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According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.
" Even Greil Marcus, whose previous writings had been favourably inclined towards Morrison, said: " It's Van acting the part of the ' mystic poet ' he thinks he's supposed to be.
This alternate narrative may have been based on a previous epic of the Theban cycle written by the Greek poet Antimachus in the 4th or 5th century BC.
At the American Academy, he renewed an acquaintance with a young Baltimore poet, Rose Burgunder, to whom he had been introduced the previous fall at Johns Hopkins University.
* Cratinus: A comic poet of the previous generation, he was still writing plays with some success.
The poet and playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a previous owner of the property from 1804.
Archy ( whose name was always written in lower case in the book titles, but was upper case when Marquis would write about him in narrative form ) was a cockroach who had been a free verse poet in a previous life, and took to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in the building had left.
In April 1833 he savagely criticised Poems, published the previous December by Alfred Tennyson – an attack which, coupled with the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, discouraged the aspiring poet from seeking to publish anything more for nine years.
Frances was named after English novelist Frances ( Fanny ) Burney, the American poet Frances Osgood, and her sister who had died the previous year, Caroline Elizabeth.
The previous tenant was the poet Padraic Colum who had left behind old copies of The Peasant and Sinn Féin.
This came about largely as a result of serious, true-to-form examples being published by noted American poets John Hollander, W. S. Merwin and Elise Paschen, as well as by Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali, who had been teaching and spreading word of the ghazal at American universities over the previous two decades.
This album, infused with a much darker atmosphere, is more sexually ambiguous than her previous one, featuring songs inspired by Mylène ’ s favourite authors, including the French romantic poet Charles Baudelaire and the American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe.
The elaborate linking format developed by the editors was also picked up and carried forward with the development of the renga or “ linked verse ” form, in which poets wrote a series of verses together in turns by continuing the image of the previous verse and introducing something new for the next poet to work with.
* Ecphantides: A comic poet of a previous generation known for his obscurity, he is referred to in line 151 by his nickname Capnias ( Smokey ).
In the previous canto the poet identified himself with the leaves.
Acknowledging the presence of this idea ( or variations of it ) in the works of previous writers, Barthes cited in his essay the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who said that " it is language which speaks.
The story of their encounters is recalled and it is learned that Zina knew of Fyodor the poet when he lived at his previous place.
This book won the annual Mr. H Award ( H-shi-sho, H氏賞 ) in 1969, which is given to the best book of poetry published in the previous year in Japan by a new poet.
As a careful study by Ward Briggs goes a long way to show, the repetition of lines in the Georgics and the Aeneid is probably an intentional move made by Virgil, a poet given to a highly allusive style, not, evidently, to the exclusion of his own previous writings.
He composed the music of A Portuguesa, the Portuguese national anthem, in 1891, with lyrics by poet and playwright Henrique Lopes de Mendonça ; it was adopted in 1911, after the proclamation of the Republic the previous year.
By 1992 Palcy veered away from the serious subject matters of her previous films to show the spirit and liveliness of her native Martinique with Simeon ( 1992 ), a musical comedic fairytale set in the Caribbean and Paris and the three-part documentary Aimé Césaire, A Voice For History ( 1994 ) about the famed Martinique poet, playwright and philosopher.
In January 2011 she was named as the second Scots Makar, or national poet, succeeding Edwin Morgan who had died the previous year.
His stepdaughter, from Marie's previous marriage, Giovanna Marie Therese Babette " Mary " Ezra married the Irish poet Louis MacNeice.
Part of the poet or musician's craft was the ability to remember the important work of previous generations.

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* Nobel Peace Prize laureate and environmental activist Wangari Maathai was asked by a Time magazine interviewer if she stood by a previous alleged claim that " AIDS is a biological weapon manufactured by the developed world to wipe out the black race ".
Following a campaign of government harassment against her previous paper, Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta, International Press Freedom Award laureate Svetlana Kalinkina accepted an editorial position at Narodnaja Volya in 2004.
In the previous academic year the Prime Minister gave the award for scientific activity to professor Jacek Jassem and post doctorate teacher Michał Markuszewski was the laureate of the prestigious academic scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education.

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Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.
In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
Wiley Lynn, a self-styled prohibition officer, had hit town the previous day and had been drinking ever since.
Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.
Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.
For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.
The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.
While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.
The previous night's horror -- the absolute failure, overcast with the intrusions of the press, had left them all with a wan sense of uselessness, of play-acting.
The previous scandals, gaily diverting as they were, had only served to increase his popularity.
The contributions were ahead of what she had got the previous year, and while the money, of course, was not hers, it excited her to stuff her kit with big checks.
No previous antitrust case, he said, had involved interests of such magnitude or presented such complex problems of relief.
Directions are written for those who have had previous experience in making pottery.
These conjugates Af had much less nonspecific staining than the previous conjugate ( with 50 mg FITC per gram of globulin ) while the specific staining was similar in both cases.
Her previous traumatic experiences flashed through her mind as if they had happened yesterday.
Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.
On previous voyages, it had been in precisely such dangerous situations that he had failed as a leader and captain.
He knew the house fairly well, he had been there on two previous visits during the past three or four months alone.
He had been to the farm the previous day and he could have said they needed the ax or hatchet at the farm.
The lavish use of presents had been effective in expanding the Indian trade of New France and Louisiana in the previous century, and the change in liberality aroused resentment in the minds of the red men.
By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.
The result had nothing of the polish, pace or cohesion of the previous night.

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