Even composers not directly associated with the ' pastoral ' tradition, such as Arnold Bax, Lennox Berkeley and Arthur Bliss, were attracted to Housman's poetry.

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt assert in their introduction to Beowulf in the Norton Anthology of English Literature that, " The poet was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Germanic oral poetry it is now widely believed that Beowulf is the work of a single poet who was a Christian and that his poem reflects well-established Christian tradition.

The citation credited Pasternak's contribution to Russian lyric poetry and for his role in, " continuing the great Russian epic tradition.

Catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the Hellenistic Age, and especially by Callimachus and the Alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer.

This was the period of the blossoming of MHG lyric poetry, particularly Minnesang ( the German variety of the originally French tradition of courtly love ).

Just as Homer drew extensively on a tradition of oral poetry, sung by wandering minstrels, so Herodotus appears to have drawn on an Ionian tradition of story-telling, collecting and interpreting the oral histories he chanced upon in his travels.

Parry and his student Albert Lord pointed out that such elaborate oral tradition, foreign to today's literate cultures, is typical of epic poetry in a predominantly oral cultural milieu, the key words being " oral " and " traditional ".

It is probable, therefore, that the story of the Trojan War as reflected in the Homeric poems derives from a tradition of epic poetry founded on a war which actually took place.

Due to church limitation on public, discursive rhetoric, the medieval rhetorical arts included: preaching, letter writing, poetry, and the encyclopedic tradition.

His work, though iconoclastic, remained well within the historical spectrum of poetry as it moved from a spoken tradition to the printed word and now back to the spoken word again ( Wendt 1996, 112 ).

Despite this, the majority of Finnish poetry remained only in the oral tradition.

Much modern poetry reflects a critique of poetic tradition, playing with and testing, among other things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes altogether forgoing rhyme or set rhythm.

Today, throughout the world, poetry often incorporates poetic form and diction from other cultures and from the past, further confounding attempts at definition and classification that were once sensible within a tradition such as the Western canon.

A poetic genre is generally a tradition or classification of poetry based on the subject matter, style, or other broader literary characteristics.

Much narrative poetry — such as Scottish and English ballads, and Baltic and Slavic heroic poems — is performance poetry with roots in a preliterate oral tradition.

The Romans had a strong tradition of satirical poetry, often written for political purposes.

The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of poetry and drama as well as scientific, technical, philosophical and dharma texts.

The Paphnutius legend in the first half of the fifth century called the marriage prohibition an ancient ecclesiastical tradition.

The rabbis recognize a positive value to the yetzer hara: one tradition identifies it with the observation on the last day of creation that God's accomplishment was " very good " ( God's work on the preceding days was just described as " good ") and explain that without the yetzer ha ' ra there would be no marriage, children, commerce or other fruits of human labor ; the implication is that yetzer ha ' tov and yetzer ha ' ra are best understood not as moral categories of good and evil but as selfless versus selfish orientations, either of which used rightly can serve God's will.

This was cloaked as a tradition of marriage between heirs of two kamis, Shinto gods: descendants of Amaterasu with descendants of the family kami of the Fujiwara.

There is a popular tradition in some countries that a woman may propose marriage to a man on February 29.

The term originates from the white color of the wedding dress, which first became popular with Victorian era elites, after Queen Victoria wore a white lace dress at her wedding ; however, the term now also encapsulates the entire Western wedding routine, especially in the Christian religious tradition, which generally includes a ceremony during which the marriage begins, followed by a reception.

The British Cabinet refused to approve the marriage, and newspapers reported that the marriage was " unthinkable " and " would fly in the face of Royal and Christian tradition ".

To back up an armistice signed with the Byzantine Empire in 1046, his father married him to Byzantine Anastasia ( d. 1067 ), who tradition holds was a daughter of Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos by his second wife ( he gained the Imperial throne through his third marriage ), but no reliable source has ever been found to confirm this.

The tradition of chewing areca nuts starts the talk between the groom's parents and the bride's parents about the young couple's marriage.

Beginning a novel tradition, one of that couple's daughters, Princess Olga Aleksandrovna Yurievskaya ( 1873 – 1925 ), in 1895 married the child of an 1868 morganatic marriage in the House of Nassau, George, Count von Merenberg ( 1871 – 1965 ).

Due to the widespread tradition of women changing their names at marriage, they encounter little difficulty using the common law method at marriage in those jurisdictions that permit it.

In addition, he gave the option of citizenship ; however, for Muslims to take this option they had to accept all of the French civil code, including parts governing inheritance and marriage which might conflict with Muslim tradition, and they had to reject the competence of religious courts.

