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	Great Famine of 1315–1317 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For hunger I die...!" —Poem on the Evil Times of Edward II, c.
		Edward II, King of England, stopped at Saint Albans on August 10, 1315 and no bread could be found for him or entourage; it was a rare occasion in which the King of England, the most prosperous nation in Europe, was unable to eat.
		The height of the famine was reached in 1317 as the wet weather hung on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315-1317 (1694 words)

	August 13th
		Our Edward the Confessor spent the larger part of the time he did not consume in study in the sports of hunting or hawking; and Alfred the Great is reported to have written a treatise on the last-named sport.
		In a poem on the evil times of Edward II, preserved in the Auchenleck MS.
		In the reign of Edward III, the bishop of Ely attended the service of the church in the great abbey at Bermondsey, Southwark, leaving his hawk on its perch in the cloister; the hawk was stolen while there, and the bishop solemnly excommunicated the thieves.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/aug/13.htm (2540 words)

	[minstrels] Horatius -- Thomas Babbington Macaulay
		II East and west and south and north The messengers ride fast, And tower and town and cottage Have heard the trumpet's blast.
		The poem is written mainly in ballad metre[2], but with the abcb rhyme scheme varied with the occasional abccb, abcccb or even abccccb.
		From: Christopher Martin 393 B.C. is a time of faction and civil strife in Rome, and the imagined composer looks back to the time of danger when Romans were united.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/489.html (3670 words)

	Asia Times Online
		To be contemporary in an age of reaction is to be reactionary, not modern, a pitfall Barr clearly and presciently feared, as exemplified by the Modern's revisionist show in 1976 of architectural renderings from the Ecole des Beaux Arts, the tenacious institutional nemesis of the Modern Movement in architecture.
		At the same time, in the larger arena of cultural life, the fallout from the 1960s counterculture left all prior distinctions between high art and pop culture more or less stripped of their authority.
		For the first time in the history of philosophy, the notion of esthetics as an independent philosophical discipline was laid out.
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	Amardeep Singh: An Introduction to Edward Said, Orientalism, and Postcolonial Literary Studies
		Yesterday, there was a panel at Lehigh to talk about his legacy, specifically in the spheres of his contribution to literary studies, the representation of Islam, as well as his political advocacy.
		Basic Bio: "Edward Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935 and was for many years America’s foremost spokesman for the Palestinian cause.
		All kinds of preparations are made for this idea within a culture and then, in turn and in time, imperialism acquires a kind of coherence, a set of experiences and a presence of ruler and ruled alike within the culture.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/09/introduction-to-edward-said.html (2228 words)

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		This old poem is said to have been a great favourite with the father of Robert Burns.] IN prime of years, when I was young, I took delight in youthful ways, Not knowing then what did belong Unto the pleasures of those days.
		Poems in triplets were very popular during the reign of Charles I., and are frequently to be met with during the Interregnum, and the reign of Charles II.] IF I could but attain my wish, I'd have each day one wholesome dish, Of plain meat, or fowl, or fish.
		The time was appointed for the wedding-day, A young farmer chosen to give her away; As soon as the farmer the young lady did spy, He inflamed her heart; 'O, my heart!' she did cry.
	hometown.aol.com /GRINGLEBOT/etexts/england_poems.txt (17194 words)

	The Mediadrome - Poems of the Week: Fire
		The pain of burning appears in a number of poems, and this is echoed in the various forms of torture and execution involving burning.
		Time is the fire in which we burn.
		At the time of her death she was almost nineteen years old.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/words_articles/poems_fire.htm (2631 words)

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		According to the testimony of one who knew him well at this time, he was "self-willed, capricious, inclined to be imperious, and though of generous impulses, not steadily kind, or even amiable." In 1826, at the age of seventeen, Poe matriculated at the University of Virginia, and entered the schools of ancient and modern languages.
		In a short time he was promoted to the editorship of the _Messenger_, and by his tales, poems, and especially his reviews, he made that periodical very popular.
		In his poems, and in his work entitled _The Science of English Verse_, it is the musical element of poetry upon which the principal emphasis is laid.
	www.classyrebel.com /shorthand/pdf/PoemsOfTheSouth.txt (18016 words)

	202310NewsIndex
		During that time, she noted, Republicans "have gained over 900 offices in Texas, including all 29 statewide offices, a record number of congressional and state senate seats, and the first state house majority in 130 years.
		Times have changed and the presidency today is not the same as in Mr.
		The Christian Coalition of Georgia, for the first time in that state, reports the Associated Press, is confronting candidates for the Georgia Supreme Court and the Georgia Court of Appeals with a quiz that could determine whether they'll be elected.
	www.mdfva.org /2004News/WashTimes040606_040614.html (16268 words)

