators included | , George Wallace and Frank Harvey. Film production continued only until 19 ... |
| Roberto Bolaño | In | 's novel 2666, the philosophy professor Oscar Amalfitano begins his three- ... |
| Virgil | ... als became a school text for Roman schoolchildren, eventually supplanted by | 's Aeneid. About 600 lines survive. A copy of the work is among the Latin ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... h century as a reaction against then-dominant systematic philosophies, with | generally considered to be the first existentialist philosopher |
| Nipsey Russell | ... girl. Among Ross's costars were Lena Horne, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, | and Ted Ross. Upon its October 1978 release, the film adaptation of The Wi ... |
| Stephen Phillips | Well-known poets of the Edwardian era of the 1890s, such as Alfred Austin, | , and William Watson, had been working very much in the shadow of Tennyson ... |
| Horace | ... rative realism admired by Greco-Roman connoisseurs, succinctly expressed in | 's words ut pictura poesis, "as is painting so is poetry." Apelles seemed ... |
| Patrick White | ... itle of the 1989 novel Ashes Under Uricon. The Nobel Prize winning novelist | named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and ... |
| Hovhannes Tumanyan | ... , Yerevan State Hamazgain Theatre and the State Pupppet Theatre named after | . The Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan is the oldest modern the ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... n 1880 at the recommendation of his Edinburgh physician Dr. George Balfour. | wrote an article about skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is a ... |
| Dr. Seuss | ... apra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon | 's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) |
| William Shakespeare | ... s in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, which supports the idea that the works of | were written by Edward de Vere. His part largely revolves around his being ... |
| Maupassant | ... pect, an influence which Bennett himself acknowledged was the French writer | whose "Une Vie" inspired "The Old Wives' Tale." Maupassant is also one of ... |
| Robert Frost | ... e farms by Walter Hendricks, for returning World War II veterans, with poet | as its first trustee. The , founded in 1951, is headquartered on the campu ... |
| Nguyễn Du | ... Vietnamese writers and poets composed their works in Chữ Nôm, most notably | and Hồ Xuân Hương (dubbed "the Queen of Nôm poetry") |
| Alfred Austin | Well-known poets of the Edwardian era of the 1890s, such as | , Stephen Phillips, and William Watson, had been working very much in the ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... g, who has had such notable sitters as HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and | |
| John Ashbery | ... Progress of Stories (1935) would later be highly esteemed by, among others, | and Harry Mathews. Between 1936 and 1939 Riding and Graves lived in Englan ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ed the power of putting things in brackets." Another childhood favorite was | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which he called "a favourite forever. ... |
| Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... ilt by Roger II of Sicily around 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by | . The castle now serves as a gallery for a variety of temporary exhibition ... |
| Ezra Pound | ... specially Cubism. Although Imagism isolates objects through the use of what | called "luminous details", Pound's Ideogrammic Method of juxtaposing concr ... |
| Osama bin Laden | On 2 May 2011, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh condemned the killing of | in Pakistan by the United States. Haniyeh praised Bin Laden, the founder o ... |
| James Macpherson | In 1761 | announced the discovery of an epic written by Ossian (Oisín) in the Scotti ... |
| Ptolemy | ... long been considered the oldest city of Poland because it was mentioned by | in the 2nd century A.D., but the claim is now doubted by some (cf. Calisia ... |
| Sebastian Klonowic | ... and writers of the Polish renaissance lived and worked in Lublin, including | and Jan Kochanowski, who died in the city in 1584. In 1578 the Crown Tribu ... |
| Ptolemy | ... Manetho (3rd century B.C.) and Geminus (1st century B.C.), and included by | in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, Tycho Brahe 10, and Joha ... |
| John Cage | Stockhausen, along with | , is one of the few avant-garde composers to have succeeded in penetrating ... |
| W. H. Auden | In a 1955 letter to | , Tolkien recollects that he began work on The Hobbit one day early in the ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... itten by Gordon Lightfoot and popularized by artists such as Elvis Presley, | , and Peter, Paul and Mary |
| Álvaro Pombo | ... r in the book Política razonable, written with Fernando Savater, Rosa Díez, | , Albert Boadella and Carlos Martínez Gorriarán. He continues to write, bo ... |
| Rosalía de Castro | ... in the local languages, like the Catalan Jacint Verdaguer and the Galician | , the main figures of the national revivalist movements Renaixença and Rex ... |
| Aeschylus | ... amous religious events of the ancient Greek religion, and the birthplace of | , one of the three great tragedians of antiquity. Today Eleusina is a majo ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... ing work bears the name of a famous scholar, such as Apollodorus of Athens, | , or Gaius Julius Hyginus, what survives is either an ancient forgery or a ... |
| Harihara | ... g the life of Lord Krishna leading up to his fight with the demon Banasura. | , (also known as Harisvara) a Lingayati writer and the patron of King Nara ... |
| Ian Hamilton Finlay | ... g But My Own." Other nominees included Terry Atkinson, sculptor Tony Cragg, | , Milena Kalinovska and painting/printing artist John Walker. The prize wa ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... ind and neutralize "The Emir", an international terrorist leader modeled on | , while also serving as mentor and trainer to Jack's son Jack Jr., a Campu ... |
| Robert Graves | ... it the patronage of Athena, for the olive tree brought wood, oil, and food. | was of the opinion that "Poseidon's attempts to take possession of certain ... |
| Catullus | ... standard for later Latin epic. Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, | and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at t ... |
| Ezra Pound | ... ngs, Native American songs and poems, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Jeffers, | , Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, Federico García Lorca, and Robert Duncan as si ... |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | Today, game soundtracks are sold on CD. Famous singers like Hikaru Utada, | and Gackt sometimes sing songs for games as well, and this is also seen as ... |
| Virgil | ... consistent with the romantic intrigues between Dido and Aeneas imagined by | in the Aeneid |
| Horace | Authors of antiquity, such as | and Pliny, were major influences on 18th century thinkers through their de ... |
| Itzik Feffer | ... two emissaries from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels and | —who doubled as an informant for the NKVD |
| Egill Skallagrímsson | ... ins the poem Sonatorrek. The saga attributes the poem to 10th century skald | , and writes that it was composed by Egill after the death of his son Gunn ... |
| Shakespeare | ... fter a ship on which her parents had traveled, not after the character from | 's As You Like It. She attended Roman Catholic schools, including Marymoun ... |
| Hồ Xuân Hương | ... iters and poets composed their works in Chữ Nôm, most notably Nguyễn Du and | (dubbed "the Queen of Nôm poetry") |
| Jacob Bronowski | ... and artists including James Reeves, Norman Cameron, John Aldridge, Len Lye, | , and Honor Wyatt. The house is now a museum. Progress of Stories (1935) w ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... rie and The Country Blues', featuring his covers of songs by Woody Guthrie, | and black American blues artists such as Big Bill Broonzy. He also recorde ... |
| C. S. Lewis | ... nished the story and then lent the manuscript to several friends, including | and a student of Tolkien's named Elaine Griffiths. In 1936, when Griffiths ... |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome (AIWS, named after the novel written by | ), also known as Todd's syndrome, is a disorienting neurological condition ... |
| Bacchylides | ... rces, Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some lyric poets (Ibycus, | ) Plisthenides (son of Plisthenes) is used as an alternative name for Atre ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... h which combines the elements ("battle, hard"), and ("breach, gap, notch"). | Latinised this to Caliburnus (likely influenced by the medieval Latin spel ... |
| Serge Gainsbourg's | ... in and Greek borrowings like tænia and ex æquo. It was great popularized in | song "Elaeudanla Teiteia" (trans.Elayeeina Tee I Tee I A, which is the pho ... |
| William Blake | File:The Wood of the Self-Murderers.jpg| | , c. 1824–27, , Tat |
| Yang Xiong | ... texts were created and studied by scholars. Philosophical works written by | (53 BCE – 18 CE), Huan Tan (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and W ... |
| Plato | ... ent and modern ethical thinkers, particularly of Kant and Fichte, with only | and Spinoza finding favour in his eyes. He failed to discover in previous ... |
| Victor Hugo | As described in | 's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the medieval French referred to the ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwick Papers was born in Portsmouth, | Author of the Sherlock Holmes Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and hi ... |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... govia as a fittingly opulent Camelot. The symbolism of Camelot so impressed | that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attem ... |
| Giannina Braschi | ... Ricky Martin were born in the city. Other notable residents include writers | and Tomas Blanco, award-winning actors Raúl Juliá and Benicio del Toro, an ... |
| Ibycus | ... ent sources, Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some lyric poets ( | , Bacchylides) Plisthenides (son of Plisthenes) is used as an alternative ... |
| Ezra Pound | In 1915, | , overseas editor of Poetry magazine, recommended to Harriet Monroe, the m ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist | had Roubaud's first book, a collection of mathematically-structured sonnet ... |
| Alcuin | ... as quoted by several writers in Britain of the 8th century - Aldhelm, Bede, | - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by Hrabanus Maurus ... |
| Erykah Badu | ... ater in 2007, Latifah released an album titled Trav'lin' Light. Jill Scott, | , Joe Sample, George Duke, Christian McBride, and Stevie Wonder made guest ... |
| Virgil | ... meter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as | , Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal. Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a clas ... |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | ... Review believed Dickens’s "fellow feeling with the race is his genius"; and | thought the book charming, "inwardly and outwardly" |
| Muhammad Iqbal | ... ct of Muslims in politics. In his presidential address of 29 December 1930, | called for "the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State ... |
| Manuel José Quintana | ... an Tenorio. Before them may be mentioned the pre-romantics José Cadalso and | . The plays of Antonio García Gutiérrez were adapted to produce Guiseppe V ... |
| John Denver | ... od Mac, The Carpenters, Elton John, Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, | , The Eagles, America, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers, Paul McCartney and Wi ... |
| James Joyce | ... p to Paris in August, 1920 with the artist Wyndham Lewis, he met the writer | . Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant—Joyce doubted Eliot's ability as a po ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... ee jazz movement coalesced around such important (and disparate) figures as | , Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane, as well as many lesser-known ... |
| Bede | ... mmar was quoted by several writers in Britain of the 8th century - Aldhelm, | , Alcuin - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by Hrabanu ... |
| Robinson Jeffers | ... terling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, | , Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, William Frederic Ritsc ... |
| Stephen Crane | ... on soldiers. While in the army during World War II, he became interested in | 's classic American Civil War novel of the same title. For the starring ro ... |
| Ovid | ... the myth of the Athenian maidens is told in Metamorphoses by the Roman poet | (43 BC – 17 AD); in this late variant Hermes falls in love with Herse. Her ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... ice, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), consisted of an effort to trace | following the 1998 embassy bombings. The U.S. and the European Union provi ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of | " |
| Callimachus | ... beit rare), but such violations are exceedingly rare in a later author like | |
| Aratus | ... 2, and a final summary in 1926. He cited not only Ptolemy but also the poet | , the orator Cicero, and general Germanicus as colouring the star red, tho ... |
| Frederick II | ... had several times mediated between the Lombards and the Holy Roman Emperor | reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending parties. In the n ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... omers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian Joseph Needham quotes | (78-139 AD) as saying |
| Federico García Lorca | ... William Blake, Walt Whitman, Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, | , and Robert Duncan as significant influences on his poetry, but added, "t ... |
| Cao Pi | ... CE) dominating the west. Cao Cao died in March 220 CE. By December his son | (187–226 CE) had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known po ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... ly following the recognition of the PRC by the United Nations, the death of | and the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors. Despite fa ... |
| Lord Byron | Mary and Percy Shelley and | holidayed by the lake and wrote ghost stories, one of which became the bas ... |
| Lydia Koidula | ... stonian anthem was strictly forbidden. Throughout the years of prohibition, | 's poem, Mu isamaa on minu arm, with a melody by Gustav Ernesaks served as ... |
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko | ... ely summed up in his response, reported in his Memoirs, to the Russian poet | ’s question, in his broken English: “You atheist?” Amis replied, “It’s mor ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... om were women) an idealized vision of the free-spirited, all-American girl. | wrote of her |
| Harry Mathews | ... es (1935) would later be highly esteemed by, among others, John Ashbery and | . Between 1936 and 1939 Riding and Graves lived in England, France, and Sw ... |
| Ennius | ... t example of the use of hexameter in Latin poetry is that of the Annales of | , which established the dactylic hexameter as the standard for later Latin ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... extual criticism as pedantry. His classical controversies also called forth | 's Battle of the Books |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... during this period. In 1907, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to | |
| Bede | ... n the sub-kingdom of Bernicia and Osric taking power in Deira. According to | , Osric was, like Eanfrith, a Christian who reverted to paganism upon comi ... |
| Aaron Hill | ... eare. Shakespeare's play returned to the stage in 1723, in an adaptation by | |
| Lucretius | ... ter as the standard for later Latin epic. Later Republican writers, such as | , Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as | 's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had ... |
| Horace | In the 1st century BCE, | wrote of fried sheets of dough called lagana. In the 2nd century CE, the G ... |
| Shelley | ... son's interpretation "in the [Romantic interpretive] tradition of Blake and | ." As the poet William Blake famously wrote, "The reason Milton wrote in f ... |
| Iris Murdoch | ... on display ranging over books such as Colin Wilson’s The Outsider (panned), | ’s debut novel Under the Net (praised), or William Empson’s Milton’s God ( ... |
| Yukio Mishima | ... to the West End from 13 March – 23 May 2009, playing Madame de Merteuil in | 's Madame De Sade, directed by Michael Grandage as part of the Donmar seas ... |
| James Joyce | ... ly in modern Irish literature. Most notably he makes several appearances in | 's Finnegans Wake, and some have posited that the title, taken from the st ... |
| Úlfr Uggason | ... us other deities. Later in the book, Húsdrápa, a poem by 10th century skald | , is cited, during which Heimdallr is described as having ridden to Baldr' ... |
| Clark Ashton Smith | ... the village were Mary Austin, Armin Hansen, George Sterling and his protege | , Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney ... |
| Edward Moxon | ... ing Arthur and the Weeping Queens, one of two illustrations by Rossetti for | 's illustrated edition of Tennyson's Poems (1857 |
| Ovid | ... m, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, | , Livy and Persius |
| Marcus Manilius | ... wever, not all ancient observers saw Sirius as red. The 1st century AD poet | described it as "sea-blue", as did the 4th century Avienus. It is the stan ... |
| Stéphane Mallarmé | The French symbolist | 's famous masterpiece L'après-midi d'un faune (published in 1876) describe ... |
| Adam Mickiewicz | ... . Arguably, the most distinguished Romantic poet of this part of Europe was | , who developed an idea that Poland was the Messiah of Nations, predestine ... |
| Plato | ... as friends with Hippocrates. He may have been acquainted with Socrates, but | does not mention him and Democritus himself is quoted as saying, "I came t ... |
| John Keats | ... 1879 at the age of 85, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery alongside | . Both gravestones are still standing today. Shelley and Trelawny are also ... |
| Antonio García Gutiérrez | ... ioned the pre-romantics José Cadalso and Manuel José Quintana. The plays of | were adapted to produce Guiseppe Verdi's operas Il trovatore and Simon Boc ... |
| Samuel Johnson | Conversely, in 1774, | published The Patriot, a critique of what he viewed as false patriotism. O ... |
| J. R. Ackerley | ... though he maintained contact with a circle which included E. M. Forster and | . One of his closest friends was the young cricketer Dennis Silk. He forme ... |
| Ambrose Bierce | ... y Austin, Armin Hansen, George Sterling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, | , Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand ... |
| Enid Blyton | ... ry in a sequel or to launch a series, such as L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. | and R. L. Stine have specialized in open-ended series. Sometimes a series ... |
| Ferdowsi | In the 11th century Shahnameh, the Persian poet | credits Burzoe with the invention of the tables game nard in the 6th centu ... |
| Marc Chagall | ... ins – his last original Broadway staging. The set, designed in the style of | 's paintings, was by Boris Aronson. A colorful logo for the production, al ... |
| John Milton | ... radise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet | . It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over t ... |
| Statius | ... ext to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, | , Ovid, Livy and Persius |
| Kevin Max | ... Vicker as Frank, Leigh Bingham Nash from Sixpence None the Richer as Clare, | as Ivory and Michael Tait as Buzz |
| Mike Harding | ... st successes came from folk clubs, where performers such as Billy Connolly, | and Jasper Carrott started as relatively straight musical acts whose betwe ... |
| William Cowper | ... re the combined work of curate John Newton (1725–1807) and his poet friend, | (1731–1800). The hymns were written for use in Newton's rural parish which ... |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerian | published in 1958. The novel depicts influences of British colonialism and ... |
| Adam Dalgliesh | ... on for P. D. James' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her | series. The last words of the poem "On Wenlock Edge" are used by Audrey R. ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... e notion of the absurd has been prominent in literature throughout history. | , Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of Jean-P ... |
| George Sterling | ... ists who lived in or frequented the village were Mary Austin, Armin Hansen, | and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robins ... |
| Bulleh Shah | ... in is known for his calligraphy and paintings. Sufi poets Shah Abdul Latif, | , Mian Muhammad Bakhsh and Khawaja Farid are very popular in Pakistan. Mir ... |
| Plato | ... cient roots; indeed, it originated almost 2,500 years ago with the works of | and |
| Robert Frost | ... ock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke and | . Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Professor of Englis ... |
| Schiller | ... ed-headed woman holds the mirror of truth, while above it is a quotation by | in stylized lettering, "If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and ... |
| Willa Cather | Acomita is mentioned in | 's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Three Chapter 1 |
| L. Frank Baum | ... the author to continue the story in a sequel or to launch a series, such as | 's Wizard of Oz. Enid Blyton and R. L. Stine have specialized in open-ende ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems. Future Nobel Prize winner | was devoting much of his energy to the Abbey Theatre and writing for the s ... |
| Jane Francesca Wilde | ... College, Dublin) the second of three children born to Sir William Wilde and | , two years behind William ("Willie"). Jane Wilde, under the pseudonym "Sp ... |
| Subramanya Bharathi | ... , Mahars in Maharashtra, and Sikhs in Punjab. However, people like Mahakavi | , Vanchinathan and Neelakanda Brahmachari played a major role from Tamil N ... |
| Julia Cameron | ... raine Marie Brennan; they have a daughter, Catherine. He married the writer | in 1976; they have a daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, who is an actres ... |
| Mian Muhammad Bakhsh | ... or his calligraphy and paintings. Sufi poets Shah Abdul Latif, Bulleh Shah, | and Khawaja Farid are very popular in Pakistan. Mirza Kalich Beg has been ... |
| Thomas Churchyard | ... rted by the contemporary proliferation of texts that responded to it; e.g.: | 's. The poem's obscure record may have had something to do with Crowley's ... |
| Hesiod | so that the crop will be full and strong. In the Theogony of | she is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. At the marriage of Cadmus and Harm ... |
| Edmund Gosse | ... At the Grave of Henry Vaughan. The deaths of three of his closest friends, | , Thomas Hardy and Frankie Schuster (the publisher), within a short space ... |
| Nguyễn Du | ... rst six lines of Truyện Kiều, an epic narrative poem by the celebrated poet | , ), which is often considered the most significant work of Vietnamese lit ... |
| Anatole France | ... Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, | , Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el Husseini". This p ... |
| Allen Tate | ... e Laura Riding Gottschalk. She became associated with the Fugitives through | , and they published her poems in The Fugitive magazine. Her first marriag ... |
| Bede | Some traditions call the festival "Litha", a name occurring in | 's "Reckoning of Time" (De Temporum Ratione, 7th century), which preserves ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ild and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, | , James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Gui ... |
| Nasir-i-Khusraw | ... ebron's version, it found its most famous expression. The Persian traveller | who visited Hebron in 1047 records in his Safarnama tha |
| José de Espronceda | ... s and playwrights. The most important Spanish poet during this movement was | . After him there were other poets like Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Mariano Jo ... |
| Edmund Wilson | The Hollow Men appeared in 1925. For the critic | , it marked "The nadir of the phase of despair and desolation given such e ... |
| Bishop Atterbury | ... freemasonry, through his cousin Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, through | , through Dr Drake (the Jacobite historian of York), and via servants such ... |
| Quintus Smyrnaeus | ... d of Achilles with the encircling ocean is also found repeated far later in | ’ Posthomerica (4th century AD) which continues the narration of the Troja ... |
| Van Morrison | Donegan experienced another late renaissance when in 2000 he appeared on | 's album The Skiffle Sessions - Live In Belfast 1998, a critically acclaim ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ... was home to the Bulldogs. It was renamed Emerson High School for the writer | , when the two towns merged. Located on New York Avenue at 18th Street, th ... |
