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Mary Fage (fl. 1637) was a middle-class English poet known only through her one book, Fames Roule, published in 1637. Fames Roule is a collection of over four hundred acrostic verses, each one an anagram addressed to a noble person in the early Stuart court, in the order of legal precedence.
An 1850 acrostic by Nathaniel Dearborn, the first letter of each line spelling the name "JENNY LIND". An acrostic is a poem or other word composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. [1]
Charity Bryant (May 22, 1777 [1] – October 6, 1851 [2]) was an American business owner and writer.She was a diarist and wrote acrostic poetry. [3] Because there is extensive documentation for the shared lives of Bryant and her partner Sylvia Drake, their diaries, letters and business papers have become an important part of the archive in documenting the history of same-sex couples.
The poem was not included in Poe's second poetry collection, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, and was never re-printed during his lifetime. "Evening Star" was adapted by choral composer Jonathan Adams into his Three Songs from Edgar Allan Poe in 1993.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
After 32 years of marriage, Ice Cube knows a thing or two about making love last. The rapper-actor, 55, married wife Kimberly Woodruff in 1992, and in a recent episode of Cam Newton’s podcast ...
From the early Middle Ages, the official genre of spiritual poetry was the sharakan. [35] During the 5th-15th centuries, the genre underwent significant internal transformations. The sharakan, therefore, is not a single and homogeneous genre, but a chrestomathy of medieval Armenian poetry.
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