Besides his poetry in Latin, which include an epic poem, the Thebaid, a collection of occasional poetry, the Silvae, and the unfinished epic, the Achilleid, he is best known for his appearance as a major character in the Purgatory section of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy.

* In The Purgatory of Suicides by Thomas Cooper, Porcia is one of the suicides spoken of in the poem.

The Middle English poem Arma Christi, which appeared before the end of the 14th century, exists in fifteen manuscripts, attesting to its popularity, of which seven are engrossed in highly unusual scroll form, designed to be displayed in church as a pictorial aid to public devotion ; manuscripts of Arma Christi are generally accompanied by illustrations of the instruments, viewing of which, according to the texts, granted indulgence of a certain number of days in Purgatory to come.

for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

He is proud of having Segovia for a friend and dedicated a poem to him titled `` The Guitar ''.

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

so that, while it usually is easy to recognize a poem by Hardy, it is difficult to date one.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.

After 1895 the number increases, and in the next thirty years there is only one year for which there is no dated poem -- 1903, when Hardy was at work on The Dynasts.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

The author's paternal grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, an honored participant in the Boston Tea Party, who refused to change the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem " The Last Leaf ".

The importance of the longbow in English culture can be seen both in the legends of Robin Hood, where he was increasingly depicted as a master archer, and also in the " Song of the Bow ", a poem from The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The BBC broadcast a documentary presented by Simon Armitage in which the journey depicted in the poem is traced, utilising what are believed to be the actual locations.

* In Christmas lore ( such as in the narrative poem " A Visit from St. Nicholas "), reindeer are often depicted pulling the sleigh of Santa Claus.

More orgiastic witches ' meetings are also depicted in Robert Burns ' poem " Tam o ' Shanter " and in Goethe's play Faust.

Two dwarfs as depicted in a 19th century edition of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich

It is famous for its natural beauty, as depicted by Zacharias Topelius in his poem Kesäpäivä Kangasalla ( made into a song by Gabriel Linsén ).

Strauss went on to conduct one of Ritter's operas, and at Strauss's request Ritter later wrote a poem describing the events depicted in Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration.

In the poem, Úlfr describes mythological scenes depicted in a newly built hall, including valkyries and ravens accompanying Odin at Baldr's funeral feast:

In the poem " The Delphic Oracle Upon Plotinus " by William Butler Yeats, " Bland Rhadamanthus " is depicted as beckoning to Plotinus.

* In the Inferno poem of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Cacus is depicted as a centaur with a fire-breathing dragon on his shoulders and snakes covering his equine back.

This legend was depicted in the 1903 poem Legend of Cabool written by Tug Wilson and Ben Durnell.

Two Norse mythology | Norse dwarf ( Germanic mythology ) | dwarves as depicted in a 19th century edition of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich

He depicted the widow in his illustration of the poem Schoolmistress by William Shenstone.

The saga of Chief Joseph and his people is also depicted in the 1982 poem " Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce " by Robert Penn Warren.

His poem A Wife, which depicted the virtues that a young man should demand of a woman, played a large role in the events that precipitated his murder.

It was rejected by the jury of the Salon de Paris for immorality, since it depicted a scene from the poem of a naked prostitute after having sex with her client-but the controversy helped Gervex's career.

When Barbauld returned to writing, she produced the radical poem Eighteen Hundred and Eleven ( 1812 ) that depicted England as a ruin.

A rare exception to this is the epic poem Cœur de Lion ( 1822 ), by Eleanor Anne Porden, in which he is depicted as a tragic Byronic hero.

In Old Norse sources, Völundr appears in Völundarkviða, a poem in the Poetic Edda, and in Þiðrekssaga, and his legend is also depicted on the Ardre image stone VIII.

He was also depicted in artwork made posthumously, such as in Li Song's ( 1190 – 1225 ) painting of Su traveling in a boat, known as Su Dongpo at Red Cliff, after Su Song's poem written about a 3rd century Chinese battle.

The poem has no pity for Lalli, and he is not depicted as a hero in a story whose true antagonist is Kerttu.

The borough seal depicted a scene based on The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall Green, a poem in Percy ’ s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, published in 1765, but probably dating from the era of Elizabeth I.

And yet the adult, experienced man depicted by the poem is not at all the young innocent whom the reader has met in the preceding chapters.