| Jake Thackray | ... ttist Artie Shaw (nominated for a Grierson award); one on singer/songwriter | ; a BBC Four programme about British experimental music of the 1960s and 7 ... |
| Clark Ashton Smith | ... riters of the century. Among his correspondents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), | , and Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian series) |
| Aristophanes | ... ea (Oceanus) and a flat disc also appears in Stasinus of Cyprus, Mimnermus, | , and Apollonius Rhodius |
| Thomas Hardy | ... of Henry Vaughan. The deaths of three of his closest friends, Edmund Gosse, | and Frankie Schuster (the publisher), within a short space of time, came a ... |
| Charles Mackay | ... evous spirit that makes noises unexplainable except by supernatural causes. | , in his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), ... |
| Ovid Densusianu | ... ", I, Halle a.d.S., 1914, p. 122 and following). This opinion was shared by | (1873–1938), a Romanian folklorist, philologist, and poet who introduced t ... |
| Voltaire | ... letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to | as an epistolarian. Lovecraft's later correspondence is primarily to fello ... |
| Jacob Bronowski | ... he burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, | , Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Li ... |
| Nikos Engonopoulos | ... kopoulos (El Greco), Panagiotis Doxaras, Nikolaos Gyzis, Yannis Tsarouchis, | , Constantine Andreou, Jannis Kounellis, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, so ... |
| Alexandre Herculano | ... ire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus Aurelius", and | called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion holds as the foremost of hi ... |
| Francis Scott Key | ... ed for the failed British assault on Baltimore, which was the influence for | 's writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Many slaves escaped to the Briti ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... on. One of Littlewood's most famous productions was the British première of | 's Mother Courage and Her Children (1955), which she directed and also sta ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... most strongly associated with the 1950s innovations of Ornette Coleman and | and the later works of saxophonist John Coltrane. Other important pioneers ... |
| Ludovico Ariosto | ... sity of Urbino. His interests included classical studies: Honoré de Balzac, | , Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, an ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... "Jet Airliner" exists in which the word "shit" is faded out. Likewise, the | song "Hurricane" has a line about having no idea "what kind of shit was ab ... |
| Virgil | ... history of literary criticism. Like many of his generation Scaliger prized | above Homer. His praise of the tragedies of Seneca over those of the Greek ... |
| Arctinus of Miletus | ... funeral games were held. He was represented in the lost Trojan War epic of | as living after his death in the island of Leuke at the mouth of the river ... |
| Samuel Wesley | ... nglish leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet | , the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clerg ... |
| Oscar Wilde | ... cleaned." Thus the two men have lost their lives for nothing. (Compare with | 's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Gary Snyder | ... Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as Lewis Mumford, Jean Baudrillard and | . Many advocates of Green anarchism and primitivism consider Fredy Perlman ... |
| Johannes Semper | ... ic's anthem was composed by Gustav Ernesaks, and the lyrics were written by | . It and the Karelo-Finnish SSR anthem were the only ones not to mention t ... |
| William Empson | ... e Outsider (panned), Iris Murdoch’s debut novel Under the Net (praised), or | ’s Milton’s God (inclined to agree with). Amis’s opinions on books and peo ... |
| Charles Bukowski | ... works of artists such as Chuck Palahniuk, David Lynch, Crispin Glover, and | , and one often finds in their works a delicate balance between distastefu ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, | , Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lo ... |
| Mimnermus | ... aiaokhos) sea (Oceanus) and a flat disc also appears in Stasinus of Cyprus, | , Aristophanes, and Apollonius Rhodius |
| Robert Penn Warren | ... ion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist | , who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and ... |
| Allen Tate | ... , the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, Eliot's failed marriage. | perceived a shift in Eliot's method, writing that, "The mythologies disapp ... |
| Sophocles | ... tus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, | , Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| T. S. Eliot | ... Orion aveugle of 1970. Marion Perret argues that Orion is a silent link in | 's The Waste Land (1922), connecting the lustful Actaeon/Sweeney to the bl ... |
| Stasinus | ... earth-encircling (gaiaokhos) sea (Oceanus) and a flat disc also appears in | of Cyprus, Mimnermus, Aristophanes, and Apollonius Rhodius |
| T. S. Eliot | Merton alumni include four Nobel prize winners: poet | , physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and chemist ... |
| Vivian Stanshall | ... ugh his behaviour was outrageous, it was in the humorous vein as his friend | , of the Bonzo Dog Band claimed. Moon produced Stanshall's version of Terr ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... araday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, | , Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe H ... |
| Paul Éluard | ... ing of the town, and presented it to the accompaniment of a text written by | . A political perspective on art also underpinned his next project, co-dir ... |
| Maya Angelou | In March 2008 | stated that she planned to spend part of the year studying at the Unity Ch ... |
| Juan de Valladolid | ... tory by attempting the conversion of other Jews in the 14th century include | and Astruc Remoch |
| Virgil | ... l poetry. The premier examples of its use are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and | 's Aeneid |
| Jacques Brel | ... d documentaries about British views on eschatology, the Belgian chansonnier | , the musical partnership of Dame Cleo Laine & Sir John Dankworth, and the ... |
| Robert Graves | ... in 1925, at the end of which year she went to England at the invitation of | and his wife Nancy Nicholson. She would remain in Europe for nearly 14 yea ... |
| Khatir Afridi | ... th century, Pakhto or Pashto has produced some great poets like Ghani Khan, | and Amir Hamza Shinwari. There are also many Pakistani's from the adjacent ... |
| Oliver Goldsmith | ... dstone. The last picture he exhibited at the Royal Academy was a scene from | 's The Deserted Village in 1857 |
| Robert Lowell | ... ; his verse is renowned for elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what | described as a 'diamond-edge', and the 'glory of its hard, electric rage'. ... |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | ... ionysus and the figure of the Christ in Christian theology can be traced to | , whose identification of Dionysus with Christ is most explicit in Brod un ... |
| Victor Hugo | The Emperor's erudition amazed Friedrich Nietzsche when both met. | told him: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus A ... |
| James Joyce | In | 's Ulysses, the precocious Stephen Dedalus recalls with disdain his boyhoo ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... utive Orders, Clark sarcastically suggests to reporter Robert Holtzman "Get | to play me in the movies" to which Holtzman replies "Too pretty, Nick Cage ... |
| W. G. Sebald | German writer (and sometime lecturer at the University of East Anglia) | in his second book The Rings of Saturn details a coastal walk along the Su ... |
| Giacomo Leopardi | ... , Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and | . Between 1972–1973 Calvino published two short stories, "The Name, the No ... |
| Robert de Boron | ... a number of explanations are given for Arthur's possession of Excalibur. In | 's Merlin, Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a sword from a stone. In ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | In his short story, "The Secret Miracle", | describes how the protagonist, Jaromir Hladik, had translated the Sefer Ye ... |
| Crispin Glover | ... artmann permeate the works of artists such as Chuck Palahniuk, David Lynch, | , and Charles Bukowski, and one often finds in their works a delicate bala ... |
| Van Morrison | ... Richard Davis, upright bass player on "The Angel", also played the bass on | 's Astral Weeks |
| Guido Cavalcanti | ... nte with his Divine Comedy (1306–1321) and Petrarch, but also poets such as | and Lapo Gianni composed their most important works. Dante's masterpiece i ... |
| René Char | The twentieth-century French poet | found the blind, lustful huntsman, both pursuer and pursued, a central sym ... |
| Van Morrison | ... have covered his songs, including Sammy Davis, Jr. Irish singer-songwriter | and American singer-songwriters like John Mellencamp an |
| Rimbaud | ... had participated in the Commune (Courbet was its quasi-minister of culture, | and Pissarro were active propagandists) or were sympathetic to it. The fer ... |
| Helen Gray Cone | ... ents; and its rigorous academics. The first female professor at the school, | , was elected to the position in 1899. The college's student population qu ... |
| Axayacatl | ... 16th century Spanish missionary and historian, tells that the Aztec emperor | played Xihuitlemoc, the leader of Xochimilco, wagering his annual income a ... |
| T. E. Hulme | ... rigins of Imagism are to be found in two poems, Autumn and A City Sunset by | . These were published in January 1909 by the Poets' Club in London in a b ... |
| Radclyffe Hall | ... tina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and | |
| Hesiod | Both Homer and | described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles |
| Lenny Bruce | ... ritish audiences their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from | . Victoria Wood launched her stand-up career in the early 1980s, which saw ... |
| William Shakespeare | Henry V is a history play by | , believed to be written in approximately 1599. Its full titles are The Cr ... |
| Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... he "false emperor" Dietrich Holzschuh, called Tile Kolup, who claimed to be | (who actually had already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When th ... |
| Martin Niemöller | #Redirect | |
| Lapo Gianni | ... omedy (1306–1321) and Petrarch, but also poets such as Guido Cavalcanti and | composed their most important works. Dante's masterpiece is the Divine Com ... |
| Ptolemy | ... are sometimes called Ptolemaic aspects since they were defined and used by | in the 1st Century, AD. These aspects are the conjunction (approx. 0-10°), ... |
| Lord Byron | ... et, among other notables, the sculptors John Gibson and Antonio Canova, and | 's friend, the adventurer Edward John Trelawny. Severn made a sketch of Tr ... |
| Erykah Badu | ... censed Unity Teacher Ruth Warrick, Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, | , Matt Hoverman, author Victoria Moran, Patricia Neal, Holmes Osborne and |
| Henry Vaughan | Sassoon was a great admirer of the Welsh poet | . On a visit to Wales in 1923, he paid a pilgrimage to Vaughan's grave at ... |
| Dylan Thomas | ... mmissioned and broadcast The Boy With A Note - 'an evocation of the life of | in words and music'. It was re-recorded and released on McTell's Leola lab ... |
| Sir Walter Scott | The legend was actually formalised by | and was later instigated in a town festival called "The Cleikum Ceremonies ... |
| Poets' Club | ... d A City Sunset by T. E. Hulme. These were published in January 1909 by the | in London in a booklet called For Christmas MDCCCCVIII. Hulme was a studen ... |
| James Joyce | ... in Irish intellectuals made their homes in continental Europe, particularly | , and later Samuel Beckett (who became a courier for the French Resistance ... |
| Rahman Baba | ... r Pashto spoken in the southern areas. Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689) and | (1633–1708) were the most famous poets in the Pashto language. In the last ... |
| C. S. Lewis | As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of | , J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, M ... |
| Osbert Sitwell | ... of that Department at the end of the war. He refused a knighthood in 1918. | , in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current ... |
| Johann Voldemar Jannsen | ... 991 however, the national anthem from 1920 by Fredrik Pacius with lyrics by | has been restored |
| James Agee | ... ights has been praised for its mixture of comedy and sentimentality. Critic | , for example, wrote in Life magazine in 1949 that the final scene in City ... |
| William Blake | ... e eras, it has been periodically rediscovered by such later artists such as | , the Nazarenes, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Joseph Southall. The 20th centur ... |
| Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | ... this movement was José de Espronceda. After him there were other poets like | , Mariano José de Larra and the dramatist José Zorrilla, author of Don Jua ... |
| Blake | ... places Empson's interpretation "in the [Romantic interpretive] tradition of | and Shelley." As the poet William Blake famously wrote, "The reason Milton ... |
| Paul Muldoon | ... d to build their large existing archive from Irish writers including Yeats, | , Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley and other members of the The Belfast Grou ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... rcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and | . He later became a fan of science fiction, reading the works of authors a ... |
| Walt Whitman | ... s. Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of | in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provi ... |
| Pléiade | ... essible. As a poet Pasquier is chiefly interesting as a minor member of the | movement. As a prose writer he is of much more account. The three chief di ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... ings and live and tape performances by a wide variety of figures, including | and William S. Burroughs |
| Bob Dylan | ... tered the mainstream in the middle of the 1960s, when the singer-songwriter | began his career. Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine attributes The B ... |
| Virgil | ... real characters of his age or before. He is first guided by the Roman poet | , whose non-Christian beliefs damned him to Hell. Later on he is joined by ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... t the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, 'Novalis' and | see it as the beginning of a tradition of resistance to Enlightenment rati ... |
| Patti Smith | ... formation of the Sex Pistols as well as the release of the albums Horses by | and Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed as three key events that gave birth to ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... erature, and entertained the children with vivid ghost-stories and tales of | |
| Naevius | | names the Cimmerian Sibyl in his books of the Punic War and Piso in his an ... |
| Abraham ibn Ezra | ... hBDBSh NTB`R WNShRP or parasnu ra`abhtan shebad'vash nitba'er venisraf), by | , referring to the halachic question as to whether a fly landing in honey ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... mous examples of using gibberish in literature is the poem "Jabberwocky" by | |
| Derek Mahon | ... ny eminent poets have attempted to do so, including Lowell, Ted Hughes, and | into English, and Schiller into German. The latest to attempt to translate ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... bell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, | . Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He later became a fan of science fict ... |
| Hesiod | ... isitor to these "dells of Parnassus", at the end of the eighth century, was | , who was shown the omphalos |
| Samuel Beckett | ... hen, in 1991, Edmondson and Mayall co-starred in the West End production of | 's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre. They have said Bottom was oft ... |
| Henri Michaux | ... i, and several of the prominent writers of his time, such as Jean Genet and | |
| Khushal Khan Khattak | ... ern (Peshawar) variety, and the softer Pashto spoken in the southern areas. | (1613–1689) and Rahman Baba (1633–1708) were the most famous poets in the ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... made their homes in continental Europe, particularly James Joyce, and later | (who became a courier for the French Resistance). Eoin O'Duffy led a briga ... |
| Jean Genet | ... berto Giacometti, and several of the prominent writers of his time, such as | and Henri Michaux |
| Robert E. Howard | ... mong his correspondents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and | (Conan the Barbarian series) |
| Callimachus | ... egins with the oxhide story of Orion's birth, which this source ascribes to | and Aristomachus, and sets the location at Thebes or Chios. Hyginus has tw ... |
| Novalis | ... hes see in it the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, ' | ' and Samuel Taylor Coleridge see it as the beginning of a tradition of re ... |
| Robert Graves | In the poem The Red Ribbon Dream, written by | not long after Rivers's death, he touches on the peace and security he fel ... |
| Denis Piramus | ... d his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. A contemporary of Marie, the English poet | , mentions in his Life of Saint Edmund the King, written in around 1180, t ... |
| William Wordsworth | ... he mechanical, and a longing for a simpler, more pastoral times. Poets like | and William Blake believed that the technological changes that were taking ... |
| George Orwell | ... contemporary account of the Spanish Civil War which also takes this view is | 's book Homage to Catalonia |
| Annie Dillard | ... ionally known authors, including Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, | , Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
| Plato | ... asis on human emotion and the imagination. Meanwhile he studied Spinoza and | , both of whom were important influences. He became more indebted to Kant, ... |
| Dante Alighieri | The poem's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of | and refers to a number of literary works, including Hamlet and those of th ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | Heimdallr is mentioned once in Háttatal. There, in a composition by | , a sword is referred to as "Vindhlér's helmet-filler", meaning "Heimdallr ... |
| William Blake | ... nging for a simpler, more pastoral times. Poets like William Wordsworth and | believed that the technological changes that were taking place as a part o ... |
| Jan Kochanowski | ... sh renaissance lived and worked in Lublin, including Sebastian Klonowic and | , who died in the city in 1584. In 1578 the Crown Tribunal was established ... |
| Robert Burns | Dumfries was the hometown of | from 1791 until his death in 1796. The poet is now buried in St. Michael’s ... |
| Brendan Behan | ... e into films. Theatre Workshop also championed the work of Irish playwright | , and Littlewood is often rumoured to have a significant role in his work |
| Petrarch | In the 14th century, | and Giovanni Boccaccio led the literary scene in Florence after Dante's de ... |
| Jim Morrison | ... y 70s, were the deaths of popular rock stars Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and | all at the age of 27. Funk, an offshoot of Soul music with a greater empha ... |
| Herman Melville | Huston had been planning to film | 's Moby Dick for the previous ten years, and originally saw it as an excel ... |
| Ted Hughes | ... ble, although many eminent poets have attempted to do so, including Lowell, | , and Derek Mahon into English, and Schiller into German. The latest to at ... |
| The Belfast Group | ... eats, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley and other members of the | |
| Ioan Gruffudd | ... he struggle against the slave trade, directed by Michael Apted and starring | was released in 2007 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Parliament' ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... xistentialist themes are displayed in the Theatre of the Absurd, notably in | 's Waiting for Godot, in which two men divert themselves while they wait e ... |
| Franz Werfel | ... Turks. Among them there are Armin T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, | , Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict ... |
| 2Pac | # "Call It What You Want" (featuring: | , Money-B |
| Felicia Hemans | ... and a public library, or from little toy figures of John Stuart Mill, poet | , and astronomer Sir John Herschel. Youthful inventiveness finds a way, ho ... |
| André Breton | ... of 14 he discovered surrealism and through that an interest in the works of | |
| Dante Alighieri | ... own accord – some of the most famous in Italy being Giacomo da Lentini and | |
| Molière | ... has sometimes been criticized as begging the question by inventing a name. | had famously parodied this fallacy in Le Malade imaginaire, where a quack ... |
| John Cage | ... starting with 18th century concert hall music. Hegarty contends that it is | 's composition 4'33", in which an audience sits through four and a half mi ... |
| Walt Kelly | ... he Senate as an assemblage of freaks and crooks... boobs and undesirables." | 's Pogo was likewise censored in 1952 over his overt satire of Senator Joe ... |
| Olof von Dalin | ... tic in the works of a Danish-Norwegian historian Ludvig Holberg and Swedish | . During the later half of the 18th century the Icelandic Sagas were still ... |
| W. H. Auden | ... erse (1978), which he edited, was a revision of the original volume done by | . Amis took the anthology in a markedly new direction: Auden had interpret ... |
| Richard P. Gabriel | ... y and Peter Norvig's group at Berkeley. In the early 1990s, he was hired by | 's Lucid Inc. where he was eventually put to work on Lucid's Energize C++ ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... ipt to Karel Reisz's movie The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by | , is a film-within-a-film adaptation of John Fowles's book. In addition to ... |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | In the 14th century, Petrarch and | led the literary scene in Florence after Dante's death in 1321. Petrarch w ... |
| Karl Kraus | Berg first saw Die Büchse der Pandora in 1905 in a production by | , but did not begin work on his opera until 1929, after he had completed h ... |
| Ulrich von Liechtenstein | ... nts to joust, and joins the jousting circuit under the assumed name of "Sir | " from Gelderland. Chaucer is then discovered to have a gambling problem, ... |
| Zygmunt Krasiński | ... at Polish poets such as Adam Mickiewicz (Pan Tadeusz), Juliusz Słowacki and | , as well as the writers (Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trylogia). This close conne ... |
| Callimachus | ... g "grandmother", and she is often portrayed as being extremely ancient (cf. | , Iamb 4.52, fr. 194) |
| Ben Jonson | ... the Greek roots (; "again") and (; "way, direction") by the English writer | in the 17th century. The Greek phrase to describe the phenomenon is, (; "c ... |
| John Lydgate | ... ngland" as a possible alternative, and Henry Peacham attributed the poem to | in 1622. Except for Crowley and Francis Meres (who simply cribs Webbe) Wil ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... of King Richard III, which was never finished, but which greatly influenced | 's play Richard III. Both More's and Shakespeare's works are controversial ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... most extensive treatments of the existentialist notion of Angst is found in | 's monumental work Begrebet Angest |
| Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... ssian government with "demagogic agitation" in conjunction with the patriot | |
| Hesiod | Within classical antiquity, | 's Works and Days "opens with moral remonstrances, hammered home in every ... |
| Giacomo da Lentini | ... the vernacular of their own accord – some of the most famous in Italy being | and Dante Alighieri |
| Lydia Lunch | ... ct inspiration from both free jazz and punk. Examples of this style include | 's Queen of Siam, the work of James Chance and the Contortions, who mixed ... |
| Henry Peacham | ... 4. Wood also supplied "Robertus de Langland" as a possible alternative, and | attributed the poem to John Lydgate in 1622. Except for Crowley and Franci ... |
| Michael Longley | ... ng archive from Irish writers including Yeats, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, | and other members of the The Belfast Group |
| Samuel Wesley | Charles Wesley was the son of Susanna Wesley and | . He was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, where his father was rect ... |
| Herman Melville | ... tion of the project. Although Huston had personally hired Bradbury to adapt | 's novel into a screenplay, Bradbury and Huston did not get along during p ... |
| James Joyce | ... ern literature, a poetic counterpart to a novel published in the same year, | 's Ulysses |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | ... widely believed during the Civil War and was the subject of an 1864 poem by | , a poem that remained popular for decades. Barbara Fritchie, a significan ... |
| Robert Stanley Weir | ... . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906. | wrote in 1908 another English version, one that is not a literal translati ... |
