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  Epic poetry - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
From the dawn of Latin literature epic poetry seems to have been cultivated in Italy.
In Iceland, a new heroic literature was invented in the middle ages, and to this we owe the Sagas, which are, in fact, a reduction to prose of the epics of the warlike history of the North.
They form a curious transitional link between primitive and modern poetry; the literature of civilized Europe may be said to begin with them.
www.1911ency.org /E/EP/EPIC_POETRY.htm   (1707 words)

  
 French language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Following a period of unification, regulation and purification, the French of the 17th to the 18th centuries is sometimes referred to as Classical French (''français classique''), although many linguists simply refer to French language from the 17th century to today as Modern French (''français moderne'').
The foundation of the Académie française (French Academy) in 1634 by Cardinal Richelieu created an official body whose goal has been the purification and preservation of the French language.
From the 17th to the 19th centuries, French was the lingua franca of educated Europe, especially with regards to the arts and literature, and monarchs such as Frederick II of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia could both speak and write in French.
french-language.ask.dyndns.dk   (3148 words)

  
 Bristol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The slang term "Bristols", meaning breasts, was popularised in the Carry On series of films - "Bristol City" is Cockney rhyming slang for "titty".
In literature Bristol is noted as the birth place of Thomas Chatterton, chief poet of the 18th-century Gothic literary revival, England's youngest writer of mature verse, and precursor of the Romantic movement.
Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol in 1774, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Southey married the Bristol Fricker sisters; and William Wordsworth spent time in the city where Joseph Cottle first published Lyrical Ballads in 1798.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bristol   (4478 words)

  
 Rene Descartes - Free Online Library
Descartes studied classical literature, history, rhetoric, and natural philosophy.
From this he concluded that God must exist, and because God cannot be a deceiver, the significance on sensory data must be evaluated by reason.
By 1634 Descartes had completed his Le Monde (The World), but withdrew it after hearing what the Inquisition thought of Galileo.
descartes.thefreelibrary.com   (1335 words)

  
 The Federal Republic of Germany - A Virtual Travel to Germany
Schiller National Museum / German Literature Archive, Marbach.
Collection and research of the newer German literature.
The web site presents regular reviews of new titles of contemporary German literature, particularly recommended for translation into English.
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/germany.htm   (1729 words)

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