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101Bimbo — For other uses, see Bimbo (disambiguation). Bimbo, in its popular English language usage, describes a woman who is physically attractive but is perceived to have a low intelligence or poor education. The term can also be used to describe a woman… …
102Edward John Trelawny — (November 13, 1792 ndash;August 13, 1881), was a biographer, novelist, and adventurer and friend of Shelley and Byron. Early life It is not known where Trelawny was born; while he always claimed it was in Cornwall, some of his biographers… …
103Philhellenism — ( the love of Greek culture ) was the intellectual fashion at the turn of the 19th century that led Europeans like Lord Byron to lend their support for the Greek movement towards independence from the Ottoman Empire. Byron provided some more… …
104Kafkaesque — is an auctorial descriptive which is used to describe concepts, situations, and ideas which are reminiscent of the literary work of Prague writer Franz Kafka, particularly his novels The Trial , The Castle and The Metamorphosis . The term, which… …
105Máj — May   Karel Hynek Mácha, engraving by Jan Vi …
106Étienne Pivert de Senancour — (Paris, 16 November, 1770 Saint Cloud, 10 January, 1846), was a French writer.LifeSenancour s childhood is thought to have been a sickly one. He began his education with a curé in the vicinity of Ermenonville before being sent to the Collège de… …
107Handmaiden — A handmaiden (or handmaid) is a female attendant, assistant, domestic worker (servant), or slave. Contents 1 Domestic work 2 Religion 3 Other uses 4 See also …
108Onegin stanza — (sometimes Pushkin sonnet [1]) refers to the verse form invented by Alexander Pushkin for his interpersonal epic Eugene Onegin. The work is (almost wholly) written in verses of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme aBaBccDDeFFeGG ,… …
109The Giaour — Infobox Book name = The Giaour image caption = Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha Painted by Eugène Delacroix (1827) author = Lord Byron illustrator = cover artist = country = flagicon|UK United Kingdom language = English genre = Romance/Epic… …
110French poetry — is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.French prosody and poeticsThe modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (like… …
