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101Beaumont, Sir John, 1st Baronet — ▪ English author born 1583, Grace Dieu?, Leicestershire, Eng. died April 1627, London? English poet whose work helped to establish the heroic couplet as a dominant verse form. His most important works are The Metamorphosis of Tobacco (1602) …
102Danish literature — Introduction the body of writings produced in the Danish and Latin languages. During Denmark s long union with Norway (1380–1814), the Danish language became the official language and the most widely used literary medium in the… …
103Drayton, Michael — ▪ English poet born 1563, Hartshill, Warwickshire, Eng. died 1631, London English poet, the first to write odes in English in the manner of Horace. Drayton spent his early years in the service of Sir Henry Goodere, to whom he owed his… …
104Italian literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the Italian language that had its beginnings in the 13th century. Until that time nearly all literary work composed in the Middle Ages was written in Latin. Moreover, it was predominantly… …
105Polish literature — Introduction body of writings in Polish, one of the Slavic languages. The Polish national literature holds an exceptional position in Poland. Over the centuries it has mirrored the turbulent events of Polish history and at times sustained… …
106Woolf, Virginia — ▪ British writer Introduction original name in full Adeline Virginia Stephen born Jan. 25, 1882, London, Eng. died March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a… …
107Carlo Gozzi — Carlo Gozzi † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Carlo Gozzi Italian author, born at Venice, 1720; died 1806. He spent in military service three years that ensued upon the completion of his school studies. Then impelled by real necessity, since… …
108Felix de Lope de Vega Carpio — Félix de Lope de Vega Carpio † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Félix de Lope de Vega Carpio Poet and dramatist, b. at Madrid, 1562; d. 23 Aug., 1635. With Lope de Vega begins the era of dramatic glory in Spanish literature of the Golden Age.… …
109Homeric — Synonyms and related words: Alcaic, Anacreontic, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Castalian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, abysmal, astronomic, bardic, bucolic, colossal, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic …
110Pierian — Synonyms and related words: Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, bucolic, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, epic, heroic, idyllic, mock heroic, narrative, pastoral, poetic, poetico… …
