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101Salut d'amor — A salut d amor [ Salu d amors is an alternative spelling.] (love letter, lit. greeting) or (e)pistola (epistle) was an Occitan lyric poem of the troubadours, written as a letter from one lover to another in the tradition of courtly love. Some… …
102History of Shakespearan art — William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616. He was the son of a successful leather businessman, John Shakespeare. In 1582, he married Anne Hathaway and his wife was pregnant when they married. They had three children, a set of twins… …
103ballad — balladic /beuh lad ik/, adj. balladlike, adj. /bal euhd/, n. 1. any light, simple song, esp. one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody. 2. a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in… …
104ballad stanza — Pros. a four line stanza consisting of unrhymed first and third lines in iambic tetrameter and rhymed second and fourth lines in iambic trimeter, often used in ballads. [1930 35] * * * ▪ literature a verse stanza common in English ballads… …
105bob and wheel — ▪ literature in alliterative verse, a group of typically five rhymed lines following a section of unrhymed lines, often at the end of a strophe. The bob is the first line in the group and is shorter than the rest; the wheel is the quatrain… …
106Carpenter, Edward — ▪ British author born Aug. 29, 1844, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. died June 28, 1929, Guildford, Surrey English writer identified with social and sexual reform and the late 19th century anti industrial Arts and Crafts Movement. Carpenter was… …
107eumolpique — ▪ prosody poetic measure devised by the French poet and composer Antoine Fabre d Olivet (1767–1825). It consists of two unrhymed alexandrines (alexandrine) (lines of iambic hexameter), the first verse of 12 syllables ending in masculine… …
108Flint, F.S. — ▪ British poet in full Frank Stuart Flint born Dec. 19, 1885, London, Eng. died Feb. 28, 1960, Berkshire English poet and translator, prominent in the Imagist movement (expression of precise images in free verse), whose best poems… …
109Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb — ▪ German poet born July 2, 1724, Quedlinburg, Saxony [Germany] died March 14, 1803, Hamburg German epic and lyric poet whose subjective vision marked a break with the rationalism that had dominated German literature in the early 18th… …
110Giuseppe Parini — Giuseppe Parini † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Giuseppe Parini Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet, born at Bosisio, 23 May, 1729; died at Milan, 15 Aug., 1799. Parini was early taken to Milan. He was an apt pupil and showed that he possessed… …
