occasional poems
1Occasional poetry — Goethe said that Occasional Poetry is the highest kind (Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1786) Occasional poetry is poetry composed for a particular occasion. In the history of literature, it is often studied in connection with orality, performance …
2occasional — adjective 1 happening sometimes but not often: Expect occasional showers today. | He smokes an occasional cigar. 2 formal written or intended for a special occasion: occasional poems …
3Poems, Speeches, Thoughts and Doodles — Infobox Album | Name = Poems, Speeches, Thoughts and Doodles Type = Compilation Album Artist = Roy Harper Released = 1997 Recorded = Ireland November 1997 Genre = Spoken Word Length = 57:56 Label = Science Friction HUCD034 Producer = Roy Harper… …
4Kildare Poems — MS Harley 913, fol.3r. Beginning of The Land of Cockaygne The Kildare Poems are a group of sixteen poems written in an Irish dialect of Middle English and dated to the mid 14th century. Together with a second, shorter set of poems in the so… …
5Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965–1971, The — by Allen Ginsberg (1972) A major volume of “road” poems, The Fall of America won the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry in 1973. Conceptually, it is allen ginsberg’s most ambitious full length book of poems. The book was composed as a… …
6Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
7Latin Literature in Christianity (Sixth To Twentieth Century) — Latin Literature in Christianity (Sixth to Twentieth Century) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Latin Literature in Christianity (Sixth to Twentieth Century) During the Middle Ages the so called church Latin was to a great extent the language …
8Theodore Prodromus — (Greek: Θεόδορος Πρόδρομος, d. c. 1166), also known as Ptochoprodromus (Πτοχοπρόδρομος = Poor Prodromus ), was a Byzantine writer, well known for his prose and poetry, some of which is in the vernacular. He wrote many occasional pieces for a… …
9ITALIAN LITERATURE — Influence of the Bible As in other European cultures, the Bible became known to the Italian literary and cultural world through the Latin Vulgate, which was extensively studied in medieval times and, to a lesser extent, in the humanist period of… …
10Walter Savage Landor — (30 January 1775 – 17 September 1864) was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not… …
