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The three volumes brought to the fore a characteristic of Trevelyan's prose which remained conspicuous through his later works -- a genius for describing military action with clarity and with authority.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany | German artist known for his works of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, visual arts, and science.
Other than these theological textbooks, and the aforementioned works of the mixture of prose and poetry, Alan of Lille had numerous other works on numerous subjects, primarily including Speculative Theology, Theoretical Moral Theology, Practical Moral Theology, and various collections of poems.
However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).
His other historical works included lives of the abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, as well as verse and prose lives of Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, an adaptation of Paulinus of Nola's Life of St Felix, and a translation of the Greek Passion of St Anastasius.
" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.
While the other major works that came out of Alfonso's workshops, including histories and other prose texts, were in Castilian, the Cantigas are in Galician-Portuguese, and reflect the popularity in the Castilian court of other poetic corpuses such as the cantigas d ' amigo and cantigas d ' amor.
One of Thomas ' most popular works was the short essay A Child's Christmas in Wales, which after being released as part of a recording, in which Thomas read his own work, became his most popular prose work in America.
Caledfwlch appears in several early Welsh works, including the poem Preiddeu Annwfn and the prose tale Culhwch and Olwen, a work associated with the Mabinogion and written perhaps around 1100.
* Selected prose works of G. E. Lessing, translated by E. C. Beasley, B.
Along with her work as a writer of prose fiction, Russ was also a playwright, essayist, and author of nonfiction works, generally literary criticism and feminist theory, including the essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts ; How to Suppress Women's Writing ; and the book-length study of modern feminism, What Are We Fighting For ?.
The most significant of these 13th-century prose romances was the Vulgate Cycle ( also known as the Lancelot-Grail Cycle ), a series of five Middle French prose works written in the first half of that century.
His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.
The origins of philosophy can be traced back to early Mesopotamian wisdom, which embodied certain philosophies of life, particularly ethics, in the forms of dialectic, dialogs, epic poetry, folklore, hymns, lyrics, prose works, and proverbs.
There are also a number of extant prose works, such as sermons and saints ' lives, biblical translations, and translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers, legal documents, such as laws and wills, and practical works on grammar, medicine, and geography.
Among English-language readers, his best-known work is the Duino Elegies ; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
He was well aware that, in treating of new themes in his prose works, he would have to employ a vocabulary of a nature more familiar in hija, satirical poetry.
Sima ’ s works were influential to Chinese writing, serving as ideal models for various types of prose within the neo-classical (" renaissance " 復古 ) movement of the Tang-Song ( 唐宋 ) period.
Le Fanu, his works, and his family background are explored in Gavin Selerie's mixed prose / verse text Le Fanu's Ghost ( 2006 ).
This list of smuggling in fiction includes works of fiction ( in both prose and poetry ) where smuggling is a prominent theme.
Two of his best known prose works, the utopian News from Nowhere and A Dream of John Ball were first printed here in serialized form.

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Such institutional support may include government recognition or designation ; presentation as being the " correct " form of a language in schools ; published grammars, dictionaries, and textbooks that set forth a " correct " spoken and written form ; and an extensive formal literature that employs that dialect ( prose, poetry, non-fiction, etc .).
Works produced in this period include Filostrato and Teseida ( the sources for Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, respectively ), Filocolo, a prose version of an existing French romance, and La caccia di Diana, a poem in terza rima listing Neapolitan women.
Forms include poetry, prose, Bibliodrama ( the acting out of Bible stories ), murals, masks, and music, among others.
Joshi suggests that King's strengths as a writer include the accessible " everyman " quality of his prose, and his unfailingly insightful observations about the pains and joys of adolescence.
In later years the list grew to include William Inge, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway ; of the latter, he said " great quality, aside from his prose style, is this fearless expression of brute nature.
" Most notable early medieval Polish works in Latin and the Old Polish language include the oldest extant manuscript of fine prose in the Polish language entitled the Holy Cross Sermons, as well as the earliest Polish-language Bible of Queen Zofia and the Chronicle of Janko of Czarnków from the 14th century, not to mention the Puławy Psalter.
