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	Chapters On Jewish Literature - by Israel Abrahams [Authorama]
		Karaism itself gave birth to an original and splendid literature, and, on the other hand, coming as it did at the time when Arabic science and poetry were attaining their golden zenith, Karaism aroused within the Rabbinite sphere a notable energy, which resulted in some of the best work of medieval Jews.
		It will be seen later on that in another sense the Midrash is a poetical literature, using the lore of the folk, the parable, the proverb, the allegory, and the fable, and often using them in the language of poetry.
		Saadiah was born in Fayum (Egypt) in 892, and died in Sura in 942.
	www.authorama.com /book/chapters-on-jewish-literature.html (20655 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Brief History of English Literature, A
		The book is written in a lucid style to enable the reader to engage fully with the narrative and easily understand the texts in relation to the social, political and cultural contexts in which they were written.
		Old English literature; Middle English literature; 16th-century poetry and prose; Shakespeare; Renaissance and Restoration drama; 17th-century poetry and prose; the 18th century; the novel
		"A Brief History of English Literature" provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from "Beowulf" to the present day.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0333791762 (192 words)

	A Brief History of Urdu Poetry
		Urdu poetry, as it is derived from Persian, Turkish and Arabic, acquired many conventions in its poetry that came from these languages.
		As a result, the poetry, which at that time was mainly for the consumption of the royalty, began to express the sentiments of the love of the male for the male.
		Urdu poetry became a more intimate form of communication regarding the social and political tribulations of the time.
	niazi.com /Neurons/a_brief_history_of_urdu_poetry.htm (2817 words)

	Literature
		Discerning a new esthetic, he was among the first to catch in both prose and poetry the dark spirit of individuality that fascinated Baudelaire, through whose translations Poe became one of the chief progenitors of the Symbolist Movement and took his place as a real force in the development of Western literature.
		Virginia is producing at last a literature both indigenous to its soil and imbuied with a realism that may be said to capture the major portion of the truth about its people and its civilization.
		Literature sustained a loss in 18o8 when John Daly Burk, a gallant young Irishman, was killed in a duel ten years after his coming to Virginia.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/VAGuide/literature.html (3892 words)

	Summary of American literature through the 19th century
		Emerson had but rarely contributed to periodical literature; but in 1857 a group of his friends - Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes - arranged in his parlor for the publication of the Atlantic Monthly, Lowell being editor.
		By his "Poets and Poetry of Europe" he familiarized Americans with the literature and lore of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, and even of old Anglo-Saxon days.
		His contribution was in the form of a serial, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." The series was renewed, in 1859, in "The Professor," and continued, in 1873, as "The Poet at the Breakfast Table." Novels and books of verse appeared during these years.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_IV/summaryam_fg.html (4105 words)

	The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Full Text Bibliography to 1860
		1857.017 "Literature: Pre-Raffaelitism" [rev. of Pre-Raffaelitism: Or, A Popular Enquiry into Some Newly-Asserted Principles Connected with the Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, and Revolution of Art by E. Young].
		International Magazine of Literature, Art, and Science 4.3 (Oct. 1851): 417.
		1855.015 "Contemporary Literature [W. Scott's Poems]." Westminster Review 63 (Jan. 1855): 147-148.
	www.engl.duq.edu /servus/PR_Critic/Fulltext.html (5275 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Mosques in India
		Besides being a historic epicentre of Urdu literature and poetry, Lukhnow also has an honor of being in the midst of the Revolt of 1857, One of the first freedom struggles for Indian Independence.
		After the Great Uprising of 1857, there was perceptible change in the thinking of the Muslims in India.
		When this great mosque was being built with Glowing Sandstone, little did they know that it will come in handy and play a vital role in the biggest industrial tragedy of mankind.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?p=3582937 (1532 words)

	Organiser
		Why Ghalib remained silent on the events of 1857?"
		Why Ghalib remained silent on the events of 1857?
		Or did Ghalib refrain from referring to it in his poetry for fear of losing shatever little hope he had of the restoration of his withdrawn pension?
	www.organiser.org /april25/ago.html (865 words)

	Georgia governors
		Wars • People • Timeline • Lists • Places • Poetry
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /lists/georgia_governors.html (53 words)

