Search results for "Elegy" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • * An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of the Great Divine, the Reverend and Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper, Who Departed This Life December 29, 1783 ...
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  • upon Alfasi’s death he composed an elegy to his master (Brody, Diwan ... the Holy City, he sang his most beautiful elegy, the celebrated "Zionide ...
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  • #039;s Pèlerinage de la vie humaine. An elegy "Of the death of the noble prince Kynge Edwarde the forth," included in some of the ...
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  • Frost's poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy," his first published work, which earned him $15. At this time, Frost made an important ...
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  • *Elegy Op. 8a, 8b (191?) *Bagatellen (1911) *Piano Sonatina (1915) *Romanian Folk Dances (1915); These were also arranged for piano and violin ...
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  • Henry, Lord Hastings from smallpox, was an elegy with a strong royalist feeling that alludes to the execution of King Charles I on January 30, 1649. ...
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  • meeting of the Arcadian Academy, he recited an elegy on his patron, and then settled down to enjoy his wealth. Metastasio was now twenty. During ...
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  • * Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta. University of Chicago Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0226062761 * Consoli, Joseph P. Giovanni Boccaccio: ...
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  • second movement is a waltz, followed by an elegy and a spirited Russian finale ... Claude Debussy. At the same time, it is an elegy on the death of Nikolai Rubinstein ...
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  • * Elegy for Young Lovers (1961, with Chester Kallman, libretto for an opera by Hans Werner Henze) * The Dyer's Hand (1962, essays) ...
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  • Chaucer's first major work, The Book of the Duchess, was an elegy for Blanche of Lancaster, but reflects some of the signature techniques ...
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  • View of Reform. In 1821, wrote his elegy to John Keats, entitled Adonais. In 1822, Shelley arranged for Leigh Hunt, a poet and an editor who had ...
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  • and "Bullfinch" (1800), a poignant elegy on the death of his friend, Count Alexander Suvorov—like Potemkin a military general. ...
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  • *Elegy for string orchestra, Op.58 (1909) *Romance for bassoon and orchestra, Op.62 (1909) *Concerto for violin and orchestra in B minor, Op.61 ...
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  • quot; (quoted in Garrett, Sidney 55). No better elegy for him could be given. ==Works== ===The Defence of Poesie=== Sidney wrote the Defence before ...
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  • jazz composers. Of all his works, his elegant elegy for Lester Young, "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" (from Mingus Ah Um) has probably had the most ...
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  • of a political conspiracy, Gabirol composed an elegy of more than two hundred verses. By 19, Gabirol was afflicted by a chronic illness which caused ...
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  • in epic scope and accomplishment. Written as an elegy, it was intended to be a tribute to his mother, and in it Ginsberg recounted their relationship ...
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  • survive. The most famous work was Aetia (Causes). An elegy in four books, the poem explains the legendary origin of obscure customs, festivals, and names ...
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  • Gray's [http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc Elegy] is an odd case of poetry with latent political ideas: :Full many a ...
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  • music during that period: he set to music an elegy written by the Tamil poet laureate Kannadasan for Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. ...
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  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, an elegy to his late brother. The work described their 1839 trip to the White Mountains. When the book failed ...
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  • been conceived.Roger Scruton, England: An Elegy (London: Pimlico, 2001, ISBN ... * England: An Elegy (2001) * The West and the Rest: Globalisation and ...
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  • *1951 Elegy - directed by Kajiro Yamamoto *1951 The Idiot - directed by Akira Kurosawa *1951 Pirates - directed by Hiroshi Inagaki ...
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  • The greatest work of this period is, without a doubt, the short elegy “Lycidas,” written by Milton in memory of his friend Edward King who ...
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  • The play ends with the Prince's brief elegy for the lovers. The Capulets ... in Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and an elegy by Paris. Shakespeare also ...
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  • read an excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's elegy Adonais and released thousands of butterflies in memory of Jones. The release of Let It ...
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  • tribute to her came in Thomas Chaloner's Elegy, published in 1579. Here she is peerless in her learning and beauty, comparable only with Socrates ...
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  • org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard] (1750) set off a new craze for poetry of melancholy reflection. It ...
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  • to have an inspirational tone, whereas elegy and tragedy are meant to ... rules that govern the construction of an elegy to the highly formalized ...
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  • highly analytical prose. Consider this moving elegy, entitled "To a Minor Poet of a Greek Anthology," included in one of Borges' earlier ...
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  • attend. Hunter, overcome by grief, submitted an elegy written in the style of the Duino Elegies which he had studied years before in the late 1980s ...
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  • century. Their concentration on the ritha or elegy suggests that this was a form designated for women to use. A later poetess Walladah, Umawi princess ...
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  • Gododdin written in Brythonic (Old Welsh) and the Elegy for St Columba by Dallan Forgaill written in Middle Irish. Vita Columbae by Adomnán, the ninth ...
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  • or didactic), "Marsia" (an elegy traditionally meant to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain Alla hiss salam, grandson ...
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  • instance, some of the authors of the film River Elegy (He Shang) were arrested, and some of the authors fled Mainland China. Gifford concluded that "China ...
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  • * 1978: Robert Lowell: A Memorial Address and an Elegy, Faber & Faber * 1978: The Makings of a Music, University of Liverpool * 1978: After ...
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