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Facsimile of the original title page for William Congreve's The Way of the World published in 1700, on which the epigraph from Horace's Satires can be seen in the bottom quarter. In literature , an epigraph is a phrase, quotation , or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof. [ 1 ]
"Last Post" is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, in 2009. It was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch , two of the last three surviving British veterans from the First World War , and was first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme Today on 30 July 2009, the ...
From midnight to noon; confer post meridiem: ante mortem: before death: See post mortem ("after death") ante omnia armari: before all else, be armed: ante prandium (a.p.) before lunch: Used on pharmaceutical prescriptions to denote "before a meal". Less common is post prandium ("after lunch"). antiqui colant antiquum dierum
A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. [1] In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying.
Quotation marks may be used to indicate that the meaning of the word or phrase they surround should be taken to be different from (or, at least, a modification of) that typically associated with it, and are often used in this way to express irony (for example, in the sentence 'The lunch lady plopped a glob of "food" onto my tray.' the quotation ...
'Twas the Night Before Christmas History. The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called ...
(The latter two phrases occur one after the other near the end of the poem.) "Desinit in piscem (l. 4)," or "it ends with the tail of a fish," is used by Horace to emphasize that literary works must be composed with unity to fulfill their promises to the reader.
Former title: Bore the title of: "Lines, written a few miles, etc." in the 1798 edition. From 1815 onward, the poem bore the current title. "Five years have past; five summers, with the length" Poems of the Imagination: 1798 The Old Cumberland Beggar 1798 Manuscript title: "Description of a Beggar" "I saw an aged Beggar in my walk;"