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The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale (Russian: Медный всадник: Петербургская повесть, romanized: Mednyy vsadnik: Peterburgskaya povest) is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833 about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of 1824. While the poem was ...
A cast bronze bust in honour of the poet is on display at Carmarthen Castle. Crwys's work tended to idealise life in rural Wales. [2] His winning poem at the 1911 eisteddfod praised the "common people of Wales". [3] English translations of his work appear in several anthologies. [4] [5]
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). [2]
Central to this poem is the story of Protesilaus and Laodamia from the Trojan cycle. Protesilaus and Laodamia were married shortly before the Trojan War, in which he was the first Greek to die. In her grief, Laodamia committed suicide by jumping onto the fire that destroyed a bronze statue of her late husband.
Bronze bust of Cawein by arist J. L. Roop, 1913. Cawein is acknowledged as the first Kentucky poet to earn a national reputation. [1] In April 1913, the Louisville Literature Club unveiled a bronze bust of the poet by J. L. Roop to the Louisville Free Public Library.
Story also sculpted a bronze statue of Joseph Henry on the Mall in Washington, D.C., the scientist who served as the Smithsonian Institution's first Secretary. His works Libyan Sibyl , Medea and Cleopatra are on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA.
The Boxer at Rest, also known as the Terme Boxer, Seated Boxer, Defeated Boxer, or Boxer of the Quirinal, is a bronze sculpture, a Hellenistic Greek original, [1] of a sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing his himantes (Ancient Greek: ἱμάντες, romanized: himántes, plural of ἱμάς, himás, 'a leathern strap or thong' [2]), a type of leather hand-wrap.
"Hesiod" is the name of a person; "Hesiodic" is a designation for a kind of poetry, including but not limited to the poems of which the authorship may reasonably be assigned to Hesiod himself. [ 41 ] Of these works forming the extended Hesiodic corpus, only the Shield of Heracles ( Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους , Aspis Hērakleous ) is ...