| Juliusz Słowacki | ... t and in works of great Polish poets such as Adam Mickiewicz (Pan Tadeusz), | and Zygmunt Krasiński, as well as the writers (Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trylog ... |
| Giuseppe Giacosa | ... in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and | . It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work ... |
| Richard Aldington | ... anced himself from its vision of despair. On November 15, 1922, he wrote to | , saying, "As for The Waste Land, that is a thing of the past so far as I ... |
| Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... and the introduction of censorship laws. One victim was the author and poet | , who, freshly appointed university professor in Bonn, was banned from tea ... |
| Herman Melville | ... lay for the 1956 film Moby Dick, which was faithfully based on the novel by | and starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and ... |
| Alfred de Musset | At the age of 17, she met and was courted by | , who had earlier been taken with her sister Maria Malibran. Some sources ... |
| Henrik Ibsen | ... husband, Harmon O. Nelson, known as "Ham". In 1926, she saw a production of | 's The Wild Duck with Blanche Yurka and Peg Entwistle. Davis later recalle ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... ant of Aeneas. This work was also the "single most important source used by | in creating his Historia Regum Britanniae", and via the enormous popularit ... |
| George Orwell | ... gh the song has been removed from more recent performances of that musical. | wrote an essay called A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray |
| Frances Mayes | ... ing Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, | , the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
| Bob Dylan | ... popular artist came in 1973 with the film Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, by | . However the album received very little critical acclaim. This had not be ... |
| William S. Burroughs | ... ape performances by a wide variety of figures, including Allen Ginsberg and | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | In 1890, | , his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson and her son Lloyd Osbourne sailed on ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both | 's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the A ... |
| Frederick II | ... city, of the Holy Roman Empire. However, in 1242, during the war of Emperor | against the Pope, the Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried III, ordered the city ... |
| Conrad Aiken | Eliot wrote to | on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, wh ... |
| George Orwell | ... itical pessimism has sometimes found expression in dystopian novels such as | 's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Political pessimism about one's country often cor ... |
| Lactantius | ... that apologists Tertullian, Athenagoras, Minucius Felix, Justin Martyr and | also maintained that exposing a baby to death was a wicked act. In 318 AD ... |
| Sylvia Plath | ... teristic of speech and writing, metaphors can serve the poetic imagination, | , in her poem "Cut", to compare the blood issuing from her cut thumb to th ... |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | The term "dramaturgy" was created by the German dramatist | . From 1767-1770 he wrote and published a series of criticisms entitled th ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | Hel is referenced in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , various times. In chapter 34 of the book Gylfaginning, Hel is listed by ... |
| Anton Delvig | ... 839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), | , and Wilhelm Küchelbecker |
| Oscar Wilde | ... ces to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, and | . Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of national archives ... |
| Mike Harding | ... included Billy Connolly, Georgie Fame, Simon Nicol with Dave Swarbrick, and | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... the way to his first tournament in Rouen, William and his friends come upon | (Paul Bettany), trudging down a road with no clothes or money. William per ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... an executive with the Soo Line Railroad because of his great admiration for | . The ZIP code is 49780 |
| Sigvatr | ... instance, the following verse is attributed to her contemporary, the skald | |
| William Wordsworth | ... Oscar Wilde – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – | – William Butler Yeats – Andrew Youn |
| Richard Blackmore | ... ctories, Marlborough received no personal letter of thanks from Queen Anne. | 's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone among English poems in ... |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | | 's History of the Kings of Britain is the first non-Welsh source to speak ... |
| Hilaire Belloc's | ... removing obstacles to the growth of capitalism. (This point is also made in | The Servile State. |
| Ambrose Philips | ... d him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of | , who had been praised by a short-lived contemporary publication The Guard ... |
| Michael Madsen | ... ane Sibbett, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Stoyanov, Tia Carrere, Beverley Mitchell, | , Jon Gries, Kurt Fuller, Donald Gibb and former NWA World Heavyweight Cha ... |
| Thomas Warton | ... es such as Joseph Warton (headmaster at Winchester College) and his brother | , professor of Poetry at Oxford University Joseph maintained that inventio ... |
| Edward Rydz-Śmigły | ... ken (one Camp of National Unity was connected to the new strongman, Marshal | ) |
| Wilhelm Küchelbecker | ... hev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and | |
| John Milton | ... has been criticized as the weakest of his work. He suggested that the poet | had employed both an amanuensis and an editor, who were responsible for cl ... |
| Fugitives | ... –26) under the name Laura Riding Gottschalk. She became associated with the | through Allen Tate, and they published her poems in The Fugitive magazine. ... |
| Sophocles | ... alism. But, being a Christian, he can no longer assume, as did Æschylus and | , that God is merciless in leading men to a doom which they do not foresee ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... had some limitations. It did, however, bring him into fruitful contact with | . He wanted to train in Psychoanalysis and in 1938 he began a training ana ... |
| Menander | Josephus records (Antiquities 8.5.3), following | the historian, concerning King Hiram I of Tyre (c. 965–935 BCE ) |
| Huan Tan | ... ed by scholars. Philosophical works written by Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE), | (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and Wang Fu (78–163 CE) question ... |
| T. S. Eliot | ... d Old Cholmeleians, the name given to old boys of the school. These include | , who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, Gerard Manley Hopkins ... |
| Horace | Horatian satire, named for the Roman satirist, | (65 BCE – 8 BCE), playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mi ... |
| William Blake | ... Michael Angelo Rooker, William Pars, Thomas Hearne and John Warwick Smith. | published several books of hand tinted engraved poetry, illustrations to D ... |
| William Langland | It is now commonly accepted that Piers Plowman was written by | , about whom little is known. This attribution of the poem to Langland res ... |
| Mos Def | ... cades, the group have collaborated with Neneh Cherry, Madonna, David Bowie, | , Elizabeth Fraser and Sinéad O'Connor amongst many others. Despite the gr ... |
| Theocritus | ... Pope's claims as the first pastoral writer of the age and the true English | . Gay's pastorals achieved this goal and his ludicrous pictures of the Eng ... |
| Euripides | ... est of Egypt. The mother of the Libyan Sibyl was Lamia, meaning "devourer". | mentions the Libyan Sibyl in the prologue to his tragedy Lamia |
| Dante | ... or's achievements is sometimes difficult to sort out from other intentions. | was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing ... |
| Euripides | As already in the works of | , the gods have become symbolic. Venus represents the unquenchable force o ... |
| Janet Frame | ... n 1973, which publishes fiction and non-fiction by noted women authors like | and Sarah Dunant |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | | 's legendary History of the Kings of Britain makes Caracalla a king of Bri ... |
| John Keats | ... rtrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet | . He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, a ... |
| Aeschylus | ... nstitutions of the classical Greeks. Authors who mention the oracle include | , Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodot ... |
| Ptolemy | ... 0s AD in the land of the Celtic Cornovii, according to ancient cartographer | , as a fortress during the Roman expansion northward. It was named Deva ei ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... Yesterday", however, has also been criticised for being mundane and mawkish | ;had a marked dislike for the song, stating that "If you go into the Libra ... |
| John Betjeman | ... boys of the school. These include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate | there, Gerard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and Joh ... |
| Ted Hughes | ... thologies The Rattle Bag (1982) and The School Bag (1987) (both edited with | ). Originally entitled The Faber Book of Verse for Younger People on the F ... |
| Antonin Artaud | ... ts (1999), discusses the use of noise as a medium and explores the ideas of | , George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kapro ... |
| Clive James | ... n possible without this kind of self discipline. Nevertheless, according to | , Amis reached a turning point when his drinking ceased to be social, and ... |
| Robert Conquest | ... , Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, | , Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan Linz describe tot ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... to the British ambassador to the court of Hanover through the influence of | when the death of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, three months later put an ... |
| A. A. Milne | ... managed to find a post as a teacher at Henley House School where he taught | |
| Robin Morgan | The Oxford English Dictionary credits | with coining the term in her 1970 book, Sisterhood is Powerful. Concerning ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... s referred to as the Cheshire Cat principle, after the fading to a smile of | 's Cheshire Cat. It is expected that a first-principles solution of the eq ... |
| Statius | ... (the river of lamentation) and Phlegethon (the river of fire). According to | , it bordered Elysium, the final resting place of the virtuous. Ovid wrote ... |
| Ptolemy | ... considers the possibility of an imperfect sphere, "shaped like a pinecone". | derived his maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude, ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | It was written by the Icelandic scholar and historian | around 1220. It survives in seven main manuscripts, written down from abou ... |
| Ezra Pound | ... significant of which was his introduction to the acclaimed literary figure | . A connection through Aiken resulted in an arranged meeting and on Septem ... |
| Sima Qian | ... er. The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan (d. 110 BCE) and his son | (145–86 BCE) established the standard model for all of imperial China's St ... |
| Iris Murdoch | ... kespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of writer | in Iris in 2001 (with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman); for Mr ... |
| Aeschylus | ... ants to bring back to life one of the great tragedians. After a competition | is chosen in preference to Euripides |
| Shakespeare | In his play Coriolanus, | references the aediles. However, they are minor characters, and their chie ... |
| John Betjeman | ... rt or the blurbs before returning them to the library. A volume of poems by | , for example, was returned to the library with a new dustjacket featuring ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... xample is the recurrent use of the vocative phrase, O (my) Best Beloved, by | in his Just So Stories. This use of O may be considered a form of clitic, ... |
| Bertram Fletcher Robinson | ... the idea for The Hound Of The Baskervilles whilst holidaying in Cromer with | after hearing local folklore tales regarding the mysterious hound known as ... |
| Quintus Smyrnaeus | According to | , Odysseus came up with the idea of building a great wooden horse (the hor ... |
| Federico García Lorca | ... ly Béla Bartók. George Crumb also used musical palindrome to text paint the | poem "¿Por qué nací?", the first movement of three in his fourth book of M ... |
| Jaishankar Prasad | ... and the literary figures belonging to this school are known as Chhayavaadi. | , Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Mahadevi Varma and Sumitranandan Pant, are ... |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... hese include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, | the poet, the composers John Taverner and John Rutter, John Venn the inven ... |
| Ptolemy's | ... o lived in the vicinity at that time. The town also appears as Mattiacum in | Geographia (2.10). The line of Roman frontier fortifications, the Limes Ge ... |
| Sima Qian | ... e diplomat Su Qin in 330 BC when discussing state boundaries. The historian | (145–90 BC) dated it much earlier than the 4th century BC, attributing it ... |
| Kūkai | ... sexuality was "invented" by the Bodhisattva Manjusri of wisdom and the sage | , the founder of Buddhism in Japan. Japanese Buddhist scholar and author o ... |
| Ovid | ... steadily in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Poets like Vergil, Horace, | and Rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of Augustus. ... |
| Scriblerus Club | ... best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the | (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and A ... |
| Saul Williams | DJ Krust and | ' track "Coded Language" opens with the line "Whereas, breakbeats have bee ... |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, | , Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... sudden burst of charitable giving in Britain to Dickens's novella; in 1874, | waxed enthusiastic after reading Dickens's Christmas books and vowed to gi ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ylan of The Wallflowers ranked London Calling above the work of his father, | , as the record that “changed his life”. Bands identified with the garage ... |
| Bragi Boddason | ... tree among both gods and men. A quote from a work by the 9th century skald | is presented that confirms the description |
| Blake Morrison | ... accused Heaney of being "an apologist and a mythologizer" of the violence, | suggests the poet "has written poems directly about the Troubles as well a ... |
| Heinrich Heine | ... dalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, | , Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years 2010 and 2011, t ... |
| Adam Mickiewicz | ... er the rise of Napoleon; it is often taken to begin with the publication of | 's first poems in 1822, and end with the crushing of the January Uprising ... |
| Euripides | ... le include Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, | , Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, ... |
| Ovid | ... g to Statius, it bordered Elysium, the final resting place of the virtuous. | wrote that the river flowed through the cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, wher ... |
| Marilyn Manson | Rammstein performed The Beautiful People with | at the Echo Awards on March 22nd, 2012 |
| Matilda Betham | In 1816, the English poet | wrote a long poem about Marie de France in octosyllabic couplets, The Lay ... |
| Euripides | ... great tragedians. After a competition Aeschylus is chosen in preference to | |
| Lactantius | Many Christian writers, including | , Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and Giovanni Pico ... |
| Mahadevi Varma | ... l are known as Chhayavaadi. Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', | and Sumitranandan Pant, are the four major Chhayavaadi poets |
| Alicia Gaspar de Alba | ... n Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, | and Gloria Anzaldua |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The idea of a unified spacetime is stated by | in his essay on cosmology titled Eureka (1848) that "Space and duration ar ... |
| John Keats | ... board the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet | . Keats and Severn had known one another in England, but they were only pa ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | In A Study in Scarlet, a novel by | , the retribution of the Mormons is compared to that of the Vehmgericht |
| Horace | ... ure grew steadily in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Poets like Vergil, | , Ovid and Rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of Au ... |
| Hugo Grotius | ... s which regulate conduct in war and during peacetime. An early exponent was | , whose Rights of War and Peace (1625) had a major impact of the humanitar ... |
| Alessandro Manzoni | ... ham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, | , Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and James Cooley Fletcher |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... trammeled and "pure" nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as | and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural/occult a ... |
| Þjóðólfr of Hvinir | ... shields, as if they were shingles. Snorri then quotes a stanza by the skald | (c. 900). As he continues, Gangleri sees a man in the doorway of the hall ... |
| Plato | ... ry or anthropology. In a prominent example from Ancient Greece, philosopher | , when asked by a friend for a book to understand Athenian society, referr ... |
| George Orwell | ... father into the Indian Imperial Police, where he was posted to Burma (like | a generation later). Two years later, having contracted malaria, he resign ... |
| Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' | ... gures belonging to this school are known as Chhayavaadi. Jaishankar Prasad, | , Mahadevi Varma and Sumitranandan Pant, are the four major Chhayavaadi po ... |
| John Denham | ... lustrating the use of heroic couplets is this passage from Cooper's Hill by | , part of his description of the Thames |
| Euripides | ... is the author of four stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a version of | ' The Madness of Heracles. He was commissioned in 1996 by the National The ... |
| Osbert Sitwell | ... ew, and commissioned original material from "names" like Arnold Bennett and | . His artistic interests extended to music. While at Oxford he was introdu ... |
| Virgil | ... e waters of the Lethe in order to forget their earthly life. In the Aeneid, | writes that it is only when the dead have had their memories erased by the ... |
| Mikhail Lermontov | ... eventual recognition as Russia's greatest poet. Other Russian poets include | (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Ba ... |
| Hesiod | ... on of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often associated. | 's Theogony identifies her as the daughter of Eris ("strife"), and the sis ... |
| Oscar Wilde | ... ded soirees that included soldiers, politicians, literary lights (including | , Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning and Wilkie Collins), and artists (in ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... aphy of Arbuthnot is made difficult by his own reluctance to leave records. | noted to Joseph Spence that Arbuthnot allowed his infant children to play ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... o celebrate this death. To honor the date that both Miguel de Cervantes and | died, UNESCO established April 23 as the International Day of the Book. Ho ... |
| Jacques Prévert | ... American writer Henry Miller, and the French writers. Léon-Paul Fargue and | . In the late 1920s, he lived in the same hotel as Tihanyi |
| Aristophanes | ... end for a book to understand Athenian society, referred him to the plays of | |
| Hesiod | ... s companions in war and also his children, borne by Aphrodite, according to | . The sister and companion of the violent Ares is Eris, the goddess of dis ... |
| Sumitranandan Pant | ... yavaadi. Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Mahadevi Varma and | , are the four major Chhayavaadi poets |
| Osama bin Laden | Analysts believe | ordered the assassination to help his Taliban protectors and ensure he wou ... |
| Euripides | ... rodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and | |
| John Donne | ... losed and self-contained, as opposed to the enjambed couplets of poets like | . The heroic couplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of ... |
| Salvator Rosa | ... ne (1577–1660), Peter Paul Rubens (1573–1640), Rembrandt van Ryn (1606–69), | (1615–1673), Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666), Jacopo Ligozzi (c.1547–1632) ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... by various antiquarians (such as John Bale) and poets to John Wycliffe and | , amongst others. Some sixteenth and seventeenth-century persons regarded ... |
| Edmund Spenser | ... he Cave of Despair which was inspired by the epic poem The Faerie Queene by | . It was the first time the prize had been awarded in eight years and the ... |
| Ovid | ... ria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, | , Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and X ... |
| William Allingham | ... t stature "sinister, clever face" and with a "voice like a carving knife" ( | 's diary 1872), she moved into the Langham Hotel, London in 1867, where sh ... |
| Benedict Wallet Vilakazi | ... o the vacation course in African Studies. Doke supported the appointment of | as member of the staff, as he believed a native speaker was essential for ... |
| Aristophanes | ... historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, | , and Euripides |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... rhyme is always masculine. Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by | in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales |
| Bertolt Brecht | In | 's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... cations for people from the conurbations to purchase weekend holiday homes. | first conceived the idea for The Hound Of The Baskervilles whilst holidayi ... |
| Aristophanes | A third descent by Dionysus to Hades is invented by | in his comedy The Frogs. Dionysus, as patron of the Athenian dramatic fest ... |
| Léon-Paul Fargue | ... came friends with the American writer Henry Miller, and the French writers. | and Jacques Prévert. In the late 1920s, he lived in the same hotel as Tiha ... |
| Serge Gainsbourg | ... llaise", which can be heard on Part 2 of the Ken Burns TV documentary Jazz. | recorded a reggae version in 1978, titled "Aux Armes, Et Caetera" |
| Osama bin Laden | ... umbia River High School in Vancouver, Murray made a number of remarks about | , as she attempted to explain why the US had such problems winning hearts ... |
| Ossie Davis | ... from style to living life to the fullest from his wise chauffeur Marshall ( | ). Joe purchases four top-of-the-line, handcrafted, waterproof steamer tru ... |
| Nonnus | Another myth according to | involves Ampelos, a satyr. Foreseen by Dionysus, the youth was killed in a ... |
| Christopher Marlowe | This legend also inspired the drama Dido, Queen of Carthage by | . Even today, Dido appears in Sid Meier's strategy games Civilization II a ... |
| Sophocles | ... nd Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as | , Aristophanes, and Euripides |
| Ban Gu | ... d Histories, such as the Book of Han written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son | (32–92 CE), and his daughter Ban Zhao (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries ... |
| John Cage | ... n (often drawing equally on contemporary composers such as Anton Webern and | for inspiration) |
| William Butler Yeats | ... ilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – | – Andrew Youn |
| Pindar | ... ogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, | , Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| Shade, the Changing Man | ... ths, Infinite Crisis, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, The Sandman, Lucifer, and | . He was a recurring supporting character in both Swamp Thing and The Book ... |
| Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ic boys whose fathers had died before they reached maturity. These included | , Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton,and Roger Manners, 5th Earl o ... |
| Lactantius | After his conversion to Christianity, | (245–325) became the tutor to the son of emperor Constantine and a trencha ... |
| Fyodor Tyutchev | ... . Other Russian poets include Mikhail Lermontov (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), | (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and Wi ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... ub (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and | 's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scribl ... |
| John Dryden | ... e. The heroic couplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of | and Alexander Pope. Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the work ... |
