The last years of Alma-Tadema's life saw the rise of Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and Futurism, of which he heartily disapproved.

Allen Funt, the creator and host of the American version of the television show Candid Camera, was a collector of Alma-Tadema paintings at a time when the artist's reputation in the 20th century was at its nadir ; in a relatively few years he bought 35 works, about 10 % of Alma-Tadema's output.

Although Alma-Tadema's fame rests on his paintings set in Antiquity, he also painted portraits, landscapes and watercolors, and made some etchings himself ( although many more were made of his paintings by others ).

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

1863 was to alter the course of Alma-Tadema's personal and professional life: on 3 January his invalid mother died, and on 24 September he was married, in Antwerp City Hall, to Marie-Pauline Gressin Dumoulin, the daughter of Eugene Gressin Dumoulin, a French journalist living near Brussels.

Laura, under her married name, also won a high reputation as an artist, and appears in numerous of Alma-Tadema's canvases after their marriage ( The Women of Amphissa ( 1887 ) being a notable example ).

During Alma-Tadema's four years as a registered student at the Academy, he won several respectable awards.

After his arrival in England, where he was to spend the rest of his life, Alma-Tadema's career was one of continued success.

Alma-Tadema's female figures have a slightly bored pleasure-seeking attitude, as if they were pampered courtesans.

There is little action in Alma-Tadema's paintings ; here the two women are just probably waiting for a lover.

Alma-Tadema's output decreased with time, due in part to ill health but also to his obsession for decorating his new home where he moved in 1883.

An outstanding example of Alma-Tadema's contrasting gleaming white marble against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean sea.

Alma-Tadema's work has been linked with that of European Symbolist painters.

As with other painters, the reproduction rights for prints were often worth more than the canvas, and a painting with its rights still attached may have been sold to Gambart for £ 10, 000 in 1874 ; without rights it was sold again in 1903, when Alma-Tadema's prices were actually higher, for £ 2, 625.

Some of Alma-Tadema's plays were successfully produced in Germany.

Alma-Tadema's 1868 ' Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends ', reflecting contemporary reconstructions of the frieze's colour.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

If a poet writes down several lines, intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which it is written makes it a poem.

The person from Porlock later became a word to describe interrupted genius, and the literary critic Walter Jackson Bate recounted that while John Livingston Lowes taught the poem, he told his students " If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock.

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.

If we restrict ourselves to what is ' given ', appealing to the poem as a ' whole ', we shall fail probably to resolves its various cruxes.

If you think Terayama's poem uses a child's game to express in hyperbolic metaphor how, in retrospect, life is short, and nothing more, then this would indeed work as a senryū.

* Carla Bruni sings the poem ' If You Were Coming In The Fall ', by Emily Dickinson on her album No Promises.

* In the episode Major Star of the British sitcom Blackadder, Captain Blackadder parodies the poem " The Soldier ", warning George ' If I should die, think only this of me, ' I'll be back to get you!

If the agent used the same poem code words to send a number of messages, these words could be discovered easily by enemy cryptographers.

If the words could be identified as coming from a famous poem or quotation, then all of the future traffic submitted in that poem code could be read.

Rudyard Kipling's poem, If —, is said to be based on the life of Jameson, and the suffering he endured during the Raid.

The Raid is recalled in a number of lines in the poem, including: If you can make a heap of all your winnings / And risk it at one turn of pitch and toss / And lose, and start again from your beginnings / And never breathe a word about your loss ...

Rudyard Kipling's If — ( 1895 ), often voted Britain's favourite poem.

Other notable poets who wrote about the war include Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen, May Cannan and, from the home front, Hardy and Rudyard Kipling, whose inspirational poem If — is a national favourite.

Like William Ernest Henley's poem Invictus that has inspired such people as Nelson Mandela when he was incarcerated, If — is a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism, regarded as a traditional British virtue.

