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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam , fl. 11th cent., Persian poet and mathematician, b. Nishapur. He was called Khayyam [tentmaker] probably because of his father's occupation. The details of his life are mostly conjectural, but he was well educated and became celebrated as the outstanding mathematician of his time. As a... Read more
Wang Wei
Wang Wei , 699-759, Chinese poet. He was an extremely versatile man, being a musician and painter as well as a poet. He wrote quatrains almost exclusively; these verses portray quiet scenes like those depicted in the few surviving paintings attributed to him. Wang Wei's delicate landscapes, famed fo... Read more
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks 1917-2000, American poet, b. Topeka, Kans. She grew up in the slums of Chicago and lived in that city until her death. Brooks's poems, technically accomplished and written in a variety of forms including quatrains, free verse, ballads, and sonnets, deal with the experienc... Read more
Hafiz
Hafiz [Arab.,=one who has memorized the Qur'an], 1319-1389?, Persian lyric poet, b. Shiraz. His original name was Shams al-Din Muhammad. He acquired the surname from having memorized the Qur'an at an early age. A teacher of the Qur'an who associated with mystics, his lyrical poetry is acclaimed as ... Read more
sonnet
sonnet poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme scheme. There are two prominent types: the Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet, composed of an octave and a sestet (rhyming abbaabba cdecde ), and the Elizabethan, or Shakespearean, sonnet, consisting of three quatrai... Read more

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villanelle
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...consisting normally of five three-lined stanzas and a final quatrain, with only two rhymes throughout. The first and third lines...succeeding stanzas as a refrain, and form a final couplet in the quatrain [ OED ]. The form has been much employed in light verse and...
bob and wheel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...with one stress and the following ‘wheel’ is a quatrain of short lines rhyming a b a b:…And al waz holз...bob’, leading into the ‘wheel’ of the quatrain.
Nostradamus (1503-1566)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...Nostradamus's writings, a "century" referred to a grouping of one hundred verses, each verse being a four-line poem called a quatrain. It was this work that brought Nostradamus his fame. The 1555 edition contained the first three centuries and 53 quatrains...
Jean de Meung (or Mehun) (ca. 1250-ca. 1305)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...it may well be doubted whether he was altogether sincere in his praises of alchemy. The poet composed a strongly stigmatic quatrain on womankind and the ladies of Charles IV's court resolved to revenge their affronted honor. Surrounding him in the royal...
Burgess, Gelett (Frank)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...Francisco, where he led a literary group, Les Jeunes, in editing The Lark (1895–97), in which appeared his quatrain, The Purple Cow , and his drawings of “ goops. ” His many books include light verse, stories, and drawings...
Hubert and Jan van Eyck
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Moreover, not a single painting survives that can be attributed without question to Hubert. Indeed, but for the evidence of a quatrain painted on the frame of the famous Ghent Altarpiece, it is unlikely that his identity would have survived his own time. In...
Édouard Manet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and Zola Manet's close friend and supporter during the early years was Charles Baudelaire, who, in 1862, had written a quatrain to accompany one of Manet's Spanish subjects, Lola de Valence, and the public, largely as a result of the strange atmosphere...
Nostradamus
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...generations. He called this book Centuries. He planned that there would be ten volumes, each containing one hundred predictions in quatrain form. In it, the next two thousand years of humanity would be forecast — through the year 3797. Prophecies brought...
Literature: Persian
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...forms and content in Persian poetry. He experimented with individuating the lyric speaker and eschewed didactic intent; his quatrain-sequence poem "Legend" (1922) and other poems in the 1920s heralded the new sensibility. The 1930s marked the first...
Venus and Adonis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Venus and Adonis, an Ovidian poem by Shakespeare , published 1593, and written in sestra rima (i.e. a quatrain followed by a couplet). It was dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, who has been connected with the sonnets...

Dictionary entries related to "quatrain"