| Emperor Wen of Wei | ... had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known posthumously as | . This formally ended the Han Dynasty and initiated an age of conflict bet ... |
| Catherine Des Roches | ... lection of poems on flea (La Puce de Madame Des Roches, published 1583; see | ) |
| Nas | ... y become faster and more ‘complex’”. He cites “members of the Wu-Tang Clan, | , AZ, Big Pun, and Ras Kass, just to name a few” as artists who exemplify ... |
| Justinas Marcinkevičius | ... rary works: the Latvian author Mārtiņš Zīverts' tragedy Vara (Power, 1944), | ' drama-poem Mindaugas (1968), Romualdas Granauskas' Jaučio aukojimas (The ... |
| Juliusz Słowacki | Mindaugas is the primary subject of the 1829 drama Mindowe, by | , one of the Three Bards. He has been portrayed in several 20th-century li ... |
| Carol Ann Duffy | In September 2009, the school had a visit from the Poet Laureate | who gave a speech to pupils from the school and others from the whole of A ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... the attacks made on him by John Dryden in his satirical MacFlecknoe, and by | in The Dunciad. Whatever the justice of these, it should be borne in mind ... |
| Henrik Wergeland | ... insbourg recorded a reggae version in 1978, titled "Aux Armes, Et Caetera". | wrote a Norwegian version of the song in 1831, called "The Norwegian Marse ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... Who, Bill Withers, Betty Carter, Peggy Lee, The Folk Implosion, Gomez, and | , as well as two cover versions—The Beatles' "Because" performed by Elliot ... |
| Plato | ... Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, | , Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| Richard Aldington | | – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William ... |
| John Cage | (Sometimes referred to as "found" instruments or as custom percussion) | , Harry Partch, Edgard Varèse, and Peter Schickele, all noted composers, c ... |
| Charlotte Mew | ... r employing several eminent names as reviewers, including E. M. Forster and | , and commissioned original material from "names" like Arnold Bennett and ... |
| Joyce Carol Oates | ... ne of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. According to | , Lovecraft—as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century—has exerted "an in ... |
| Moschus | ... be the daughter of Agenor, the Phoenician King of Tyre; the Syracusan poet | makes her mother Queen Telephassa ("far-shining") but elsewhere her mother ... |
| Nancy Cunard | ... rald, Lady Cunard (wife of the third baronet), and the great-grandfather of | |
| Samuel Johnson | ... fluential lexicographers (dictionary writers) on each side of the Atlantic. | 's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as ... |
| Three Bards | ... primary subject of the 1829 drama Mindowe, by Juliusz Słowacki, one of the | . He has been portrayed in several 20th-century literary works: the Latvia ... |
| William Plomer | ... the eyes and a rose in its mouth. The book was dedicated to "gentle reader, | ", the editor of a number of the Fleming novels. Fleming took part in a se ... |
| Walter Raleigh | ... Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir Francis Drake and Sir | . The flotilla was broken up by a storm, and the flagship, the Sea Venture ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... uplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of John Dryden and | . Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Po ... |
| William S. Burroughs | ... g on audio tape versions of the cut-up technique using recorded readings by | . Oswald discovered in repeated instances of Burroughs speaking the phrase ... |
| Gertrude Stein | ... other than Picasso or Braque. Although Gris regarded Picasso as a teacher, | wrote in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas that "Juan Gris was the only ... |
| Yevgeny Baratynsky | ... l Lermontov (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), | 's (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and Wilhelm Küchelbecker |
| William Blake | ... antic movement. Its major exponents in English included the artist and poet | and poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord By ... |
| K'naan | ... tists for Haiti song, in which many Canadian artists came together and sang | 's inspirational song "Wavin' Flag" to raise money for the victims of the ... |
| Aristophanes | ... topics it deals with. From the earliest times, at least since the plays of | , the primary topics of literary satire are politics, religion and sex. On ... |
| José Rizal | ... emiere park, Rizal Park, which was erected for the country's national hero, | . Besides having parks and green areas, Manila is the home to several plaz ... |
| George Orwell | ... om a Teac 4 track tape-recorder christened "Winston" (after the antihero of | 's novel Nineteen Eighty-four). Their debut performance was in October 197 ... |
| Jim Harrison | ... unning conversations between Snyder and poet, writer and longtime colleague | , filmed mostly on the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, California. The film al ... |
| Donald Wandrei | ... ng company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents, August Derleth and | , takes its name from this city as a tribute |
| John Dryden | ... dramatic adaptation of the novel for radio was produced for BBC Radio 4 by | in 2000. An operatic adaptation, The Handmaid's Tale, by Poul Ruders, prem ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... r poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are | 's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, an ... |
| Anthony Thwaite | ... Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – | – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – Jo ... |
| William Wordsworth | ... r exponents in English included the artist and poet William Blake and poets | , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley ... |
| Hesiod | ... f the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. The name Europa occurs in | 's long list of daughters of primordial Oceanus and Tethys. The story of h ... |
| Nonnus | ... mes rescued him and Artemis tricked the Aloadae into slaying each other. In | ' Dionysiaca Ares also killed Ekhidnades, the giant son of and a great ene ... |
| Craig Charles | ... organised a comedy tour featuring Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, | , Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfield, and another tour by the main musical pa ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... ters of the 20th century. According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft—as with | in the 19th century—has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding g ... |
| Giuseppe Giacosa | ... while her lover Cavaradossi, of Roman descent, is born in Paris. Illica and | , the playwright who joined the project to polish the verses, needed not o ... |
| Martín Adán | ... first literary influences were relatively obscure Peruvian writers such as | , Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and César Moro. As a young writer, he looked to ... |
| Kenneth Allott | Richard Aldington – | – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver ... |
| Heinrich Heine | ... mann used part of "La Marseillaise" for his 1840 setting (Op. 49, No. 1) of | 's poem "Die Beiden Grenadiere" (The Two Grenadiers). The quotation appear ... |
| Plato | ... nevertheless well known to his fellow northern-born philosopher Aristotle. | is said to have disliked him so much that he wished all his books burned. ... |
| Jean Genet | ... t how many contemporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, | , and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the existentialist belief that w ... |
| Rupert Brooke | ... for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included | and Robert Frost. Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Pro ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ships with such historical figures as Edward, the Black Prince of Wales and | |
| Chinua Achebe | ... guage means knowing how to intersperse speech with a good dose of proverbs. | (in Things Fall Apart) describes proverbs as "the palm oil with which word ... |
| Hesiod | ... al reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and | , historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocl ... |
| Patti Smith | ... their opening for the first British tours of American punks The Ramones and | . Notwithstanding this association, some of the movement's champions in th ... |
| Fujiwara no Teika | ... 首, lit. 100 people, 1 poem). Compiled in the early 13th century by the poet | , this game contains one hundred poems, with each one written by a differe ... |
| Michael McClure | ... George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, | , Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov |
| Silius Italicus | ... nibal belonged, claimed descent from a younger brother of Dido according to | in his Punica (1.71–7) |
| Carlos Oquendo de Amat | ... ry influences were relatively obscure Peruvian writers such as Martín Adán, | , and César Moro. As a young writer, he looked to these revolutionary nove ... |
| Douglas Hyde | Dr | Park, with a capacity of 30,000 is an important Gaelic Athletic Associatio ... |
| Matthew Arnold | Richard Aldington – Kenneth Allott – | – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire ... |
| Robert Burns | ... his army, with only £1,000 and 255 pairs of shoes having been handed over. | moved to Dumfriesshire in 1788 and Dumfries itself in 1791, living there u ... |
| Lord Byron | ... related that his ancestor of the same name had sat in the same garden with | , discussing publication of Byron's works |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... sh included the artist and poet William Blake and poets William Wordsworth, | , John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The movement stressed t ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | An early German influence came from | , whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout E ... |
| Eratosthenes | The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by | . Eratosthenes knew that in Syene, in Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | La rabbia, 1963. Co-director with | |
| Oliver Goldsmith | ... works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, | 's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia. The form was immensely po ... |
| Plato | Like Heraclitus, | speaks of only one Sibyl, but in course of time the number increased to ni ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... tion of the face of the individual in question—for example, a caricature of | might focus on his facial hair and nose; a caricature of George W. Bush mi ... |
| Okwui Enwezor | ... 2002, Pettibon participated in Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany, curated by | . He also had a solo exhibition, Raymond Pettibon Plots Laid Thick, organi ... |
| Jean Cocteau | ... uced at the Chatelet Theatre, Paris, on May 18, 1917, that was conceived by | , with design by Pablo Picasso, choreography by Leonid Massine, and music ... |
| John Gay | ... rrangement of the music for The Beggar's Opera (1728) -- to the libretto of | -- he composed many other works including stage and church music as well a ... |
| L. Frank Baum | ... ights to the Broadway play The Wiz, an African-American reinterpretation of | 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Although teenage Stephanie Mills, a veteran ... |
| Burn's | ... festivities now is to study old traditions, and hold a Scotch party, using | poem Hallowe'en as a guide; or to go a-souling as the English used. In sho ... |
| Bede | Historians since | have traditionally represented the years preceding AD 1 as "1 BC", "2 BC", ... |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ... ets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron and | . The movement stressed the importance of "nature" in art and language, in ... |
| Mallarmé | ... r Yeats, Arthur Symons and the Rhymers' Club generation of British poets to | .and the Symbolist source was amplified further in Taupin's study publishe ... |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ... iz, John Greenleaf Whittier, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, | , Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herc ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... of Jonathan Swift, v. 13, Oxford UP, 1959, p. 123), a sentiment with which | agreed. Historian said in 1977 that More was "the first great Englishman w ... |
| Plato | ... , so they would not remember their past lives. The Myth of Er at the end of | 's Republic tells of the dead arriving at the "plain of Lethe", through wh ... |
| John Cornford | ... y, our advance continued without loss of land". Poets Ralph Winston Fox and | were killed. Eventually, the Nationalists advanced, taking the hydro elect ... |
| Patti Smith | ... before evolving into mainstream New Wave. Other major acts include Blondie, | and Television. In the 1980s some punk fans and bands became disillusioned ... |
| Ptolemy | ... m that was used for terrestrial maps in the same way as Marinus of Tyre and | , who were contemporaries |
| Francis Thompson | ... tes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – | – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner ... |
| Wilfred Owen | At Craiglockhart, Sassoon met | , a fellow poet who would eventually exceed him in fame. It was thanks to ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... ession. This is the source of the River Avon, Warwickshire, associated with | |
| Alexander Pushkin | ... the Cold, 1803). However the principal exponent of Romanticism in Russia is | (The Prisoner of the Caucasus, 1820–1821; The Robber Brothers, 1822; Rusla ... |
| John Bolitho | ... one in Restormel (the party leader Dick Cole) and, until his death in 2005, | in North Cornwall. One of the MK councillors in Kerrier, Loveday Jenkin, j ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... ty in Highgate was a refuge for former prostitutes - "fallen women" - where | was a volunteer from 1859 to 1870. It may have inspired her best-known poe ... |
| John Keats | ... 's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and | 's Lamia. The form was immensely popular in the 18th century. The looser t ... |
| Harold Pinter | The 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale was based on a screenplay by | and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It starred Natasha Richardson as Offre ... |
| W. H. Auden | Richard Aldington – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – | – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Lauren ... |
| Aeschylus | This story is the major plot line of | 's trilogy The Oresteia |
| Robert Browning | ... s, politicians, literary lights (including Oscar Wilde, Algernon Swinburne, | and Wilkie Collins), and artists (including John Millais). Many of her sto ... |
| John Keats | ... d poet William Blake and poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, | , Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The movement stressed the importanc ... |
| Plato | | in his dialogue The Statesman tells a "famous tale" that "the sun and the ... |
| Walter Scott | ... ssian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young | . Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as the ... |
| Edmund Wilson | ... the period of his fame by Hugh Walpole, W. A. McNeill, and Carl van Doren. | tried to rehabilitate his reputation with a long essay in The New Yorker |
| Samuel Beckett | ... Theatre of the Absurd pointed out how many contemporary playwrights such as | , Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... feated his academic adversaries in the Phalaris controversy. The attacks by | (he was assigned a niche in The Dunciad), John Arbuthnot and others demons ... |
| Aristophanes | ... r ridiculed as often as they have been idolized. The classical Greek writer | , devoted an entire comedy, the Lysistrata, to a strike organised by milit ... |
| Chrétien de Troyes | In several early French works such as | ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... his appreciation of writers of similar sensibilities, like D. H. Lawrence, | , and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. William Carlos Williams was ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany as | , and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/Edward, the Black Prince |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... in Günter Grass's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, | , shortly before both of them died in the summer of 1956. It is unclear if ... |
| Harry McClintock | "Big Rock Candy Mountain", first recorded by | in 1928, is a song about a hobo's idea of paradise, a modern version of th ... |
| Ovid | Letter 7 of | 's Heroides is a feigned letter from Dido to Aeneas written just before sh ... |
| Margaret Atwood | ... 9), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) and | 's Handmaid's Tale (1985) |
| William Shakespeare | ... feast days of patron saints; 23 April (St George's Day and the birthday of | ) in England and 1 March (St David's Day) in Wales are not currently recog ... |
| Parmenides | ... tion credited the Greek philosophers Pythagoras, in the 6th century BC, and | , in the 5th, with recognizing that the Earth is spherical |
| Jonathan Swift | ... England never had and never again will have its like". Two centuries later | said he was "the person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced" ... |
| Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar | ... religion. The western system of education was introduced during the rule of | , when two schools were established in Bangalore. Subsequently, Wesleyan M ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... d the inlay cover made great mention of comic legends' appearances, such as | , Michael Palin and Bernard Manning. Content-wise, it is very similar to t ... |
| Virgil | ... gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus." | , in book IV of the Aeneid, references the House of Atreus and specificall ... |
| W. S. Di Piero | ... times; the Anglo-Saxon influences in his work and study are strong. Critic | noted "Whatever the occasion, childhood, farm life, politics and culture i ... |
| Lactantius | ... rtine Sibyl, probably Etruscan in origin, added by the Romans. According to | ' Divine Institutions (i.6, 4th century AD, quoting from a lost work of Va ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... (Something Else! and Tomorrow Is the Question) and the first two albums by | (Jazz Advance and Looking Ahead) mark the beginnings of free jazz, though ... |
| Dicuil | ... osiers in Iceland when they arrived. This is also hinted at in the works of | . The Norse called the priests papar, a name found as an element in many p ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... uildings (about 5,000), including those on the quays, are from this period. | found the town so beautiful he once said: "take Versailles, add Antwerp, a ... |
| Shakespeare | ... ich a perfect and equal world contradictorily considers works like those of | "smut" |
| Margaret Walker | ... pi and national authors, both black and white: Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, | and Anne Moody. In 1969, Medgar Evers College was established in Brooklyn, ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... illaise" as a major motif in his overture Hermann und Dorothea, inspired by | , and quotes it, in waltz rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwan ... |
| Oscar Wilde | ... ), a short story written by Marcel Schwob—a French novelist and a friend of | —was published in 1893 while Chambers was still studying in Paris. In this ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... d often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, | , and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. W ... |
| Nicander | ... n attacks Artemis while hunting on Chios, and the Scorpion kills him there. | , in his Theriaca, has the scorpion of ordinary size and hiding under a sm ... |
| Roma Ryan | ... album Amarantine Enya sings in Japanese and Loxian, a language invented by | . The vocabulary is formed by Enya singing the notes to which Roma provide ... |
| Richard Jenkin | ... n the first elections to the European Parliament, Mebyon Kernow's candidate | was able to attract almost ten percent of the vote in the Cornwall seat. M ... |
| Michael Drayton | ... ate doth stand With towns of high'st regard the fourth of all the land", as | noted in Poly-Olbion (1612). The wealth generated by the wool trade throug ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... allusion to the works of poets of previous centuries. An example of this is | 's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poe ... |
| Scriblerus Club | ... 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the | . He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Joh ... |
| Hilaire Belloc | ... ew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – | – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Ruper ... |
| C. S. Lewis | For his seventh birthday, Gaiman received | 's The Chronicles of Narnia series. He later recalled that "I admired his ... |
| Plato | ... Western politics can be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, | (427–347 BC), Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC), and Aristotle ("The Father of Poli ... |
| Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ministration under King James I. His daughter Anne became the first wife of | in 1571; she served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth before her marr ... |
| Lalitha Lenin | ... e, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, | , P. Bhaskaran, Joseph Mundassery |
| Oscar Wilde | ... – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – | – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wor ... |
| William Carlos Williams | ... awrence, William Butler Yeats, and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. | was another influence, especially on Snyder's earliest published work. Sta ... |
| Robert Sherard | ... biography he was more sympathetic to Wilde. Of Wilde's other close friends, | , Robert Ross, his literary executor; and Charles Ricketts variously publi ... |
| John Betjeman | ... th Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – | – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Rober ... |
| Gackt | ... tracks are sold on CD. Famous singers like Hikaru Utada, Ayumi Hamasaki and | sometimes sing songs for games as well, and this is also seen as a way for ... |
| Henry Aldrich | ... church spire collapsed in 1700, amateur architect and Dean of Christ Church | designed a new church; it is thought, however, that on some of the later f ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | In 1817 the poet, aesthetic philosopher and critic | came to live in the Highgate home of Dr James Gillman in order to rehabili ... |
| Shakespeare | ... w it. Stymied, he spent his time in translating works such as the Bible and | . This enforced delay led to continued improvement. In July 1887 he publis ... |
| Leonard Nimoy | ... in "Invasive Procedures", and later joined the cast of as the Vulcan Tuvok. | and DeForest Kelley declined to appear. Their lines, as Spock and McCoy, w ... |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | | 's poetry partially inspired the movie; Wenders claimed angels seemed to d ... |
| Thomas Disch | When asked the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, | identified Isaac Asimov and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too ... |
| James Agee | ... the film achieved widespread public and critical acclaim. Hollywood writer | called it "one of the most beautiful and visually alive moves I have ever ... |
| Earle Birney | ... elling Place (1961) was published after Lowry's death. The scholar and poet | edited Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (1962). He also collaborated with L ... |
| Bede | ... mpose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century monk | . He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational rel ... |
| Hesiod | ... the 8th century BC. Another early reference to her is in a fragment of the | ic Catalogue of Women, discovered at Oxyrhynchus. The earliest vase-painti ... |
| A. A. Milne | ... nfluenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced | , Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse |
| T. S. Eliot | ... ised Modernist English language literary movement or group. In the words of | : "The point de repère usually and conveniently taken as the starting-poin ... |
| Günter Grass | ... ) and even after World War II (as the 'Static' poet). He was referred to in | 's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, Bertolt Brecht ... |
| Taliesin | ... ass of the period, captured the popular imagination. Writers and poets like | , Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring ... |
| Hedd Wyn | The Welsh poet | used Fleur de Lys as his pen name when he won his chair at the National Ei ... |
| Robinson Jeffers | ... published work. Starting in high school, Snyder read and loved the work of | , his predecessor in poetry of the landscape of the American West; but, wh ... |
| Bob Dylan | The murder and subsequent trials caused an uproar. Musician | wrote his 1963 song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" about Evers and his assass ... |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | ... became his friends, including Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur, Louis Agassiz, | , Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfello ... |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | ... ometimes factually inaccurate, it offers a good literary portrait of Wilde. | wrote two books about his relationship with Wilde: Oscar Wilde and Myself ... |
