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1 day ago · The resultant volume, Eglogs, Epytaphes and Sonnettes (1563) includes this week’s poem mourning the death of fellow poet Nicholas Grimald. Googe’s choice of the generic term “epitaph”, derived from the Greek words for “over a tomb”, is indicative. The poem may not be brief, but it has a certain Protestant briskness of tone.
1 day ago · The resultant volume, Eglogs, Epytaphes and Sonnettes (1563) includes this week’s poem mourning the death of fellow poet Nicholas Grimald. Googe’s choice of the generic term “epitaph”, derived from the Greek words for “over a tomb”, is indicative. The poem may not be brief, but it has a certain Protestant briskness of tone.
4 days ago · Introduction to Poetics. Poetics is a work by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, in which he provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the art of poetry. Written in the 4th century BCE, it is considered one of the most important works on literary theory and has been highly influential in the Western literary tradition.
5 days ago · Commentaries on Other Edgar Lee Masters Poems. Edgar Lee Masters’ "The Hill" - The poem "The Hill" opens Edgar Lee Masters’ American classic Spoon River Anthology, which is told in a series of dramatic epitaphs by the deceased residents of Spoon River, an imaginary town in Illinois. The work might be considered a character study in poetry.
2 days ago · Rumi was born to Persian parents, [35] [12] [13] [36] in Balkh, [37] modern-day Afghanistan or Wakhsh, [4] a village on the East bank of the Wakhsh River known as Sangtuda in present-day Tajikistan. [4] The area, culturally adjacent to Balkh, is where Mawlânâ's father, Bahâ' uddîn Walad, was a preacher and jurist. [4]
- Sultan Valad, Ala al-din Chelebi, Amir Alim Chelebi, Malike Khatun.
- Mathnawi, Rumi Music
- Gevher Khatun, Karra Khatun
2 days ago · George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on Holles Street in London, England [1] – his birthplace is now supposedly occupied by a branch of the department store John Lewis . Byron was the only child of Captain John Byron (known as 'Jack') and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
3 days ago · The inscription or epitaph is a lasting homage to a loved one, often capturing the essence of their life or the feelings of those they leave behind. It’s a little chunk of immortality, carved in stone, that future archaeologists might chuckle over or ponder deeply.
