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The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ɡ ə m ɛ ʃ /) [2] is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia.The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames" [3]), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC). [1]
The Cursor Mundi is one of the Late Medieval texts that provides the OED with over 1,000 new words, i.e. words that were unknown before they appeared for the first time in the poem. [d] Examples of the words include: anyway, anywhere, backward, blister, brimstone, chastise, chess, virginity, weakness, wickedness, willing, written, yonder, and ...
The Wanderer (Old English poem) The Wanderer. (Old English poem) The narrator of the "wise man"'s speech, and the "wise man", presumably the "Wanderer" himself. The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book. It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse. As is often the case with Anglo-Saxon verse ...
Cotton library. The Pearl Manuscript (British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2), also known as the Gawain manuscript, [1] is an illuminated manuscript produced somewhere in northern England in the late 14th century or the beginning of the 15th century. It is one of the best-known Middle English manuscripts, [2] the only one containing alliterative ...
The poet Abraham Cowley, in whose biography Samuel Johnson first named and described Metaphysical poetry. The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse.
Signature. " One Art" is a poem by American poet Elizabeth Bishop, originally published in The New Yorker in 1976. [1] Later that same year, Bishop included the poem in her book Geography III, which includes other works such as "In the Waiting Room" and "The Moose". [2] It is considered to be one of the best villanelles in the English language ...
18th century. An Essay on the Principle of Population by T.R. Malthus, originally published anonymously. Anti-Machiavel by Frederick the Great, originally published anonymously. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, originally published anonymously. The Sorrows of Yamba by Hannah More, originally published anonymously.
Alone (Poe) "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe. " Alone " is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime. The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [1] In February of that year, Poe's foster mother Frances Allan had died.