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Wendell Berry is an author of several books, essays, and poems whose writing often illustrates his values which center around sustainable agriculture, healthy rural communities, and a connection to place.
A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems.
He was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor.
The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.
The author of a series of essays on influential bands, Jarmusch has also had at least two poems published.
* Anthology, 4 CD containing numerous poems and texts read by the author, Anna la bonne, La Dame de Monte-Carlo and Mes sœurs, n ' aimez pas les marins by Marianne Oswald, Le Bel Indifférent by Edith Piaf, La Voix humaine by Berthe Bovy, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel with Jean Le Poulain, Jacques Charon and Jean Cocteau, discourse on the reception at the Académie française, with extracts from Les Parents terribles, La Machine infernale, pieces from Parade on piano with two hands by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, Frémeaux & Associés FA 064, 1997
Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson from about 1760.
The English author, critic, and biographer, Samuel Johnson, was convinced that Macpherson was " a mountebank, a liar, and a fraud, and that the poems were forgeries ".
Oxfordians interpret the plays and poems as autobiographical and use them to construct a hypothetical author, a method most literary specialists consider unreliable as far as attributive value.
The De Vere Code, a book by English actor Jonathan Bond, the author claims that Thomas Thorpe ´ s 30-word dedication to the original publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets contains six simple encryptions which conclusively establish de Vere as the author of the poems.
Pius II was also the author of numerous erotic poems and an obscene comedy titled Chrysis ( such ethics were not unusual for his period ).
The Swedish author Mirjam Tapper has edited a book on Rilke's stay in Paris, where she reflected on the many addresses Rilke lived at and tried to find the correlation between his stay there and his poems.
* Patrick Woodroffe, author of several poems about St George collated in a book called Hallelujah Anyway
The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems, which was augmented significantly in the 1802 edition.
Richard Nathaniel Wright ( September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960 ) was an African-American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
Manuel II was the author of numerous works of varied character, including letters, poems, a Saint's Life, treatises on theology and rhetoric, and an epitaph for his brother Theodore I Palaiologos and a mirror of prince for his son and heir Ioannes.
None of the poems are attributed to a particular author though many of them show strong individual characteristics and are likely to have been the work of individual poets.
Crates was also the author of some philosophical tragedies, and some smaller poems apparently called Games (, Paignia ).
Most of the poems in the collection are quite late ( around 10th to 12th century ), though some claim Taliesin as author while others are attributed internally to other poets.
Nicephorus was also the author of lists of the emperors and patriarchs of Constantinople, of a poem on the capture of Jerusalem, and of a synopsis of the Scriptures, all in iambics ; and of commentaries on liturgical poems.
Both girls began having their poems published as teenagers, and they eventually counted among their admirers Massachusetts poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, New York Tribune newspaper editor Horace Greeley, and author Edgar Allan Poe, who pronounced Alice Cary's Pictures of Memory, " one of the most musically perfect lyrics in the English language.
After high school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and, in 1969, started to play in a small local theatre together with some childhood friends ( including Lello Arena and Enzo Decaro ).
He was also the author of rhetorical exercises on philosophical themes ; of a Quadrivium ( arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy ), valuable for the history of music and astronomy in the Middle Ages ; a general sketch of Aristotelian philosophy ; a paraphrase of the speeches and letters of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ; poems, including an autobiography ; and a description of the square of the Augustaeum, and the column erected by Justinian in the church of Hagia Sophia to commemorate his victories over the Persians.
It passed through a dozen editions in the country of its birth, and nearly three times as many in the United States ; and when in 1889 its author was able to publish a " Jubilee Edition ," he could feel that it was one of the few poems of his time which was known to both the older and the younger generations.

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Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
Arthur Ransome, celebrated author of the classic Swallows and Amazons series of books, titled the eleventh book of the series " The Picts and the Martyrs ".
For instance, the residents of Camp Skagway Number One included: William Howard Taft, who went on to become a U. S. President ; Frederick Russell Burnham, the celebrated American scout who arrived from Africa only to be called back to take part in the Second Boer War ; and W. W. White, author and explorer.
The most characteristic Yankee food was pie ; Yankee author Harriet Beecher Stowe in her novel Oldtown Folks celebrated the social traditions surrounding the Yankee pie.
In a celebrated paper in modern times, the fantasy author and philologist J. R. R.
" from Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), substituting the name of the celebrated English author ( 1882 – 1941 ).
However, the celebrated American sword and sorcery author Fritz Leiber replied in the journal Ancalagon ( 6 April 1961 ) suggesting " sword-and-sorcery as a good popular catchphrase for the field ".
He celebrated for his versatile and innovative use of poetic meters and as the earliest known Greek author to compose almost entirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences.
One prominent former King Citian was celebrated children's author Clyde Robert Bulla, who died in 2007 while living in Warrensburg, Missouri.
Berkhamsted School, a minor public school was founded in 1541 by Dean Incent and attended by the celebrated author Graham Greene, whose father was headmaster there.
Arguably the most celebrated and notorious environmentalist author of the twentieth century, Edward Abbey ( 1927 – 1989 ), was born at the Indiana hospital and raised in Indiana and near the Indiana County towns and villages of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, Tanoma, and Home, Pennsylvania.
Upcoming visitors include U. S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, National Book Award Winner Tim O ' Brien, Pulitzer Prize Winner Robert Stone, and celebrated short-story author Mary Gaitskill.
Sherwood Anderson ( 1876 – 1941 ), American author of the celebrated novel Winesburg, Ohio, is buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Marion.
Here appears what seems to be the absolutely earliest praise of Shakespeare in a piece entitled A Remembrance of some English Poets, in which the still unrecognized author of Venus and Adonis is celebrated by the side of Spenser, Daniel and Drayton.
The author tells us that this Office took place at the tenth hour ( four o ' clock in the evening ); it is really the Office des lumières, i. e. of the lights ; it was celebrated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; all the lamps and torches of the church were lighted, making, as the author says, " an infinite light ".
The French author Montaigne ( 1533 – 1592 ) in one of the most celebrated of his essays (" On experience ") expressed the benefits of living with a clear conscience: " Our duty is to compose our character, not to compose books, to win not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
He also became a celebrated author and much-travelled lecturer in the mid-20th century, especially in the United States.
The book quickly became the first literary success by an American author in Europe and turned Crèvecœur into a celebrated figure.
Charles Henry Langston's grandson ( and Quarles ' descendant ), Langston Hughes, was a celebrated author and poet during the Harlem Renaissance.
The celebrated author of juvenile adventure novels, Charles Austin Fosdick, better known by his pen name, Harry Castlemon, lived in Westfield for most of his adult life and is buried in the Westfield Cemetery.
Berenger starred in the mini-series version of Stephen King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes, as a celebrated author who realizes the warped painting he recently purchased is alive with illustrations of impending doom for him in " The Road Virus Heads North ".
He was celebrated in science fiction circles as the author who introduced aesthetics into a literature known for its scientific and technological complications.
Adapted from the celebrated novel of the same name, by the author of the Diary of a Physician, and arranged for the stage, by Richard Brinsley Peake

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