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The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore or The Three Sundays of a Poet is a "madrigal fable" for chorus, ten dancers and nine instruments with music and original libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Based on the 16th-century Italian madrigal comedy genre, it consists of a prologue and 12 madrigals which tell a continuous story, interspersed with ...
The Manticore is the second novel in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy. Published in 1972 by Macmillan of Canada , it deals with the aftermath of the mysterious death of Percy Boyd "Boy" Staunton retold during a series of conversations between Staunton's son and a Jungian psychoanalyst .
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS In Eastern lands they talk in flow'rs And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowr's, On its leaves a mystic language bears. The rose is a sign of joy and love, Young blushing love in its earliest dawn, And the mildness that suits the gentle dove,
The second novel, The Manticore, won the Governor-General's Literary Award in the English-language fiction category in 1972. The trilogy was named for its setting in the fictional village of Deptford, Ontario. This is based in part on Davies' native Thamesville. Davies takes the view of different characters in each novel, and expresses each in ...
William Livingston Larned was an American author and poet. He is known for his works "Father Forgets" [2] and "Advertisement Illustration". [3] In 1909, he penned a poem titled "Florida's State Flower" to commemorate the designation of the orange blossom as the official state flower of Florida.
In 1823, a volume of his collected poems was published in New York and London. [4] In 1824, he briefly served as a professor of chemistry at West Point before resigning and dedicating several years to assisting Noah Webster in editing his American Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1828.
The first season, comprising six episodes that debuted in 2021, follows the life of Yi-Ming (portrayed by Lin ZaiZai), a married woman with a son, who finds herself reunited with Ting-Ting (played
The language of flowers, or floriography, is cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. (The) Language of Flowers may also refer to: Hanakotoba, the Japanese language of flowers "The Language of Flowers" (Elgar), an 1872 song by Edward Elgar based on a poem by James Gates Percival