| Attoor Ravi Varma | ... sh, Sukumar Azhikode, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), | , Lalitha Lenin, P. Bhaskaran, Joseph Mundassery |
| John Betjeman | ... in London, where he taught French and Latin—his students included the young | . Later he taught at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, a state schoo ... |
| Claudius Ptolemaeus | ... e Nile one must travel to reach it. Maps of Egypt, based on the 2nd century | ' mammoth work Geographia, have been circling in Europe since the late 14t ... |
| Chrétien de Troyes | ... period, captured the popular imagination. Writers and poets like Taliesin, | and Thomas Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring Arthur, Guinevere, L ... |
| Euripides | | composed a tragedy about the destructive nature of Dionysus in The Bacchae ... |
| Hesiod | ... r to have had diverse kinds of plough from the earliest historical records. | advised the farmer to have always two ploughs, so that if one broke the ot ... |
| Chidiock Tichborne | ... homas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – | – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – John Wilmot, Lord Roche ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | | and Friedrich Nietzsche were two of the first philosophers considered fund ... |
| Raymond Queneau | ... a in the Square de Châtillon. Nicknamed L'ironique amusé, he was invited by | in 1968 to join the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) group of e ... |
| Ruth Padel | ... in 2006 which left him "babyish" and "on the brink". Poet and Forward judge | described the work as "a collection of painful, honest, and delicately wei ... |
| Samuel Daniel's | ... en consulted, and scholars have supposed that Shakespeare was familiar with | poem on the civil wars |
| Aratus | ... ed either Artemis or the Hyperborean maiden Opis in her band of huntresses. | 's brief description, in his Astronomy, conflates the elements of the myth ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century by | , Hel is referred to, though never by name. In chapter 17, the king Dyggvi ... |
| César Moro | ... y obscure Peruvian writers such as Martín Adán, Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and | . As a young writer, he looked to these revolutionary novelists in search ... |
| Anne Askew | ... me between Henry's death and the publication of the book. Her sympathy with | , the Protestant martyr who fiercely opposed the Catholic belief of transu ... |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 film version of the famous Alice novels of | . The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, featuring an all-star cast. ... |
| Þjóðólfr of Hvinir | ... eferenced in the phrase "visiting Odin" in a work by the 10th century skald | describing that, upon his death, King Vanlandi went to Valhalla |
| Ruhollah Khomeini | ... archy to a theocratic Islamist government under the leadership of Ayatollah | ; The popularity of the disco music genre peaked during the middle to late ... |
| Zack de la Rocha | ... Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 | ;, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist; and Los ... |
| Patti Smith | ... eet Band, Jon Bon Jovi and Bon Jovi, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, | , Arthur Pryor, Count Basie, Gary U.S. Bonds, along with many more |
| Roma Ryan | ... o composes and performs the music; Nicky Ryan, who produces the albums; and | , who writes the lyrics in various languages, except Irish, in which Enya ... |
| Hesiod | In the Iliad (4.514), the Homeric Hymns, and in | 's Theogony, Athena is given the curious epithet Tritogeneia. The meaning ... |
| Konstantin Batyushkov | Early Russian Romanticism is associated with the writers | (A Vision on the Shores of the Lethe, 1809), Vasily Zhukovsky (The Bard, 1 ... |
| Thomas Chatterton | ... intained that invention and imagination were the chief qualities of a poet. | is generally considered to be the first Romantic poet in English. The Scot ... |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ing us by not admitting it." The famous author and believer in spiritualism | had years earlier made a similar accusation against the magician Harry Hou ... |
| Oscar Wilde | It is also possible that the play Salomé by | , published in 1893, was another symbolist source of inspiration for The K ... |
| Virgil | The main ancient source for the story is the Aeneid of | , a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. The event does not occur in ... |
| Lucretius | ... zone (equator) and the ocean. This took a strong hold on the medieval mind. | (1st. c. BC) opposed the concept of a spherical Earth, because he consider ... |
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| Harold Budd | Ambient composer | (raised in the desert town of Victorville, CA) recites his "Poem: Distant ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... e was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, but being weary, according to | , "of either the restraint or the servility of his occupation", he soon re ... |
| José María Arguedas | ... of land and rural life made famous by Peru's foremost novelist at the time, | . Vargas Llosa wrote of Arguedas's work that it was "an example of old-fas ... |
| Vasily Zhukovsky | ... writers Konstantin Batyushkov (A Vision on the Shores of the Lethe, 1809), | (The Bard, 1811; Svetlana, 1813) and Nikolay Karamzin (Poor Liza, 1792; Ju ... |
| Hugh MacDiarmid | ... been translated in English as Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space by | and E. Harley Schubert in 1956. A new English translation was published in ... |
| Jean Cocteau | ... was shot by the 77 year-old cinematographer Henri Alekan, who had worked on | 's La Belle et la Bête). It represents the angels' point of view in monoch ... |
| Jia Yi | Han scholars such as | (201–169 BCE) portrayed the previous Qin Dynasty as a brutal regime. Howev ... |
| P. Bhaskaran | ... andan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, Lalitha Lenin, | , Joseph Mundassery |
| Cecil Taylor | ... en strict rules of bebop could be loosened or abandoned at will. Similarly, | , the most prominent free jazz pianist, began stretching the bop boundarie ... |
| Sophocles | ... gods indifferent to its sufferings and aspirations. In the Œdipus Tyrannus | 's hero becomes gradually aware of the terrible fact that, however hard hi ... |
| Jean Gerson | ... of Cardinal Richelieu he began a controversy with the Benedictines, denying | 's authorship of De Imitatione Christi. Richelieu intended to make Naudé h ... |
| Laurence Binyon | ... . Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – | – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Rober ... |
| Alexander Pope | The dedication of his Rural Sports (1713) to | was the beginning of a lasting friendship. In 1714, Gay wrote The Shepherd ... |
| James Macpherson | ... ally considered to be the first Romantic poet in English. The Scottish poet | influenced the early development of Romanticism with the international suc ... |
| Frederick II | ... g part in German affairs during the early years of the reign of the emperor | , and died (assassinated) at Kelheim in September 1231. His son Otto II, c ... |
| Edward Thomas | ... tershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost. | also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Professor of English at the Univers ... |
| Robert Browning | ... tjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – | – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Har ... |
| Cornelius Gallus | ... lection of melodramatic plots drawn up by an Alexandrian poet for the Roman | to make into Latin verse. It describes Orion as slaying the wild beasts of ... |
| Voltaire | ... d much attention. Later deism spread to France, notably through the work of | , to Germany, and to America |
| Ovid | ... dons) over whom Aeacus ruled, or that he made men grow up out of the earth. | , on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the t ... |
| William Everson | ... indbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included | , Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz and Edward Abbey |
| Oscar Wilde | ... hort story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by | , Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Cowa ... |
| Clarence Day | ... as part of his Mercury Theatre on the Air program. The episode also adapted | 's Life with Father |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida (as well as in tales by | and others). It is also designated Uranus IX |
| Edmund Spenser | In The Faerie Queene (first published in 1590) | wrote of the river |
| William Shakespeare | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by | , believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the It ... |
| George Orwell | ... y those in enemy and occupied territories who often had to listen secretly. | broadcast many news bulletins on the Eastern Service during World War II |
| William Shakespeare | ... named after the Trojan daughter of Calchas, a tragic heroine who appears in | 's play Troilus and Cressida (as well as in tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and ... |
| John Milton | ... e hath been affirmed by Inhabitants thereabout reporting triall made of it. | (c. 1562–1647) described the river a |
| Ippolit Bogdanovich | ... inspired the Russian Enlightenment. Gavrila Derzhavin, Denis Fonvizin, and | laid the groundwork for the great writers of the nineteenth century, espec ... |
| Michael Drayton | In Poly-Olbion (first published in 1612) the poet | described the journey taken by the River Thames to the sea |
| Michael Madsen | ... to star in Chamaco with Kirk Harris, Alex Perea, Gustavo Sanchez Parra and | . In November 2010 he filmed Stella Days in County Tipperary, Ireland, nea ... |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | ... er became the Virginia Colony. The enterprise was financed and organized by | and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cou ... |
| Shelley Berman | Other notable comics from this era include Woody Allen, | and Bob Newhart. Some African-American comedians such as Redd Foxx, George ... |
| Creophylus | ... ers exclusively Egyptian and Oriental. We find mentioned as his instructors | , Hermodamas of Samos, Bias, Thales, Anaximander, and Pherecydes of Syros. ... |
| William Blake | File:Blake - Albión.jpg| | , Albion Rose, 1794- |
| Rupert Brooke | ... Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – | – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K ... |
| Dorothy Parker | ... s considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and | . Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influe ... |
| Voltaire | ... inting. The collection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, | , Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas H ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Possible influences may include | 's "The Masque of the Red Death". Its synopsis is similar to Chambers's im ... |
| Boris Pasternak | ... all critics of Marxism as reactionary. One example of this took place after | was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel Doctor Zhivago. O ... |
| Walter Scott | ... ds, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir | 's novel Kenilworth in 1826. English Heritage has managed the castle since ... |
| Aeschylus | The Greek tragedian | wrote a trilogy of plays about Achilles, given the title Achilleis by mode ... |
| Mahmoud Darwish | ... rming the municipality decision. In response, the Palestinian national poet | warned that "There are Taliban-type elements in our society, and this is a ... |
| Arthur Symons | ... tant moment of Eliot's undergraduate career was in 1908, when he discovered | 's The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899). This introduced him to Jul ... |
| Alexander Pushkin | ... groundwork for the great writers of the nineteenth century, especially for | . Catherine became a great patron of Russian opera (see Catherine II and o ... |
| Lionel Johnson | ... published in 1929. In 1915, Pound edited the poetry of another 1890s poet, | for the publisher Elkin Mathews. In his introduction, he wrot |
| Natsume Sōseki | ... ura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. Mori Ōgai and | studied in the West and introduced a more modern view of human life |
| Lenny Bruce | ... vels, has often been likened to the stand-up performances of 1960s comedian | |
| Lionel Johnson | In mid-1891 | introduced Wilde to Alfred Douglas, an undergraduate at Oxford at the time ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... early 1960s he traveled for six months through India with his wife Joanne, | , and Peter Orlovsky. Snyder and Joanne Kyger separated soon after a trip ... |
| Goethe | ... ic Language. His cycle of poems had widespread influence on such writers as | and the young Walter Scott, but there was controversy from the outset abou ... |
| Plato | ... problems. Some attribute it as a carefully constructed myth by followers of | over two centuries after the death of Pythagoras, mainly to bolster the ca ... |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Between 1835 and 1848 | (1805–1875) of Denmark published his beloved fairy tales: The Little Merma ... |
| Milton | ... n the depiction of Pandæmonium with its "Belched fire and rolling smoke" in | 's Paradise Lost. Of all the characters, Smaug's speech is the most modern ... |
| Seán MacEntee | ... change was the retirement of such political heavyweights as James Ryan and | , with Lynch taking over from the former as Minister for Finance. This app ... |
| Plato | ... library in which he immersed himself, reading many classic works, including | 's Republic, and More's Utopia. This would be the beginning of Herbert Geo ... |
| John Gay | ... of the famous Tory satirists of the previous generation (Jonathan Swift and | , in particular) |
| Edmund Blunden | ... Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – | – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thoma ... |
| Scofield Thayer | ... tended Milton Academy in Massachusetts for a preparatory year, where he met | , who would later publish The Waste Land. He studied philosophy at Harvard ... |
| Mori Ōgai | ... ukiyo-e. Okakura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. | and Natsume Sōseki studied in the West and introduced a more modern view o ... |
| H.D. | ... group: his former fiancée Hilda Doolittle (who had started signing her work | ) and her future husband Richard Aldington. These two were interested in e ... |
| Johannes Theodor Baargeld | ... artistic pursuits in the years to come. Also in 1919 Ernst, social activist | , and a number of their friends and colleagues founded the Cologne Dada gr ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of | . The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the Oulipo; t ... |
| Hermann Hesse | ... t in many of his short stories), and Aleister Crowley, with figures such as | being more moderatedly influenced. Rene Guenon founded the gnostic review, ... |
| Sappho | ... ton. These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially | , an interest that Pound shared. The compression of expression that they a ... |
| Robert Bly | ... Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included William Everson, | , Czesław Miłosz and Edward Abbey |
| Ambrose Bierce | Chambers borrowed the names Carcosa, Hali, and Hastur from | : specifically, his short stories "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" and "Haïta th ... |
| William Blake | ... Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – | – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas ... |
| Mike Harding | Paying tribute to Martyn, BBC Radio 2's folk presenter | said |
| H. C. Andersen | ... tomte would gain popularity. In the English editions of the fairy tales of | the word nisse has been inaccurately translated as goblin (a more accurate ... |
| Clark Ashton Smith | ... Circus of Dr. Lao was influenced by Cabell's work. The Averoigne stories of | are, in background, close to those of Cabell's Poictesme. Jack Vance's Dyi ... |
| Czesław Miłosz | ... Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, | and Edward Abbey |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... of Lowry's final work in progress, La Mordida, and his screen adaptation of | 's Tender Is the Night have also been published |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... nofsky film The Fountain search for the Tree of Life to cure a brain tumor. | refers to the Fountain of Life in a short story in the book , in which the ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... follows the model of the famous Tory satirists of the previous generation ( | and John Gay, in particular) |
| Cao Cao | ... histication and complexity reached new heights. The earlier Cao Zhi, son of | , is regarded as one of the greatest poets of his day. His style and deep ... |
| Pushkin | ... came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Soon after meeting | at a dinner, Tolstoy began reading his prose, and once had a fleeting dayd ... |
| Chinua Achebe | In a post-colonial reading, the Nigerian writer | , author of Things Fall Apart, famously criticized Heart of Darkness in hi ... |
| Théophile Gautier | ... lfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant | , whose prolific output in various forms continued until his death in 1872 ... |
| Plato | ... molao Barbaro in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of | and Aristotle, since he believed they both used different words to express ... |
| Richard Aldington | ... da Doolittle (who had started signing her work H.D.) and her future husband | . These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially S ... |
| Xie Lingyun | ... World (Shishuo xinyu). The "Three Giants of Yuanjia," Bao Zhao 鮑照 (d.466), | 謝霊運 (385–433), and Yan Yanzhi 顏延之 (384–456) are perhaps the most famous po ... |
| Dungal | ... rs discussed Macrobius's view of the antipodes. One of them, the Irish monk | , asserted that the tropical gap between our habitable region and the othe ... |
| Marilyn Manson | ... albums. The only track to make it on to a full Berlin release is a cover of | 's "The Dope Show", which is included on Berlin's 4play album as well as t ... |
| Aristeas of Marmora | ... s the father of Greek hero Orpheus by the muse Calliope, and once-patron of | , taking the role given in legend to Apollo, with whom he is often confuse ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... too"" came from not only Ireland but from the continent, led by playwrights | , Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan. Alan Simpson was later released. The pre ... |
| Kobayashi Issa | He once wrote a paper under a pseudonym derived from | , a famous Japanese haiku poet. The result is known as Issa's theorem in c ... |
| Magha | ... mes appear in the 19th canto of the 8th-century epic poem Śiśupāla-vadha by | . It yields the same text if read forward, backward, down, up, or diagonal ... |
| James J. Montague | ... ics, and all of Pulitzer's Sunday staff as well. Another prominent hire was | , who came from the Portland Oregonian and started his well-known "More Tr ... |
| John Cage | ... xtended to Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as | , Leon Kirchner and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a g ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... rooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – | – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donal ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... the book was based upon the poem "A Tree Song" from Puck of Pook's Hill by | , which she had enjoyed as a child. The chant in question stated that |
| Ibn Arabi | Several Sufi saints and thinkers, primarily | , held beliefs that were somewhat panentheistic. These notions later took ... |
| Metastasio | ... Alessandro Scarlatti was the most noted composer. In Vienna the court poet | produced annually a series of oratorios for the court which were set by Ca ... |
| Edward Carpenter | ... the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, John Addington Symonds, | , Aimée Duc and others. These writers described themselves and those like ... |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | ... tic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, | and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolific output in various for ... |
| Robert Duncan | The first prominent American to reveal his homosexuality was the poet | . In 1944, using his own name in the anarchist magazine Politics, he claim ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... include Hans Jonas, Philip K. Dick and Harold Bloom, with Albert Camus and | being more moderately influenced. A number of ecclesiastical bodies which ... |
| Brendan Behan | ... but from the continent, led by playwrights Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey and | . Alan Simpson was later released. The presiding judge, Justice O'Flynn, r ... |
| Thomas Campion | ... lunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – | – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – Jo ... |
| Shakespeare | ... han three hundred years. It was so widely used by Elizabethan scholars that | was able to refer to it in the second scene of Act IV of Titus Andronicus, ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... s, such as Aleister Crowley, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even | , went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca |
| Elizabeth Siddal | Rossetti's wife | died of an overdose of laudanum in 1862, shortly after giving birth to a s ... |
| Rowan Williams | The current archbishop is the Most Reverend | . He is the 104th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to St Aug ... |
| Walter Raleigh | ... Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted | a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florida. In 1584, Raleigh sen ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ted by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on | 's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. I ... |
| Ezra Pound | ... d what came to be seen as "Imagism's enabling text", the haiku-like poem of | entitled "In a Station of the Metro" |
| Philip Larkin | Other Coventrians in the arts include the highly acclaimed poet | , actors Billie Whitelaw, Nigel Hawthorne, Brendan Price and Clive Owen, a ... |
| Gérard de Nerval | French Romantic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, | , Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolif ... |
| Virgil | ... historian Herodotus stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in | 's epic poem the Aeneid, and Etruscan-like language was found on the Lemno ... |
| Tulsidas | ... rd of the gate of Bali Maharaja's planet Sutala and will remain so forever. | ' Ramayana too declares that Vamana became the "dwarpal" (gate-defender) o ... |
| Robert W. Service | ... later became the Ester Gold Camp, featured a musical variety show including | 's poetry, held at a sawdust-strewn bar known as the Malemute Saloon, afte ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... d writer throughout his youth who was greatly influenced by the writings of | . Bradbury was especially impressed with Poe's ability to draw readers int ... |
| Robert Bloomfield | ... er Pope (1688–1744) wrote in his poem Windsor Forest (first published 1713) | (1766–1823) writes the following lines about the Mole Valley in his 1806 p ... |
| John Addington Symonds | ... richs and continuing in the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, | , Edward Carpenter, Aimée Duc and others. These writers described themselv ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... with whom tourist attractions have been established: for example the author | who included many local features and characters in his works |
| Cao Zhi | ... ge, as their sophistication and complexity reached new heights. The earlier | , son of Cao Cao, is regarded as one of the greatest poets of his day. His ... |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | ... ulation was already a standard practice but involved serious risks. In 1721 | had imported variolation to Britain after having observed it in Istanbul, ... |
| Alfred de Musset | French Romantic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include | , Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant Théophile Gau ... |
| George Orwell | ... did Catalonia recover its autonomy and reconstitute the Generalitat (1979). | served with the POUM in Catalonia from December 1936 until June 1937. His ... |
| Kevin Powell | ... Hall of Fame for his pioneering work in reality television. His housemate, | , became a successful author, poet, journalist, and 2006 candidate for Uni ... |
| Frederick II | ... s, the Cathedral of San Sabino (1035–1171) and the Swabian Castle built for | , which is now also a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat ... |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | ... sed the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 which was awarded to his friend, | |
| Ptolemy | ... n Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of | (the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer) in about 140 AD provide possibl ... |
| James Macpherson | ... mes from a retelling of these legends in epic form by the 18th century poet | |
| Ptolemy | ... ancient Greek philosophers, such as Aristotle, Hellenistic thinkers such as | , earlier Persian and Muslim scientists and philosophers such as Al-Kindi ... |
