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Sonnets

ContentsLeisureOn Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. UrsulaThe MatrixMonadnock in Early SpringThe Little GardenTo an Early DaffodilListeningThe Lamp of LifeHero-WorshipIn DarknessBefore…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ugolino

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Adapted from the Vit...SonnetUgolino (Published by Medwin, "Life of Shelley", 1847, with Shelley's corrections in italics [''].—ED.) Inferno 33, 22-75…

anthropology

(Encyclopedia) anthropology, classification and analysis of humans and their society, descriptively, culturally, historically, and physically. Its unique contribution to studying the bonds of human…

Tudor

(Encyclopedia) Tudor, royal family that ruled England from 1485 to 1603. Its founder was Owen Tudor, of a Welsh family of great antiquity, who was a squire at the court of Henry V and who married…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prologue to Hellas

by Percy Bysshe Shelley PrefaceDramatis PersonaePrologue to Hellas HERALD OF ETERNITY: It is the day when all the sons of God Wait in the roofless senate-house, whose floor Is Chaos, and…

1941 Academy Awards

The 1941 Academy Awards were presented Feb. 26, 1942 at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.Outstanding Motion PictureBlossoms in the Dust (MGM)Citizen Kane (Mercury; RKO Radio)Here Comes Mr.…

Brewer's: Cock-crow

The Hebrews divided the night into four watches: 1, The “beginning of the watches” or “even” (Lam. ii. 19); 2, “The middle watch” or “midnight” (Judg. vii. 19); 3, “The cock-crowing;” 4, “…

2001 Deaths: M - Q

Peter MaasEmily MacFarquharMike MansfieldFred MarcellinoHarvey MartinWilliam H. MastersEddie MathewsJoey MaximStan (Chook) MaxwellWhitman MayoTheodore McCartySusannah McCorkleKim McDonaldAl…

Vachel Lindsay: The Chinese Nightingale

The Chinese NightingaleVachel Lindsay"How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead — Ended license, lust and play: Why do you iron the night away? Your big…