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  • poet. Baratynsky was a leading figure in the rise of Russian poetry ... accessory's uncle. After three years in the countryside and deep emotional ...
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  • The extant versions of her poems are in a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi ... They are in the bhakti tradition, and most passionately praised Lord ...
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  • , 936–978), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang (南唐後主 ... a form of irregular lyric Chinese poetry, in which the number of characters ...
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  • One of the most influential figures in twentieth-century English literary ... Frank Raymond Leavis was born in Cambridge, England on the July 14 ...
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  • the other modernists, becoming a master of poetry that was both rigorously ... living at a time of immense transition both in the world at large and in the ...
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  • associated with the Modernist school of poetry, and he was greatly influenced ... In contrast to Eliot, who gave up his American citizenship to become ...
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  • first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Though ... Mistral published over 30 collections of poetry in her lifetime. Some ...
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire (in French ɡijom apɔliˈnɛʁ who is known to have directed French poetry into new contemporary directions ...
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  • large state of Uttar Pradesh (fourth largest in India). As such, she led the ... Sarojini Naidu was born in Hyderabad, India as the eldest daughter ...
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  • Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of ... Boccaccio's poetry would be some of the most widely influential ...
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  • of an embassy of 570 delegates from Japan in 717 and remained there until ... period and worked as intellectual leaders in Japan. However, Nakamaro, for ...
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  • novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. he probed humanity's fragility in a violent world. ...
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  • she came from a family without any sons. (In Joseon Korean culture, the ... Shin Saimdang (1504-1551) was born in the village of Bukpyong, Kangneung ...
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  • the English Romantic movement. Keats' poetry is characterized by an exuberant ... felt that the deepest meaning of life lay in the apprehension of material beauty. ...
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  • 7, 1862) was the last of the Moghul emperors in India, as well as the last ... is recognized as one of the greatest poets in this language of his day, some ...
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  • Estonian literature refers to literature written in the Estonian language ... of priests an Estonian grammar was printed in German in 1637. ...
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  • Rimbaud's poetry is notable for its highly experimental, revolutionary ... free verse into the foreground of European poetry. Although he was considered ...
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  • and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent ... She was already well-known in Poland, but became better known internationally ...
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  • and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan. Zenji is a title meaning ... to be the best philosophical work written in the Japanese language. To this ...
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  • Waka (和歌), or Yamato uta, is a genre of Japanese poetry. Waka ... were considered to be dire faults in a poem), or even of line. Instead ...
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  • representative of the modern (muhdath) poetry that developed during the ... Abu Nuwas was born in the province of Ahvaz (modern Khuzestan Province ...
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  • Russian Formalism and Phenomenology (such as in the work of Edmund Husserl ... Best known for his four-volume work Studies in Human Time, Poulet ...
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  • the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. A revered ... She developed a soft vocabulary in the Hindi poetry of Khadi Boli ...
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  • Russian Futurism began roughly in the early 1910s; in 1912, a year ... Pushkin and Dostoevsky, according to A Slap in the Face of Public taste, should ...
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  • fighting both racism and black patriarchy in the setting of the American South. ... Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of sharecroppers ...
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  • was a key member of the New York School of poetry. O'Hara was a poet and ... reader to experience life as O'Hara did in New York. ...
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  • Shimazaki Haruki, a Japanese author, active in Meiji, Taisho and early Showa ... himself as the major proponent of naturalism in Japanese literature. He was ...
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  • (南北朝): the Liang Dynasty (梁朝) in southern China, the Northern ... up working on farms or tending to horses in the stable if they were not ...
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  • Greece|ancient Greek]] term found primarily in Christian writings, such as ... The topic of kenosis was revived in the nineteenth century to reinterpret ...
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  • Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978, Kyoto — c. 1014 or 1031 Kyoto), Japanese ... The Tale of Genji and to a central character in the novel. ...
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  • (a form of Lord Krishna), the supreme God in Vaishnavism. He is especially ... ways, and was often cheated and humiliated in dealings with the public. His ...
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  • Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ... the world's languages and have appeared in various formats. The Persian ...