| Narai | Foreigners were cordially welcomed at the court of | (1657–1688), a ruler with a cosmopolitan outlook who was nonetheless wary ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... e of a person who may have used obsessive–compulsive traits to advantage is | , the 18th-century English man of letters, who likely had Tourette syndrom ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... ated from the former dumping ground characterized as "a valley of ashes" in | 's The Great Gatsby. The site, known at the time as the Corona Ash Dumps, ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... n of Hamlet (the so-called Ur-Hamlet), with a play-within-a-play interlude. | used this device in many of his plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream ... |
| Nicolas Boileau | ... ing with poetry yielded high praise from France's greatest literary critic, | with whom Racine would later become great friends, and Boileau would often ... |
| Dr. Seuss | As a result of the film, Bakshi received an offer to adapt | 's The Butter Battle Book for TNT. Ted Geisel had never been satisfied wit ... |
| Giorgio Bassani | In 1952 Calvino wrote with | for Botteghe Oscure, a magazine named after the popular name of the party' ... |
| Filip Callimachus | ... y against the Pope, and was tortured along with other abbreviators, such as | , who fled to Poland in 1478, all of whom had been accused of pagan views. ... |
| Claudian | ... he Ostrogoths are first named in a document dated September 392 from Milan. | mentions that they together with the Gruthungi inhabit Phrygia. According ... |
| Voltaire | ... ving observed it in Istanbul, where her husband was the British ambassador. | , writing of this, estimates that at this time 60% of the population caugh ... |
| Plato's | ... lar that motion is nothing but an illusion. It is usually assumed, based on | Parmenides 128c-d, that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradox ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... ic Borderline. They returned to the West End for Robeson's starring role in | 's Othello, opposite Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. Essie's Paul Robeson, Ne ... |
| Robert Burns | ... Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – | – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge ... |
| William Blake | Some of the most notable illustrators of Paradise Lost included | , Gustave Doré and Henry Fuseli (1799); however, the epic's illustrators a ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... later, in the hands of writers such as Jean Froissart, Miguel Cervantes and | , the fictional knight Tirant lo Blanch and the real-life condottieri John ... |
| William Shakespeare | ... Side in Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot, which was an adaptation of | 's Romeo and Juliet set by Zangwill in New York City in 1908. The iconic F ... |
| Alexander Pope | In a similar vein, | (1688–1744) wrote in his poem Windsor Forest (first published 1713 |
| Bashō | | visited and wrote about Iwate in the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi ... |
| Johann von Goethe | The castle is surrounded by a park, where the famous poet | once walked. The Heidelberger Bergbahn funicular railway runs from Kornmak ... |
| Molière | ... poets. (e.g. SOE agents often used verses by Shakespeare, Racine, Tennyson, | , Keats, etc.) |
| Menippus of Gadara | The oldest form of satire still in use is the Menippean satire by | . His own writings are lost. Examples from his admirers and imitators mix ... |
| Che Guevara | ... cis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth (2007) and another cameo in the 2008 | biopic Che. He lent his voice to the English version of the animated film ... |
| William Empson | ... uperior' and that Charles Stuart was not." Others, like the literary critic | argued that "Milton deserves credit for making God wicked, since the God o ... |
| William S. Burroughs | ... . Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, | , Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reason why the content in ... |
| Robert Browning | ... thousand word short novel for the magazine. The title was a misquotation of | 's Rabbi ben Ezra, the first few lines of which (starting "Grow old along ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... erican writer, alongside other authors such as Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, | , Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. In his book The New Novel in ... |
| Antonin Artaud | ... ism (e.g., in the "Vies imaginaires" by Marcel Schwob, "Uccello le poil" by | and "O Mundo Como Ideia" by Bruno Tolentino) |
| Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye | ... y theoreticians of the New Learning (Jean de La Taille) and other writers ( | and Jean Mairet). The support which the unities received from Cardinal Ric ... |
| Osama bin Laden | ... s led an international coalition invaded Afghanistan, the base of terrorist | . This invasion led to the toppling of the Taliban regime. After a surpris ... |
| Lactantius | ... et dominus natus ("God and born ruler"), also later adopted by Diocletian. | argued that Aurelian would have outlawed all the other gods if he had had ... |
| Alfred Kreymborg | ... blish an anthology under the title Des Imagistes. It was first published in | 's little magazine The Glebe and was later published in 1914 by Alfred and ... |
| Abraham ibn Ezra | ... w expressed by some classical Jewish authorities, such as Abraham ibn Daud, | , and Gersonides |
| Alfred de Vigny | ... t known as the originator of the story of Carmen, with his novella of 1845. | remains best known as a dramatist, with his play on the life of the Englis ... |
| Günter Grass | German author | is one of a number of intellectuals and commentators who have also called ... |
| Courtney Love | ... t, a habitual womanizer, becomes particularly smitten with Althea Leasure ( | ), a runaway-turned-stripper who works at one of his dance clubs. With hel ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... whereas the second is a direct transliteration of the actual Russian name. | explains: "In Russian, a surname ending in a consonant acquires a final 'a ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ds and free souls," and Novara believed that his findings would have shaken | 's "unshakable" geocentric system |
| John Keats | ... Werther by Goethe or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by | . In the 20th century, much of the counterculture of modernism was fueled ... |
| Ptolemy | ... the star's emanations would not cause wheat rust on wheat crops that year. | of Alexandria mapped the stars in Books VII and VIII of his Almagest, in w ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sturgeon was a distant relative of | , and through his Waldo, Hamilton Dicker and Dunn ancestors, a direct desc ... |
| Bruno Tolentino | ... cel Schwob, "Uccello le poil" by Antonin Artaud and "O Mundo Como Ideia" by | ) |
| Callimachus | ... ntly used in several Greek and Roman cults, and variants of it are found in | and Nonnus, who refer to this Dionysus with the title Zagreus, and also in ... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... ude the late Herb Brooks, coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team; the late | ; Jesse Ventura, former Independent Governor of Minnesota and Pro Wrestler ... |
| William Blake | ... in the [Romantic interpretive] tradition of Blake and Shelley." As the poet | famously wrote, "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angel ... |
| George Orwell | ... en of necessity, effort which can instead be expended on artistic creation. | summarised, "In effect, the world will be populated by artists, each striv ... |
| Ovid | ... fish — which again is intended to explain the Syrian abstinence from fish. | in his Metamorphoses (5.331) relates that Venus took the form of a fish to ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... al; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by | ; in the poetry of skalds; and on an Old Norse runic inscription found in ... |
| U. R. Ananthamurthy | ... arnataka announced that it had accepted a proposal by Jnanpith Award winner | to rename Bangalore to Bengaluru. On 27 September 2006, the Bruhat Bengalu ... |
| Robert Conquest | ... – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – | – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la ... |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | ... 93, l.2 Breysig's edition. It is so late that it uses caballus for "horse". | cites a lost Latin writer for the story that Orion and Candiope were son a ... |
| Parmenides | ... on about Zeno and his teachings, citing Favorinus, says that Zeno's teacher | was the first to introduce the Achilles and the Tortoise Argument. But in ... |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | In the late-fourteenth century, at broadly the same time that | included The Franklin's Tale, itself a Breton lai, in his Canterbury Tales ... |
| William Blake | A number of 19th century thinkers such as | , Arthur Schopenhauer, Albert Pike and Madame Blavatsky studied Gnostic th ... |
| Jean de La Taille | ... e were in fact read into the Poetics by theoreticians of the New Learning ( | ) and other writers (Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye and Jean Mairet). The s ... |
| Robert Hunter | ... s contributed to two Grateful Dead tribute albums and covered Jerry Garcia/ | tunes such as "Ship of Fools", "Friend of the Devil", "It Must Have Been t ... |
| Harold Monro | ... d was later published in 1914 by Alfred and Charles Boni in New York and by | at the Poetry Bookshop in London. It became one of the most important and ... |
| Octavio Paz | ... s considered a major Latin American writer, alongside other authors such as | , Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fue ... |
| Steve Scott | ... if I've been an encouragement to other artists." British poet and musician | , who worked closely with Norman at Solid Rock, maintains |
| Léopold Sédar Senghor | ... ch Academy, taking the seat that his friend and former President of Senegal | had held. As a former President, he is a member of the Constitutional Coun ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... ky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by | , who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by W ... |
| Voltaire | Catherine enlisted | to her cause, and corresponded with him for 15 years, from her accession t ... |
| Samuel Johnson | The writer and critic | wrote that Paradise Lost shows off "[Milton's] peculiar power to astonish" ... |
| Emil Petaja | ... downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, | , Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. His f ... |
| Petrarch | ... to devote himself to poetical composition. He is an undisguised follower of | , carrying the imitation to such a point that he addressed his Cants d'amo ... |
| Archestratus | ... the ancient world would be missing, and many ancient Greek authors such as | would be almost entirely unknown. Book XIII, for example, is an important ... |
| C. Cornelius Gallus | ... ns as a private citizen, found himself in the spring attacked on two sides. | was advancing from Paraetonium; and Octavian himself landed at Pelusium, w ... |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | ... ebrities were guests of the Jeffers family. Among them were Sinclair Lewis, | , Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. ... |
| Jean Cocteau | ... Significant members of the art world, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, | , Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud posed for his camera |
| Robert Graves | According to the personal mythology of | , Persephone is not only the younger self of Demeter, she is in turn also ... |
| Euripides | ... tragedy. Æschylus's The Eumenides has two settings and in The Suppliants of | it is sometimes impossible to tell where the action is taking place at all ... |
| Hartley Coleridge | ... ning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – | – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lew ... |
| John Dryden | ... 's reputation as a translator was to suffer from the attacks made on him by | in his satirical MacFlecknoe, and by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad. Whatev ... |
| Pindar | A legend preserved in | relates that Apollo and Poseidon took Aeacus as their assistant in buildin ... |
| Tristan Corbière | ... Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have heard of | and his book Les amours jaunes, a work that affected the course of Eliot's ... |
| Statius | ... nd became known as the son of Neptune. His son begat the Dryas mentioned in | |
| Venerable Bede | In the 8th century, a famous epigram attributed to the | celebrated the symbolic significance of the statue in a prophecy that is v ... |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... Ball was possibly the British leader most loved by the Maltese population. | became an assistant to Ball in 1804 and later described his administration ... |
| Giambattista Marino | After two abortive attempts to reach Rome, he fell in with | , the court poet to Marie de Medici, at Lyon. Marino employed him on illus ... |
| Mary Hopkin | ... "Step Inside Love" (1968, given to Cilla Black), "Goodbye" (1969, given to | ), "Come and Get it" (1969, given to Badfinger), and early versions of "We ... |
| Hermann Hesse | ... ious real-life historical figures, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, | , Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... avalry. It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist | in his novel Kim (1901) |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | ... the highest-selling album in Japan with over 7 million copies sold, whereas | became Japan's top selling female and solo artist, and Morning Musume rema ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... fire in 1771, but by 1774 the house, though incomplete, was inhabited. Dr. | visiting the house in 1781 is quoted as saying, "This is one of the places ... |
| Euripides | ... fore Virgil, the story is also alluded to in Greek classical literature. In | ' play Trojan Women, written in 415 B.C., the god Poseidon proclaims, “For ... |
| Allen Ginsberg | ... and authors such as Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, | , and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reason why the content in their works coul ... |
| Stéphane Mallarmé | ... . He was received at the salons littéraires, including the famous mardis of | , a renowned symbolist poet of the time. Wilde's two plays during the 1880 ... |
| James Joyce | ... rk on the art of photography. Significant members of the art world, such as | , Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud ... |
| Norman Mailer | Factoid was coined by | in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer described a factoid as "fa ... |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ... Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur and | , among others |
| Che Guevara | In 1965 Argentinian revolutionary | used the western shores of Lake Tanganyika as a training camp for guerrill ... |
| Conrad Aiken | ... d Advocate published some of his poems, and he became lifelong friends with | , the American novelist |
| Nonnus | ... eral Greek and Roman cults, and variants of it are found in Callimachus and | , who refer to this Dionysus with the title Zagreus, and also in several f ... |
| Amy Lowell | ... six by Pound. The book also included work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, | , William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and ... |
| John Clare | ... e Alcock, one of the most successful visual discoverers of novas and comets | ;, from Helpston, now considered to be one of the most important poets of ... |
| Gertrude Stein | ... of photography. Significant members of the art world, such as James Joyce, | , Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud posed for his ca ... |
| Paul Verlaine | ... terature (1899). This introduced him to Jules Laforgue, Arthur Rimbaud, and | . Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have heard of Tristan Corb ... |
| Virgil | ... olars who had been impressed by his industry. He then ventured to translate | into English verse (1649–1650), which brought him a considerable sum of mo ... |
| Søren Kierkegaard | ... was derived from the two-volume book of the same name by Danish philosopher | , whose works generally deal with themes such as existential despair, angs ... |
| Sophocles | The tragedian | also wrote The Lovers of Achilles, a play with Achilles as the main charac ... |
| Miguel de Unamuno | ... s. Of those, some have been notable Spanish scholars, such as Basque writer | , Rector of the University of Salamanca from 1901 until 1936 |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | ... p dance form Para Para. While Avex's artists such as Every Little Thing and | became popular in 1990s, new names in the late 90s included Hikaru Utada a ... |
| Alexander Pushkin | From 1830 to 1834 Russian poet | published his Russian folklore-based fairy tales in verse: The Tale of the ... |
| James Joyce | ... res, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, | , Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian gen ... |
| William Carlos Williams | ... d. The book also included work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, | , James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and John Cournos |
| Dante | ... the Bible in French, Italian and German grammars, some Ancient Greek texts, | 's Divine Comedy, En Route, Joris-Karl Huysmans's new French novel about C ... |
| Virgil | ... . More isolated references occur, however, in sources ranging from Plato to | |
| Yu Xin | ... ty literature was rougher and more straightforward. Notable writers include | , Xing Fang, Wei Shou, and Wen Zisheng of the Northern Dynasty. In the Sou ... |
| Blind Harry | ... an early date a castle on the island. Sir Robert de Lawedre is mentioned by | in The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir Willi ... |
| Michael Drayton | ... avidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – | – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – ... |
| Richard Eberhart | ... lism, Dartmouth has produced nine Pulitzer Prize winners: Thomas M. Burton, | , Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, ... |
| John Keble | Irenaeus' works were first translated into English by | and published in 1872 as part of the Library of the Fathers series |
| Plato | ... n of the arts. It is thus a dialogue within a dialogue, after the manner of | , but the conversation extends to enormous length. The topics for discussi ... |
| Antonin Artaud | ... ch as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and | posed for his camera |
| John Gower | ... aws in part on the 14th century Confessio Amantis (itself a frame story) by | and Shakespeare has the ghost of Gower "assume man's infirmities" to intro ... |
| Anacreon | ... es from 544 BC, when the majority of the people of Teos (including the poet | ) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke (Herodotus i.168). The chi ... |
| George Orwell | ... opened on February 6, 1984. The first book checked out of Davis Library was | 's 1984. The R.B. House Undergraduate Library is located between the Pit a ... |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis | ... often entertained by telling stories to his admirers. As writer and editor | wrote, "With his cigar and his Spanish eyes, he talks Typee and Omoo, just ... |
| Donna J. Stone | ... from elementary school through 8th grade. The late poet and philanthropist | (née von Schoenweiler) grew up in Bullitt Park. The highly regarded Jewish ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... n a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined the words monomyth and quark. | has been called "the king of neologistic poems" because of his poem, "Jabb ... |
| Jack Kerouac | ... ofessional collaboration with his father. Bakshi wrote a poem influenced by | , jazz, the Beat Generation and Brooklyn that served as the narration, whi ... |
| Leonard Nimoy | ... the character Sentinel Prime's features were mostly based on Connery. When | was to voice the role, however, the effects were altered to incorporate Ni ... |
| Michael Longley | ... was born. A second son, Christopher, was born in 1968. That same year, with | , Heaney took part in a reading tour called Room to Rhyme, which led to mu ... |
| Anne Dudley Bradstreet | ... entions both Malvern and Langland as author names. Thomas Dudley, father of | (1612–72), brought a copy of Crowley's Piers Plowman to America. Alexander ... |
| Waris Shah | ... ranwala and Sheikhupura districts of the Pakistani Punjab which was used by | (1722–1798) in his famous book Heer Ranjha and is also now days the langua ... |
| Robert Frost | ... s produced nine Pulitzer Prize winners: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, | , Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Ship ... |
| Plato | ... in detail. More isolated references occur, however, in sources ranging from | to Virgil |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ... ef Butler of England for almost thirty years, and granddaughter of the poet | |
| Shakespeare | ... iolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Peter Hall. He then appeared in | 's Henry V on stage and in television's An Age of Kings (1960), and subseq ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... nces. He won the respect and admiration of scholars such as Charles Darwin, | and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... clude Carl Jung (who supported Gnosticism), Eric Voegelin (who opposed it), | (who included it in many of his short stories), and Aleister Crowley, with ... |
| Gwion Bach | ... and the salmon of knowledge bears a strong resemblance to the Welsh tale of | |
| Ptolemy | ... ccultation of Aldebaran. Copernicus later used this observation to disprove | 's model of lunar distance |
| Jim Morrison | ... pa John Creech of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna). Other tracks included " | 's Grave", which once again brought Taylor some MTV exposure, and the Flan ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... her, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, | , Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and others. In addition, the collection includes ... |
| Jean Chapelain | ... om Chateau de Balzac, where he had retired, he continued to correspond with | , Valentin Conrart and others |
| Langston Hughes | ... he Jeffers family. Among them were Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, | , Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors h ... |
| James Joyce | ... work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, | , Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and John Cournos |
| Kenji Miyazawa | ... d a section at the end of the book to his translations of eighteen poems by | |
| Ernest Dowson | ... J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – | – Michael Drayton – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – Jam ... |
| Robert Graves | ... oits. On 27 July 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross; the citation read: | described Sassoon as engaging in suicidal feats of bravery. Sassoon was al ... |
| Harry Northup | ... ous one with De Niro. Other frequent collaborators include Victor Argo (6), | (6), Harvey Keitel (5), Murray Moston (5), Joe Pesci (3), Frank Vincent (3 ... |
| William Langland | ... ers Plowman) is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by | . It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections calle ... |
| Petrarch | ... happenings. Giacomo Penzio (fl. 1495-1527), in a work falsely attributed to | (1304–74), wrote in his Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Rom ... |
| Michael Psellos | ... ound, while the initiative was taken by his uncle John Doukas and his tutor | . They conspired to keep Romanos from regaining power after his release fr ... |
| James Joyce | ... me as a classic and an old master of farce" for his own ingenious wordplay. | , author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, is another noted word-player. For ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... ributed information and contraceptives to people's commune members. By 1973 | was personally identified with the family planning movement, signifying a ... |
| Jonas Mekas | ... was initially commissioned to provide music). Uwe Husslein cites film-maker | , who accompanied Warhol to the Trio premiere and claims that Warhol's sta ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... y to only Taiwan, Hainan, and their surrounding islands. On 1 October 1949, | proclaimed the People's Republic of China, which was commonly known in the ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... sm of Henry Corbin, Thelema, and even in fiction such as The Theologians by | in Labyrinths. According to Irenaeus, a certain sect known as the "Cainite ... |
| Ford Madox Ford | ... Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, | , Allen Upward and John Cournos |
| Chaucer | working pilgrims could assemble quite a collection, as mentioned by | in his 'Canterbury Tales' |
| Gertrude Stein | ... iday on the French Riviera socializing with political free thinkers such as | and Claude McKay. Robeson and Brown began a series of concert tours in Ame ... |
| Gavrila Derzhavin | ... classical and European influences that inspired the Russian Enlightenment. | , Denis Fonvizin, and Ippolit Bogdanovich laid the groundwork for the grea ... |
