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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Du Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste, Seigneur (1544–90), French poet. His most famous work was the creation epic La Semaine (1578, complete English trans. by Sylvester, 1605, Devine Weekes and Workes). Partly because of his Protestant convictions, he was more influential in England than in... Read more |
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Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes , town (1991 pop. 36,886) and borough, S central England. Milton Keynes was designated one of the new towns in 1967 to alleviate overpopulation in London. It is the seat of the Open Univ.; students there receive instruction by correspondence and through the media.... Read more |
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Milton
Milton, a very common name, usually ‘middle farmstead or estate’, OE middel + tūn; examples include: Milton Cambs. Middeltune c.975, Middeltone 1086 (DB). Milton Oxon., near Didcot. Middeltun 956, Middeltune 1086 (DB). Milton Abbas Dorset. Middeltone 934, Mideltune 1086 (DB),... Read more |
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epic
epic long, exalted narrative poem, usually on a serious subject, centered on a heroic figure. The earliest epics, known as primary, or original, epics, were shaped from the legends of an age when a nation was conquering and expanding; such is the foundation of the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, of... Read more |
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Sir Milton Margai
Sir Milton Margai , 1895-1964, prime minister of Sierra Leone (1961-64). A prominent doctor, he turned to politics in 1949 and led his country to independence (1961) while serving as chief minister (1954-61). He was knighted in 1959. Milton died in office and was followed as prime minister by his... Read more |
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Milton Glaser
GLASER, Milton 1929- (Max Catz) Personal Born June 26, 1929, in New York, NY; son of Eugene and Eleanor (Bergman) Glaser; married Shirley Girton, August 13, 1957. Education: Cooper Union, graduated, 1951; also studied at Academy of Fine Arts (Bologna, Italy). Religion:... Read more |
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Comus
Comus , in late Roman legend, god of mirth and revelry. A follower of Dionysus, he was represented as a drunken youth bearing a torch. In Milton's poetic masque, Comus, he is the mischievous son of Bacchus and Circe.... Read more |
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Milton Frederick Lindley Wood Hershey
Milton Hershey After enduring years of failure, Milton Hershey (1857-1945) built a business empire as the world's first mass producer of chocolate bars. Through generous donations, he used his entire fortune to help those less fortunate than himself. Milton Snavely Hershey was born on a... Read more |
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Uriel
Uriel . 1, 2 Two descendants of Kohath. 3 Man whose daughter became mother of King Abijah of Judah. The name appears in the pseudepigrapha for an archangel. He is introduced in Milton's Paradise Lost as the angel of the sun. ... Read more |
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Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto , 1474-1533, Italian epic and lyric poet. As a youth he was a favorite at the court of Ferrara; later he was in the service of Ippolito I, Cardinal d'Este, and from 1517 until his death served Alfonso, duke of Ferrara. He was never properly rewarded by his patrons. While in the... Read more |
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Epic Romance: Homer to Milton.
...Rather than separating epic and romance, Burrow...interrelated even in Homer, whose heroes demonstrated...affective feature of romance in Burrow's narrative...foreshadowed in some of Homer's digressive interpolations...Renaissance ... |
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From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic.
...in Renaissance Epic by Tobias Gregory...30.00. The epic narrator of Paradise...most students of Milton know that the masterpiece...or teacher of epics and romances, including Homer's Odyssey and...the heart of the ... |
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ISLAMIC COMIX.(The Adventures of Amir Hamza)(Book review)
...45. "Eat Your Heart Out, Homer," begins William Dalrymple...exuberant, fantastic Hindo-Persian romance about Muhammad's uncle, Amir Hamza. But Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milton, and the usual epic suspects needn't feel threatened... |
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From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic.(Book review)
...Action in Renaissance Epic. Chicago: The University...them. In both of Homer's poems and in...epic poet than for Homer or Virgil. Furthermore...with a chapter on Milton's Paradise Lost...furioso is a chivalric romance. While ... |
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Milton Studies, Volume 41.(Book Review)
...makes a case for Milton's mortalism in...P. Revard's "Milton, Homer, and the Anger of...drama, rather than epic struggle, is highlighted...Lehnhof theorizes that Milton, in keeping with...and outlined the "romance" that ... |
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Belinda, Another Eve
...mockepic or "heroic epic" (as Ms. Agy...Pope, includes Homer and Virgil as well as Milton. The Baron at...supported by French romances. The Baron has...in a full scale epic he would be villainous...rather more about Milton's ... |
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Torquato Tasso, a Poet Both Obscure and Ubiquitous
...masterpiece, the epic poem "Gerusalemme...intertwined tales of romance and heroism. Handel...Christian answer to the epic poets of the ancient world, Homer and Virgil. The...Rinaldo is the epic's central hero...and steal. Even ... |
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Books received.
...Graziosi, Barbara. Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic. Cambridge U. Press, 2002...256. Flannagan, Roy. John Milton: A Short Introduction. Oxford...Lori Humphrey. Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England. Columbia... |
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Best of the Western world's nonfiction, ca. 1909.(The Home Forum)
...Francis Bacon, John Milton's prose, Thomas Browne 4. Milton's poems 5. 'Essays...The Odyssey,' by Homer 23. 'Two Years Before...35. Chronicle and romance: Jean Froissart...by Pascal 49. Epic and saga: 'Beowulf... |
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