Opinion differs as to whether the composition of the poem is contemporary with its transcription, or whether the poem was composed at an earlier time ( possibly as one of the Bear's Son Tales ) and orally transmitted for many years, and then transcribed at a later date.

Kiernan ( 1996 ) argues on the basis of paleographical and codicological evidence, that the poem is contemporary with the manuscript.

Abraham Akkerman preceded his article on human automatism in the contemporary city with a short satirical poem on a pair of golems turning human.

Richard Barnfield, Dowland's contemporary, refers to the lutenist in poem VIII of The Passionate Pilgrim ( 1598 ):

If Coleridge's dream did originate ideas within the poem, then the dreams are related to those experienced by contemporary opium eaters and writers, Thomas de Quincey and Charles Pierre Baudelaire.

A common example is John Dryden's MacFlecknoe, a poem that ridicules Dryden's contemporary, Thomas Shadwell.

William Forrest, author of a contemporary poem about Catherine of Aragon, complimented Anne's " passing excellent " skill as a dancer.

The structure of the poem, according to McGann, is influenced by Coleridge's interest in higher criticism, and its function " was to illustrate a significant continuity of meaning between cultural phenomena that seemed as diverse as pagan superstitions, Catholic theology, Aristotelian science, and contemporary philological theory, to name only a few of the work's ostentatiously present materials.

The account formerly given of him, that he was the contemporary of Theocritus and a friend and teacher of Moschus, and lived about 280 BC, is now regarded as incorrect: it rests on a misreading of the Epitaph of Bion, a poem commemorating his death, which in early modern times was erroneously attributed to Moschus.

The Indian tradition is unanimous in its agreement that the poem is the work of a single poet, the sage Valmiki, a contemporary of Rama and a peripheral actor in the drama.

* Two song settings of Vladimir Nabokov's poem " Provence " in Russian and English versions by composers Ivan Barbotin and James DeMars on the 2011 contemporary classical album Troika.

His contemporary Lactantius is probably the author who wrote the longest poem on the famous bird.

The only contemporary sources mentioning him are the two skaldic poems Haraldskvæði and Glymdrápa, which have been attributed to Þorbjörn Hornklofi or alternatively ( in the case of the first poem ) to Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.

While the various sagas name anywhere from 11 to 20 sons of Harald in various contexts, the contemporary skaldic poem Hákonarmál says that Harald's son Haakon only would meet " eight brothers " when arriving to Valhalla.

Thomasina's insights into thermodynamics and heat transfer, and the idea that the universe is cooling, echo the poem Darkness by her " real life " contemporary, Lord Byron.

The poem tells of the Gododdin King Mynyddog Mwynfawr, and his band of warriors, who, after a year of feasting in their fortress, set out to do battle with the Angles somewhere in contemporary Yorkshire.

Located in the valley at the base of Chandler Hill, a contemporary satirical poem suggested that the inexplicable grouping of houses was populated by people who had failed to climb the road leading over the hill.

" The Colloquy of Arthur and the Eagle ," a poem contemporary with but independent of Geoffrey, mentions another son of Uther named Madoc, the father of Arthur's nephew Eliwlod.

switches the movie from a really interesting, jittery, literate, and witty tone poem about justified contemporary paranoia ( and the creatively unhinged dark side of New York City ) to an overloaded, meandering iteration of a Lethal Weapon project that bears the not-so-secret stamp of audience testing and tinkering.

In the poem, Robert I's character is a hero of the chivalric type common in contemporary romance, Freedom is a " noble thing " to be sought and won at all costs, and the opponents of such freedom are shown in the dark colours which history and poetic propriety require, but there is none of the complacency of the merely provincial habit of mind.

A contemporary record of the battle is found in the Old English poem Battle of Brunanburh, preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

The poem bore the subtitle " A magyar nép zivataros századaiból " (" From the stormy centuries of the Hungarian people "); it is often argued that this subtitle – by emphasizing past rather than contemporary national troubles – was added expressly to enable the poem to pass Habsburg censorship.

Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as a literary critic, but his own major work, an epic poem about Joan of Arc called " La Pucelle ," ( 1656 ) was lampooned by his contemporary Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux.

A contemporary report tells that Thorkell the Tall attempted to save Ælfheah from the mob about to kill him by offering them everything he owned except for his ship, in exchange for Ælfheah's life ; Thorkell's presence is not mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, however.

It is a rare contemporary glimpse into a late Gothic aristocratic English interior and tells a great deal about her status and lifestyle.

Plutarch, in his vita of Pericles, 24, mentions lost comedies of Kratinos and Eupolis, which alluded to the contemporary capacity of Aspasia in the household of Pericles, and to Sophocles in The Trachiniae it was shameful for Heracles to serve an Oriental woman in this fashion, but there are many late Hellenistic and Roman references in texts and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning, as Ovid tells: Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles ' olive-wood club.

The apostle Paul tells of his visit to the third heaven, the place, according to contemporary thought, where the garden of Paradise is to be found.

A contemporary account by Eddius Stephanus tells us:

The film tells the story of a contemporary cohabiting Indian couple and their subsequent struggle with an unexpected pregnancy.

It is a work of historical allegory which tells the story of the religious conflict in France under Henry III of France and Henry IV of France, and also touches on more contemporary English events, such as the Overbury scandal.

A contemporary front-page account in the Nashville Banner tells that one lawyer -- Captain Quentin Rankin -- was murdered by being hanged and then shot, while the other -- Colonel R. Z.

After the Doctor reveals to Barbara and Ian that he and Susan are aliens exiled from their own planet, he tells them he cannot risk their revealing information about the TARDIS to their contemporary world, and dematerialises the craft against Susan's protests.

It tells of the courageous insurrection of the Araucanians and also relates the history of Chile and of contemporary Spain.

In Norse mythology, Skáldskaparmál tells the story of how Odin brought the mead of poetry to Asgard, which is an indicator of the significance of poetry within the contemporary Scandinavian culture.

Jencks believes that contemporary science is potentially a great moving force for creativity because it tells us the truth about the way the universe is and show us the patterns of beauty.

The incumbent 7th Marquess of Bute, known as Johnny Bute, opened an award-winning contemporary visitor centre in 2001 that tells the story of the family and estate.

A contemporary — though hostile — Catholic source tells us that O ' Neill " strove to contain the raskall multitude from those frequent savage actions of stripping and killing which were after perpetrated and gave their enterprise an odious character as well in the opinion of their countrymen as of strangers " but that " the floodgate of rapine, once being laid open, the meaner sort of people was not to be contained ".

Set in contemporary London, the story tells why the protagonist wants to leave his family.

Giovanni Battista Agucchi, a friend and protégé of Cardinal Odoardo Farnese tells us in a 1609 letter, raised along with Sisto Badalocchio and a near contemporary to Domenichino and Lanfranco.

At the same time, the film also tells a contemporary story in which one of Santa's elves ( alternately referred to as the " Vendequm " onscreen ), a visionary named Patch ( Dudley Moore ), sets out to employ Santa's toymaking methods on his own, unaware that he might be ruining the magic of Christmas in the process.

The Hungry Tide tells a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth.

Eusebius of Caesarea, a contemporary ecclesiastical historian, tells a similar story: commanders were told to give their troops the choice of sacrifice or loss of rank.

The work also tells of gender roles in Japan and features of the contemporary Japanese family.

The Filth and the Fury tells the story from the viewpoint of the band members themselves ( albeit in silhouette during their contemporary interviews ).