| Petrarch | ... oles, seigneur of Vaucluse, was the great protector of the Renaissance poet | |
| Ptolemy | ... nce of Southeast Asia had been known to the Greeks. The Egyptian astronomer | in his Geographia named the Malay Peninsula as Aurea Chersonesus (Golden P ... |
| Plato | Pico based his ideas chiefly on | , as did his teacher, Marsilio Ficino, but retained a deep respect for Ari ... |
| Richard L. Tierney | Sonja has been featured in several novels by David C. Smith and | with covers by Boris Vallejo |
| Shakespeare | ... aders' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works of Dickens and | . By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fiction may not ex ... |
| James Joyce | ... as Carol), or a pollyanna (from Eleanor H. Porter's book of the same name). | 's Finnegans Wake, composed in a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... cation within Britain. Largely, modern British spelling was standardised in | 's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), although previous writers ... |
| Arthur Rimbaud | ... olist Movement in Literature (1899). This introduced him to Jules Laforgue, | , and Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he might never have he ... |
| James Whitcomb Riley | A statue of | , which stands in front of the Hancock County Courthouse, was erected in 1 ... |
| Allen Upward | ... Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, | and John Cournos |
| Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... was conquered by the Arabs, who built here the first nucleus of the castle. | further fortified the town and created here a personal hunting park. The c ... |
| James I of Scotland | ... nent part of the design of the Scottish royal arms and Royal Standard since | |
| Donald Davie | ... terton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – | – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – Law ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... rnment while shortening their terms of service to the state. She encouraged | 's establishment of the University of Moscow and Ivan Shuvalov foundation ... |
| Corinna | ... are attached to Orion in this way: A papyrus fragment of the Boeotian poet | gives Orion fifty sons (a traditional number). This included the oracular ... |
| Herman Melville | ... nostic thought extensively and were influenced by it, and even figures like | and W. B. Yeats were more tangentially influenced. Jules Doinel "re-establ ... |
| Claude McKay | ... Riviera socializing with political free thinkers such as Gertrude Stein and | . Robeson and Brown began a series of concert tours in America, with and w ... |
| Jules Laforgue | ... ymons's The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899). This introduced him to | , Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Verlaine. Without Verlaine, Eliot wrote, he mig ... |
| Salvatore Quasimodo | ... ous sanctuary and is also famous for the poem "Vento a Tindari", written by | |
| Otto Erich Hartleben | ... The composer Arnold Schönberg set a German language version (translated by | ) of selections from his Pierrot Lunaire to innovative atonal music |
| Surdas | ... butter, Krishna tied to mortar especially in couplets written by poet-saint | , where her deep affection for Krishna becomes an epitome of 'Vatsalya Pre ... |
| Virgil | In | 's Aeneid, Deiphobus appears in the Underworld to Aeneas. He tells Aeneas ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... s after legal release and distribution rights were granted to video and TV. | directed a heavily modernized Italian film version of the play in 1967. Th ... |
| Friedrich Schiller | ... he oldest "Stage" in Germany. In 1782 the premier of Die Räuber, written by | , was shown |
| Cardinal Newman | ... 's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine, | and Walter Pater |
| William Morris | ... Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at Kelmscott House, the home of | . He was also among the founders of The Science School Journal, a school m ... |
| Hugo Grotius | ... lectures, Christian came under the influence of the political philosophy of | and Samuel Pufendorf, and continued the study of law at Frankfurt an der O ... |
| Donne | ... tires targeting everything from literary fads to corrupt noblemen. Although | had already circulated satires in manuscript, Hall's was the first real at ... |
| Gareth Edwards | Barbarians: Tries: | , Fergus Slattery, John Bevan, J P R Williams; Conversions: Phil Bennett ( ... |
| Stevenson's | Catriona is | 1893 sequel to Kidnapped. Both novels are set in the aftermath of the Jaco ... |
| Jean Elliot | ... – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – Lawrence Durrell – | – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Rober ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... iedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and | tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as regards the "dic ... |
| Thomas Hood | ... d the uncharitable ... a dainty dish to set before a King." Poet and editor | wrote, "If Christmas, with its ancient and hospitable customs, its social ... |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ... e Once and Future King), Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), | , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investig ... |
| G. K. Chesterton | ... in and Abel, and Fiddler's Green, a sailor's dream of paradise who emulates | when in human form. He recruits or creates (or re-creates) servants to per ... |
| David Hykes | ... music by Dead Can Dance, L. Subramaniam, Ciro Hurtado, Inkuyo, Brother and | , is noticeably different from the minimalist one provided by Philip Glass ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... and Barry McGuire, The Seekers, Joan Baez, Donny Hathaway, Michael Bolton, | , Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Matt Monro, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles (1967), ... |
| Giannina Braschi | ... to' Trinidad, baseball superstar Carlos Delgado, writers Ana Lydia Vega and | , and Guatemala's Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. Kennedy, while serv ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... famously The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both of 1844. | published as a poet in the 1820s before achieving success on the stage wit ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... d became a major literary and artistic patron. Among his beneficiaries were | , Tobias Smollett, Robert Adam, William Robertson and John Hill. He also g ... |
| George Sterling | In 1905, poet | came to Carmel and helped to establish the town's literary base. He was as ... |
| Jean Meschinot | ... ue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century poetry of | . Ideas of reflection and the workings of imagination are blended in the t ... |
| Euripides | ... in it he praised the merits of Alceste over the tragedy of the same name by | . His treatise was one of the first documents of the literary debate that ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ngs (including covers of an old hymn, a traditional folk song, and songs by | , and Emmylou Harris) that were backed by Mark Lemhouse and Charles Norman ... |
| W. H. Auden | ... A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings). Their work involved poets such as | , composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as J. B. Priestley. ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... ed by her monster boyfriend in what turns out to be a movie within a dream. | 's story The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is about a rich bachelor who f ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... nto the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song "A Day in the Life". | read the eulogy, concluding with "He was a bloody marvellous writer." Acco ... |
| Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer | , describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape ... |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... iarty is the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by | . Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon ... |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... red by Mozart's tune. The line "The True North strong and free" is based on | 's description of Canada as "that true North, whereof we lately heard / A ... |
| Johann Heermann | ... in the United States (on which day the achievements of Philipp Nicolai and | are also commemorated) |
| Robert Graves | ... n written, one of which, Count Belisarius, was written by poet and novelist | in 1938 |
| Lord Herbert of Cherbury | ... ts and religious wars since the beginning of the Reformation. In 1642, when | 's De Veritate was published, the Thirty Years War had been raging on cont ... |
| Corinna | ... sponse to Asopus regarding Asopus' daughters who were abducted by the gods. | sang of Orion conquering and naming all the land of the dawn. Robert Weir ... |
| Poliziano | In 2007, the bodies of | and Pico della Mirandola were exhumed from St. Mark's Basilica in Florence ... |
| Jim Morrison | ... Kilmer is best known for his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Forever, | in Oliver Stone's The Doors, he became popular in the mid-1980s after a st ... |
| Théophile de Viau | In 1612, he met | when de Viau's troupe visited Angoulême, and fled from home with the troup ... |
| Sadakichi Hartmann | ... thology of 100 tanka, the early 20th-century critical writings and poems of | , and contemporary French-language translations |
| James Joyce | ... Stoker. It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of | , including Ulysses, which is set in Dublin and full of topical detail. Du ... |
| Jack Kerouac | ... s" in Chandler Brossard's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, "Harold Sand" in | 's autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly "Bill Gray ... |
| Sima Qian | According to the Records of the Grand Historian, written by | during the next dynasty and avowedly hostile to Qin Shi Huang, the first e ... |
| E.C. Stedman | ... tertained the other passengers with "", about the rise and fall of empires. | , in Victorian Poets describes this "lyric to England" as "manly verse – a ... |
| Euripides | ... ean traditions is obvious: if Andromaque had been Pyrrhus's mistress (as in | ), why should she refuse to marry him? Racine, like Homer, conceives her a ... |
| Philipp Nicolai | ... me Lutheran Churches in the United States (on which day the achievements of | and Johann Heermann are also commemorated) |
| Richard Wright | Native Son (1940) is a novel by American author | . The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African Ameri ... |
| Lawrence Durrell | ... avie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – | – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy ... |
| Ptol. | Tindari , anciently Tyndaris or Tyndarion (Greek: , Strab.; , | ) is a small city (a frazione) in the comune of Patti, in the Province of ... |
| Plato | ... Rhadamanthus and Minos) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to | especially for the shades of Europeans. In works of art he was represented ... |
| Aristophanes | ... minent historical figures in antiquity are referenced in other works (e.g., | mocking Socrates in his plays), but as he could not find any such referenc ... |
| John Clare | ... ns from the Jurassic period of international importance; the manuscripts of | , the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet as he was commonly known in his own ti ... |
| Immortal Technique | ... n songs by various musicians, including Puerto Rican rock band Puya, rapper | and reggaeton artist Tego Calderón |
| Ovid | ... eus slew Lycaon and his fifty sons. Other sources, including the Roman poet | , claim instead that Lycaon’s punishment was transformation into a wolf, a ... |
| Courtney Love | ... ynt, and his subsequent clash with the law. The film stars Woody Harrelson, | , and Edward Norton |
| Ambrose Bierce | Sterling wrote to his long-time literary mentor, | |
| James Joyce | ... laubert, Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of | , Giannina Braschi, and Jorge Luis Borges. The theme of the novel also ins ... |
| José Joaquín de Olmedo | ... deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such as Vicente Rocafuerte | ;; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásub ... |
| Ibn Bajjah | ... dy, and wrote a great deal on psychology, likely influencing Ibn Tufayl and | . He also introduced medical herbs |
| Edward de Vere | ... ich supports the idea that the works of William Shakespeare were written by | . His part largely revolves around his being father-in-law to de Vere, and ... |
| Jewel Kilcher | In Ride with the Devil (1999), Maguire performed as Jakob Roedel, opposite | . Here he played the son of a unionist German immigrant who joins his sout ... |
| Joaquin Miller | Sterling's visitors included poet | , writer Charles W. Stoddard and photographer Arnold Genthe, known for his ... |
| Giannina Braschi | ... ille, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, | , and Jorge Luis Borges. The theme of the novel also inspired the 19th-cen ... |
| Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani | ... King Guy, both of whom Saladin ordered brought to his tent. The chronicler | , who was present at the scene, relates |
| Clemens Brentano | ... poets, such as Joseph von Eichendorff, Johann Joseph von Görres, Arnim, and | . A relic of Romanticism is the Philosophers' Walk , a scenic walking path ... |
| Alexander Bashlachev | ... abri (the Great Octobers), a rock band. Dyagileva was greatly influenced by | , who was her friend, and Letov, her lover and mentor. Her songs were a mi ... |
| A. A. Milne | Piglet is a fictional character from | 's Winnie-the-Pooh books. Piglet is Winnie-the-Pooh's closest friend among ... |
| Tobias Smollett | ... literary and artistic patron. Among his beneficiaries were Samuel Johnson, | , Robert Adam, William Robertson and John Hill. He also gave considerably ... |
| Theodore Spencer | In 1951, in the first | Memorial Lecture at Harvard University, Eliot criticized his own plays in ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... . To propel the country towards a modern, industrialized communist society, | instituted the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s, although this had de ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... her instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include | , Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of Th ... |
| Euripides | ... (III 8) between maternal love and a reluctance to marry Pyrrhus must (as in | ) be paramount. And so Astyanax is brought back to life |
| Hesiod | ... cause most of the monsters in Greek myth were mothered by her. In Theogony, | described her as |
| Amber Tamblyn | 16-year old Katie Embry ( | ) and 17-year old Becca Kotler (Rachael Bella) discuss a supposedly cursed ... |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | ... resident Barbara Fritchie was commemorated in the poem of the same name by | . Union Major General Jesse L. Reno's IX Corps followed Jackson's men thro ... |
| Christopher Marlowe | ... and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ut for Bluehouses at the Nevill Ground, where he sometimes played alongside | . He also played cricket for his house at Marlborough College, once taking ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... rish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | , Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill at the bottom of a ... |
| Euripides | Evius, in | ' play, The Bacchae |
| Arnaut Daniel | ... ion of the condensed, direct expression that he detected in the writings of | , Dante, and Guido Cavalcanti, amongst others. For example, in his 1911–12 ... |
| Cecil Taylor | ... jor stirrings came in the 1950s, with the early work of Ornette Coleman and | . In the 1960s, performers included Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Ph ... |
| Chaucer's | ... critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with | Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Age ... |
| Robinson Jeffers | In 1914, poet | (1887–1962), and his wife, Una (1884–1950), found their "inevitable place" ... |
| James Thomson (B.V.) | ... dron. The image in turn inspired a passage in The City of Dreadful Night by | , and, a few years later, a sonnet by |
| Dorothy Parker | ... atire on Adolf Hitler. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, | and H. L. Mencken, used satire as their main weapon, and Mencken in partic ... |
| Douglas Hyde | The first President, | lived in the residential quarters on the first floor of the main building. ... |
| Isaac de Benserade | ... tures. There was a plaque with a caption and a quatrain written by the poet | next to each fountain. Perrault produced the guidebook for the labyrinth, ... |
| Richard Wright | ... rded scholar of African-American literary works. This edition also contains | 's 1940 essay How 'Bigger' Was Born |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... evsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, Giannina Braschi, and | . The theme of the novel also inspired the 19th-century French artists Hon ... |
| Mahmud Tarzi | ... reforms could not match his achievement of complete, lasting independence. | , Amanullah's father-in-law and Foreign Minister, encouraged the monarch's ... |
| Henricus Valesius | ... nt readings. The fundamental early modern edition, however, was produced by | (Henri Valois) (Paris, 1668), who used the Codex Regius, a Codex Vaticanus ... |
| Plato | In his dialogue Cratylus, the Greek philosopher | , 428/427 BC – 348/347 BC, gives the etymology of Athena's name, based on ... |
| Peter III of Aragon | On March 30, 1282, | waged war on Charles of Anjou after the Sicilian Vespers for the possessio ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | | , in his 1940 work, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, describes a fictional worl ... |
| Roy Fuller | ... rrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – | – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – ... |
| Gnaeus Naevius | A fragment of an epic poem by | who died at Utica in 201 BC includes a passage which might or might not be ... |
| Rupert Brooke | ... this time his younger brother Hamo was killed in the Gallipoli Campaign. ( | , whom Siegfried had briefly met, died on the way there.) Hamo's death hit ... |
| James Baldwin's | ... he book was criticized by some of Wright's fellow African-American writers. | 1948 essay Everybody's Protest Novel dismissed Native Son as protest ficti ... |
| Aeschylus | In 467 BCE, Sophocles's fellow tragedian | won first prize at the City Dionysia with a trilogy about the House of Lai ... |
| Thomas Lodge | ... by the Dutch humanist Arnoldus Arlenius. The first English translation, by | , appeared in 1602, with subsequent editions appearing throughout the 17th ... |
| Courtney Love | ... ted as "Rock Star" on the album Live Through This). The band's lead singer, | has the line: 'I went to school with Calvin,' a reference to Johnson's inf ... |
| William Blake | ... ich oral tradition of storytelling for children and adults. But by the time | 's Songs of Innocence was published in 1789, books written specifically fo ... |
| Nick Tosches | In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, Ian Penman and | , whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-referential and h ... |
| Molière | ... tist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with | and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. ... |
| Dr. Seuss | ... d from Dartmouth in 1924. Theodor Geisel, better known as children's author | , was a member of the class of 1925 |
| Brendan Behan | ... rly 20th century. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, | , Maeve Binchy, and Roddy Doyle. Ireland's biggest libraries and literary ... |
| Thomas Chatterton | In 1835, he produced a drama titled Chatterton, based on the life of | , and in which Marie Dorval starred as Kitty Bell. Chatterton is considere ... |
| Ovid | ... ikram and the Vampire. Both The Golden Ass by Apuleius and Metamorphoses by | extend the depths of framing to several degrees. Another early example is ... |
| William Empson | ... nterpret the poem as a genuine Christian morality tale, other critics, like | , view it as a more ambiguous work, and Milton's complex characterization ... |
| E. Nesbit | ... isused platforms hosted a theatrical performance of The Railway Children by | . The audience is seated either side of the actual railway track. The show ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Hamadryad is referenced as a whole in | 's poem, "Sonnet To Science. |
| Plato | ... the Pythagoreans, allegedly exercised an important influence on the work of | . According to R. M. Hare, this influence consists of three points: (1) Th ... |
| James Lipton | ... credited cameo in the sixth season of the show. He is named as the only man | has ever called a coward in an episode of Arrested Development. He current ... |
| Rita Mae Brown | Crozet is also the setting for author | 's Mrs. Murphy series |
| Viktor Rydberg | ... Yule Nisse). In 1881, the Swedish magazine Ny Illustrerad Tidning published | 's poem "Tomten", where the tomte is alone awake in the cold Christmas nig ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... ier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | . Scholarly theories have been proposed about the location and its potenti ... |
| Statius | # A passage in | describing the repairs of the Via Domitiana, a branch road of the Via Appi ... |
| Dorothy Parker | The movie was written by Frank Cavett, John Howard Lawson, | , and Lionel Wiggam, and was directed by Stuart Heisler |
| Walter Scott | ... macy with a "self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician," as Sir | called him, of great local fame—James Veitch of Inchbonny—a man who was pa ... |
| James Elroy Flecker | ... wson – Michael Drayton – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – | – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville ... |
| Mahmud Tarzi | ... occurred in Turkey under Kemal Atatürk. Socially, Amanullah enjoyed many of | 's thoughts at the time, such as giving women more rights and allowing fre ... |
| Pablo Neruda | ... influenced by artists like Violeta Parra, Atahualpa Yupanqui, and the poet | . Jara began his foray into folklore in the mid-1950s when he began singin ... |
| Robert Graves | ... 1915, and in November was sent to the 1st Battalion in France. There he met | and they became close friends. United by their poetic vocation, they often ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... ta. Asked how it felt having his name to the Irish Nobel pantheon featuring | , George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett, Heaney responded: "It's like bei ... |
| Jonathan Swift | A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by | |
| Emperor Yang Guang | Between 604 to 609, | (or Sui Yangdi) of the Sui dynasty ordered a number of canals be dug in a ... |
| Joyce Kilmer | ... te developer. Kilmer's grandfather was a gold miner in New Mexico; the poet | is a distant cousin of Kilmer's. Kilmer is of German, Swedish, Irish, and ... |
| Rita Mae Brown | Author | along with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, have written a mystery series common ... |
| Charles Baudelaire | ... the band's original hardcore roots with dark romantic influences (a poem by | , "De profundis clamavi," is present in the hidden track "Midnight Sun") a ... |
| Plato | ... Johann Augustus Eberhard, from whom he acquired a love of the philosophy of | and Aristotle. At the same time he studied the writings of Immanuel Kant a ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... en Chiang Kai-shek's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by | . When the civil war ended in 1949, 2 million refugees, predominantly from ... |
| Guido Cavalcanti | ... ct expression that he detected in the writings of Arnaut Daniel, Dante, and | , amongst others. For example, in his 1911–12 series of essays I gather th ... |
| John Cornford | ... zzi and French from Commune de Paris Battalion. Among them was British poet | . Men were sorted according to their experience and origin, and dispatched ... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ... in many fables. Later, in western literature, popularized by American poet | 's work "The Raven", the Common Raven becomes a symbol of the main charact ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... really start smuggling (cf. Adam Smith's approval of smuggling); and the " | Dining Experience" turns out to be a flop because Doctor Johnson is regula ... |
| Plato | ... ements of socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers | and Aristotle |
| C. S. Lewis | In recent times, | has adopted a scholastic position in the course of his work The Problem of ... |
| Ovid | ... Several other incidents connected with the story of Aeacus are mentioned by | . By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and Peleus (father of Achilles), ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | ... y-seven men, including the naturalists Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz and | , and the artist Louis Choris, Kotzebue set out on July 30, 1815 to find a ... |
| Karl Kraus | ... aplin is a satire on Adolf Hitler. Many social critics of the time, such as | , Dorothy Parker and H. L. Mencken, used satire as their main weapon, and ... |
| Edgar Lee Masters | ... rt Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. It was the home of famous poet/writer | in his early days; he wrote the famous Spoon River Anthology (1915). Fulto ... |
