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The poem was an influence on the early work of Edgar Allan Poe. His first major poem, "Tamerlane", particularly emulates both the manner and style of The Giaour. [2] Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz translated the work into Polish. [3] Mickiewicz wrote in November 1822: "I think I shall translate The Giaour."
The title derives from a line in the poem "XVI – (How clear, how lovely bright)", from More Poems, by A. E. Housman, a favourite poet of Dexter and Morse: "Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day."
Full text The Rime of the Ancient Mariner at Wikisource The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere ), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads , is a poem that recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea ...
In a 1962 episode of The Virginian titled "The Brazen Bell", a timid schoolteacher (George C. Scott) recites The Ballad of Reading Gaol to distract a convicted wife-killer who is holding him and a group of schoolchildren hostage (the series was set in approximately the same year as the first publication of the poem).
1799, August 24 Names. [From Lessing.] "I ask'd my fair one happy day," 1799 1803 The Devil's Thoughts. "From his brimstone bed at break of day" 1799 1799, September 6 Lines composed in a Concert-room "Nor cold, nor stern, my soul! yet I detest" 1799 1799, September 24 Westphalian Song "When thou to my true-love com'st" 1799? 1802, September 27
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Mountains and Rivers Without End is an epic poem by American poet and essayist Gary Snyder. Snyder began writing the thirty-nine poems contained in the epic in 1956 and published the final version in 1996. The work is divided into four parts, each exploring a different theme. [1]
In season 4, episode 4 of Orange Is The New Black Alex tells Red she is sorry for sharing 'This Albatross of a secret' with her. The famous BBC TV comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus broadcast a sketch called "Intermission" in Episode 13 of series 1 on 11 January 1970. Although only 40 seconds long, this sketch is one of the most ...