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111poetry — poetryless, adj. /poh i tree/, n. 1. the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. 2. literary work in metrical form; verse. 3. prose with poetic qualities. 4. poetic… …
112ancient Rome — ▪ ancient state, Europe, Africa, and Asia Introduction the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the events leading to the… …
113Italian literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the Italian language that had its beginnings in the 13th century. Until that time nearly all literary work composed in the Middle Ages was written in Latin. Moreover, it was predominantly… …
114Oral-formulaic theory in Anglo-Saxon poetry — refers to the application of the hypotheses of Milman Parry and Albert Lord on the Homeric Question to verse written in Old English. That is, the theory proposes that certain features of at least some of the poetry may be explained by positing… …
115Hymnody and Hymnology — • Hymnody means exactly hymn song , but as the hymn singer as well as the hymn poet are included under (hymnodos), so we also include under hymnody the hymnal verse or religious lyric. Hymnology is the science of hymnody or the historico… …
116Cædmon's Hymn — is a short Old English poem originally composed by Cædmon, an illiterate cowherd, in honour of God the Creator. It survives in a Latin translation by Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and in vernacular versions written down in… …
117Daniel (Old English poem) — Daniel Author(s) anonymous Language Old English State of existence two poems, A and B; possibly unfinished Manuscript(s) Junius manuscr …
118Old English literature — This article is part of a series on: Old English Dialects …
119Ormulum — A page from the Ormulum demonstrating the editing performed over time by Orm (Parkes 1983, pp. 115–16), as well as the insertions of new readings by Hand B . The Ormulum or Orrmulum is a twelfth century work of biblical exegesis, written by a… …
120David Lewin — (July 2, 1933–May 5, 2003) was an American music theorist, music critic and composer. Called the most original and far ranging theorist of his generation (Cohn 2001), he did his most influential theoretical work on the development of… …
