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Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
Heliand, an epic poem which retells the life of Jesus Christ in Old Saxon, alliterative verse, and like the story of a Pre-Christian Germanic tribal leader. St. Patrick's Breastplate - Old Irish . 8th century prayer for protection
His 1835 work, Life of Jesus, [39] was one of the first and most influential systematic analyses of the life story of Jesus, aiming to base it on unbiased historical research. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] The Religionsgeschichtliche Schule , starting in the 1890s, used the methodologies of higher criticism , [ web 4 ] a branch of criticism that investigates ...
Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint is a book by André Vauchez on Francis of Assisi. The book was first published in French in 2009, with its English translation by Michael Cusato published in the US in 2012 by Yale University Press. The book has been reviewed in several magazines and scholarly journals. [1] [2] [3 ...
The five major milestones in the New Testament narrative of the life of Jesus are his Baptism, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension. [28] [29] [30] In the gospels, the ministry of Jesus starts with his Baptism by John the Baptist, when he is about thirty years old. Jesus then begins preaching in Galilee and gathers disciples.
Francis' poem The Hound of Heaven was called by the Bishop of London "one of the most tremendous poems ever written," and by critics "the most wonderful lyric in the language," while the Times of London declared that people will still be learning it 200 years hence. His verse continued to elicit high praise from critics right up to his last ...
Jesus: His Life is a British drama TV series about the life of Jesus told by the closest people to him. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is interviewed and consulted by a diverse group of scholars such as Robert Cargill, Father Jonathan Morris, Reverend Gabriel Salguero, and Pastor Susan Sparks. [ 3 ]
Longfellow wrote the poem in 1875. It was included in an anthology he edited titled Poems of Places in 1877 and also republished after his death in Through Italy with the Poets in 1908. [1] According to scholar William Charvat, the poem is like many of Longfellow's later writings in that it touches upon the poet's struggle with fame.