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121Closed couplet — In poetics, closed couplets are two line units of verse that do not extend their sense beyond the line s end. Furthermore, the lines are usually rhymed. When the lines are in iambic pentameter, they are referred to as heroic verse. However,… …
122Shakespeare's plays — William Shakespeare s plays have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy, they have been translated into every major… …
123Archilochus — /ahr kil euh keuhs/, n. fl. c650 B.C., Greek poet. * * * ▪ Greek author flourished c. 650 BC, Paros [Cyclades, Greece] poet and soldier, the earliest Greek writer of iambic, elegiac, and personal lyric poetry whose works have survived to… …
124Dr. Seuss — Theo Geisel redirects here. For the physicist, see Theo Geisel (physicist). Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel surrounded by his literary works. He holds one of his most popular, The Cat in the Hat. Born Theodor Seuss Geisel March 2, 1904 …
125Vladimir Nabokov — This article is about the novelist. For his father, the politician, see Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov. This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov in 1969 …
126Emily Dickinson — From the daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847. The only authenticated portrait of Emily Dickinson later than childh …
127literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
128Plautus — /plaw teuhs/, n. Titus Maccius /tuy teuhs mak see euhs/, c254 c184 B.C., Roman dramatist. * * * born с 254, Sarsina, Umbria? died 184 BC Roman comic playwright. Little is known for certain about his life, but tradition holds that he was… …
