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Salmagundi; or The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others , commonly referred to as Salmagundi , was a 19th-century satirical periodical created and written by American writer Washington Irving , his oldest brother William , and James Kirke Paulding .
The song was recorded by the Song Spinners [5] for Decca Records, reaching number one on the Billboard pop chart on July 2, 1943. [6]"Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" was the only song with a war connection to appear in the top twenty best-selling songs of 1943 in the United States (although record sales in this period were heavily affected by the first Petrillo recording ban).
Structurally, Devotions consists of 23 chronologically ordered sections – representing the length, in days, of Donne's illness. [14] Each one contains a 'meditation', in which he describes a stage of his illness, an 'expostulation' containing his reaction to that stage, and finally a prayer in which he makes peace with the disease. [15]
Columnist David Murdock finds following an author's advice on 'Whim' have helped him enjoy both the 'unusual' and 'usual' even more.
"The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles, hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. [2]
A Spanish-language version by Mexican actor Arturo Benavides topped the Mexican charts for six weeks in 1972. [19]In 1971, Les Crane used a spoken-word recording of the poem as the lead track of his album Desiderata. [20]
Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...
A scop (/ ʃ ɒ p / [1] or / s k ɒ p / [2]) was a poet as represented in Old English poetry.The scop is the Old English counterpart of the Old Norse skald, with the important difference that "skald" was applied to historical persons, and scop is used, for the most part, to designate oral poets within Old English literature.