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The Court of Owls appear in the tie-in novel Batman: The Court of Owls, by Greg Cox. Set shortly after the Court's comic debut, Batman's investigation into a missing arts student at Gotham University reveals said student had stumbled onto clues left in the artwork of a prominent artist from a century prior who reluctantly worked with the Court ...
This poem shows the influence of French linguistic, literary, and rhetorical techniques. After the Norman conquest, French became a predominant language in England, but English was still widespread and recognized as an acceptable language for poetry, if only burlesque debates. The dating of the poem is uncertain.
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The sobriquet of a con man attempting to court the Lady Hideko Izumi in Japanese-occupied Korea. Count Gauthier Count Gismond: One of two counts in the poem, the other being the title character Count Gismond. The Countess Gertrude: Gormenghast: The 76th Countess and Titus Groan's mother. Count Gismond Count Gismond: The title character in the ...
The poem begins with the narrator reading Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis in the hope of learning some "certeyn thing". When he falls asleep, Scipio Africanus the Elder appears and guides him up through the celestial spheres to a gate promising both a "welle of grace" and a stream that "ledeth to the sorweful were / Ther as a fissh in prison is al drye" (reminiscent of the famous grimly inscribed ...
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Poems were recited, songs were sung, and dramatic readings were given; the practice was repeated each summer in other areas, primarily near the Russian River in Sonoma County. In 1881, the ceremony of the Cremation of Care was first conducted after the various individual performances, with James F. Bowman as Sire. [ 4 ]
Drayton was the first to bring the term ode, for a lyrical poem, to popularity in England and was a master of the short, staccato Anacreontics measure. [6] Also in 1593 there appeared the first of Drayton's historical poems, The Legend of Piers Gaveston, and the next year saw the publication of Matilda, an epic poem in rhyme royal.