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The Giaour is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 by John Murray and printed by Thomas Davison. It was the first in the series of Byron's Oriental romances. The Giaour proved to be a great success when published, consolidating Byron's reputation critically and commercially.
The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan is the title of three works by the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, produced in 1826, 1835 and 1856. They all show a scene from Lord Byron 's 1813 poem The Giaour , with the Giaour ambushing and killing Hassan, the Pasha, before retiring to a monastery. [ 1 ]
Giaour or Gawur or Gavour (/ ˈ dʒ aʊər /; Turkish: gâvur, Turkish pronunciation:; from Persian: گور gâvor; [a] Romanian: ghiaur; Albanian: kaur; Greek: γκιαούρης, romanized: gkiaoúris; Bulgarian: гяур; Bosnian; kaur/đaur) meaning "infidel", is a slur used mostly in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire for non-Muslims ...
The Giaour: A fragment of a Turkish tale [3] The Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn, [4] published under the pen name "Horace Hornem Esq." [3] Allan Cunningham, Songs [3] Thomas John Dibdin, A Metrical History of England [3] James Hogg, The Queen's Wake [3] Mary Russell Mitford, Narrative Poems on the Female Character [3] James Montgomery, The World ...
The poem appears as "Go No More A-Roving" on the 2004 Leonard Cohen album Dear Heather.It was also recorded by Joan Baez on her 1964 Joan Baez/5 album, by Mike Westbrook on his 1998 album The Orchestra of Smith's Academy, and by Kris Delmhorst on her 2006 album Strange Conversation.
A few successful remixes of the song during the 1990s and 2000s along with new versions of the song by Lonnie Gordon, Diana Ross, Chantay Savage, rock group Cake and others, as well as constant recurrent airplay on nearly all soft AC and rhythmic format radio stations have helped to keep the song in the mainstream. Gaynor said of her biggest ...
The title song as well as another song from the musical, "Good Morning Starshine," were featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the Season 5, 8th episode "Hercules Unchained". [23] On The Simpsons episode, "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", the song is played in the background as Marge's hair starts to fall out from stress ...
The song is heard several times throughout the Warner Bros. movie The Fighting 69th (1940), starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Alan Hale, Sr., which chronicles the World War I exploits of the regiment. [7]