	Hungry Heart: Julia Ward Howe's Literary Apprenticeship
		It is not a full-scale biography of this period; rather, it establishes a biographical context for understanding her first two collections of poetry (Passion-Flowers, 1854, and Words for the Hour, 1857) and her five-act verse play, The World's Own, produced in New York in 1857.
		It narrates the story of Julia Ward's education, her decision to marry renowned Boston philanthropist Samuel Gridley Howe, the severe marital difficulties they experienced between 1844 and 1857 as a result of (among other issues) her desire to pursue literary and intellectual interests, and her eventual emergence as a writer.
		The book offers the first comprehensive, detailed reading of Howe's early poetry.
	www.webpages.uidaho.edu /~jgw/hungry.htm (314 words)

	urdu, islam, mirza ghalib, urdu poeatry, muslim culture, islam religion.
		His poetry reflected his fluctuating fortunes, the stagnation of his own society and the onslaught of the British conquest on his beloved city Delhi during the revolt of 1857.
		Even though Ghalib held his Persian poetry in great regard, it was his Urdu poetry which left an indelible mark on the hearts of people.
		Ghalib wrote in both Persian and Urdu but is famous for his self-selected collection of 2,000 Urdu couplets.
	www.indiaprofile.com /religion-culture/ghalibacademy.htm (314 words)

	Denmark.dk: Official website - Denmark - Literature: an Overview
		In Danish poetry the inspiration of Christensen and Højholt is seen for instance in the work of Pia Tafdrup (b.1952) and Søren Ulrik Thomsen (b.1956), who represent Post-Modernism in the cross field between poetry-oriented self-reflection and sensuous intimacy.
		In 1917, Pontoppidan had to share the Nobel Prize for literature with another Danish author, the apostate Naturalist and then Idealist Karl Gjellerup (1857-1919).
		Højholt, who writes both formalist and popular poetry, is known especially for his Gitte Monologues (1981 and 1985).
	denmark.dk /portal/page?_pageid=374,478005&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL (314 words)

	Poet: Benjamin Franklin King - All poems of Benjamin Franklin King
		RPO -- Selected Poetry of Benjamin Franklin King (1857-1894)
		Author Benjamin Franklin King Jr, from the Oldpoetry Poetry Archive
		Free Poetry E-Book: 5 poems of Benjamin Franklin King
	www.poemhunter.com /p/t/poet.asp?poet=3142 (231 words)

	Alfred Tennyson
		"Idylls of the King, 1859-1885" from Tennyson's Poetry.
		Alfred memorized much seventeenth- and eighteenth-century poetry, including the works of Milton, William Collins, and Thomson, from which he derived many of his early techniques in writing loco-descriptive poetry.
		Seven months later Tennyson published the first four books as Idylls: "Enid" was written between April and August 1856, "Guinevere" followed in July 1857, and then came "Elaine," begun at Little Holland House in July 1858, and all of these poems including "Vivien" were completed in February 1859 (Ricks 660).
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/auth/Tennyson.htm (231 words)

	Alfred Tennyson
		"Idylls of the King, 1859-1885" from Tennyson's Poetry.
		Alfred memorized much seventeenth- and eighteenth-century poetry, including the works of Milton, William Collins, and Thomson, from which he derived many of his early techniques in writing loco-descriptive poetry.
		Seven months later Tennyson published the first four books as Idylls: "Enid" was written between April and August 1856, "Guinevere" followed in July 1857, and then came "Elaine," begun at Little Holland House in July 1858, and all of these poems including "Vivien" were completed in February 1859 (Ricks 660).
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/auth/Tennyson.htm (231 words)

	Alfred Tennyson
		"Idylls of the King, 1859-1885" from Tennyson's Poetry.
		Alfred memorized much seventeenth- and eighteenth-century poetry, including the works of Milton, William Collins, and Thomson, from which he derived many of his early techniques in writing loco-descriptive poetry.
		Seven months later Tennyson published the first four books as Idylls: "Enid" was written between April and August 1856, "Guinevere" followed in July 1857, and then came "Elaine," begun at Little Holland House in July 1858, and all of these poems including "Vivien" were completed in February 1859 (Ricks 660).
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/auth/Tennyson.htm (231 words)