* " If —", the Rudyard Kipling poem

Rudyard Kipling's If — ( 1895 ), often voted Britain's favourite poem

To date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Kipling's novels include The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King and Kim, while his inspirational poem If — is a national favourite.

If Lodge, as has been supposed, was the Alcon in Colin Clout's Come Home Again, it may have been the influence of Edmund Spenser which led to the composition of Phillis, a volume of sonnets, in which the voice of nature seems only now and then to become audible, published with the narrative poem, The Complaynte of Elsired, in 1593.

If the book was returned he would try another patron with a new set of arms, altering personal references as required ; where the subject matter was shared ( as in a wedding ) much of the verse could be recycled from one poem to another, and the scholar F. C. Brown has noticed that as many as two-thirds of the lines in Settle's wedding poems are " common to all.

" If —" is a poem written in 1895 by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling.

The poem's line, " If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same " is written on the wall of the Centre Court players ' entrance at the British tennis tournament, Wimbledon, and a part of the poem was read in a promotional video for the Wimbledon 2008 gentleman's final by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

* The song No Joy in Mudville from Death Cab for Cutie's album We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes directly references the poem.

* The song " No Joy In Pudville " by Steroid Maximus is a reference to this poem.

Her poem No. 1534 is a typical example of her eleven poetic epigrams.

" Adam Sisman, in 2006, questioned the nature of the poem itself: " No one even knows whether it is complete ; Coleridge describes it as a ' fragment ,' but there is a case for doubting this.

In September 1838, he published his first work, a poem entitled The Bedouin, in the Bremisches Conversationsblatt No. 40.

49, No. 1 ) of Heinrich Heine's poem " Die Beiden Grenadiere " ( The Two Grenadiers ).

He also examined the role of the poet in American society and famously summarized his poetic method in the phrase " No ideas but in things " ( found in his poem " A Sort of a Song " and repeated again and again in Paterson ).

* Irish poet William Butler Yeats compared Helen to his lover, Maude Gonne, in his poem " No Second Troy ".

( Text regarding Kipling poem from the Michigan Library Bulletin, V. 15 No. 1, Jan-Feb,

* Emily Dickinson's poem " Apparently With No Surprise " depicts God as approving of suffering in the world, relating the tale of a flower " beheaded " by a late frost as the sun " measure off another day for an approving God ".

( Celan wrote a poem about Hölderlin, called " Tübingen, January " which ends with the word Pallaksch-according to C. T. Schwab, Hölderlin's favourite neologism " which sometimes meant Yes, sometimes No ").

* Nikolai Myaskovsky-Symphonic poem Silence ; original versions of String Quartet No. 3, String Quartet No. 4

Maud Gonne wrote to Yeats " No I dont like your poem, it isn't worthy of you & above all it isn't worthy of its subject ... As for my husband he has entered eternity by the great door of sacrifice ... so that praying for him I can also ask for his prayers ".

It was while serving with No. 53 OTU that Magee wrote his poem High Flight.

Purportedly, the first person to read this poem later that same day was fellow Pilot Officer Michael Le Bas ( later Air Vice-Marshal M H Le Bas, Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group RAF ), with whom Magee had trained, in the officers ' mess.

Philip Glass ' Symphony No. 6 is based on and includes parts of this poem.

A month later he published two essays about Hyperborea, the first in Vision, No. 2, in which he said that only a picture or a poem could describe Hyperborea.

No single poem can give him a chief place, though here and there, especially in the last, he gives hints of the highest competence.

Some visits to Bath, however, where from 1770 until his death in 1805, he made No. 4 Royal Crescent his permanent home, ( albeit the plaque recording this is actually displayed outside No. 5 ) where in 1766 he penned his famous rhymed letters, The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family ..., a satirical poem of considerable sparkle, about the adventures of the " Blunderhead " family in Bath, from which Tobias Smollett is said to have drawn largely in his The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.

* Franz Liszt-Mazeppa Symphonic poem No. 6, Ballade d ' Ukraine

No manuscript of the poem is extant.