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IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free 1802, August "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free," Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1807 On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic: 1802, August "Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;" Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) 1807 The King of Sweden
The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West. In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.
Cairn Capercaillie Claymore Trousers Bard [1] The word's earliest appearance in English is in 15th century Scotland with the meaning "vagabond minstrel".The modern literary meaning, which began in the 17th century, is heavily influenced by the presence of the word in ancient Greek (bardos) and ancient Latin (bardus) writings (e.g. used by the poet Lucan, 1st century AD), which in turn took the ...
In this book, a character by the name of Owen MacCarthy is a bard known for his training with the native language as well as English. He is turned to write specific, important letters by a group named the "Whiteboys". They are in need of someone skilled with writing letters, such as a bard like MacCarthy.
Shakespeare has been known as "the Bard" since the eighteenth century. [2] One who idolizes Shakespeare is known as a bardolator. The term bardolatry , derived from Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria "worship" (as in idolatry , worship of idols ), was coined by George Bernard Shaw in the preface to his ...
For other uses, see Bard (disambiguation). Title-page of The Bard illustrated by William Blake, c. 1798 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode (1757) is a poem by Thomas Gray, set at the time of Edward I's conquest of Wales. Inspired partly by his researches into medieval history and literature, partly by his discovery of Welsh harp music, it was itself a potent influence on future generations of poets and ...
Taliesin was a renowned bard who is believed to have sung at the courts of at least three kings. In 1960, Ifor Williams identified eleven of the medieval poems ascribed to Taliesin as possibly originating as early as the sixth century, and so possibly being composed by a historical Taliesin. [ 1 ]