Much of modern Finland is former seabed or archipelago: illustrated are sea levels immediately after the last ice age.

Much of the city, including railroads and stockyards, survived intact, and from the ruins of the previous wooden structures arose more modern constructions of steel and stone which would set the precedent for worldwide construction.

Much of this complexity is required at least on occasion in the modern Indo-Aryan languages, due to the large amount of clusters allowed and especially due to borrowings from Sanskrit.

Much of that work did not survive to modern times, and is known to us only through his commentary.

Much of his theological work continues to influence modern theologians, especially in regard to the relationship among the three Persons of the Trinity.

Much of what is incorporated in the scientific method ( the nature of knowledge, evidence, experience, and causation ) and some modern attitudes towards the relationship between science and religion were developed by his protégés David Hume and Adam Smith.

Much later, he suggested that in modern times, the best scientists and engineers usually have to choose between either doing their work for more or less questionable business and military interests in a Faustian bargain, or not pursuing their line of work at all.

Much like the Babylonian approximation of, modern numerical analysis does not seek exact answers, because exact answers are often impossible to obtain in practice.

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.

Much of the most widely admired piano repertoire in classical music, for example, that of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, was composed for a type of instrument ( the fortepiano ) that is rather different from modern instruments this music is normally performed on today.

Much of the modern electoral process is concerned with winning swing states through frequent visits and mass media advertising drives.

Much of modern Japan was under only fragmentary control by the Imperial family, and rival ethnic groups.

Much of the modern history of Stephen's reign is based on accounts of chroniclers who lived in, or close to, the middle of the 12th century, forming a relatively rich account of the period.

Much modern scholarship was written without the term.

Much of the modern perception of Queen Tamar was shaped under the influence of 19th-century Romanticism and growing nationalism among Georgian intellectuals of that time.

Much like modern science, epicurean philosophy posits that empiricism can be used to sort truth from falsehood.

Much of Bhutan's modern development has been attributed by Bhutanese historians to the first Druk Gyalpo.

In Wordsworth's sonnet " The World Is Too Much with Us " ( ca 1802, published 1807 ), the poet regrets the prosaic humdrum modern world, yearning for

Much of the old city of Trapani dates from the later medieval or early modern periods ; there are no extant remains of the ancient city.

Much of present-day Agrigento is modern but it still retains a number of medieval and Baroque buildings.

( Much later, U. S. Highway 30, using modern explosives and equipment, was built through this cut ).

Much of the modern knowledge about Canaan stems from excavation in this area.

Much of Galveston's modern economy is centered in the tourism, health care, shipping, and financial industries.

Much of Gertrude Stein's fame derives from a private modern art gallery she assembled from 1904 to 1913 with her brother Leo Stein.

Much of Carl Sandburg's poetry focused on Chicago.

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.

Much of Bacchylides's poetry was commissioned by proud and ambitious aristocrats, a dominant force in Greek political and cultural life in the 6th and early part of the 5th centuries, yet such patrons were gradually losing influence in an increasingly democratic Greek world.

Much lyric poetry depends on regular meter based either on number of syllables or on stress.

Much more than his poetry, Froissart's fame is due to his Chronicles.

Much of the French poetry produced during the fin de siècle was characterized as " decadent " for its lurid content or moral vision.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

Much of Theodore's childhood was spent in this greenhouse, as reflected by the use of natural images in his poetry.

Called the Poet of the Sierras and the Byron of the Rockies, he may have been more of a celebrity in England than in his native U. S. Much of his reputation, however, came not from his poetry but from the image he created for himself by capitalizing on the stereotypical image of Western frontiersmen.

Much of the poetry of the period is difficult to date, or even to arrange chronologically ; for example, estimates for the date of the great epic Beowulf range from AD 608 right through to AD 1000, and there has never been anything even approaching a consensus.

Much of Davie's poetry has been compared to that of the traditionalist Philip Larkin, but other works are more influenced by Ezra Pound.

Much of the appeal of the series stems from its extensive use of references and allusions from a wide array of thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin, John Muir, Norbert Wiener, and to the poetry of John Keats, a famous English Romantic poet of the 19th century, Norse Mythology, and the monk Ummon ; a large number of technological elements are acknowledged by Simmons to be inspired by elements of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.

Much of the Carmina Burana collection of Latin poetry belongs to this school.

Much of his childhood in Abbotsford is pseudonymously recounted in his 2005 poetry volume Back to the War and in the first person in his 2011 memoir When TISH Happens.

Much of early modernist poetry took the form of short, compact lyrics.

Much of her poetry is written in syllabic verse, repeating the number of syllables rather than stresses or beats, per line.

Much of the Irish poetry of the 17th century was therefore composed by Catholic clerics and Irish society fell increasingly under Counter reformation influences.

Much historical knowledge can be gained from the reading of Davies ' poetry.

Much of Rexroth's work can be classified as " erotic " or " love poetry ," given his deep fascination with transcendent love.

Much of the writing produced in this period was conventional in character, in praise of patrons and their families, but the best of it was of exceptionally high quality and included poetry of a personal nature.

Much wider publication for Revival poetry was arranged via the USA.

Much of poetry has its source in an oral tradition: the Scots and English ballads, the tales of Robin Hood, of Iskandar, and various Baltic and Slavic heroic poems all were originally intended for recitation, rather than reading.