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Memorial to Fox at his birthplace on George Fox Lane in Fenny Drayton in Leicestershire, England. Fox was born in the strongly Puritan village of Drayton-in-the-Clay, Leicestershire, England (now Fenny Drayton), 15 miles (24 km) west-south-west of Leicester, as the eldest of four children of Christopher Fox, a successful weaver, called "Righteous Christer" by his neighbours, [4] and his wife ...
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...
George Fox (Australian politician) (1835–1914), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly George Fox (priest) (1913–1978), British Anglican priest and military chaplain George Malcolm Fox (1843–1918), Inspector General of Gymnasia for the British Army at Aldershot
Ysengrimus is a Latin fabliau and mock epic, containing a series of anthropomorphic fables thought to have been written in 1148 or 1149 CE by the poet Nivardus. Its chief character is Isengrim, the Wolf. The plot describes how the trickster figure Reynard, the Fox, overcomes Isengrim's various schemes.
Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula is a narrative history of the Dada movement, its birth in Zürich, Switzerland during World War I, its rapid spread and sudden decline throughout Europe, and the political and cultural legacy it left behind.
Muspilli is an Old High German alliterative verse poem known in incomplete form (103 lines) from a ninth-century Bavarian manuscript. Its subject is the fate of the soul immediately after death and at the Last Judgment. Many aspects of the interpretation of the poem, including its title, remain controversial among scholars.
In one sense, it refers to the Genesis creation narrative spanning Genesis 1:1–2:3: [1] corresponding to the creation of the light (day 1); the sky (day 2); the earth, seas, and vegetation (day 3); the sun and moon (day 4); animals of the air and sea (day 5); and land animals and humans (day 6).