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  • and spirit harp, the aeolian harp originated in ancient Greece. The instrument ... The aeolian harp became popular again in twentieth century music with ...
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  • and studying at some of the leading schools in the Muslim world at the time ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...
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  • Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains of France ... (1194-1253). She is considered a pioneer in the field of women's education ...
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  • 1905) was a Russian poet who rose to fame in the late 1890s. In her lifetime ... Maria Lokhvitskaya was born on November 19, 1869 in Saint Petersburg ...
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  • romantic elements into literature, especially poetry. Sologub had much in common with the French writers of the fin de siècle ...
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  • critic whose life spans two major phases in the development of French literature ... makes him one of the most protean figures in French literature. He left ...
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  • a language capable of poetic greatness, and in the process instituted many ... realism, nuance, and characterization found in Chaucer. Ezra Pound famously ...
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  • one of the most honored American authors in the genres of fantasy, horror ... He won almost every major fantasy fiction award in existence, this ...
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  • both his spiritual and colonial roots in his writing. He received the ... Walcott was born and raised in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West ...
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  • from 1976 to 1977. Despite being ousted in a Marxist coup, Mancham returned ... businessman, sent James to law school in England. He also studied at ...
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  • where he remained a figure at the court in the 780s and 790s. He wrote ... He was made abbot of the monastery of Saint Martin of Tours in 796 ...
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  • poet and playwright. His plays and poetry are primarily based on the ... except what can be inferred from his poetry and plays. His works cannot ...
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  • poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing ... play "Lorenzaccio" uses the events in sixteenth century Florence ...
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  • writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the form consists ... verse novel) are examples of works written in prose. Developments in twentieth ...
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  • of new materials are important ways in which unique cultural expressions ... Folklore generally refers to the body of material, in a variety of ...
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  • not been the subject of literature or the arts in general. ... ==Socialist realism in the Soviet Union== Socialist realism was the ...
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  • or 1837Sharon Halevi and Fruma Zachs, Gendering Culture in Greater ... He traveled throughout West Asia and France in his youth, and after some medical ...
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  • (北海, present day Weifang, Shandong). In 196, he was defeated by Yuan ... a new dimension and vitality to scholarly poetry by introducing plaintive ...
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  • Best known for his introspective poetry and writings on the growth ... John of the Cross was canonized as a saint in 1762 by Pope Benedict ...
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  • of the Arabic novel and drama, especially in the adaptation of the literary ... Tawfiq Ismail al-Hakim was born on October 9, 1898, in Ramleh city ...
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  • In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration ... of alliterative verse are those found in the oldest literature of many ...
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  • novel, The Bell Jar and her advancements in confessional poetry building ... In 1982, Plath became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously ...
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  • a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...
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  • A Greek contemporary of Croesus and Solon in the mid-sixth century B.C.E ... stories from the ancient world circulated in vernacular European languages ...
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  • political cartoons and caricatures for Punch in the late nineteenth century ... Tenniel is best remembered today for his illustrations in Lewis Carroll ...
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  • American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays ... the sexes and the distribution of power in society, biological and gender ...
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  • of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Daoist and Zen tradition ... and orientalist Edwin G. Pulleyblank asserts in his study Linguistic Evidence ...
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  • was an Italian librettist and poet born in Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto ... and siblings converted to Roman Catholicism in 1763, he took the name Lorenzo ...
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  • Early on in his college days, Kerouac embraced a bohemian lifestyle ... Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1922 with ...
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  • Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ... of non-Japanese haiku. Senryu is a similar poetry form that emphasizes humor ...
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  • as the primary route to secure positions in the government or military. of imperial China, the gwageo first appeared in Unified Silla, gained importance ...
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  • Since 1961, she has published 17 books of poetry, 16 novels, 10 books of non ... love of nature born of her early experiences in the wilderness of northern ...
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  • Muhammad bin Suleyman (also spelled in various sources as Muhammad ... ), was a sixteenth-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani ...
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  • commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions around the world ... Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred in 269 C.E ...
