The poem is about the fall of King Haakon I of Norway ; although he is Christian, he is taken by two valkyries to Valhalla, and is there received as one of the Einherjar.

Students received the usual quota of Plutarch, Shakespeare, Swift, and Addison, as well as such Americans as Joel Barlow's Vision of Columbus, Timothy Dwight's Conquest of Canaan, and John Trumbull's poem M ' Fingal.

In more developed, closed or " received " poetic forms, the rhyming scheme, meter and other elements of a poem are based on sets of rules, ranging from the relatively loose rules that govern the construction of an elegy to the highly formalized structure of the ghazal or villanelle.

The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook.

In 1824, Weber received an invitation from The Royal Opera, London, to compose and produce Oberon, based on Christoph Martin Wieland's poem of the same name.

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

That year Ausonius was made Praetorian Prefect of Gaul, campaigned against the Alemanni and received as part of his booty a slave-girl, Bissula ( to whom he addressed a poem ), while his father, though nearly ninety years old, was given the rank of Prefect of Illyricum.

A passage of the 10th-century poem Haustlöng where the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir gives a lengthy description of a richly detailed shield he has received that features a depiction of the abduction of Iðunn.

Pan and Syrinx ( Pan og Syrinx ), a vigorous nine-minute symphonic poem inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, was particularly well received at its premiere in 1911, Charles Kjerulf of Politken commenting: " For each note that was added it became more and more sublime.

" Published in the Nationalist magazine, her poem, Similar Cases was a satirical review of people who resisted social change and she received positive feedback from critics for it.

The writing of Sir Kingsley Amis contains some misotheistic themes ; e. g. in The Green Man ( God's appearance as the young man ), and in The Anti-Death League ( the anonymous poem received by the chaplain ).

In the winter of the same year he returned to his Denmark, bringing with him as a peace-offering his fine descriptive poem, the Labyrinth, in Danish, and was received with unbounded homage.

After Francisco received approval from his fiancée and her father, he submitted the poem and won the competition by unanimous vote.

The metre of these poems was based on syllables rather than accents, and he used the principle again in the long philosophical poem The Testament of Beauty ( 1929 ), for which he received the Order of Merit.

Both Liszt and Richard Strauss worked in Germany, but while Liszt may have invented the symphonic poem and Strauss brought it to its highest point, overall the form was less well received there than in other countries.

His final work, in 1975, a narrative of the epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem that Redgrave taught as a young schoolmaster and visualized by producer-director Raul da Silva, received six international film festival prizes of which five were first place in category.

i. 7, 9 seq., a poem composed for Messalla's triumph ), and may have received militaria dona ( Vita Tib.

In 1716 appeared his Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London, a poem in three books, for which he acknowledged having received several hints from Swift.

In 1838 he received his doctorate, his thesis entitled ' De l ' habitude ' ( On Habit ), which was to become a classic text ( a metaphysical ' poem ' on nature in general apprehended through an intuitive analysis of acquired habit as a particular manifestation of its essential being, much admired by Bergson and Heidegger ), and became professor of philosophy at Rennes.

In 1948 Carmichael composed a piece called Brown County in Autumn, a nine-minute tone poem which was not well received by critics.

In 1714, he wrote a poem styled Esther, Queen of Persia, which was received with applause, and in 1719 – 1721, he published The Compleat Linguist ; or, An Universal Grammar of all the Considerable Tongues in Being.

During a visit to Morpeth in 1738, Akenside had the idea for his didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination, which was well received, and was subsequently translated into more than one foreign language.

His powers fell short of this ambition ; his imagination was not brilliant enough to surmount the difficulties inherent in a poem dealing so largely with abstractions ; but the work was well received.

In 546 Victor of Capua discovered such a mixed manuscript ; and, further corrected by Victor so as to provide a very pure Vulgate text within a modified Diatessaron sequence, this harmony, the Codex Fuldensis, survives in the monastic library at Fulda, where it served as the source text for vernacular harmonies in Old High German, Eastern Frankish and Old Saxon ( the alliterative poem ' Heliand ').

Composer Nina C. Young set the poem in a piece scored for solo viola, piano, and mixed choir.

The poem " Twelfth Night " from My Many-coated Man was set for unaccompanied mixed choir by American composer Samuel Barber in 1968.

* " The Execution of Pugachev ", poem for mixed chorus a cappella ( 1981 ).

Even so, he said the poem was " nector mixed with ambrosia ".

Based on this argument, in 1902 W. W. Lawrence concluded that the poem was a “ wholly secular poem revealing the mixed emotions of an adventurous seaman who could not but yield to the irresistible fascination for the sea in spite of his knowledge of its perils and hardships ” ( Pope, 222 ).

* Sancti Augustini psalmus contra partem Donati for bass solo, mixed chorus and orchestra ( 1944 ); poem by Augustinus

* Ode all ' Europa for mixed chorus a cappella ( 1962 ); poem by Gyula Illyés

Although Kipling's poem mixed exhortation to empire with somber warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States understood the phrase " white man's burden " as a characterization for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise.

He is to be distinguished from Peisander of Laranda in Lycia, who lived during the reign of Alexander Severus and wrote a poem on the mixed marriages of gods and mortals, after the manner of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.

Kästner's increasingly critical reviews and the " frivolous " publication of his erotic poem Abendlied des Kammervirtuosen ( Evening Song of the Chamber Virtuoso ) — with illustrations by Erich Ohser — got him fired in 1927.

The contemporary reviews of " Ulysses " were positive and found no irony in the poem.

His thorough knowledge of the Teutonic languages and his critical faculty were shown in his Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf ( 1833-1837 ), Über die Stammtafeln der Westsachsen ( Munich 1836 ), Codex diplomaticus aevi Saxonici ( London 1839-1848 ), and in many contributions to reviews ; while his History of the Saxons in England ( 1849 ; new ed.

Gilfillan worked for 30 years on a long poem, but he is best known for his encouragement of the young Spasmodics in his literary reviews written under the pseudonym Apollodorus.

The latter, about his most known poem and the trial about the work, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and earned modest reviews.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

She was the pursuer as clearly as was Venus in Shakespeare's poem.

At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.

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.

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.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

The Franck symphonic poem, `` Psyche '', is a lush, sweet-sounding affair that was pleasant to encounter once again.

Later legends ( beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD ) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel.

The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

At that time, the poem was titled America for publication.

Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

The poem was initially published two years later in The Congregationalist, to commemorate the Fourth of July.

Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward too was inspired to compose his tune.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.

Rousseau's conception of alpine purity was later emphasized with the publication of Albrecht von Haller's poem Die Alpen that described the mountains as an area of mythical purity.

According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

Modern commentators speculate ( or sometimes state as fact ) that Álfheim was one of the nine worlds ( heima ) mentioned in stanza 2 of the eddic poem Völuspá.

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem ( with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams ) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.