The tradition of a veiled bride's face continues even today wherein, a virgin bride, especially in Christian or Jewish culture, enters the marriage ritual with a veiled face and head, and remains fully veiled, both head and face, until the ceremony concludes.

In the Western world, St. Paul's words concerning how marriage symbolizes the union of Christ and His Church may underlie part of the tradition of veiling in the marriage ceremony.

Umberto and Maria José separated in exile ; it was an arranged marriage, following a long tradition of royal families.

According to tradition, he discovered icons concealed among Irene's possessions and refused to share the marriage bed with her thereafter.

Decrees setting forth changes in marriage customs and land reform were not received well by a population deeply immersed in tradition and Islam, particularly by the powerful land owners who were harmed economically by the abolition of usury ( though usury is prohibited in Islam ) and the cancellation of farmers ' debts.

These marriages followed the tradition of cementing military and political alliances between France and Spain that began with the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559 as part of the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis.

Since mostly the Titans indulge in marriage of brother and sister, it might be that Aeschylus is using an old tradition in which Themis is Iapetus ' wife but that the Hesiodic tradition preferred that Themis and Mnemosyne be consorts of Zeus alone.

Later tradition told that while he was prior of Bec he opposed the uncanonical marriage of Duke William with Matilda of Flanders ( 1053 ) and carried matters so far that he incurred a sentence of exile.

There is a subtle difference between ' sealing ' ( which is a Mormon priesthood ordinance that binds individuals together in the eternities ), and ' marriage ' ( a social tradition in which the man and woman agree to be husband and wife in this life ).

Eastern Orthodox tradition tells that the pagans directed the stream of a river against the sanctuary of St. Michael there to destroy it, but Michael the Archangel appeared and split the rock by lightning to give a new bed to the stream, diverting the flow away from the church and sanctifying forever the waters which came from the gorge.

Another tradition, followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in the lost play Kressai, was that Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and sent her to Nauplius to be drowned.

According to the tradition followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in his lost play Cretan Women ( Kressai ), Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and handed her over to Nauplius to be drowned, but Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Atreus, the son of Pelops, and king of Mycenae, though in the version of the story used by Euripides, she married Pleisthenes instead.

A central concept was that the duo lived together as close, long-term friends ( there were many references to a childhood friendship ) who shared not merely a flat but also a bed — although their relationship was purely platonic and merely continued a tradition of comic partners sleeping in the same bed that started with Laurel and Hardy.

Philippa married King John I by proxy, and in keeping with a unique Portuguese tradition, the stand-in bridegroom pretended to bed the bride.

The state bed, intended for receiving important visitors and producing heirs before a select public, but not intended for sleeping in, evolved during the second half of the seventeenth century, developing the medieval tradition of receiving visitors in the bedroom, which had become the last and most private room of the standard suite of rooms in a Baroque apartment.

The tush kyiz is hung in the yurt over the marriage bed of the couple, and symbolize their pride in their Kyrgyz tradition.

According to tradition, on Christmas Eve children leave their shoes by the fireplace filled with carrots and treats for Père Noël's donkey, Gui ( French for " Mistletoe ") before they go to bed.

It is a widely-held tradition that if Reveille decides to sleep on a cadet's bed, that cadet is required to sleep on the floor.

It is Jewish tradition that following Avraham ben Avraham's death, the Vilna Gaon believed that the spiritual constitution of the world had become altered in such a way that a Jew was no longer bound to wash his hands in the morning within four amot ( cubits ) of his bed, as explicitly taught in the codes of Jewish law such as the Shulchan Aruch and other halachic works.

Orthodox Christians are required to fast from all food and drink and abstain from marital relations in preparation for receiving the Eucharist, the fast commencing no later than when the communicant retires to sleep the preceding evening and no later than midnight or, depending on local tradition, or even from Vespers or sunset the night before, and the abstinence from marital relations extends through the preceding day ( for which reason married priests may not celebrate the Holy Liturgy daily ) and in some places ( notably in Russia ), a married priest sleeps in a separate bed from his wife the night before celebrating the Liturgy.

The tush kyiz is hung in the yurt, over the marriage bed of the couple, and symbolize their pride in their Kyrgyz tradition.

From its premiere in 1949 to 1955, Mama proved to be not only a ratings winner for CBS, it also became a Friday night tradition when millions of families across America ( including children already dressed for bed ) gathered around the television set to tune in to another episode concerning the Hansen family.