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"Cold Iron" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling published as the introduction to Rewards and Fairies in 1910. Not to be confused with Cold Iron (The Tale). In 1983, Leslie Fish set the poem to music and recorded it as the title track on her fifth cassette-tape
Le Spleen de Paris explores the idea of pleasure as a vehicle for expressing emotion. Many of the poems refer to sex or sin explicitly (i.e. "Double Bedroom," "A Hemisphere in a Head of Hair", "Temptations"); others use subtle language and imagery to evoke sensuality (i.e. "the Artist's Confiteor").
Coldiron or cold iron or cold Fe may refer to: Cold iron, historically believed to repel ghosts, fairies, and other supernatural creatures "Cold Iron" (poem), a 1910 poem by Rudyard Kipling; Cold Iron, 2018; Cold ironing, the process of providing shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth "Cold Irons Bound", a 1997 song by Bob Dylan
Illuminations is an incomplete suite of prose poems by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, first published partially in La Vogue , a Paris literary review, in May–June 1886. The texts were reprinted in book form in October 1886 by Les publications de La Vogue under the title Les Illuminations proposed by the poet Paul Verlaine , Rimbaud's former ...
She writes about translation, poetics, and late-medieval and Renaissance literature. [3] She usually publishes under the name A. E. B. Coldiron. As of 2007, she was professor of English at Florida State University. [3] Since August 2017, she is The Berry Chair in English Literature at the University of St Andrews in Scotland (UK). [4]
Le Cid is a five-act French tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille, first performed in December 1636 at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris and published the same year. It is based on Guillén de Castro 's play Las Mocedades del Cid . [ 1 ]
The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut (French: Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut [istwaʁ dy ʃ(ə)valje de ɡʁijø e d(ə) manɔ̃ lɛsko]) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost.
"Yonec" is one of the Lais of Marie de France, written in the twelfth century by the French poet known only as Marie de France. Yonec is a Breton lai, a type of narrative poem. The poem is written in the Anglo-Norman dialect of Old French in rhyming couplets of eight syllables each. This lai tells the story of a woman who seeks to escape a ...