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Zephyrus relief from the Tower of the Winds, Athens. Zephyrus, along with his brother Boreas, is one of the most prominent of the Anemoi; they are frequently mentioned together by poets, and along with a third brother, Notus (the south wind) they were seen as the three useful and favourable winds (the east wind, Eurus, seen as bad omen). [1]
The frame story of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English which make up the General Prologue, is of a religious pilgrimage. The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, is in The Tabard Inn in Southwark, where he meets a group of 'sundry folk' who are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, a martyr reputed to have the power of healing the sinful.
An anchor paper is a sample essay response to an assignment or test question requiring an essay, primarily in an educational effort. Unlike more traditional educational assessments such as multiple choice , essays cannot be graded with an answer key, as no strictly correct or incorrect solution exists.
His father was Mohan Singh Diwana, a noted scholar of Punjabi literature and culture. [6] In 1966, Uberoi married the sociologist Patricia Uberoi (née Robyn Hughes). [7] They had three children, Safina, Prem, and Zoe. [8] In the wake of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, Uberoi transformed from being an atheist to a turban-wearing, practicing ...
Sir Orfeo was probably written in the late 13th or early 14th century in the Westminster-Middlesex area. [2] It is preserved in three manuscripts: the oldest, Advocates 19.2.1, known as the Auchinleck MS. is dated about 1330; Harley 3810 is from about the beginning of the fifteenth century; and Ashmole 61 was compiled over the course of several years, the portion of the MS. containing Sir ...
The essay sowed the seeds of popularity for French post-structuralism at eastern universities in the United States, particularly Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Yale. [33] Derrida also returned several times to the Hopkins Humanities Center, the faculty of which still credits his influence.
Nonnus seems to imply that Aura's mother was the wife of Lenatos, the Oceanid nymph Periboia, [16] although elsewhere, he calls Aura the "daughter of Cybele". [17] Aura was a resident of Phrygia and companion of the goddess Artemis. She was "Aura the Windmaid", as fast as the wind, "the mountain maiden of Rhyndacos", a "manlike" virgin, "who ...
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) CIE (26 or 27 June 1838 [4] – 8 April 1894 [5]) was an Indian Bengali novelist, poet, essayist [6] and journalist. [7] [8] He was the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel Anandamath, which is one of the landmarks of modern Bengali and Indian literature.