Icelandic speakers today can understand poetry written in a slightly different dialect over 1,000 years ago! Why has Icelandic changed so slowly? The main reason is the isolated (孤立的) location of the island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean....
The Anglo-Saxons of course knew that a smith is a metalworker, any kind of metal, and in the recorded literature often a goldsmith. In verse especially, sm
aThe war also had a great impact on the British Empire, which spanned the whole of the globe. To win the war, Britain had to loosen the grip of its colonies in a large measure to mobilize the necessary support. The war exposed the British fragility and inspired the people in the coloni...
backed by the undulating grooves of dembow. The rapper tells the story of female oppression in Latin America with gripping poetry ("Pero todo se ha complicado/Como si ser mujer fuera un pecado/La demonia ha despertado, ey, una guerrera"), while reminding us of the...
Early collections, such as Edward Bysshe's "A Collection of the Most Natural, Agreeable & Noble Thoughts … to be found in the best English poets", the third part of his The Art of Poetry (1702), drew particularly on literature, especially poetry and drama, by what were regarded as "...
When poetic texts are made directly to support Plato inThemistius, he is in line with Plutarch, who, in his treatise on how to study poetry,advocated the“conjoining and reconciling [of]...[poetic] sentiments with the doc-trines of philosophers”;“our faith gains an added strength and ...
By combining his poetry and imagery on the page through unique technique, he created some of the most striking imagery in British art and has since inspired countless artists including Walt Whitman and Jimi Hendrix. This exhibition will explore the artist-poet’s imaginative world through his most...
Now why do I work extra hard at this only when I am in unfamiliar territory….need to think about this one. Any thoughts or questions? Don’t be shy. ‘Til next week. Jonathan “The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of...
The toy at this period is surrounded with a halo of poetry and mystery, and lays hold of the imagination and the heart without awaking vulgar curiosity. Thrice happy age when one can hug one's white woolly lamb to one's bibbed breast, kiss its pink bead43 eyes in irrational44 ecstasy...
Icelandic speakers today can understand poetry written in a slightly different dialect over 1,000 years ago! Why has Icelandic changed so slowly? The main reason is the isolated (孤立的) location of the island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.___Compared to England, Iceland had no history...