	Bahadur Shah II -
		He wrote a large number of Urdu Ghazals, out of these Urdu poetry, a large chunk was lost and destroyed during the unrest of 1857-1858, yet a large collection still survive, which was later on compiled as Kulliyyat-i Zafar.
		As the Indian rebellion of 1857 spread, Indian regiments seized Delhi.
		Seeking a uniting figure for all Indians, Hindu and Muslim alike, most rebelling Indian kings and the Indian regiments accepted Zafar as their Emperor of India, under whom the smaller Indian kingdoms would unite until the British were defeated.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bahadur_Shah_Zafar (948 words)

	Sjundeå kommunbibliotek
		Siuntio and the neighbouring parishes offered the nature-loving poet splendid landscapes to inspire his poetry and his descriptions of nature, river valleys, impressive rocky escarpments and extensive tracts of forest through which Kivi roamed with his rifle and hunting bag on his shoulder.
		Kivi lived on the Purnus farm, rented by his elder brother Juhani Stenvall, close to the village of Siuntio in 1857-1858, at Kvarnby Manor in 1860-1861 and in a cottage belonging to a gamekeeper named Karelius in 1863.
		In these places, he wrote poetry and the original versions of his plays Kullervo and Nummisuutarit and, according to Juhani Stenvall, certain passages from Seitsemän veljestä were also written during his years at Purnus.
	siuntio.locotech.fi /index.php?page=17 (944 words)

	Wolf: Eichendorff-Lieder
		One of Wolf's favourite writers, Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857) was the German Romantic poet par excellence and his poems are full of the sounds of nature, the beauty of landscape, religious faith, and much musical imagery, with references to minstrels and other musicians.
		This important recording presents, for the first time on disc, all of Hugo Wolf's settings of the poetry of Eichendorff - 26 songs in all, several of which seem never to have been recorded before (a fact which is hard to understand because they are very attractive).
		to the poetry of Johann, Freiherr von Eichendorff
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /details/66909.asp (168 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Math-Mh)
		His first books of poetry were published anonymously in 1849 and 1852 and were unsuccessful, but two later volumes published under his own name caused him to be elected professor of poetry at Oxford, a post he held from 1857 to 1867.
		The son of a headmaster at Rugby, Matthew Arnold spent a short period as assistant master at Rugby before in 1851 becoming one of HM Inspectors of Schools, a post he held until 1886.
		MATTHEW E. Matthew E Welsh was an American politician.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CAC.HTM (2175 words)

	Baudelaire
		In 1857 Baudelaire published his masterpiece Les Fleurs du mal - arguably the most significant collection of poetry to be published in Europe during the 19th Century.
		Baudelaire's poetry was a major influence on the work of the symbolist poets who included Mallarmé, Verlaine, Laforgue and Arthur Rimbaud.
		Baudelaire is also remembered for his collection of prose poems entitled Petit Poemes en prose (1869) and for his translations of the tales of Edgar Allen Poe.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /baudelaire.htm (269 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Math-Mh)
		His first books of poetry were published anonymously in 1849 and 1852 and were unsuccessful, but two later volumes published under his own name caused him to be elected professor of poetry at Oxford, a post he held from 1857 to 1867.
		The son of a headmaster at Rugby, Matthew Arnold spent a short period as assistant master at Rugby before in 1851 becoming one of HM Inspectors of Schools, a post he held until 1886.
		He was born in 1822 at Laleham and died in 1888.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CAC.HTM (269 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 9, ACADEMIES: Library of Economics and Liberty
		In 1857 the prize for poetry was awarded to Prince Oscar, for his songs in honor of the Swedish fleet.
		The memoirs of the academy are published annually, and contain biographies of distinguished Swedes, the compositions which have taken the prize for eloquence and poetry as well as literary, historical, philosophical and philological dissertations by members of the academy.
		The prizes founded by Madame Leprince, by Deschaumes, by Count de Maillé Latour Landry, by Bordin, Lambert, Trémont, Achille Leclère, Troyon, and by Due, are bestowed by this academy.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy9.html (269 words)

	who-is-who.txt
		poet of Decadent & Parnassian movements; wrote poetry collection "Les Fleurs du Mal" 1857 (also "The Flowers of Evil") _1821-1867 Baudouin I (Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) king of Belgium 1951-1993; son of Leopold III _1930-1993 Bauer, Gustav Adolf Ger.
		of Grenada 1979-1983; overthrown & killed _1945?-1983 Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold von, Prince (the Iron Chancellor) Ger.
		poet & songwriter _1780-1857 Berchtold, Leopold, Count von Aus.-Hung.
	www.bralyn.net /etext/reference/biography/who-is-who.txt (16337 words)