	Signs of the Times - 2004-11-12
		With one exception, none of the scientists who compiled this rigorously peer-reviewed report was asked to substantiate their work until ten days later when the pro-war Observer published an interview with the editor of the Lancet, slanted so that it appeared he was "answering his critics".
		David Edwards, a MediaLens editor, asked the researchers to respond to the media criticism; their meticulous demolition can be viewed on the [http://www.medialens.org] alert for 2 November.
		Time magazine reports that the CIA is buying its preferred candidates, which is how the agency has fixed elections over the world.
	signs-of-the-times.org /signs/signs20041112.htm (13506 words)

	EDSITEment - This Month's Feature
		Poets often practice by choosing a form and trying to write a poem that follows that structure, or they use a form to contextualize their work within a tradition.
		At other times, poets choose the form that is most appropriate for a theme or occasion.
		After they have completed their poem, students should write a brief paragraph considering how the form of the poem influenced how they decided to write.
	edsitement.neh.gov /monthly_feature.asp?id=88 (1046 words)

	Poetry Daily: Publications Noted and Received
		The Poems Of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975, Seamus Cooney, ed.
		Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'Ang and Sung Dynasty Verse, Red Pine, tr.
		The Gossamer Wall: Poems in Witness to the Holocaust, Micheal O'Siadhail.
	www.cstone.net /~poems/pubsnotd.htm (4271 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party - Part 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is reflected in the expression “heaven’s favorable timing, earth’s advantageous terrain, and harmony among the people.” [3] According to Chinese thought, astronomy, geography, the calendar system, medicine, literature, and even social structures all follow this understanding.
		Jin is a typical case of the philosophy of struggle and, at the same time, undoubtedly became its victim.
		At all times and across the world, the orthodox religions in the west and Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in the east have all taught people that true happiness comes from having faith in God, worshipping heaven, being compassionate, cherishing what one has, being grateful for one’s blessings, and paying back other’s kindness.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-12-14/24953.html (5293 words)

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		Anti-Semitic poem in children’s school book By Jeremy Last Updated: 16/Oct/2005 A poem which praises the murder of Jews by the Nazis has been included in a book of children’s poetry to be distributed amongst schools in the UK.
		Photo: Getty A newly found poem by Sappho, acknowledged as one of the greatest poets of Greek classical antiquity and seen by some as the finest of any era, is published for the first time today.
		Poem in support of the Palestinian martyrs27-04-2002 MARTYRS VS. WAR CRIMINALS You are martyrs Saudi ambassador to the UK, Dr Ghazi Al-Gosaibi’s poem in the praise of the martyrs of Palestine caused a stir and led the British foreign office express its displeasure forgetting that the whole Palestinian problem was a creation of Britain.
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	Poet Bios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The three title poems, which explore mythical and legendary themes of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance times, are rich in imagery and phrasing.
		After a short time teaching high school in Orangeville, Lampman took a position as a low-paid clerk in the Langevin Block of the Canadian Post Office in the nation's capital at Ottawa, where he stayed for the rest of his life.
		Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, a cousin of the distinguished intellectuals Amy Lowell, Percival Lowell, and Abbott Lowell.
	www.ncguru.org /poems/poetbio_e-l.htm (6484 words)

	Quotations on / about italy
		The Duke of York, in Richard II, act 2, sc.
		The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
		(c) Poems are the property of their respective owners.
	www.poemhunter.com /quotations/italy/page-3 (444 words)

	Movies- VIEW TO A KILT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Patrick McGoohan plays the diabolical Edward with easy menace, and Wallace's stouthearted comrades are an agreeable lot of Hollywood-style colorful characters--there's even an Irishman (David O'Hara) who talks to God.
		I could have done without the tiresome attempt at Freudianism with which Robert the Bruce (Angus McFadyen) is characterized--he's turned into a well-intentioned mediocrity trying to escape the evil influence of his leprous father (played by the unfortunate Ian Bannen).
		He seems to be aware of this, and he takes care to have himself reduced to a bloody pulp several times in Braveheart.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /Issues/1995-06-01/film/film.html (772 words)

	Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England - Cambridge University Press
		From the Reign of John to that of Edward II Series: Camden Classic Reprints (No. 2)
		The reader is brought up to date on the critical study of the poems and on their significance and potentiality for the modern historian and literary scholar.
		The Trailebastons, and the Execution of Wallace; Poem on the Evil Time of Edward II (English); Notes; Index.
	www.cambridge.org /0521554667 (245 words)

	EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS (part 2) - Congo Times News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this — that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helpsThe subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding;..
		The first canto of Brant’s poem is devoted to books and scholars; and in the engraving which illustrates this passage in the Latin edition of 1497, we see enthroned upon his bristling cathedra of books the Magister who wears behind his doctoral cap a fool’s cap sewn with bells.
		As a matter of fact, he will in time manage to justify his past laziness on the grounds that it really would be too stupid to prepare for an examination in which Jews are passed in preference to good Frenchmen.
	www.congotimes.com /news/ubbhtml/Forum9/HTML/000308.html (14721 words)

