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lyric

(Encyclopedia) lyric, in ancient Greece, a poem accompanied by a musical instrument, usually a lyre. Although the word is still often used to refer to the songlike quality in poetry, it is more…

epigram

(Encyclopedia) epigram, a short, polished, pithy saying, usually in verse, often with a satiric or paradoxical twist at the end. The term was originally applied by the Greeks to the inscriptions on…

Pavese, Cesare

(Encyclopedia) Pavese, CesarePavese, Cesarechāˈzärā pävĕˈsā [key], 1908–50, Italian novelist, poet, and translator. A major literary figure in postwar Italy, Pavese brought American influence to…

Selected Poems

Andrew MarvellContentsTo His Coy MistressOn a Drop of DewThe CoronetPortion of the Second Chorus from Seneca's Tragedy of ThyestesThe Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her FaunFleckno, an English…

Huygens, Constantijn

(Encyclopedia) Huygens, ConstantijnHuygens, Constantijnkônstäntīnˈ [key]Huygens, Constantijn hoiˈgəns [key], 1596–1687, Dutch humanist and poet, b. The Hague; father of Christiaan Huygens. He was…

Classic Love Poems on the Web

Love is only a click away by Ann-Marie Imbornoni From Donald Hall to Shakespeare, Byron to Browning, a wide sampling of some of the best known love poetry is just a few keystrokes away. Some…

Poetry

Rodin's The Thinker was conceived as part of his Gates of Hell, representing the poet Dante in the Inferno.Poetry is arguably the oldest written art form that we have records of, dating back…

Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Hesperides

The HesperidesSong Hesperus and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. —COMUS. The Northwind fall'n, in the newstarréd night Zidonian Hanno, voyaging beyond The…

Poetry & Poets

Subjects » Geography » History » Language Arts » Mathematics » Science » Social Studies Homework Skills Writing | Research Speaking & Listening Studying Reference Sources…

Gosse, Sir Edmund William

(Encyclopedia) Gosse, Sir Edmund WilliamGosse, Sir Edmund Williamgŏs [key], 1849–1928, English biographer and critic. He was lecturer in English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge (1884–90) and…