An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

* Charlie Austin ( born 1989 ), English footballer

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* Sarah Austin ( translator ) ( 1793 – 1867 ), English author

* Austin Healey ( born 1973 ), English rugby union player

* Austin Osman Spare ( 1886 – 1956 ), English artist and magician

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

The result were two volumes ( J. S. Bach ), which was published in 1908 and translated in English by Ernest Newman in 1911.

: English ( official ), local dialects

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

abate ), as commonly used in the Catholic Church on the European continent, is the equivalent of the English " Father " ( parallel etymology ), being loosely applied to all who have received the tonsure.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

* Athene Seyler ( 1889 – 1990 ), English actress

Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".

Adjectives derived from " United States " ( such as United Statesian ) are awkward in English, but similar constructions exist in Spanish ( estadounidense ), Portuguese ( estado-unidense, estadunidense ), Finnish ( yhdysvaltalainen: from Yhdysvallat, United States ), as well as in French ( états-unien ), and Italian ( statunitense ).

According to the dramatist Aeschylus, in the distant past they had lived in Scythia ( modern Crimea ), at the Palus Maeotis (" Lake Maeotis ", the Sea of Azov ), but later moved to Themiscyra on the River Thermodon ( the Terme river in northern Turkey ).

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

* Richard Cumberland ( dramatist ) ( 1732 – 1811 ), civil servant and dramatist

* The play entitled Esther ( 1960 ), written by Welsh dramatist Saunders Lewis, is a retelling of the story in Welsh.

* John Ford ( dramatist ) ( 1586 – ca. 1640 ), English playwright and poet during Jacobean and Caroline literary eras ; best known for 1633 tragedy Tis Pity She's a Whore

* Richard Butler ( author ) ( 1844 – 1928 ), British dramatist

Authors connected to Stockholm include the poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman ( 1740 – 1795 ), novelist and dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), and novelist Hjalmar Söderberg ( 1869 – 1941 ), all of whom made Stockholm part of their works.

* Georges Courteline ( 1858 – 1929 ), dramatist and novelist

* Philippe Néricault Destouches ( 1680 – 1754 ), dramatist

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

* Thomas Corneille ( 1625 – 1709 ), dramatist, brother of Pierre Corneille

* Pierre Antoine Motteux ( 1663 – 1718 ), French born English translator and dramatist

* Rhinthon ( c. 323 – 285 BC ), dramatist ;

* Frank Frankfort Moore ( 1855 – 1931 ), British dramatist, novelist and poet

* Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland ( 1584 – 1639 ), English poet, translator and dramatist

* Publius Terentius Afer ( Terence ), Roman comic dramatist, the author of six verse comedies that are long regarded as models of pure Latin ( b. c. 195 BC ) ( approximate date ).

* Quintus Ennius ( b. 239 BC ), epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets, and often called the founder of Roman literature or the father of Roman poetry.

If A Shrew was not an early draft ( i. e. not by Shakespeare ), we would have " to assume around 1593 the existence of a dramatist other than Shakespeare who was capable of devising a three-part structure more impressive than the structure of any extant play by Lyly, Peele, Greene, Marlowe, or Kyd.

* Eugène Labiche ( 1815 – 1888 ), dramatist

* Henri Meilhac ( 1831 – 1897 ), dramatist

* Alfred Austin ( 1835 – 1913 ), British poet

* Peter Altenberg ( 1859-1919 ), Austrian writer and poet

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

Of the shorter poems, besides the greeting to Pippin on his return from the campaign against the Avars ( 796 ), an epistle to David ( Charlemagne ) incidentally reveals a delightful picture of the poet living with his children in a house surrounded by pleasant gardens near the emperor's palace.

* Adrian Mitchell ( 1932 – 2008 ), English poet, novelist and playwright

* Adrian Păunescu ( 1943 – 2010 ), Romanian poet, journalist, and politician

Alain de Lille ( or Alanus ab Insulis ) ( c. 1116 / 1117 – 1202 / 1203 ), French theologian and poet, was born in Lille, some years before 1128.

The Imam Hasan Ali Shah was born in 1804 in Kahak, Iran to Shah Khalil Allah, the 45th Ismaili Imam, and Bibi Sarkara, the daughter of Muhammad Sadiq Mahallati ( d. 1815 ), a poet and a Ni ‘ mat Allahi Sufi.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

* Serafino dell ' Aquila ( 1466-1500 ), Italian poet

* Antonio Abati ( died 1667 ), Italian poet

* Ai ( poet ) ( 1947 – 2010 ), American poet

** Ai Qing ( 1910 – 1996 ), poet and political prisoner

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

The first section of the poem, ( the first fitt ), helps the poet illustrate the settings of the poem by introducing Hrothgar ’ s lineage.

In the Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson quotes many stanzas attributed to Bragi Boddason the old ( Bragi Boddason inn gamli ), a court poet who served several Swedish kings, Ragnar Lodbrok, Östen Beli and Björn at Hauge who reigned in the first half of the 9th century.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

* Cleopatra Mathis ( born 1947 ), American poet and professor