marriage+poem
111Catullus 2 — is a renowned poem by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus ( c . 84 ndash; c . 54 BC) that describes the affectionate relationship between Catullus lover, Lesbia, and her pet sparrow. As scholar and poet John Swinnerton Phillimore has noted,… …
112Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron — ▪ English poet Introduction byname Alfred, Lord Tennyson born Aug. 6, 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, Eng. died Oct. 6, 1892, Aldworth, Surrey English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. He was raised …
113Legends about Theodoric the Great — Dietrich catches the dwarf Alfrich (1883), by Johannes Gehrts. The Gothic King Theodoric the Great was remembered in Germanic legend as Dietrich von Bern (Bern is the Middle High German name for Verona, where Theodoric had one of his residences) …
114Cligès — by Chrétien de Troyes (ca. 1176–77) The ROMANCE of Cligès is thought to be the second of CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES’s extant romances because the author begins the poem with “The poet who wrote of Erec / And Enide” (“Cil qui fist d’Erec et… …
115DAVID — (Heb. דָּוִד), youngest son of Jesse of the Ephrathite family that lived in Beth Lehem in Judah (I Sam. 16:1; 20:27–28; I Chron. 2:13–15; cf. Micah 5:1). In the Bible SOURCES I Samuel 16–II Kings 2 is our main source for David, supplemented by I… …
116ENGLISH LITERATURE — Biblical and Hebraic Influences The Bible has generally been found to be congenial to the English spirit. Indeed, the earliest English poetry consists of the seventh century metrical paraphrases of Genesis and Exodus attributed to Caedmon (died c …
117Dante Alighieri — Dante redirects here. For other uses, see Dante (disambiguation). For the ship, see Italian battleship Dante Alighieri. Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri, attributed to Giotto, in the chapel of the Bargello palace in Florence. This oldest picture… …
118Aeneid — For the group of nine Ancient Egyptian deities, see Ennead .Infobox Book name = Aeneid translator = image caption = Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598 Galleria Borghese, Rome author = Virgil country = Roman Republic language =… …
119Audrey Hepburn — Infobox actor name = Audrey Hepburn imagesize = caption = from the trailer for the film Roman Holiday (1953) birthname = Audrey Kathleen Ruston birthdate = birth date|1929|5|4|mf=y location = Brussels, Belgium deathdate = death date and… …
120Joyce Kilmer — Infobox Writer name = Alfred Joyce Kilmer imagesize = 170px caption = Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, as a member of the 69th Volunteer Infantry Unit, circa 1918. birthdate = birth date|mf=yes|1886|12|6. birthplace = New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) deathdate …
