England in the Dark Ages.(Poetry)(Poem)Greger, Debora
The heroic poetry of the German, Scandinavian, and English peoples deals chiefly with a period from the 4th to the 6th century ad, the time of the great migrations (Völkerwanderung) of the Germanic people. Though some of the heroes portrayed are historical personages, their actions are ...
It tells of the fall from and restoration to royal favour of a Castilian noble, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, known as the Cid (derived from the Arabic title sidi,“lord”). Because of the poem’s setting, personages, topographical detail, and realistic tone and treatment and because the poet...
In the Middle Ages, many forests had already come under the jurisdiction of law. The word forest (from the Latin foris, outside) was originally a judicial term referring to a land that had been placed off limits by a royal decree. Nothing was...
“Beau Brummell” from Eccentric Personages by W. Russell (1864) It is a solemn truth that every death-bed is the final scene of a great tragedy, though the death be a beggar’s, the bed one of straw.… continue reading...One
I am happy to welcome this “how to haiku” handbook into the world (for ages 8 & up)! I fell in love with words from the moment I met them and wrote my first poem when I was eight years old. This is the book…Read more: How Do You Haiku? A Step-By-Step Guide with Template...
Like Hai Zi and Gu Cheng, both poets of tremendous talent who committed suicide at the ages of 25 and 37 respectively, Xu Lizhi vividly expressed his isolation and desperation in his poetry. What distinguishes Xu is the kind of life he led. Both Hai Zi and Gu Cheng were college-educated...
the ignorance of the dark ages to the Christian doctrines or to the predominance of the Celtic nations. Whatever of evil their agencies may have contained sprung from the extinction of the poetical principle, connected with the progress of despotism and superstition. Men, from causes too intricate...
I hope you enjoy Pantheon Poets. In Britain, only a small proportion of people born since 1960 know any Latin. But, for many, many European authors who have written between the dark ages and the middle of the twentieth century, education meant the classics, and they were often influenced ...
Somewhere ages and ages7 hence: Two roads diverged in a wood,and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference8. Notes 1.《未选择的路》是弗罗斯特于1915年创作的一首名诗,最初收录在诗人的第三本诗集《山间》(1916)中。该诗描述了诗人在穿行森林时遇到岔道,一番思...