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Poems on Several Occasions (Matthew Prior) by Matthew Prior, 1707, 1709, 1718, 1721; Poems on Several Occasions (Henry Carey) by Henry Carey, 1713; Poems on Several Occasions (John Gay) by John Gay, 1720; Poems on Several Occasions (Christopher Smart) by Christopher Smart, 1752; Poems on Several Occasions (Michael Bruce) by Michael Bruce, 1770
Poems on Several Occasions was a poetry collection, published by the intellectual feminist, Lady Mary Chudleigh in 1703. [1] The primary subject of the collection is the joys of friendship between women when that friendship is based on shared morals and shared intellectual pursuits; although, there are also poems on various other topics.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes is a prose work by the English metaphysical poet and cleric in the Church of England, John Donne, published in 1624. It covers death, rebirth and the early modern concept of sickness as a visit from God, reflecting internal sinfulness.
It is not a genre, but several genres originate as occasional poetry, including epithalamia (wedding songs), dirges or funerary poems, paeans, and victory odes. Occasional poems may also be composed exclusive of or within any given set of genre conventions to commemorate single events or anniversaries, such as birthdays, foundings, or dedications.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Titlepage to 1645 Poems, with frontispiece depicting Milton surrounded by four muses, designed by William Marshall. Milton's 1645 Poems is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of John Milton's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including such notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and Lycidas.
Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5] Each class is composed of multiple divisions and then sections. This may be conceptualized as a tree containing over a thousand branches for individual "meaning clusters" or semantically linked words.