Pius II was greatly admired as a poet by his contemporaries, but his reputation in belles lettres rests principally upon his The Tale of the Two Lovers, which continues to be read to this day, partly from its truth to nature, and partly from the singularity of an erotic novel being written by a Pope.

The poetry of Walt Whitman also had a profound effect on Holst, as it did with many of his contemporaries, and he set Whitman's words in " Dirge for Two Veterans " and The Mystic Trumpeter ( 1904 ).

Two later pitchers, Jesse Haines and Freddie Fitzsimmons, were sometimes characterized as knuckleball pitchers even by their contemporaries, but in their cases this again refers to a harder-thrown, curving pitch that would probably not be called a knuckleball today.

( Two contemporaries who also taught school in their early careers were John Adams and Nathan Hale.

Two near contemporaries in the 18th and 19th centuries, Jeremy Bentham and the Marquis de Sade had very different views on these matters.

Often anthologised, " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud " is commonly seen as a classic of English romanticism within poetry, although Poems in Two Volumes was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries.

Poems in Two Volumes was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries, including Lord Byron whom Wordsworth came to despise.

Two of his eminent contemporaries, the Monophysites Jacob of Serugh ( 451-521 ) and Philoxenus of Mabbogh ( d. 523 ), wrote letters in condemnation of his teaching.

He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.

* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

" Two Women Chatting By The Sea ," St. Thomas, ( 1856 ) Camille Pissarro was born on July 10, 1830 on the island of St. Thomas to Frederick and Rachel Pissarro.

Two days later on the 23 October, Herb Hannum, a friend from an earlier trip, noticed how sick Thomas looked and suggested an appointment with Feltenstein before the performances of Under Milk Wood that evening.

* 2008: The Edge of Love starring Matthew Rhys as the poet, directed by John Maybury, written by Sharman Macdonald, and drawing on David N. Thomas ' book Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow.

Two years later, Davis entered the Catholic school of Saint Thomas at St. Rose Priory, a school operated by the Dominican Order in Washington County, Kentucky.

Two professors of linguistics have claimed that de Vere wrote not only the works of Shakespeare, but most of what is memorable in English literature during his lifetime, with such names as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, John Lyly, George Peele, George Gascoigne, Raphael Holinshed, Robert Greene, Thomas Phaer, and Arthur Golding being among dozens of further pseudonyms of de Vere.

In 1780, a farm was reclaimed on the site of an ancient tenement near the Two Bridges, and in 1785, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt set about improving the moor at a place which he named Tor Royal, about south-east of Princetown.

Two important authors of short stories in the German language were Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.

Two men independently developed the octant around 1730: John Hadley ( 1682 – 1744 ), an English mathematician, and Thomas Godfrey ( 1704 – 1749 ), a glazier in Philadelphia.

Image: Thomas Gainsborough 017. jpg | Two Daughters with a Cat ( c. 1759 )

It constructed a narrative of cultural continuity, set in opposition to the violent disjunctions of Revolutionary France, a comparison common to the period, as expressed in Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution: A History and Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.

Two of his children, Thomas and Catherine, died in 1812.

* June 17 & ndash Two German relief workers held since 1989, Thomas Kemptner and Heinrich Struebig, are released.

Two men, one named Stevenson and the other John Thomas, claimed to have in their possession a cache of gold smuggled out of South Carolina.

Two future opponents in the American Revolutionary War, Washington and Thomas Gage, played key roles in organizing the retreat.

Two of his foster brothers served as major generals in the Union Army during the Civil War: Hugh Boyle Ewing, later an ambassador and author, and Thomas Ewing, Jr., who would serve as defense attorney in the military trials against the Lincoln conspirators.

Two days later, Sir Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor, realizing that the battle to save the marriage was lost.

Two years later, learning that Geoffrey de Havilland, who was then at the Royal Aircraft Factory in Farnborough, might be available, Holt Thomas invited de Havilland to join Airco as chief designer.

Thomas Middleton, depicted in the frontispiece of Two New Plays, a 1657 edition of Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women

Two of those later convicted ( James McDowell and Thomas Crozier ) were also serving members of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ), a part-time, locally recruited regiment of the British Army.

Two shows at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 6, 2007, were a musical reunion of sorts, as Donelly co-headlined with Hersh.

Two days after McClellan's return to command, General Robert E. Lee's forces crossed the Potomac River into Maryland, leading to the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.

Two binary abaci constructed by Dr. Robert C. Good, Jr., made from two Chinese abaci

Two German chemists, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, discovered caesium in 1860 by the newly developed method of flame spectroscopy.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

Two years later, Robert von Lieben and Lee De Forest independently developed the amplifier tube, called the triode.

Two months later Rowland Whyte wrote to Sir Robert Sidney that ' Some say my Lord of Oxford is dead '.

His adaptation of a French operetta by Émile Jonas called The Two Harlequins opened the new Gaiety Theatre, London in 1868, together with his distant cousin, W. S. Gilbert's, Robert the Devil and another piece.

Two songs are noteworthy: " Re-Enlistment Blues " and " From Here to Eternity ", by Robert Wells and Fred Karger.

Two similar declarations were also sent by the clergy and Robert I.

* Martin, Robert M. There Are Two Errors in Title of This Book: A sourcebook of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes and problems.

The quotation first came from Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to his friend Joseph Bigler, as a submission for a book compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in 1980 titled Murphy's Law Book Two, More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong.

Two exceptional large-scale psalm motets, Ad Dominum cum tribularer ( a8 ) and Domine quis habitabit ( a9 ), are Byrd's contribution to a genre cultivated by Robert White and Robert Parsons.

* Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Volume Two ( Books 7-12 ) ( January 2007 )

* American ( U. S. A .)— Hopper, Edward: Two Comedians ( 1966 ); Longo, Robert: Pressure ( 1982 / 83 ); Nauman, Bruce: No No New Museum ( 1987 ; videotape ); Serrano, Andres: A History of Sex ( Head ) ( 1996 ).

Robert Towne expressed his disappointment in The Two Jakes in many interviews.

He told writer Alex Simon " In the interest of maintaining my friendships with Jack Nicholson and Robert Evans, I ’ d rather not go into it, but let ’ s just say The Two Jakes wasn ’ t a pleasant experience for any of us.

Two captured British citizens, Robert Ambrister and Alexander Arbuthnot, were tried and found guilty of inciting Indian raids and executed causing a diplomatic nightmare between the United States and England.

* Robert Magliola, Phenomenology and Literature ( Purdue University Press, 1977 ; 1978 ) systematically describes, in Part One, the influence of Husserl, Heidegger, and the French Existentialists on the Geneva School and other forms of what becomes known as " phenomenological literary criticism "; and in Part Two describes phenomenological literary theory in Roman Ingarden and Mikel Dufrenne.

Two children ( Robert and Mary ) were born of this marriage.

Two conflicting stories of how frontman Scott Weiland and bassist Robert DeLeo met have been described by the band ; one was that Weiland and DeLeo met at a Black Flag concert in Long Beach, California in 1986.

Robert Bolt: Scenes from Two Lives.