	Poets' Corner - What's not so new anymore?
		In part to make up for the fact that these updates are becoming less frequent, and in part in admission that the backlog of works to index and upload is still large, today's update is a substantial one, including many new poets and a great breadth of subjects.
		Among today's varied additions are some early poems of Hart Crane, a number of pieces by Shelley and Wyatt, and the very readable tale of Dauber by John Masefield.
		The snow continues, and we are nearing the two-foot mark, though the weatherman swears it isn't snowing outside.
	www.theotherpages.org /poems/old1.html (4645 words)

	Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies - Production notes
		On a shopping trip together the day before their paths diverge, the friends find a pair of thrift-shop jeans that amazingly fits and flatters each one of them perfectly, even though they are four young women of very different shapes and sizes.
		The book was consistently voted first choice in mother/daughter book clubs across the country and has prompted comparisons of author Ann Brashares to renowned storyteller Judy Blume in her ability to shine a light on the rich but rough terrain of youth while honestly connecting with readers of all ages.
		Hoping for quality time with her father, whom she's seen only briefly since her parents' divorce, Carmen is instead stunned to discover him happily living with a fiancé and two future stepchildren.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movietimes/moviepn.asp?movieID=40899 (11009 words)

	IDEOLOGY AND HEGELIAN PARADIGM - Congo Times News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Soviet Union was defined only by communism; its evil empire, and its goal to promote communism throughout the world, constituted the perfect ideological enemy for Americans.
		Following Roland Barthes’analysis of language, Edward Saïd observed in his semiotic of Orientalist narratives that discourses are representations which are at once “formations” and “deformations.” A definition is a representation of the reality through the “formative power” of language.
		In this context, the rich become good guys and those who ask them to pay taxes for the common good are evil, because they harm innocent hardworkers, who became rich thanks to their sweat and their moral virtues which enabled them to save efficiently.
	www.congotimes.com /news/ubbhtml/Forum9/HTML/000287.html (5094 words)

	Songwriter's Review
		From time to time in our strolls through the pages of SR we encounter an item that we want to bring to your attention as soon as possible, and which will probably not be pertinent enough for inclusion in the book.
		At press time Terry was sitting on a 30-foot pole in Arkansas and slated to hold down that spot for 90 days, for $900.
		Ray himself was unknown at the time "Cry" was released, but even after its success he continued to record songs by untried talent.
	www.songpoemmusic.com /sr.htm (4662 words)

	RPO -- Alexander Pope : Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
		Arbuthnot, to whom the poem is addressed, had been one of the Scriblerus group, a prose satirist in his own right, and physician to Queen Anne during her reign.
		As wife of Edward Wortley Montagu, she spent 1716 to 1718 traveling in the east.
		The same image is used a number of times in the Dunciad to describe the activity of the bad poets.
	rpo.library.utoronto.ca /poem/1633.html (5162 words)

	Poetry Daily's Archive indexed by poet.
		"although my parents didn't know it at the time.
		"During the time Daddy was becoming Dad, / Durante los años en que papi se convertía en papa,"
		"You're a sky that drops its camouflage one cloud at a time, until"
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	Silent Lucidity » Random Poems
		that got me just about as evil as an eskimo boy can be.
		The last heat of his flesh was his last gift to her.
		In contrast, women account for 5% of World War II vets, 3% of Vietnam vets, and 2% of Korean War vets.
	evilqueen.demesnes.net /category/random-poems (2048 words)

	Elizabethan Authors - Poems of Edward de Vere
		In the Chetham MS.8012 is Philip Sidney's reply to this poem.
		Attribution: This poem was considered by both Dr. Grosart and Looney to be Oxford's based on one extant manuscript copy, although another extant manuscript copy attributed it to Queen Elizabeth.
		Poem: I am not as I seem to be, Nor when I smile I am not glad;
	www.elizabethanauthors.com /oxfordpoems.htm (9309 words)

	RPO -- George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan: Canto the Eleventh
		But Byron seems to be confusung his terms and thinking of Procter's poem as a sort of "euphemistic" Don Juan.
		Byron seems to have acquired the notion from Shelley, who used it in the Preface to Adonais as well as in the poem itself.
		601] "Where is the World," cries Young, "at eighty?" Edward Young (1683-1765), author of the once famous Night Thoughts, wrote this phrase at eighty in a poem called Resignation.
	rpo.library.utoronto.ca /poem/354.html (5386 words)

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	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 95000490
		Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 95000490
		Table of contents for Thomas Wright's Political songs of England : from the reign of John to that of Edward II / with a new introduction by Peter Coss.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/cam022/95000490.html (122 words)

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