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Vor 5 Tagen · The Erl-king. 1. WHO rides there so late through the night dark and drear? The father it is, with his infant so dear; He holdeth the boy tightly clasp'd in his arm, He holdeth him safely, he keepeth him warm. "My son, wherefore seek'st thou thy face thus to hide ?" "Look, father, the Erl-King is close by our side!
Vor 4 Tagen · Odyssey, epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem is the story of Odysseus , king of Ithaca , who wanders for 10 years (although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks) trying to get home after the Trojan War .
- The Odyssey is an epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem is the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca...
- The majority of the Odyssey takes place on and around the Aegean Sea before concluding in Odysseus’s kingdom of Ithaca.
- The Odyssey was intended for oral performance. The poem was likely transmitted through generations of oral poets well before it was written down. I...
- Among the most notable English-language translations of the Odyssey produced in the 20th century were those by Robert Fitzgerald (1961), Richmond L...
- While there is no conclusive evidence supporting the historicity of the Odyssey’s story and its characters, it has been proposed that geographic el...
Vor 3 Tagen · The Odyssey ( / ˈɒdɪsi /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized : Odýsseia) [2] [3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books.
Vor 2 Tagen · Shakspere. Byname: Bard of Avon or Swan of Avon. Baptized: April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Died: April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon. Notable Works: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” “All’s Well That Ends Well” “Antony and Cleopatra” “As You Like It” “Coriolanus”
Vor 4 Tagen · Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight, Middle English alliterative poem of unknown authorship, dating from the second half of the 14th century (perhaps 1375). It is a chivalric romance that tells a tale of enchantment in an Arthurian setting. Its hero, Sir Gawayne (Gawain), is presented as a devout but
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Vor 4 Tagen · However, the King of Elfland uses two of his last three most powerful runes and manages to retrieve his daughter, who looks at the fatal rune after a fight with Alveric over religion and forgets about him and Orion. Alveric sets on a hopeless quest to find Elfland again and get back his Lirazel, a quest on which he is accompanied by a lunatic, a poet, a madman, a lovesick, and a shepherd: the ...
Vor 2 Tagen · He was also a poet and essayist. His collected writings, which he published in a tenfold series between 1749 and 1800, contain more than 40,000 poems and 1,300 prose texts, which if he had composed them all would make him one of the most prolific writers of all time.
