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1757 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * May 6 – Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart: English poet Christopher Smart is confined to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London. (He may have been confined in a private madhouse before this.) This follows incidents in which he prayed loudly in public places, soliciting others to join him. Samuel Johnson visits him and considers he should be at large, saying, "I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else." Smart is released from asylum in January 1763. While confined at St Luke's, he conceives of and writes ''A Song to David'', published in 1763, and ''Jubilate Agno'', not published until 1939 * December 11 – Death of Colley Cibber. His office as Poet Laureate of Great Britain is declined by Thomas Gray and passes to William Whitehead. * Thomas Warton appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford Works published Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poetry
Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish language, Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two main traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English and Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century, while the first known poems in English from Ireland date to the 14th century. Although there has always been some cross-fertilization between the two language traditions, an English-language poetry that had absorbed themes and models from Irish did not finally emerge until the 19th century. This culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford Professor Of Poetry
The Professor of Poetry is an academic appointment at the University of Oxford. The chair was created in 1708 by an endowment from the estate of Henry Birkhead. The professorship carries an obligation to lecture, but is in effect a part-time position, requiring only three lectures each year. In addition, every second year (alternating with the University Orator), the professor delivers the Creweian Oration, which offers formal thanks to benefactors of the university. Until 1968 this oration was delivered in Latin Language, Latin. Currently, the professor is appointed to a single four-year term. After individuals are nominated, an election is held in which the members of the university's Convocation are eligible to participate. Convocation consists of members of the faculty (Congregation) both current and retired, and former student members of the university who have been admitted to a degree (other than an honorary degree). In 2010, on-line voting was allowed for the first tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Origin Of Our Ideas Of The Sublime And Beautiful
''A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful'' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. It was the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into their own respective rational categories. It attracted the attention of prominent thinkers such as Denis Diderot and Immanuel Kant. Summary According to Burke, ''the Beautiful'' is that which is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas ''the Sublime'' is that which has the power to compel and destroy us. The preference for the Sublime over the Beautiful was to mark the transition from the Neoclassical to the Romantic era. The origins of our ideas of the beautiful and the sublime, for Burke, can be understood by means of their causal structures. According to Aristotelian physics and metaphysics, causation can be divided into formal, material, efficient and final causes. The formal cause of beauty is the passion of love; the mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (; 12 January NS.html"_;"title="New_Style.html"_;"title="/nowiki>New_Style">NS">New_Style.html"_;"title="/nowiki>New_Style">NS/nowiki>_1729_–_9_July_1797)_was_an_ NS.html"_;"title="New_Style.html"_;"title="/nowiki>New_Style">NS">New_Style.html"_;"title="/nowiki>New_Style">NS/nowiki>_1729_–_9_July_1797)_was_an_Anglo-Irish_people">Anglo-Irish_Politician.html" ;"title="Anglo-Irish_people.html" ;"title="New_Style">NS.html" ;"title="New_Style.html" ;"title="/nowiki>New Style">NS">New_Style.html" ;"title="/nowiki>New Style">NS/nowiki> 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish people">Anglo-Irish Politician">statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party. Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. These views wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Poetry
American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies). Unsurprisingly, most of the early colonists' work relied on contemporary English models of poetic form, diction, and Theme (literary), theme. However, in the 19th century, a distinctive American Common parlance, idiom began to emerge. By the later part of that century, when Walt Whitman was winning an enthusiastic audience abroad, List of poets from the United States, poets from the United States had begun to take their place at the forefront of the English-language ''avant-garde''. Much of the American poetry published between 1910 and 1945 remains lost in the pages of small circulation political periodicals, particularly the ones on the far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quaternion (poetry)
Quaternion is a poetry style in which the theme is divided into four parts. Characteristics Each part of a quaternion explores the complementary natures of the theme or subject. The word ''quaternion'' is derived from the Latin word ''quaterni'', meaning "four by four". The poem may be in any poetic form and 'offers poets the chance to experiment with varied rhetorical structures'. Examples Anne Bradstreet, America's first significant poet, wrote four quaternions: * "Four Seasons" * "Four Elements" (Fire, Earth, Water and Air) * "Of the Four Humours of Man's Constitution" (sanguine, pragmatic, choleric and melancholic) * "Of the Four Ages of Man" (Childhood, Youth, Manhood and Old Age) * "The Four Monarchies" (Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman) Elizabeth Daryush, known for her syllabic verse Syllabic verse is a poetic form having a fixed or constrained number of syllables per line, while stress, quantity, or tone play a distinctly secondary role — or no role at all — in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epithalamium