	RPO -- Selected Poetry of Benjamin Franklin King (1857-1894)
		Ben King, born on March 17, 1857 in St. Joseph, Michigan, married Aseneth Belle Latham, of St. Joseph, on November 27, 1883, in Chicago, and had two sons by her.
		(Glenn Blalock, "Ben[jamin] [Franklin] King 1857-1894," Whitman's and Dickinson's Contemporaries: An Anthology of their Verse, ed.
		King died on tour, April 8, 1894, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, after a public reading the previous night before, and two days later wasburied in St. Joseph.
	eir.library.utoronto.ca /rpo/display/poet184.html (254 words)

	French_literature - Books - Find What You're Looking For
		An attempt to be objective and scientific was made even in poetry by the group of writers known as the Parnassians, the most distinguished of whom was Leconte de Lisle ( 1818 -1894).
		It found expression also in the sentimental poetry of Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1868).
		It is one of many chansons de gestes, or song of exploits, the subjects of which were taken, as in the Song of Roland, from the stories current about Charlemagne (742-814), or else from the legend of King Arthur.
	books.mysic.org /French_literature (254 words)

	Spanish Theory and Criticism
		With the publication in 1857 of Principios de estética [Principles of aesthetics], Milà proposed to establish aesthetics as the basis for literary studies, substituting allegedly permanent philosophical principles for the arbitrary norms of neoclassic treatises.
		The turn toward historicism is related to his interest in traditional popular poetry as well as to his fundamental research on the poetry of the troubadours, an interest linked to the emergence of romance studies.
		Gracián's Agudeza y arte de ingenio [Sharpness and art of wit] (1648) responded to the need for a baroque rhetoric, attempting to systematize the forms and applications of conceit by means of a typology exemplified with what amounts to an anthology of wit in various languages.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/spanish_theory_and_criticism.html (254 words)

	Julian Browning Autographs Literature up to 1850
		John Roby (1793-1850), author of The Traditions of Lancashire and other works, including poetry.
		Edward Wedlake Brayley (1773-1854), topographer and archaeologist, author of many works of county topography, some in collaboration with John Britton (1771-1857).
		John Ambrose Williams, author of Metrical Essays (1815), Memoirs of J.P.Kemble (1817), and the subject of a trial for a libel on the clergy in Durham in 1821.
	www.jbautographs.com /Lit1/body_lit1.html (254 words)

	Fall, Lucius Matlack
		Lucius Fall was born in Greenbush, Ohio in 1857, the son of Rev. John L. and Rebecca (Hart) Fall.
		His poetry was anthologized in Modern American Poetry (1937), America Singing (1934), Poets of the Western Scene (1937) and appeared in various newspapers.
		[Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Poets: The Who's Who of American Poets 154 (New York: Avon House, 1938)] [The Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Poets indicates that Fall was the author of a book titled, From My Sick Chamber (1929).
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/fall_lucius.html (124 words)

	essay.bio.03.rtf
		\par }\pard \sl480\slmult1\nowidctlpar\widctlpar\adjustright {\tab Rossetti was raised in a poetical family, and her first attempts at writing poetry were influenced by the work of Charles Robert Maturin, whose sensationalist novels }{\i The Wild Irish Boy}{ (1818) and }{\i Melmoth the Wanderer}{ (1820) introduced the theme of doomed love to her writing (Marsh, 44).
		\par \tab In 1859, Christina read Emma Shepherd\rquote s }{\i An Outstretched Hand to the Fallen}{ (1857), which inspired her to volunteer at the Saint Mary Magdalene Penitentiary at Highgate Prison, \ldblquote supervising young prostitutes who wished to relinquish a life of shame\rdblquote (Marsh, 218-219).
		Felicia Hemans\rquote and George Herbert\rquote s poetry, anthologized in }{\i The Sacred Harp}{ (1844), also influenced Christina to begin writing on religious subjects (Bod.
	www.mathcs.duq.edu /~tobin/cv/essay.bio.03.rtf (570 words)

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