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  • 101pastoral — Synonyms and related words: Alcaic, Anacreontic, Arcadian, Castalian, Edenic, English sonnet, Grand Guignol, Homeric, Horatian ode, Hudibrastic, Italian sonnet, Passion play, Petrarchan sonnet, Pierian, Pindaric, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode,… …

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  • 102satire — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, English sonnet, Goliardic verse, Horatian ode, Hudibrastic verse, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Rabelaisian, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, agile wit, alba, amoebean verse, anacreontic …

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  • 103Diabelli Variations — Theme of the Variations Diabelli s Waltz The 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120, commonly known as the Diabelli Variations, is a set of variations for the piano written between 1819 and 1823 by Ludwig van Beethoven on a waltz… …

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  • 104Richard Owen Cambridge — (born 14 February 1717 in London; died 17 September 1802 in Twickenham) was a British poet.He was educated at Eton and at St John s College, Oxford. Leaving the university without taking a degree, he took up residence at Lincolns Inn in 1737.… …

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  • 105McFingal — McFingal: a modern epic poem. Or, The town meeting is a mock epic poem written by American poet John Trumbull. [1] This canto, about 1500 lines, contains some verses from Thomas Gage s Proclamation, published in the Connecticut Courant for the… …

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  • 106Parody — A parody (pronounced|ˈpɛɹədiː US, [Help:IPA| [ˈpaɹədiː] UK), in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, by means of humorous or satiric imitation. As the literary… …

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  • 107Drayton, 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… …

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  • 108Woolf, 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… …

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  • 109Felix 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.… …

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  • 110Clive James — Born Vivian James 7 October 1939 (1939 10 07) (age 72) Kogarah, Sydney, Australia Occupation Essayist, poet, broadcaster Nationality Australian Notable work(s) Cultu …

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