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Among the most important works of this period is the poem Beowulf, which has achieved national epic status in England.
Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.
Among the Berliners they encounter in their wanderings is an old man named Homer, who, unlike the Greek poet of war Homer, dreams of an " epic of peace.
Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.
Among the wisest of the Noldor were Rúmil, creator of the first writing system and author of many epic books of lore.
Among the more notable adaptations of this text are Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen, Ernest Reyer's opera Sigurd, William Morris's epic poem The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.
Among his other works are a History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward III ( 1688 ), an epic work numbering 900 + pages, in which he introduces long and elaborate speeches into the narrative ; editions of Euripides ( 1694 ) and of Homer ( 1711 ), also one of Anacreon ( 1705 ) which contains titles of Greek verses of his own which he hoped to publish.
Among the stand-outs were the title track, " Tears In My Eyes " and " July Morning ", an epic which Heep fans regard as equal to Led Zeppelin's " Stairway to Heaven " and Deep Purple's " Child in Time ".
Among the most epic and far-ranging fantasy " multiverses " is that of Michael Moorcock.
Among his lost works, Heteroeumena was a mythological epic, used by Ovid in the Metamorphoses and epitomized by Antoninus Liberalis ; Georgica, of which considerable fragments survive, was perhaps imitated by Virgil.
Among the best known works about this character today are Molière's play Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre ( 1665 ), Byron's epic poem Don Juan ( 1821 ), José de Espronceda's poem El estudiante de Salamanca ( 1840 ) and José Zorrilla's play Don Juan Tenorio ( 1844 ).
Among his works not already mentioned are: Commentaire sur Racine ( 1795 – 1796 ), published in 1807 ; Commentaire sur le théâtre de Voltaire of earlier date ( published posthumously in 1814 ); and an epic poem La Religion ( 1814 ).
Among an all-star cast in the World War II battle epic The Longest Day, he provided a climactic heroic act of leading an ultimately successful attempt to breach the defense wall atop Omaha Beach in Normandy but dying in the process.
Among the Betsileo, for instance, oral histories are retold through a form of musical performance called the rija, which in its current form may represent a combination of the original, single-verse rija and an epic poem called the isa.
Among his other well-known films were Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), They Were Expendable ( 1945 ), Joan of Arc ( 1948 ), in which he was atypically cast as Captain La Hire, Rio Bravo ( 1959 ), and Raoul Walsh's 1930 widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail, which also featured John Wayne's first leading role.
Among his TV roles must be mentioned his elegant and humorous ex-burglar Larsen in the series Huset på Christianshavn (“ The House at Christianshavn ” – the first Danish sitcom ) and his role as the wise and courageous doctor Louis Hansen in the epic, historical drama-series Matador, both also shown outside Denmark.
The later albums tend to be more epic and mythological while, on the early albums ( up until Life Among the Ruins ), many songs are more real-life based stories of love and sex.
Featuring none of the trademark epic and mythology-based elements of the band, Life Among the Ruins is probably the most atypical release in the Virgin Steele discography and disliked by many die-hard classic metal fans.
Among the books published in " Vakhtang ’ s typography " in Tbilisi was the 12th-century national epic poem The Knight in the Panther's Skin ( Vep ’ khistkaosani ) by Shota Rustaveli, accompanied by scholarly commentaries by the king himself.
Among his earlier compositions are, " The Bolton Stretch " ( Elevation ), " On the Run " ( Elevation ), and the epic live song " Traffic Jam " ( Mountain Tracks, Vol.
Among his works, the best known today is the humorous novel for youths Klapzubova jedenáctka ( Klapzuba's Eleven, 1922, about an invincible football team of 11 brothers ) and the novel Cirkus Humberto ( Circus Humberto, 1941, an epic saga about people working in circuses ).
Among these three, the last two cover between them the entire epic of Ramayana.
Among those who espouse film genre studies, epic is one of the most despised and ignored genres " Finally, although the American Movie Channel formally defines epic films as historical films, they nonetheless state the epic film may be combined with the genre of science-fiction and cite Star Wars as an example.

