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Dictionary of abbreviations. 2012.
Dictionary of abbreviations. 2012.
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada — The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada was a Lutheran Christian denomination active in Canada from 1966 to 1985. Prior to gaining autonomy, its congregations comprised the Canada District of the American Lutheran Church. The first presiding… … Wikipedia
Paths of Glory — Infobox Film name = Paths of Glory caption = Theatrical poster director = Stanley Kubrick producer = James B. Harris writer = Stanley Kubrick Jim Thompson Calder Willingham Story: Humphrey Cobb starring = Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker Adolphe Menjou … Wikipedia
Quatrain — A quatrain is a poem, or a stanza within a poem, that consists always of four lines. It is the most common of all stanza forms in African poetry. The rhyming patterns include abb, abab, abba, abcb. In its narrow meaning, the term is restricted to … Wikipedia
William Empson — Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet.He is sometimes praised as the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson and William Hazlitt, and widely influential for his practice of… … Wikipedia
Elegy — The term elegy was originally used for a type of poetic meter (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos , a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally which is a form of lyric poetry. An… … Wikipedia
1751 in literature — The year 1751 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Events* Robert Clive conquers Arcot for the English Raj. * Death of Frederick Lewis, Prince Frederick, the Prince of Wales and heir apparent. * Denis Diderot s… … Wikipedia
Far from the Madding Crowd — Infobox Book name = Far from the Madding Crowd image caption = Bathsheba saves Gabriel s life (Plate 1, by Helen Paterson Allingham, for the serial edition in Cornhill Magazine ). author = Thomas Hardy country = England language = English genre … Wikipedia
Laurence Eusden — (1688 September 27, 1730), was an English poet who became Poet Laureate in 1718. Life Laurence Eusden was born in Spofforth in North Yorkshire in 1688 (date unknown) to the Rev. Laurence Eusden, rector of Spofforth, Yorkshire. Eusden was baptized … Wikipedia
Augustan poetry — is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. This poetry was more explicitly political than the poetry that had preceded it, and it was… … Wikipedia
Elegiac — refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of dactylic hexameter, followed by a line of dactylic… … Wikipedia