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  • 1448)Vinay Dharwadker, "Kabir" in Religions of India in Practice ... )Charlotte Vaudeville, "Kabir" in The Encyclopedia of Religion ...
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  • Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel ... group around Ezra Pound, the Imagists. In 1911, Pound introduced Hilda ...
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  • Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich ... of the cherished ideals of Western society. In the wake of the Industrial ...
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  • his translations, Nerval played a major role in introducing French readers ... Gérard Labrunie was born in Paris on May 22, 1808.Gérard Cogez, ...
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  • and affected every aspect of culture in Europe, including philosophy ... There was another round of revival of humanism in the Age of Enlightenment ...
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  • Rhodes is an island situated in the eastern Aegean Sea. It lies approximately ... resisted an attack by a powerful army in the aftermath of the division ...
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  • philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America ... Works in the dark romantic spirit were influenced by Transcendentalism ...
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  • genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-exile Jewish culture and ... from the centuries following the Exile in Babylon down to the close of ...
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  • the Victorian era. Her novels, set largely in provincial England, are well ... her works were taken seriously. At the time in England, female authors published ...
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  • language. Khlebnikov was an early pioneer in Russia, but Kharms quickly ... Like most of the modernists, Kharms saw the Russian Revolutions in ...
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  • of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way ... The term was first coined in 1917 by Victor Shklovsky (or Shklovskij ...
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  • movement. The Slavophile movement originated in Moscow in the 1830s. Drawing ... purity of the Russian language had something in common with aesthetic views ...
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  • of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts ... quot; was first popularized by Gaston Paris in 1883, and has since come under ...
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  • or former nomadic lifestyle. Reductions in their grazing ranges and increases ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...
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  • Imperial University (九州帝国大学) in Japan in his youth. After returning ... In 1966, Guo Moruo was forced to give "self-criticism" under ...
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  • Poetry (from the Greek " ποίησις or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for ...
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  • a British social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern ... Although controversial in its comparison of Christianity to other ...
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  • the early Chola kings of the Sangam age in South India, was the son of ... Karikala's Chola garnered great wealth in trade with the Roman ...
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  • known as Jerubbaal, was a judge appearing in the biblical Book of Judges ... Gideon was one of the more significant judges whose story is recorded ...
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  • Following a cultured, middle-class upbringing in New York City, during ... In 1947, Bowles settled in Tangier, Morocco, and his wife, Jane Bowles ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Ares, the Olympian god of war, was the son of ... Hellenic Ares, but between them, Mars stood in much higher esteem. ...
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  • appeared among the royal families of Europe in the eighteenth century, known ... Myths and speculations about Saint Germain began to be widespread ...
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  • for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. In 1697 in Paris, Perrault published ... 11 fairy tales. All his tales were written in prose with a moral at the end. ...
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  • work on the British radical movements in the late eighteenth and early ... the role of class, elitism, and culture in the construction of history ...
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  • prodigy who produced commissioned portraits in her early teens. She later ... Kauffmann also lived in England and Italy, and she spoke French, German ...
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  • [[Image:Homer_British_Museum.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bust of Homer in ... are among the oldest surviving writings in any language. ...
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  • writers, and musicians who came together in the bloody third century C ... The Seven Sages’ life of retirement in the countryside became a ...
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  • religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism. The story ... and by the time she met Dmitri Merezhkovsky in 1888, she was already a published ...
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  • but it was already rich and essential in the period of antiquity called ... ==People in the culture== [[Image:Everyday Life in Old China 13.jpg ...
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  • auth234 George Steiner] Contemporary Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03 ... is ranked "among the great minds in today's literary world ...
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  • poet, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in Persian and Urdu is regarded ... After studying in England and Germany, Iqbal established a law practice ...
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  • were initially fashioned and disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition, though ... sources for much of Western fiction, poetry, film and visual art. Greek ...
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  • could be explained by organic changes in the body and brain. This provoked ... He was received in Berlin by Frederick the Great, who allowed him ...
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  • c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is the period in the history of India during ... organization, its profound interest in human origins, in the question ...
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