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She is best known for her 5,000 page book The Poem of the Man-God, first published in 1956 and later titled The Gospel as Revealed to Me. The book is based on 10,000 of the 15,000 pages in her handwritten notebooks. The 10,000 pages were mostly written from 1944-1947 and detail the life of Jesus as an extended narrative of the gospels.
The first extant written mention of the hag is in the 12th century "Vision of Mac Conglinne", in which she is named as the "White Nun of Beare".[5]The long Irish language medieval poem, "The Lament of the Hag of Beara", which she narrates, has been described by folklorist Eleanor Hull as "a beautiful example of the wide-spread idea that human life is ruled by the flow and ebb of the sea-tide ...
Although Valtorta wrote about 15,000 pages during the years 1943-1947, only 10,000 of these (mostly written from 1944-1947) were used in the work which was at first called The Poem of the Man-God. The additional pages were later published as The Notebooks. [1] The Poem contains over 650 reported episodes in the life of Jesus and the Virgin Mary ...
Ben Cruachan, highest point in Argyll and Bute, home of the Cailleach nan Cruachan. In Scotland, where she is also known as Beira, Queen of Winter (a name given by 20th-century folklorist Donald Alexander Mackenzie), she is credited with making numerous mountains and large hills, which are said to have been formed when she was striding across the land and accidentally dropped rocks from her ...
Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 [note 1] – after 1416), also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian [4] or Mother Julian, was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings, now known as Revelations of Divine Love , are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman.
Lady A was formed in 2006 [5] by Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood, and Hillary Scott in Nashville, Tennessee.Scott, a Nashville native, is the daughter of country music singer Linda Davis, best known for collaborating with Reba McEntire on her 1993 single "Does He Love You", [6] and Charles Kelley is the brother of pop and country artist Josh Kelley. [7]
[a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman. Fragment 31 has been the subject of numerous translations and adaptations from ancient times to the present day.
Eloisa to Abelard is a verse epistle by Alexander Pope that was published in 1717 and based on a well-known medieval story. Itself an imitation of a Latin poetic genre, its immediate fame resulted in a large number of English imitations throughout the rest of the century and other poems more loosely based on its themes thereafter.