An epithalamium (; Latin form of Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον ''epithalamion'' from ἐπί ''epi'' "upon," and θάλαμος ''thalamos'' nuptial chamber) is a poem written specifically for the bride on the way to her marital chamber. This form continued in popularity through the history of the classical world; the Roman poet Catullus wrote a famous epithalamium, which was translated from or at least inspired by a now-lost work of Sappho. According to Origen, the Song of Songs might be an epithalamium on the marriage of Solomon with Pharaoh's daughter. History It was originally among the Greeks a song in praise of bride and bridegroom, sung by a number of boys and girls at the door of the nuptial chamber. According to the scholiast on Theocritus, one form was employed at night, and another, to rouse the bride and bridegroom on the following morning. In either case, as was natural, the main burden of the song consisted of invocations of blessing and predictions of happiness, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Wadsworth Brewster
Martha Wadsworth Brewster (April 1, 1710 – ) was an 18th-century American poet and writer. She is one of only four colonial women who published volumes of their verse before the American Revolution and was the first American-born woman to publish under her own name.Schmidt, 9Bert, 71 Biography Early life She was born on April 1, 1710Wadsworth, 213 in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut,Bert, 71 a daughter of Joseph Wadsworth, Jr. and the granddaughter of Joseph Wadsworth, Sr. and Abigail Waite.Wadsworth, 213 Her mother was Lydia Brown, whose parents were Captain John Brown of Swansea, Massachusetts,Various, 1771 and Anna Mason.Peck, 27 Marriage She married, at an undetermined place, on Wednesday, March 22, 1732, Oliver Brewster,Jones, 86 who was born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1708, the son of William Brewster and Hopestill Wadsworth.Jones, 86Jones, 54 Oliver died, possibly in Bernardston, Massachusetts, sometime after October 19, 1776, as this is the date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Boyce
Samuel Boyce (died 1775) was an English engraver and poet. Life Boyce was originally an engraver, and subsequently worked in the South Sea House. He published one play, entitled ''The Rover, or Happiness at Last, a dramatic pastoral'' (1752), which was never performed. In its preface, he claimed that this was due to its length, and not to its lack of merit. In 1757, he published ''Poems on Several Occasions'', which included an ode entitled ''Glory'', addressed to the Duke of Cumberland, and a heroic poem in two cantos, dedicated to David Garrick, called ''Paris, or the Force of Beauty''. The frontispiece, engraved by Boyce himself, was an allegorical scene depicting "Fortune obstructing the Genius of Poetry in its ascent to the Temples of Learning and Fame". He was a friend of Christopher Smart, and published a poem in praise of Smart's ''Song to David'' in the ''Public Advertiser'' in July 1763. He died 21 March 1775. Works * ''The Rover, or Happiness at Last, a dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelius Arnold
Cornelius Arnold (1711-1757?), was a poetical writer. Arnold was born 13 March 1711, and entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1723. The statement that he became one of the ushers in the school is incorrect. In the latter part of his life he was beadle to the Worshipful Company of Distillers. His works are: *'Distress, a poetical essay,' dedicated to John Robartes, 4th Earl of Radnor John Robartes (1686–15 July 1757) was the 4th Earl of Radnor and contemporary and neighbour of Alexander Pope and Horace Walpole. Early life and family John Robartes was born in London in 1686. He was the son of Francis Robartes and his secon ..., London 750? 4to. * 'Commerce, a poem,' 2nd edit. London, 1751, 4to. *'The Mirror. A Poetical Essay in the manner of Spenser,' dedicated to David Garrick, London, 1755, 4to. * 'Osman,' a tragedy. In a volume of poems published in 1757. References 1711 births 1750s deaths People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Year of death un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Andrews (translator)
Robert Andrews (1723–1766) was an English Dissenter, known as a poet and translator of Virgil. Life Andrews was the son of Robert Andrews of Bolton and his wife Hannah Crompton, daughter of Joseph Crompton. He was descended from an eminent nonconformist family which had lived for nearly two centuries at Little Lever and at Rivington Hall, near Bolton, Lancashire. He received his theological education at the Dissenting academy of Dr. Caleb Rotheram, at Kendal. He was chosen in 1747 minister of the Presbyterian congregation at Lydgate, in the parish of Kirkburton, Yorkshire. He continued to hold this charge till about 1753, when he became minister of Platt Chapel, a place of worship for Protestant dissenters in Rusholme, Lancashire. He stayed there about three years. In 1756 he moved to Bridgnorth, where he presided over a Presbyterian congregation. He married Hannah Haslewood but had no children. His health broke down and he became insane before his death in 1766. Works In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1744 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Colonial America * John Armstrong, ''The Art of Preserving Health''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press * Mather Byles, ''Poems on Several Occasions'', 31 poems written since 1727; he wrote a range of poetic forms in formal, neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander PopeBurt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books * James Logan, ''Cicero's Cato Major'', a verse translation * Jane Turell, ''Memoirs'', a collection of pious poems already published as ''Reliquiae Turellae'' together with secular verses (posthumous) United Kingdom * Anonymous, ''Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book'', the first e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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