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11Afternoon of a Faun (poem) — [ Édouard Manet.] L après midi d un faune (or The Afternoon of a Faun) is a poem by the French author Stéphane Mallarmé.It is his best known work and a landmark in the history of symbolism in French literature.Initial versions of the poem were… …
12The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film) — Infobox Film name = The Charge of the Light Brigade caption = Original Film poster director = Michael Curtiz producer = writer = starring = music = cinematography = editing = distributor = Warner Bros. released = 20 October 1936 runtime = 115 min …
13The Swimmer (poem) — The Swimmer is a poem by the Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon.The poem was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the fifth song in his song cycle Sea Pictures .LyricsSquare brackets [ ] indicate text omitted in the song. Italics indicate text… …
14Elene (poem) — Elene is the longest of Cynewulf’s four signed poems. It is the fifth of six poems appearing in the Vercelli manuscript. The poem is the first English account of the finding of the Holy Cross by Saint Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine.It is… …
15The Last of the Light Brigade — is a poem written in 1891 by Rudyard Kipling echoing forty years after the event Alfred Tennyson s famous poem The Charge of the Light Brigade . Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by… …
16The Changing Light at Sandover — is a 560 page epic poem by James Merrill (1926 ndash;1995). Sometimes described as a postmodern apocalyptic epic, the poem was published in three separate installments between 1976 and 1980, and in its entirety in 1982. Already established in the …
17London (1738 poem) — London is a 1738 poem by Samuel Johnson, produced shortly after he moved to London; it was his first major published work. The poem in 263 lines imitates , expressed by the character of Thales as he decides to leave London for Wales. Johnson… …
18Tam o' Shanter (Burns poem) — Tam o Shanter is considered to be one of Robert Burns finest poems. It was written in 1790, and at about six A4 pages is one of his longest. The poem, first published in 1791, uses a mixture of Scots and English.Many consider it one of the best… …
19Clear Light of Day — is a novel published in 1980 by Indian Novelist and three time Booker Prize finalist, Anita Desai. Set in Old Delhi, this book describes the tensions in a post partition Indian family during and after childhood, starting with the characters as… …
20Hero and Leander (poem) — Hero and Leander is a mythological poem by Christopher Marlowe. After Marlowe s death it was completed by George Chapman. Henry Petowe published an alternate completion to the poem.PublicationTwo editions of the poem were issued in quarto in… …
