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The Sinews of Old England (1857) by George Elgar Hicks shows a couple "on the threshold" between female and male spheres. [1]Terms such as separate spheres and domestic–public dichotomy refer to a social phenomenon within modern societies that feature, to some degree, an empirical separation between a domestic or private sphere and a public or social sphere.
John Gower (/ ˈ ɡ aʊ. ər /; c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. [1] He is remembered primarily for three major works—the Mirour de l'Omme , Vox Clamantis , and Confessio Amantis — three long poems written in French, Latin, and ...
He describes his devotion as something that lies beyond worldly existence and strife (the sphere of our sorrow). Shelley uses the sentence I can give not what men call love which shows that he himself is not averse to the use of the word love but because it has been misused often by men everywhere to describe ordinary and worldly feelings, he ...
Landay: a form of Afghani folk poetry that is composed as a couplet of 22 syllables. Mukhammas; Pantoum: a Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets comprising a series of quatrains, with the 2nd and 4th lines of each quatrain repeated as the 1st and 3rd lines of the next. The 2nd and 4th lines of the final stanza repeat the 1st and 3rd ...
Portrait of Lady Su Hui along with the poem. The Star Gauge (Chinese: 璇璣圖; pinyin: xuán jī tú), or translated as "the armillary sphere chart", is the posthumous title given to a 4th-century Chinese poem written by the Sixteen Kingdoms poet Su Hui for her husband.
James Kirkup was brought up in South Shields, England, and was educated at Westoe Secondary School, and then at King's College, Durham University. [3] During the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector, [4] and worked for the Forestry Commission, [5] on the land in the Yorkshire Dales and at the Lansbury Gate Farm, Clavering, Essex.
Occasional poetry was a significant and even characteristic form of expression in ancient Greek and Roman culture, and has continued to play a prominent if sometimes aesthetically debased role throughout Western literature. Poets whose body of work features occasional poetry that stands among their highest literary achievements include Pindar ...
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (/ b ɑːr ˈ b oʊ l d /, by herself possibly / b ɑːr ˈ b oʊ /, as in French, née Aikin; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825 [1]) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature.