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Taylor, Henry Osborn
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Henry Osborn, 1856–1941, American historian and legal scholar, b. New York City. His lifework was the study of ancient and medieval civilizations. Among his books are Ancient…Heber, Reginald
(Encyclopedia) Heber, Reginald, 1783–1826, English clergyman and hymn writer. He became bishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1823. Several volumes of his poems and of his sermons were published, but…Farnsworth, Philo Taylor
(Encyclopedia) Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, 1906–71, American inventor, b. Beaver, Utah, grad. Brigham Young Univ., 1925. He demonstrated (1927) a working model of a television system. His “dissector…Ayler, Albert
(Encyclopedia) Ayler, Albert, 1936-1970, free-jazz saxophonist, b. Cleveland, OH. Ayler was taught to play saxophone by his father, a semiprofessional musician, and the two often…Warner, John William III
(Encyclopedia) Warner, John William III, 1927-2021, U.S. politician, b. Washington, D.C., Washington and Lee Univ. (B.A., 1949), Univ. of Va. School…Coleridge: Prefatory Note
IntroductionPrefatory Note The text of the poems in this volume is that of J. Dykes Campbell in the Globe edition of Coleridge's poems. For the introduction I have depended also largely…Coleridge: Work without Hope, Notes
Youth and AgeEpitaphWork without Hope Lines Composed 21st February 1827 All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair— The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing— And Winter…Coleridge: Epitaph
Work without HopeNotesEpitaph Stop, Christian passer-by!—Stop, child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seemed he.— O, lift one…Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner
ChristabelThe Ancient Mariner The Latin motto is condensed, by omission, from about a page of Thomas Burnet's Archaeologiae Philosophicae: sive Doctrina Antiqua de Rerum Originibus,…Coleridge: Christabel, Notes
The Ancient MarinerKubla KhanChristabel 25,6-7-This couplet ran as follows in the first edition: "Sir Leoline, the Baron rich, Hath a toothless mastiff bitch." In the editions of…Trending
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