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101William Hayley — This was also the name of a 17th century rector of St Giles in the Fields and a contemporary architect b.1797 at Thornhill, West Yorkshire. William Hayley (November 9, 1745 November 12, 1820), was an English writer, best known as the friend and… …
102Italian literature — is literature written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in Italy in other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are closely related to modern Italian. Early… …
103Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) — For other works of this title, see Prometheus Unbound. Prometheus Unbound is a four act play by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1820, concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands… …
104Giuseppe Gioachino Belli — Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli (September 7, 1791 December 21, 1863) was an Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome. Biography Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli was …
105Amores — is Ovid s first completed book, published in 16 BC. Amores was written in the elegiac distich. The book follows the model of the erotic elegy ndash;perhaps the most common theme of the time ndash;as treated before by Tibullus and Propertius, but… …
106Catherine Trotter Cockburn — Catharine Trotter Cockburn (16 August 1679 11 May 1749) was a novelist, dramatist, and philosopher. LifeBorn to Scottish parents living in London, Trotter was raised Protestant but converted to Roman Catholicism at an early age. She finally… …
107António Ferreira — (1528 November 29 1569) was a Portuguese poet and the foremost representative of the classical school, founded by Francisco de Sá de Miranda. His most considerable work, Castro, is the first tragedy in Portuguese, and the second in modern… …
108Mu'allaqat — The Mu‘allaqāt (Arabic: المعلقات, [al muʕallaqaːt]) is the title of a group of seven long Arabic poems or qasida (singular qaṣīda, plural qaṣā id) that have come down from the time before Islam. Each is considered the best work of these pre… …
109Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn — (born in Vilna, Russia, (now Vilnius, Lithuania) about 1789/1794; died there November 19, 1878) was a Russian Hebraist, poet, and grammarian.LifeLike all Jewish boys of that time in Russia he was educated as a Talmudist, but became interested in… …
110Brut (Layamon) — NOTOC Brut (ca. 1190) is a Middle English poem compiled and recast by the English priest Layamon. It is named for Britain s mythical founder, Brutus of Troy. It is contained in the MS. Cotton Caligula A ix, written in the first quarter of the… …
