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Legend" (Russian: Легенда, Legenda), Op. 54, No. 5 (also known as "The Crown of Roses" in some English-language sources) [1] is a composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Originally written in 1883 as a song for solo voice and piano, it was subsequently arranged by Tchaikovsky for solo voice and orchestra (1884), and then for ...
The Ingoldsby Legends (full title: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels) is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham.
In 1971, Les Crane used a spoken-word recording of the poem as the lead track of his album Desiderata. [20] His producers had assumed that the poem was too old to be copyrighted, but the publicity surrounding the record led to clarification of Ehrmann's authorship and the eventual payment of royalties.
Legend of the Bluebonnet; Legend of the Indian Paintbrush; Legend of the Persian Carpet; Little Grunt and the Big Egg; Mice Squeak We Speak; Michael Bird-Boy; Mr. Satie and the Great Art Contest; Mysterious Giant of Barletta; Now One Foot, Now the Other; Oliver Button is a Sissy; Pancakes for Breakfast; The Popcorn Book; The Quicksand Book; The ...
When the 5,547 untranslated lines between fragments B and C are included, the English translation is roughly one-third of the original French poem. Skeat subjected the Romaunt text to a number of tests, and he found that on average, fragment A required 101.6 lines of English poetry for every 100 lines of French poetry. Fragment C required 102.1 ...
According to the legend, this went on until a tailor's wife got so curious to see the gnomes that she scattered peas onto the floor of the workshop to make the gnomes slip and fall. The gnomes, being infuriated, disappeared and never returned. From that time on, the citizens of Cologne had to do all their work by themselves. [4] [5]
The poem features words from "Philomythos" (myth-lover) to "Misomythos" (myth-hater) who defends mythology and myth-making as a creative art about "fundamental things". [4] It begins by addressing C. S. Lewis as the Misomythos, who at the time was sceptical of any truth in mythology:
Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. The poem begins in medias res or simply, "in the middle of things", a characteristic of the epics of antiquity. Although the poem begins with Beowulf's arrival ...