Milman Parry rigorously defended the observation that the extant Homeric poems are largely formulaic, and was led to postulate that they could be shown entirely formulaic if the complete corpus of Greek epic survived ; ;

Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form.

Early twentieth-century study of living oral epic traditions in the Balkans by Milman Parry and Albert Lord demonstrated the paratactic model used for composing these poems.

Independent of the question of single authorship is the near-universal agreement, after the work of Milman Parry, that the Homeric poems are dependent on an oral tradition, a generations-old technique that was the collective inheritance of many singer-poets ( aoidoi ).

Albert Bates Lord examined oral narratives from field transcripts of Yugoslav oral bards collected by Milman Parry in the 1930s, and the texts of epics such as the Odyssey and Beowulf.

* The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature Online

Milman Parry ( June 20, 1902 – December 3, 1935 ) was a scholar of epic poetry and the founder of the discipline of oral tradition.

Parry's collected papers were published posthumously: The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry, edited by Adam Parry, his son ( Oxford University Press, 1971 ).

The Milman Parry collection of records and transcriptions of South Slavic heroic poetry is now in the Widener Library of Harvard University.

* The On-Line Database of Harvard's Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature ( MPCOL )

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Albert Bates Lord ( September 15, 1912 – July 29, 1991 ) was a professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Harvard University who, after the death of Milman Parry, carried on that scholar's research into epic literature.

Nagy is known for extending Milman Parry and Albert Lord's theories about the oral composition-in-performance of the Iliad and Odyssey.

In 1880, Sullivan wrote the cantata The Martyr of Antioch, presented at the Leeds Triennial Music Festival, with a libretto modified by Gilbert from an 1822 epic poem by Henry Hart Milman concerning the martyrdom of St. Margaret of Antioch in the 3rd century.

The highest point on Thursday Island, standing at above sea level, is Milman Hill, a World War II defence facility.

For example, when the Acting Government Resident, Hugh Milman, who was based at Thursday Island ), visited Mabuiag Island in 1886 he reported that: ".. there is no doubt that every acre has a reputed owner, that every grove or single tree of any value has its proper and legitimate hereditary owner ".

The expedition of the two scholars is an obvious allusion to the research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord in Bosnia, whose effect was to make the oral epic tradition in Serbo-Croatian far better known, at least in Western scholarship, than it had been before.

* Sophie Milman ( 2007, Live at Winter Garden Theatre )

This was never played in Parry's lifetime, receiving its first performance at a memorial concert for Parry himself in 1918.

Finally, in a move to accommodate the majority of junior members on the College site rather than in hostels in the town, in the 1990s Eric Parry designed a new range of buildings on the site of the Master's Lodge, with a new Lodge at the west end.

Parry was concerned at the state of his label's top band, and became convinced that the solution was for The Cure to reinvent its musical style.

Some published criticisms include Storer H. Rowley ’ s June 2002 article in the Chicago Tribune, Anup Shah ’ s at Globalissues. org, and Nat Parry ’ s April 2004 article at ConsortiumNews. com.

His great rival at during this period was Serjeant Parry ( 1816 – 1880 ).

In his position at the Admiralty, Barrow was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of discovery, including those of John Ross, William Edward Parry, James Clark Ross, and John Franklin.

Halo display at the South Pole ( 1980 ), featuring a parhelion, 22 ° halo, parhelic circle, upper tangent arc and Parry arc.

Jack is initially reluctant, but comes to feel responsible for Parry when he learns that the man's condition is a result of witnessing his wife's horrific murder at the hands of Jack's psychotic caller.

Grove retired at the end of 1894, and was succeeded as director by Hubert Parry.

* Joseph Parry becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

* Joseph Parry is admitted to the Gorsedd of bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

He became Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University in 1908, taking over from Hubert Parry.

A student of the linguist Antoine Meillet at the Sorbonne, Parry revolutionized Homeric studies.

Between 1933 and 1935 Parry, at the time Associate Professor at Harvard University, made two trips to Yugoslavia, where he studied and recorded oral traditional poetry in Serbo-Croat with the help of his assistant Albert Lord and Nikola Vujnović, a local Herzegovinian Croat.

Forrest Parry, an IBM Engineer, had the idea of securing a piece of magnetic tape, the predominant storage medium at the time, to a plastic card base.

In 1888 his only son died ; his own health declined, and he appeared for the last time in public at the funeral of Henry Parry Liddon on 9 September 1890, dying on 9 December in the same year, at Dover.

Grove retired at Christmas 1894, when he was succeeded by Parry.

Evalyn Parry, older sister of FGC attender Richard Parry-of the Arcade Fire, has also performed several times at FGC, including in 2002 and 2011.

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Graeme Smith won bronze in the 1500m freestyle, and, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Steve Parry won bronze in the 200m butterfly.

In 1897, he became conductor at the New Brighton Tower concerts, where he pioneered the works of Joseph Holbrooke, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Charles Steggall, Edward German, Hubert Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford, Corder and others, frequently devoting whole concerts to a single composer.