quatrain
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology quatrain stanza of four lines. XVI ( quadrain ). — F. quatrain , †quadrain , f. quatre FOUR + - ain (see -AN ).
Takemitsu, Toru
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Gitimalya ( Bouquet of Songs ), marimba, orch. (1974); Quatrain , vn., vc., cl., pf., orch. (1975); Marginalia...Waves , solo cl., hn., 2 tb., bass drum (1976); Quatrain II , cl., vn., vc., pf. (1977); Waterways , cl...
rondel
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...one of three stanzas of thirteen or fourteen lines, with the first two lines of the opening quatrain recurring at the end of the second quatrain and the concluding sestet. 2. a circular object: at the point where these paths join there is...
van Eyck, Hubert
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...the outer panels painted on both sides. They depict the Adoration of the Lamb, Christ enthroned, and other subjects. A quatrain on the frame asserts that it was begun by Hubert and finished by Jan in 1432, but Hubert's connection with it has sometimes...
díchetal do chennaib
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...díchetal do chennaib may have been a kind of clairvoyance or psychometry in which the seer conveys his message in quatrain or verse. The ollam was required to be proficient in both the díchetal do chennaib and the imbas forosnai . Fionn...
Matthews, Colin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...ob., bcl., dbn., hn., str. quintet (1984–5); Hidden Variables , 15 players (1988–9); Quatrain , wind, brass, perc. (1989); Contraflow , 14 players (1992).VOICE & INSTR(S).: Un colloque sentimental...
pantoum
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music pantoum (Fr., from Malay pantum ). Type of verse quatrain of Malayan origin adapted in Fr. verse by 18th-cent poet Evariste Parny and by Victor Hugo. The term was used by Ravel to describe 2nd movt. (scherzo) of his pf. trio (1914).
Mugain
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...xC1;ed Sláine , ancestor of the people of Brega . 4. Mother of St Cuimmíne , who begot him in incest. Her name appears in the quatrain, ‘This Mugain was his mother, he to her was a brother.’

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Quatrain.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: California Bookwatch; 12/1/2009; 357 words ; Quatrain Sharon Shinn Ace Books 375 Hudson St., New York NY 10014 9780441017584, $24.95 www.penguin.com QUATRAIN provides four novellas under one cover all set in her Twelve Houses world. She tells of Salome, who has been chosen as the...
Quatrain Engineering Wins $19,746 Contract for Network Analyzer
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/17/2008; 299 words ; KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $19,746 contract to Quatrain Engineering Inc., San Diego, for handheld vector network analyzer. The contract was awarded by the Air Force Materiel Command...
Archimedes Quatrain.(Poem)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 1/1/2008; ; 310 words ; Archimedes Quatrain Jerusalem, fulcrum of our uplift, Is not this rough plank the Cross, laid aslant Golgotha, The lever with which the philosophers boasted They could move the world?
Newport International Group, Inc. Selects Quatrain Public Relations Agency of Record.
PR Newswire; 2/11/2005; 700+ words ; ...has retained as its agency of record, Quatrain Public Relations, a leading public relations...companies. As part of the agreement, Quatrain Public Relations will work with Newport...extensive media and analyst relations. "Quatrain Public Relation's experience in the...
Murphy Oil Announces Discovery At Quatrain in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
Business Wire; 8/20/2002; 700+ words ; ...announced successful drilling results at its Quatrain prospect in Green Canyon Block 382 located...hydrocarbons. Preliminary reserve estimates for Quatrain are in the range of 25-30 million barrels...We are encouraged by the discovery at Quatrain because it tested a seismic amplitude...
Flashing foil and oozing oil: Trinitarian images in the first quatrain of "God's Grandeur".(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...often rely upon a linkage to the second quatrain, which is characterized by unpleasant...establish the closest relation to the second quatrain or even the sestet will lead us astray...mirror or a magnifying glass in the second quatrain, which focuses primarily on humanity...
United States--Murphy Oil found encouraging oil shows in its Green Canyon Quatrain prospect near the Front Runner development in the Gulf of Mexico and estimates reserves in excess of 25 million-30 million boe. (Countries).(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly; 8/26/2002; 634 words ; ...Murphy Oil found encouraging oil shows in its Green Canyon Quatrain prospect near the Front Runner development in the Gulf of Mexico...Operator Murphy and Dominion Resources have 37.5% each of Quatrain and Front Runner; while Spinnaker has the other 25%.
Spinnaker Exploration Company Reports Third Quarter Results; Production Up 40% from Second Quarter.
PR Newswire; 10/31/2002; 700+ words ; ...50% 42% Spinnaker Green Canyon 382 #1 Quatrain 25% 25%* Murphy The Company has now...NRI. Front Runner/Front Runner South/Quatrain Fields (Green Canyon 338/339/382) The Quatrain Prospect was tested successfully by the...
Dickinson's letters 263 and 271. (Emily Dickinson)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Louise Norcross, early May 1862) This quatrain is an antecedent variant of a poem that...letters.) Shurr delineates half of the quatrain above as a poem: [Shurr] 34. I wish...loving side. ([Letter] 263)(4) The quatrain that I proposed in 1963 embodies the...
Never again would birds' song be the same: Robert Frost's Midrashic Shakespearean sonnet.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...begins with a claim, the poem's opening quatrain posits Frost's Midrashic twist: He...his modernist contemporaries, as this quatrain demonstrates. We note the very first...Shakespearean form, Frost uses the second quatrain to expand on the claim from quatrain...