He served as an assistant priest or curate in various parishes and in 1810, published his first poem Winter Evening Thoughts in a local newspaper, followed in 1811 by a collection of moral verse, Cottage Poems.

The debate might be framed starkly as follows: on the one hand, we can hypothesise a poem put together from various tales concerning the hero ( the Grendel episode, the Grendel's mother story, and the firedrake narrative ).

Jason appeared in various literature in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica and tragedy, Medea.

Coleridge's statements on the origin of the poem were considered again by various critics with an emphasis on how the origins affected the merits of the poem.

" After breaking down the various aspects of the poem, Lowes stated, " with a picture of unimpaired and thrilling vividness, the fragment ends.

Also in 1953, Elisabeth Schneider dedicated her book to analysing the various aspects of the poem, including the various sound techniques.

If we restrict ourselves to what is ' given ', appealing to the poem as a ' whole ', we shall fail probably to resolves its various cruxes.

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.

While the various sagas name anywhere from 11 to 20 sons of Harald in various contexts, the contemporary skaldic poem Hákonarmál says that Harald's son Haakon only would meet " eight brothers " when arriving to Valhalla.

Hardy and his first wife visited Tintagel on various occasions: she drew a sketch of the inside of the church as it was about 1867 R. S. Hawker's poem about the bells of Forrabury refers also to those of Tintagel, but more notable is his one on the Quest for the Sangraal ( first published at Exeter in 1864 ).

In the poem, Alvíss supplies terms that various groups, including the Vanir, use to refer to various subjects.

In the poem Hyndluljóð, the female jötunn Hyndla tells the goddess Freyja various mythological genealogies.

The poem continues, and, among various other events, Helgi dies from a wound received in battle.

The poem in its various written forms was lost by the end of the 16th century, but manuscripts from as early as the 13th century were re-discovered during the 18th century.

The poem continues with an excoriation of " little men " and monks, who lack in various forms of knowledge possessed by the poet.

In the poem, a völva recalls that Gullveig was pierced by spears before being burnt three times in the hall of Hárr ( Hárr is one of Odin's various names ), and yet was three times reborn.

The tale of Roland's death is retold in the eleventh century poem The Song of Roland, where he is equipped with the Olifant ( a signalling horn ) and an unbreakable sword, enchanted by various Christian relics, named Durendal.

The text is a rhyming poem, describing a bunny's bedtime ritual of saying " goodnight " to various objects in the bunny's bedroom: the red balloon, the bunny's dollhouse, the kittens, etc.

At various times in the poem, the " Rose " of the title is seen as the name of the lady, and as a symbol of female sexuality in general.

The poem extends to 767 lines of very various merit, in some passages rising to great sublimity, and in others sinking to commonplace.

Books 2 – 6 of the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, a Latin prose narrative of the same events apparently compiled by Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London, are closely related to Ambroise's poem.

The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

The poem deals with legends, was composed for entertainment, and does not separate between fictional elements and real historic events, such as the raid by King Hygelac into Frisia.

The dating of the events in the poem has been confirmed by archaeological excavations of the barrows indicated by Snorri Sturluson and by Swedish tradition as the graves of Ohthere ( dated to c. 530 ) and his son Eadgils ( dated to c. 575 ) in Uppland, Sweden.

It is an epic poem told in historical perspective ; a story of epic events and of great people of a heroic past.

Irish poet Thomas Kinsella's 1972 poem Butcher's Dozen is a satirical and angry response to the Widgery Tribunal and the events of Bloody Sunday.

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

A few months after the Easter Rising, W. B. Yeats commemorated some of the fallen figures of the Irish Republican movement, as well as expressed his torn emotions regarding these events, in the poem Easter, 1916.

Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues ; the Georgics, perhaps the most beautiful poem ever written about country life ; and the Aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of Rome.

The poem has some aspects characteristic of much of Carroll's poetry: it utilizes technically adept meter and rhyme, grammatically correct phrasing, logical chains of events — and largely nonsensical content, frequently employing made-up words such as " Snark ".

* Evangeline ( 1847 ), an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow loosely based on the events surrounding the 1755 deportation.

Tintagel is used as a locus for the Arthurian mythos by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Idylls of the King and Algernon Charles Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse is one of the versions of the Tristan and Iseult legends where some of the events are set at Tintagel.

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.

The Telegony was a short 2-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus after the events of the Odyssey.

The collection opens with James Elroy Flecker's poem " The Bridge of Fire ," which acts as a prologue and description of the events that occur.

His son Muirgen came to Fergus ' grave and spoke a poem, and Fergus ' ghost appeared to him and related the events of the Táin as they happened.

In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Gullinkambi is one of the three roosters whose crowing is foretold to signify the beginning of the events of Ragnarök.

The events described probably occurred around 1200 BC, but Homer is thought to have composed this epic poem around 700 BC ; so exactitude must remain suspect.

Nagarakertagama, is an old Javanese epic poem written during the Majapahit golden age under the reign of Hayam Wuruk after which some events are covered narratively.

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.

Critics of the 1960s focused on the reputation of the poem and how it compared to Coleridge's other poems.

In the United States, Virgil and specifically the Aeneid were taught in the fourth year of a Latin sequence, at least until the 1960s ; the current ( 2011 ) Advanced Placement curriculum in Latin continues to assign a central position to the poem: " The AP Latin: Virgil Exam is designed to test the student's ability to read, translate, understand, analyze, and interpret the lines of the Aeneid that appear on the course syllabus in Latin.

Although poetry in traditional classical forms had mostly fallen out of fashion by the 1960s, the practice was kept alive by poets of great formal virtuosity like James Merrill ( 1926 – 995 ), author of the epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover, Richard Wilbur, and British-born San Francisco poet Thom Gunn.

Three years later he met Basil Bunting and was instrumental in the older poet's return to writing in the early 1960s, leading to the latter's most acclaimed poem, the long, autobiographical " Brigflatts ", published in 1965.

In the 1960s, however, he came to experiment increasingly with free verse, and the discipline of writing to a specific set of visual images, coupled with the liberation of free verse, constituted a new source of rule and energy in Gunn's work: a poem such as " Pierce Street " in his next collection, Touch ( 1967 ), has a grainy, photographic fidelity, while the title-poem uses hesitant, sinuous free verse to portray a scene of newly acknowledged intimacy shared with his sleeping lover ( and the cat ).

Gwen Harwood had written poetry for many years, and her first poem was published in Meanjin in 1944, but her work did not start appearing regularly in journals and books until the 1960s.

At odds with literary trends in the early 1960s, Dudek concentrated on his teaching and on the writing of his long poem, Atlantis ( published in 1967 ).

Strange ) in a West Side Story pastiche ; " The Origin of ... Stuporman ", a Superman takeoff recalling Wally Wood's influential " Superduperman " in Mad # 4 ( May 1952 ); the Ecchs-Men in " If Magneat-O Should Clobber Us ", parodying not only the X-Men and Magneto, but also the high melodrama of 1960s Marvel titles ; and Marvel characters visually standing-in for the baseball-player protagonists of the otherwise faithfully rendered famous poem " Casey at the Bat ".

" is considered a poem by some and is an early demonstration of the " cut-up technique " espoused by Burroughs in the 1960s, shuffling together fragments of sentences and thoughts from other texts to create a surreal new narrative.