Download or read book English Epigrams and Epitaphs written by Aubrey Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Epigrams and Epitaphs written by Stewart Aubrey and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Epigrams and Epitaphs written by Aubrey Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1978-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epitaphs and Epigrams Curious Quaint and Amusing from Various Sources Edited by S Palmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cut These Words into My Stone written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society. Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones. Three-year-old Archianax, playing near a well, Was drawn down by his own silent reflection. His mother, afraid he had no breath left, Hauled him back up wringing wet. He had a little. He didn't taint the nymphs' deep home. He dozed off in her lap. He's sleeping still. These words, translated from the original Greek by poet and filmmaker Michael Wolfe, mark the passing of a child who died roughly 2,000 years ago. Ancient Greek epitaphs honor the lives, and often describe the deaths, of a rich cross section of Greek society, including people of all ages and classes— paupers, fishermen, tyrants, virgins, drunks, foot soldiers, generals—and some non-people—horses, dolphins, and insects. With brief commentary and notes, this bilingual collection of 127 short, witty, and often tender epigrams spans 1,000 years of the written word. Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.
Download or read book On the Death of Henry II Epitaphs Xenia and the Testamentary Elegy written by Joachim Du Bellay and published by Uppingham House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of Du Bellay's complete Latin poems. Firsthand accounts of Henry II and the poet's autobiography. 60 vignettes to living persons and 40 epitaphs to the deceased. First translation into English. Verse translation facing Latin text. Introduction, critical notes, bibliography, index. Buckram hardback.
Download or read book The epigram in England 1590 1640 written by James Doelman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Doelman's book is the first major study on the Renaissance English epigram since 1947. It combines thorough description of the genre's history and conventions with consideration of the rootedness of individual epigrams within specific social, political and religious contexts.
Download or read book Epitaphs and Epigrams written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soul of Wit written by George Rostrevor Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epigrams and Epitaphs written by Alexander Pope and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare. By the mid-18th century new fashions in poetry emerged. A decade after Pope's death, Joseph Warton claimed that Pope's style of poetry was not the most excellent form of the art. The Romantic movement that rose to prominence in early 19th-century England was more ambivalent towards his work. Though Lord Byron identified Pope as one of his chief influences (believing his scathing satire of contemporary English literature English Bards and Scotch Reviewers to be a continuance of Pope's tradition), William Wordsworth found Pope's style fundamentally too decadent a representation of the human condition. George Gilfillan in his study of 1856 described Pope's talent as 'a rose peering into the summer air, fine, rather than powerful, In the 20th century Pope's reputation was revived. Pope's work was found to be full of references to the people and places of his time, and these aided people's understanding of the past. The postwar period stressed the power of Pope's poetry, recognising that Pope's immersion in Christian and Biblical culture lent depth to his poetry. Maynard Mack thought highly of Pope's poetry, arguing that Pope's moral vision demanded as much respect as his technical excellence. In the years 1953-1967 the production of the definitive Twickenham edition of Pope's poems was published in ten volumes.
Download or read book Epitaphs written by Nigel Rees and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of epitaphs and memorials, chiefly from the English-speaking world, noteworthy either for their text or for the prominence of their subject, with information on the historical background and the source of the epitaph
Download or read book Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece written by Marta González González and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a wide selection of Greek funerary epigrams from the 6th to 4th centuries BC, this volume considers their historical and chronological contexts to draw out information about the society that created them. Using both Hansen's corpus of epigrams and wider examples, it gives priority to those cases where the whole monument ensemble is preserved, both text and image, enabling a much better understanding of the significance of the texts. A thematic structure within a broader chronological framework provides a valuable lens on the epigrams, allowing readers to compare particular types across the time period. After introducing the funerary landscape in which the selected epigrams fit, González briefly considers the literary form of epigrams as a foil for the rest of the book. The remaining chapters focus on epitaphs of individuals in the most significant stages of life, where gender differences are most marked: themes include untimely death, women and wives, friendship, piety and non-kin love. All epigrams are offered in Greek, followed by an English translation. The analysis focuses on the literary aspects of the epigrams, as well as on the information they provide about both society and religion of ancient Greece.
Download or read book Church yard Gleanings and Epigrammatic Scraps written by William Pulleyn and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Epigrams written by William Davenport Adams and published by George Routledge & Sons. This book was released on 1974 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epitaphs from the Greek Anthology Translated with notes by Major R G Macgregor Preceded by translations from the Christian Epigrams by Miss M A Stodart written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs written by Geoffrey Grigson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triumphant Demons stand, and Angels start, To see the abysses of the human heart. -- Landor English poetry is supposed to be short in epigrams. But here there is a choice of more than 700 epigrams and epitaphs (which are epigrams of a special kind) from the sixteenth century to our time, familiar, unfamiliar, and even unknown. This ancient art of witty and satirical and also tender compression - an art as old as Plato and as young as the youngest living poet - has found its English masters in Herrick, Prior, Pope, Blake, Burns, Walter Savage Landor, Patmore and in twentieth-century masters Belloc and Robert Graves, all poets of strong liking or disliking. But poet after poet, major and minor and anon, has hated, loved, laughed, ridiculed, in couplets and quatrains, taking his cue from the great Latin epigrammatist Martial, from the Latin epigrammatists of the Renaissance (in Elizabethan times every Winchester schoolboy was expecting to be able to write a neat Latin epigram) or from the Greek Anthology of from his own English (and French) predecessors. Here lie the bones of Elizabeth Charlotte, That was born a virgin and died a harlot. She was aye a virgin at seventeen, An extraordinary thing for Aberdeen. -- Anon He served his God so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face, in hell. -- Belloc
