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  2. Moral Essays - Wikipedia

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    The four poems were first published under the name Moral Essays by William Warburton (Pope’s literary executor) in 1751, not in the chronological order in which they were first written, but in the order: Epistle to Cobham (1734, addressed to Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham), "Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men"

  3. Objectivism (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    The first appearance of the group was in a special issue of Poetry magazine in February 1931; this was arranged for by Pound and edited by Zukofsky (Vol. 37, No. 5).In addition to poems by Rakosi, Zukofsky, Reznikoff, George Oppen, Basil Bunting and William Carlos Williams, Zukofsky included work by a number of poets who would have little or no further association with the group: Howard Weeks ...

  4. Ethos - Wikipedia

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    A sculpture representing Ethos outside the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly in Canberra, Australia. Ethos (/ ˈ iː θ ɒ s / or US: / ˈ iː θ oʊ s /) is a Greek word meaning 'character' that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology; and the balance between caution and passion. [1]

  5. The Interpretation of Cultures - Wikipedia

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    In this view, religious symbols function to synthesize a society’s ethos (the moral and aesthetic aspects of life) with their worldview (the existential order). Similarly, Geertz views ideology as a cultural system that provides individuals with symbolic frameworks for interpreting their social and political environments.

  6. Essay Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Essay Poetry (Indonesian: Puisi Esai) combines two types of thinking, namely poetry and essays. The principle of essay poetry was first proposed and initiated by Denny Januar Ali and creatively manifested in 2012 through a book entitled "In the Name of Love." [1] In total, around 100 books essay poetry have been published by Indonesian and ...

  7. The Philosophy of Composition - Wikipedia

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    Generally, the essay introduces three of Poe's theories regarding literature. The author recounts this idealized process by which he says he wrote his most famous poem, "The Raven", to illustrate the theory, which is in deliberate contrast to the "spontaneous creation" explanation put forth, for example, by Coleridge as an explanation for his poem Kubla Khan.

  8. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style or a common ethos. A commonality of form is not in itself sufficient to define a school; for example, Edward Lear, George du Maurier and Ogden Nash do not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks. There are many different 'schools' of poetry.

  9. The Vanity of Human Wishes - Wikipedia

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    Manuscript copy of lines 153–174, later revised as lines 150–171 [15]. The Vanity of Human Wishes is a poem of 368 lines, written in closed heroic couplets.Johnson loosely adapts Juvenal's original satire to demonstrate "the complete inability of the world and of worldly life to offer genuine or permanent satisfaction."