Notable poets of this period drew on the works and translations of the poet Jaroslav Vrchlický and include, among others, Josef Svatopluk Machar, Antonín Sova, Otokar Březina, and Karel Hlaváček ); prose authors include Vilém Mrštík, Růžena Svobodová, and Josef Karel Šlejhar.
Written in prose rather than blank verse, changes to the text include the rape of Lavinia being Tamora's idea instead of Aaron's ; the removal of Marcus ; Titus does not kill his son ; he does not have his hand amputated ; Chiron is much more subservient to Demetrius ; Aaron is more philosophical, trying to find meaning in his acts of evil rather than simply revelling in them ; Titus does not die at the end, nor does Tamora, although the play ends with Titus ordering the deaths of Tamora and Aaron.
Leland's prose writings, published and unpublished, include:
Her Œuvres include two prose works: a feminist preface, urging women to write, that is dedicated to a young noblewoman of Lyon, Clemence de Bourges ; and a dramatic allegory in prose entitled Debat de Folie et d ' Amour, which draws on Erasmus ' Praise of Folly.
Her compositions include sonnets, hendecasyllabic verse, and prose poetry.
His Obras posthumas, divinas y humanas ( 1641 ) include his devout and secular poems, as well as a play entitled Gridonia ; his verse, like his prose, exaggerates the characteristic defects of Gongorism, but was highly regarded in his lifetime.
His most noted works include A Discourse of the Adventures of Master FJ ( 1573 ), an account of courtly sexual intrigue and one of the earliest English prose fictions ; The Supposes, ( performed in 1566, printed in 1573 ), an early translation of Ariosto and the first comedy written in English prose, which was used by Shakespeare as a source for The Taming of the Shrew ; the frequently anthologised short poem " Gascoignes wodmanship " ( 1573 ); and " Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or
Many of Blanchot's principal translators into English established reputations as prose stylists and poets in their own right ; some of the more well-known include Lydia Davis, Paul Auster, and Pierre Joris.
Well-known literary meditations on death in English prose include Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Holy Dying.
These include fables, like that of Jotham ( Judges 9: 7-15, although in prose ); parables, like those of Nathan and others ( 2 Samuel 12: 1-4, 14: 4-9 ; 1 Kings 20: 39 and following, all three in prose ), or in the form of a song ( Isaiah 5: 1-6 ); riddles ( Judges 14: 14 and following ; Proverbs 30: 11 and following ); maxims, as, for instance, in 1 Samuel 15: 22, 24: 14, and the greater part of Proverbs ; the monologues and dialogues in Job 3: 3 and following ; compare also the reflections in monologue in Ecclesiastes.
Other important enhancements introduced in the RV include arrangement of the text into paragraphs, printing Old Testament poetry in indented poetic lines ( rather than as prose ), and the inclusion of marginal notes to alert the reader to variations in wording in ancient manuscripts.
It will include previously unpublished poems, the full text of Paris, her later poems and prose essays from the 1920s.
Now Writers Manoj Das's creations motivated & inspired people towards a possitive lifestyle. Distinguished prose writers of the modern period include Fakir Mohan Senapati, Madhusudan Das, Godabarisha Mohapatra, Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, Surendra Mohanty, Manoj Das, Kishori Charan Das, Gopinath Mohanty, Rabi Patnaik, Chandrasekhar Rath, Binapani Mohanty, Bhikari Rath, Jagadish Mohanty, Sarojini Sahoo, Yashodhara Mishra, Ramchandra Behera, Padmaja Pal.
Takahama Kyoshi, another disciple, assumed control and the magazine's scope was extended to include prose work.
Contes d ' une vieille fille a ses neveux ( 1832 ), La Canne de Monsieur de Balzac ( 1836 ) and Il ne faut pas jouer avec la douleur ( 1853 ) are among the best-known of her romances ; and her dramatic pieces in prose and verse include L ' École des journalistes ( 1840 ), Judith ( 1843 ), Cléopâtre ( 1847 ), Lady Tartufe ( 1853 ), and the one-act comedies, C ' est la faute du mari ( 1851 ), La Joie fait peur ( 1854 ), Le Chapeau d ' un horloger ( 1854 ) and Une Femme qui deteste son mari, which did not appear till after the author's death.

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