in prose and verse
91Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa — Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr (IPAEng|θorcerðr hɔlgɑbru:ðr) and Irpa (IPAEng|irpɑ) are goddesses in Norse mythology. Þorgerðr and Irpa appear together in Jómsvíkinga saga, Njáls saga, and Þorleifs þáttr jarlsskálds . Outside of these attestations, Irpa is… …
92Contempo: A Review of Books and Personalities — December 1931 cover of Contempo featuring Langston Hughes Christ in Alabama . Contempo, A Review of Books and Personalities, was a literary and social commentary published by Milton Abernethy and Anthony Buttitta at Chapel Hill, North Carolina… …
93Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles, or the "Book of Galehaut" Retold — Infobox Book | name = Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles, or the Book of Galehaut Retold image caption = 1st Edition Cover author = Patricia Terry Samuel N. Rosenberg illustrator = Wood engravings by Judith Jaidinger country = United… …
94Polis and its culture (The) — The polis and its culture Robin Osborne INTRODUCTION ‘We love wisdom without becoming soft’, Thucydides has the Athenian politician Pericles claim, using the verb philosophein.1 Claims to, and respect for, wisdom in archaic Greece were by no… …
95John Bon and Mast Parson — was printed in 1547 or 1548 by John Day and William Seres as the work of Luke/Lucas Shepeherd , possibly a pseudonym. (John Bale uses Lucas Opilio and Lucas Shepeherd. ) Shepherd was probably a poet and physician from Colchester, a friend of… …
96Myers, Frederic William and Ernest James — (1843 1921) • Frederic William Henry, the elder brother, 1843 1901 He was born at Keswick, the Lake District, the elder son of a clergyman, and when his father died in 1851 the family moved to Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Frederic was… …
97Beaumont Brothers, Sir John and Francis — (1583 1627) John, the elder, 1583 1627 From Leicestershire, on the death of his father in 1598, John had to leave university, and like his brother, he preferred literature to law. In 1602 he published anonymously Metamorphosis of Tobacco, a… …
98Cornford, Frances Crofts Darwin and (Rupert) John — (1886 1960) • Frances Crofts Darwin Cornford, the mother, 1886 1960 The mother was the only child of Sir Francis Darwin, son of Charles Darwin. She was born in Cambridge (her father was lecturer in botany), educated privately and spent… …
99alliterative prose — ▪ literature prose that uses alliteration and some of the techniques of alliterative verse. Notable examples are from Old English and Middle English, including works by the Anglo Saxon writer Aelfric and the so called Katherine Group of… …
100List of stories within One Thousand and One Nights — This article provides a list of stories within Richard Francis Burton s translation of One Thousand and One Nights . Burton s first ten volumes were published between 1885 and 1886. The Supplemental Nights were published between 1886 and 1888 as… …
