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Patricia Beer was born on 4 November 1919 in Exmouth, Devon, into a family of Plymouth Brethren, [1] a strict religious sect. [2] Hymns were the first poetry Beer wrote. [2] Her mother worked as a schoolteacher, while her father worked as a railway clerk. Her parents raised her in Withycombe Raleigh, a village near Exmouth. [3]
Charles Knight said that in Beer Street Hogarth had been "rapt beyond himself" and given the characters depicted in the scene an air of "tipsy jollity". [29] Charles Lamb considered Gin Lane sublime, and focused on the almost invisible funeral procession that Hogarth had added beyond the broken-down wall at the rear of the scene as mark of his ...
In Norse mythology, the Poetic Mead or Mead of Poetry, [a] also known as Mead of Suttungr, [b] is a mythical beverage that whoever "drinks becomes a skald or scholar" able to recite any information and solve any question.
Philistine pottery beer jug. Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks. The written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia records the use of beer, and the drink has spread throughout the world; a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer-recipe, describing the production of beer from barley bread, and in China ...
The Sporting Spirit" is an essay by George Orwell published in the magazine Tribune on 14 December 1945, and later in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, a collection of Orwell's essays published in 1950. [1] [2] The essay was written on the heels of the 1945 tour of Great Britain by the Soviet football team FC Dynamo Moscow.
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is the first book of poetry of the American author Herman Melville.Published by Harper & Brothers of New York in 1866, the volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Fathers" and its 72 poems deal with the battles and personalities of the American ...
"Apologia Pro Poemate Meo" is a poem by Wilfred Owen.It deals with the atrocities of World War I.The title means "in defence of my poetry" and is often viewed as a rebuttal to a remark in Robert Graves' letter "for God's sake cheer up and write more optimistically - the war's not ended yet but a poet should have a spirit above wars."
The poem was first published under the title "Massa Nemirov" ("The Vision of Nemirov") in the newspaper HaZman, edited by Ben-Tzion Katz, in the city of Petersburg. [2] The change of title and the omission of several lines in the poem were necessary in order to gain the approval of the censor, the converted Jew Landau, for the publication of the poem.