Among and poems
Among his very numerous works two poems entitle him to a distinguished place in the Latin literature of the Middle Ages ; one of these, the De planctu naturae, is an ingenious satire on the vices of humanity.
Among contemporary poems teikei ( 定型 fixed form ) haiku continue to use the 5-7-5 pattern while jiyuritsu ( 自由律 free form ) haiku do not.
Among the longest single poems in American literature, Clarel, published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies.
His other early poems, which are meditations on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects, include Poems ( 1895 ), The Secret Rose ( 1897 ), and The Wind Among the Reeds ( 1899 ).
Among other sources, this figure is found in two poems compiled together and known as Svipdagsmál in the Poetic Edda, the Prologue to the Prose Edda, and by the name Swæfdæg in the mythical genealogies of the Anglian houses of Anglo-Saxon England.
Among the last inmates was dissident poet Nguyễn Chí Thiện, who was reimprisoned in 1979 after attempting to deliver his poems to the British Embassy, and spent the first further six years in Hỏa Lò till 1985 when he was transfered to a more modern prison.
Among those to set his poems to music were Hubert Parry, Gustav Holst, and later Gerald Finzi.
Among later Russian symphonic poems, Sergei Rachmaninoff's The Rock shows as much the influence of Tchaikovsky's work as Isle of the Dead ( 1909 ) does its independence from it.
Among the poems in the collection are " Song of Myself ", " I Sing the Body Electric ", " Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ", and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ".
Among his better known poems are " The Performance ", " Cherrylog Road ", " The Firebombing ", " May Day Sermon ", " Falling ", and " For The Last Wolverine ".
Among the recordings Brunswick imported and issued under their own label were historic performances conducted by Hans Pfitzner and Richard Strauss -- the latter conducting critically acclaimed performances of his symphonic poems Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, recorded in Berlin in 1929-30 by Parlophone.
Among lyric poets, the most important figures are Anne Bradstreet, who wrote personal poems about her family and homelife ; pastor Edward Taylor, whose best poems, the Preparatory Meditations, were written to help him prepare for leading worship ; and Michael Wigglesworth, whose best-selling poem, The Day of Doom, describes the time of judgment.
Among his poems, which are modelled on Pope and Akenside and rather commonplace, may be mentioned: Paradise of Coquettes ( 1814 ); Wanderer in Norway ( 1815 ); Warfiend ( 1816 ); Bower of Spring ( 1817 ); Agnes ( 1818 ); Emily ( 1819 ); a collected edition in 4 vols.
Among the poems written or at least sketched during this period were L ' Oaristys, L ' Aveugle, La Jeune Malode, Bacchus, Euphrosine and La Jeune Tarentine.
In the 20th century, William Butler Yeats used the form in several of his best later poems, including " Sailing to Byzantium " and " Among School Children ".
Among his other works were The Passionate Pilgrim ( 1858 ), a volume of selections from Robert Herrick entitled Chrysomela ( 1877 ), a memoir of Arthur Hugh Clough ( 1862 ) and a critical essay on Sir Walter Scott ( 1866 ) prefixed to an edition of his poems.
Among the most famous of secular poetry is Carmina Burana, a manuscript collection of 254 poems.
Among his other works were the remarkable Histoire de la philosophie scolastique ( 1872 – 1880 ); Les Mélanges poétiques d ' Hildebert de Lavardin ( 1852 ); an edition of the Works of Hugh of St Victor ( 1886 ); a critical study of the Latin poems attributed to St Bernard ( 1870 ); and Bernard Délicieux et l ' Inquisition albigeoise ( 1877 ).
Among the poems in England's Helicon ( 1600 ), signed S. E. D., and included in Dr A. B.
Among his other important works are his later poems: Русские женщины (" Russian women "), written in 1871-1872, Кому на Руси жить хорошо?
Among the other poets published by the New Writers Press were Geoffrey Squires ( born 1942 ), whose early work was influenced by Charles Olson, and Augustus Young ( born 1943 ), who admired Pound and who has translated older Irish poetry, as well as work from Latin America and poems by Bertolt Brecht.
Among the better known poems in the volume are " Mr Edwards and the Spider " and " The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket.

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