| Serj Tankian | ... is of the same quality as the tracks which made it onto Toxicity. Vocalist | has said that the songs were left out of Toxicity "because they didn't fit ... |
| Cesare Pavese | ... y Giulio Einaudi. Although brief, his stint put him in regular contact with | , Natalia Ginzburg, Norberto Bobbio, and many other left-wing intellectual ... |
| Virgil | ... dra in the very important respect that, taking the character of Aricie from | , Racine introduces the jealousy motive. Despite the fact that Hippolyte, ... |
| William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling | ... a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander’s son, | established the first incarnation of “New Scotland” at Port Royal, Nova Sc ... |
| Robert Southey | ... us of Roads was given to Telford by his friend, the eventual Poet Laureate, | . Telford’s reputation as a man of letters may have preceded his fame as a ... |
| Voltaire | She wrote comedies, fiction, and memoirs, while cultivating | , Diderot, and d'Alembert—all French encyclopedists who later cemented her ... |
| Horace | ... British politics and Whig values. However, it was the figures of the poets | , Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus ... |
| Stephen Crane | ... mother, he bought the failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers like | and Julian Hawthorne and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with ... |
| Elizabeth Siddal | ... eata Beatrix, 1864-1870.jpg|Beata Beatrix (1864–1870), Tate Britain (model: | |
| James Joyce | ... which reversed a ban by the Customs Department against the book Ulysses by | . The ACLU only achieved mixed results in the early years, and it was not ... |
| Dorothy Bridges | ... . He is son of showbiz parents, actor Lloyd Bridges. and actress and writer | (née Simpson). His older brother, Beau Bridges, is also an actor. He has a ... |
| Reginald Heber | ... Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – | – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson ... |
| T. S. Eliot | | 's use of a quotation from The Heart of Darkness—"Mistah Kurtz, he dead"—a ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... the 12th century Welsh leader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as | , Ken Follett, Griff Rhys Jones and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin ... |
| Virgil | ... ucilius, Cato and Varro. But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are | , and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... ent, though this role would soon be usurped by one of Vigny's best friends, | . Unlike his friend, Vigny retained his Royalist sympathies in politics: " ... |
| Thomas Gray | ... Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – | – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E ... |
| Goethe | ... during Sturm und Drang, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by | or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats. In t ... |
| Bede | ... nothing else is known of his history or background. The medieval chronicler | says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope Gregory I to report on the ... |
| Sophocles | ... s described as being named Iacchos at Eleusis, where he "brings salvation". | , in the Paean in the play Antigone, names the god of the Mysteries at Ele ... |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | ... e, an epic poem about Joan of Arc, Perrault became a target of mockery from | |
| Cecil Taylor | ... bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray, a rhythm section honed with | as leader. Coltrane championed many younger free jazz musicians, (notably ... |
| Spike Milligan | ... omedy sections were originally intended to be performed by a cast including | and Peter Ustinov, but Godley and Creme eventually settled on Cook once th ... |
| Ovid | ... t least one son born to Omphale and Heracles: Diodorus Siculus (4.31.8) and | (Heroides 9.54) mention a son Lamos, while pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheke ... |
| Archilochus | From indirect evidence, the scytale was first mentioned by the Greek poet | , who lived in the 7th century BC. Other Greek and Roman writers during th ... |
| Mos Def | ... , Run DMC, Public Enemy, Schooly D, N.W.A, Kid Frost, Wu-Tang Clan, Dr Dre, | , Beastie Boys and the Pharcyde are very often directly sampled, regardles ... |
| Charlotte Champe Stearns | ... nd treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis. His mother, | (1843–1929), wrote poetry and was a social worker, a new profession in the ... |
| Parmenides's | ... een devised by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (ca. 490 - 430 BC) to support | doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our sense ... |
| Robert Southey | ... ose this as their place of interment, that the 19th-century poet and writer | gave Bunhill Fields the memorable appellation: the Campo Santo of the Diss ... |
| Pindar | ... the first to introduce gymnastic competition. The ancient Greek lyric poet | records the victories of several athletes in his Victory Odes, and two ins ... |
| Mary Karr | ... eiser, Professor of Philosophy, one of leading scholars of German idealism, | , the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature, who has received a Gug ... |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | ... ters during the following centuries also mentioned it, but it was not until | (middle of the 3rd century BC) that a clear indication of its use as a cry ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... cal acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and | 's The Caretaker at the National Theatre; and Pinter's The Homecoming and ... |
| Laurence Binyon | ... ongst the defining qualities of Imagist poetry. Through his friendship with | , Pound had already developed an interest in Japanese art by examining Nis ... |
| Julian Hawthorne | ... the failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers like Stephen Crane and | and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer, own ... |
| Serj Tankian | ... ed host to many world-famous musical acts including Charles Aznavour, Cher, | , Jivan Gasparyan, Plácido Domingo, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Joe Cocker, J ... |
| Euripides | ... rmer à l'idée que nous avons maintenant de cette princesse”. Astyanax, whom | describes (in The Trojan Women and the Andromache) as having been thrown f ... |
| John Updike | ... novels at the start of the decade. Racism remained a key literary subject. | emerged as a major literary figure. Reflections of the 1960s experience al ... |
| Alicia Keys | ... rned some mainstream recognition through the work of D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, | , and Lauryn Hill. D'Angelo's critically acclaimed album (2000) has been r ... |
| Nonnus | ... Eleusis as both Bacchos (Dionysus) and Iacchos. The 4th or 5th century poet | describes the Athenian celebrations given to the first Dionysus Zagreus so ... |
| William Butler Yeats | ... having produced many prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates | , George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and pl ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Argentine writer | wrote his short story There Are More Things in memory of Lovecraft. Contem ... |
| Marie de France | ... Mary, who became a nun and Abbess of Shaftesbury and who may be the poetess | . Adelaide of Angers is sometimes sourced as being the mother of Hamelin |
| Axayacatl | Cuitláhuac was the eleventh son of the ruler | and a younger brother of Moctezuma II, the previous ruler of Tenochtitlan. ... |
| Joanne Kyger | ... zendo, with about six regular participants. In early June, he met the poet | . She became his girlfriend, and eventually his wife. In 1959, he shipped ... |
| Jonathan Swift's | Micropsia has also been related to | novel Gulliver's Travels. It has been referred to as "Lilliput sight" and ... |
| Audre Lorde | ... wave, such as Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, Chela Sandoval, Cherrie Moraga, | , Maxine Hong Kingston, and many other black feminists, sought to negotiat ... |
| Lenny Bruce | ... ries of stand-up venturing into politics, race relations, and sexual humor. | became known as 'the' obscene comic when he used language that usually led ... |
| Alexander Gradsky | The Soviet musician | created the rock opera Stadium (Стадион, Stadion) in 1985 based on the eve ... |
| Roald Dahl | ... Unexpected spoof "Tales Of The Much As We Expected". This involved Cook as | , explaining his name had been Ronald before he dropped the "n". The cast ... |
| Lord Dunsany | Furthermore, Lovecraft's discovery of the stories of | with their pantheon of mighty gods existing in dreamlike outer realms, mov ... |
| Remy de Gourmont | In an article in La France , 1915, the French critic, | described the Imagists as descendants of of the French Symbolistes and in ... |
| Victor Hugo | ... story Carmen by Prosper Mérimée and the opera based on it by Georges Bizet, | 's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Miguel de Cervantes' La Gitanilla.The R ... |
| Robert Graves | ... Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – | – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea ... |
| William Wordsworth | ... n painter Caspar David Friedrich that "the artist's feeling is his law". To | poetry should be "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". In order ... |
| Plato | ... the comparison of "practical" (praktikos) and "intellectual" (gnostikos) in | 's dialogue between Young Socrates and the Foreigner in his The Statesman ... |
| Horace | ... quently are Virgil, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, | , Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius |
| Faiz Ahmed Faiz | ... ell-known representatives of contemporary Pakistani Urdu literature include | . Sadequain is known for his calligraphy and paintings. Sufi poets Shah Ab ... |
| George Orwell | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as Aldous Huxley and | to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the dangers of the sw ... |
| Nora May French | ... ff, William Frederic Ritschel, William Keith, Percy Gray, Arnold Genthe and | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | ... ience also found roots in the literature of the decade through the works of | and Morris Wright. With the rising cost of hard-cover books and the increa ... |
| Jean Chapelain | ... e de Nôle (St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, about Paulinus of Nola). Just like | 's La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée, an epic poem about Joan of Arc, Perr ... |
| Ambrose Bierce | ... red the best equipment and the most talented writers of the time, including | , Mark Twain and Jack London. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on t ... |
| Douglas Hyde | ... of President of Ireland was created in 1937. In 1938, the first President, | lived there temporarily while plans were made to build a new presidential ... |
| Cao Cao | ... fled from Chang'an in 195 CE to the ruins of Luoyang. Xian was persuaded by | (155–220 CE), then Governor of Yan Province in modern western Shandong and ... |
| Alexander Pope | ... who named the area Twickenham after the home village of his distant kinsman | |
| Euripides | ... cters and, above all, to present the old stories in a modern light. Whereas | , in his Iphigenia in Aulis, only averts the heroine's death by causing Ar ... |
| Erykah Badu | ... e, and has earned some mainstream recognition through the work of D'Angelo, | , Alicia Keys, and Lauryn Hill. D'Angelo's critically acclaimed album (200 ... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | ... based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and | ' La Gitanilla.The Romani were also heavily romanticized in the Soviet Uni ... |
| Sophie Kerr | The college is known nationally as the home of the | Prize, which is awarded to the graduating senior with the most literary po ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... ted with the instrument include Norton Buffalo, Jerry Portnoy, Lazy Lester, | , Rabini Zami, Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Corky Siegel ... |
| Virgil | ... and Whig values. However, it was the figures of the poets Horace, Homer and | , the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus and Lycurgus whic ... |
| Parmenides | The atomistic void hypothesis was a response to the paradoxes of | and Zeno, the founders of metaphysical logic, who put forth difficult to a ... |
| James Agee | ... whined". Some reviewers criticized Davis for the excess of her performance | ;wrote that she "demonstrates the horrors of egocentricity on a marathonic ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... a tiny town it was regarded as one of its capitals. In the summer of 1772, | was at the Reichskammergericht as a trainee. His novel The Sorrows of Youn ... |
| Brontë sisters | Following the release of Devotion, a Hollywood biography of the | filmed in 1943 but withheld from release during the suspension and litigat ... |
| Sylvia Plath | Other sources include | 's 1963 novel The Bell Jar, in which the protagonist, Esther, reacts with ... |
| Harold Pinter | ... ision film Langrishe, Go Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by | from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played ... |
| Paulinus of Nola | ... and wrote Saint Paulin, évêque de Nôle (St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, about | ). Just like Jean Chapelain's La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée, an epic p ... |
| Sebastian Shaw | ... s used in the 2004 DVD release of , where he was inserted in place of actor | as the ghost of Anakin Skywalker. This was one of the most controversial c ... |
| Billy Childish | ... 4, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Rapture. Elsewhere, the Oblivians from Memphis, | and The Buff Medways from Britain, The (International) Noise Conspiracy fr ... |
| Paul Éluard | ... e his father, but Ernst's marriage to Luise was short-lived. In 1921 he met | , who became a close lifelong friend. Éluard bought two of Ernst's paintin ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... song "He Was a Friend of Mine", which had been popularized by The Byrds and | , which was re-titled "He is a Friend of Mine", and "I Love You", the song ... |
| Eilífr Goðrúnarson | ... d in Skáldskaparmál; once for "jötunn" ("hearth-stone-Syn") in Þórsdrápa by | , and for "woman" ("Syn [woman] of soft necklace-stand [neck]") in a work ... |
| Archestratus of Gela | The Hedyphagetica took much of its substance from the gastronomical epic of | . The eleven extant hexameters have prosodical features avoided in the mor ... |
| Plato | Both | and Isocrates affirm that, above all else, Pythagoras was famous for leavi ... |
| André Breton | ... ar later the two collaborated on Les malheurs des immortels, and then, with | whom Ernst met in 1921, on the magazine Litterature. In 1922, unable to se ... |
| George Orwell | ... p the anti-enclosure feeling, and has been repeated in many variants since: | wrote in 194 |
| Ptolemy | During the Roman period, the geographer | noted that Sardinia was inhabited by the following peoples, from north to ... |
| Ausonius | ... dding unusual restrictions to the standard hexameter. The rhopalic verse of | is a good example; besides following the standard hexameter pattern, each ... |
| Robert Graves | ... Tilman survived the battle, along with the British writers J.R.R. Tolkien, | , David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Minister Harold Macmill ... |
| John Milton | ... to the divine right of kings came from a number of sources, including poet | in his pamphlet The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates |
| Robert Graves | ... il Murderer (1913), was a parody of John Masefield's The Everlasting Mercy. | , in describes it as a "parody of Masefield which, midway through, had for ... |
| Theodore Martin | Even the caustic critic | (who was usually virulently hostile to Dickens), spoke well of the book, n ... |
| Virgil | ... rn-day Tunisia). She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet | in his Aeneid. In some sources she is also known as Elissa |
| Metastasio | ... ominent figures of his time, including Napoleon, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini and | |
| Walter Scott | ... rslie, by Blind Harry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir | and Jane Porter and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart |
| Virgil | ... he population was 2,401 at the 2010 census. The name is from the Roman poet | . It is the birthplace of Groton, NY, mayor Brandon Wing |
| Douglas Hyde | ... for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland, | , a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of Preside ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... ier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | . In addition, she is mentioned in poems recorded in Heimskringla and Egil ... |
| Ennius | ... ragments from Latin authors which would otherwise have been lost, including | , Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, Cato and Varro. But the authors whom he quot ... |
| Laurens Reael | ... mber 12, 1616. Here they were enthusiastically welcomed by Governor-General | , admiral Steven Verhagen, and the governor of Ambon, Jasper Jansz |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The title character in | 's The Raven famously sits upon "a Bust of Pallas" |
| William Cullen Bryant | Past residents include Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, | , poet and journalist, Alfred Lansing, author of , and Natalie Portman |
| Horace | ... tance Roman poets placed on their verse rules comes from the Ars Poetica of | , line 263 |
| John Masefield | ... His first published success, The Daffodil Murderer (1913), was a parody of | 's The Everlasting Mercy. Robert Graves, in describes it as a "parody of M ... |
| Giuseppe Carpani | In his works, Stendhal "plagiarized", reprised, appropriated, excerpts from | , Théophile Frédéric Winckler, Sismondi and others |
| Pietro Bembo | ... cesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua as well as a love affair with the poet | . Francesco's wife was the cultured intellectual , the sister of Alfonso, ... |
| Aldous Huxley | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as | and George Orwell to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the ... |
| Ralph Hodgson | ... Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – | – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – He ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ccusations by a rival artist that Apelles took part in a conspiracy against | . This almost led to the artist's execution. "In the Renaissance the exemp ... |
| Xenophanes | ... he had lived four lives that he could remember in detail, and, according to | , Pythagoras heard the cry of his dead friend in the bark of a dog |
| Sophocles | ... ord and University of Cambridge. In 1990, The Cure at Troy, a play based on | 's Philoctetes, was published to much acclaim, followed by Seeing Things i ... |
| Samuel Beckett | ... es, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | . Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan ... |
| Blind Harry | ... pic poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by | . Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Ja ... |
| Shakespeare's | ... ge in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from | Hamlet. Comparisons have also been drawn to Samuel Beckett's Waiting For G ... |
| Abu Nuwas | ... vities between them are totally prohibited. Ibn Hazm, Ibn Daud, Al-Mutamid, | and many others used this edict to write extensively and openly of brother ... |
| T. S. Eliot | Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by | that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury ... |
| Oliver Goldsmith | ... en condemned as a gigantic swindle on the part of large landowners. In 1770 | wrote The Deserted Village, deploring rural depopulation. An anonymous pro ... |
| Plato | | believed in the pre-existence of the soul, which tied in with his innatism ... |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... used mostly to glorify or sanctify war. The Charge of the Light Brigade by | , with its galloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of ... |
| George Herbert | ... reville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – | – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. ... |
| Bob Dylan | ... rk in 1974. Titled "An Evening With Salvador Allende", the concert featured | , Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and Ochs |
| Petrarch | ... re far more orthodox, but by then the form had become an academic exercise. | , for example, devoted much time to his Africa, a dactylic hexameter epic ... |
| Aristophanes | In The Frogs (405 BC) by | , Dionysus descends to Hades and announces himself as Heracles. Aeacus lam ... |
| Shen Kuo | ... zi (c. 470–390 BCE) proposed a concept similar to inertia, while in optics, | (1031–1095 CE) independently developed a camera obscura. The study of magn ... |
| Eustache Deschamps | ... rt poets and chroniclers alike: Huizinga quotes instances in the ballads of | , "monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme", and in Geor ... |
| Shakespeare's | ... 9 which led to the colonization of Bermuda and provided the inspiration for | The Tempest. William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611) was based on th ... |
| Arthur Symons | ... s indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back via William Butler Yeats, | and the Rhymers' Club generation of British poets to Mallarmé.and the Symb ... |
| Poe' | ... d not refer to these categories himself, he did once write, "There are my ' | pieces and my 'Dunsany pieces' – but alas – where are any Lovecraft pieces ... |
| Aristophanes | The most famous mention of Iacchus is in The Frogs by | , where the Mystae (mystics) invoke him as a riotous dancer in the meadow, ... |
| Lucretius | However | , describing atomism in his De rerum natura gives very clear and compellin ... |
| Oscar Wilde | ... Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include | , Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. It is arguably m ... |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | ... e first ridge of the Appalachians, Catoctin Mountain. The abolitionist poet | immortalized this view of Frederick in his poem to Barbara Fritchie: "The ... |
| Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton | ... ffluent young English women. Nightingale was courted by politician and poet | , but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her a ... |
| Snorri Sturluson | ... refusal. Syn is attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | ; and in kennings employed in skaldic poetry. Scholars have proposed theor ... |
| Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... d military issues such as guerrilla warfare, tactics and laying land mines. | was notable among the cell organizers in Europe. In 1937 the Polish author ... |
| Aeschylus | ... esentation of Laius's oracle in this play differs from that found in (e.g.) | 's Oedipus trilogy produced in 467 BCE. Helaine Smith argues |
| Alfred Douglas | In mid-1891 Lionel Johnson introduced Wilde to | , an undergraduate at Oxford at the time. Known to his family and friends ... |
| L. Frank Baum | ... thy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film based on the children's book by | . In this film, she sang the song for which she would forever be identifie ... |
| Maeterlinck, Maurice | Maarkedal - Maaseik - Maasmechelen - Maddens Doctrine - | - Magritte, René - Maingain, Olivier - Maldegem - Malle - Malmedy massacre ... |
| Neal Cassady | ... ne nickname (handle), CowboyNeal, is inspired by a Grateful Dead tribute to | in their song, "That’s It for the Other One" |
| Sima Qian | ... n Shi Huang" (秦始皇), appear in the Records of the Grand Historian written by | . The longer name "Qin Shi Huangdi" (秦始皇帝) appears first in chapter 5, tho ... |
| John Cage | ... the band. Cale, who was influenced greatly by his work with La Monte Young, | and the early Fluxus movement, encouraged the use of alternative ways of p ... |
| William of Apulia | ... speration to the Normans own spiritual chief, Pope Leo IX and, according to | , begged him "to liberate Italy that now lacks its freedom and to force th ... |
| Rudyard Kipling | ... alloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of this, though | had written a scathing reply, The Last of the Light Brigade, criticising t ... |
| W. S. Gilbert | ... amples of Victorian satire, however, are to be found in the Savoy Operas of | and Sir Arthur Sullivan. In fact, in The Yeomen of the Guard, a jester is ... |
| Jonathan Swift | ... uel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, | and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. It is arguably most famous as the ... |
| Heinrich Heine | Among its notable alumni and faculty are Pope Benedict XVI, | , Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Aug ... |
| Gareth Edwards | ... as the venue for what is considered to be "the greatest try ever scored" by | for the Barbarians against the New Zealand All Blacks in what is also call ... |
| Theocritus | Demeter might also be invoked in the guises of: | , wrote of an earlier role of Demeter as a poppy goddess |
| Georges Chastellain | ... champs, "monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme", and in | 's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century ... |