Elegiac
81qasida — /keuh see deuh/, n., pl. qasida, qasidas. Pros. an Arabic poem, usually in monorhyme, that may be satirical, elegiac, threatening, or laudatory. [1810 20; < Ar qasidah] * * * ▪ poetic form plural qasida, also spelled kasida, Arabic qaṣīdah … …
82Brodsky, Joseph — orig. Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky born May 24, 1940, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. died Jan. 28, 1996, New York, N.Y., U.S. Russian born U.S. poet. In the Soviet Union his independent spirit and irregular work record led to a five year sentence to …
83Catullus, Gaius Valerius — born с 84, Verona, Cisalpine Gaul died с 54 BC, Rome Roman poet. Few facts about his life are certain. Of 116 extant poems, 25 portray an intense and unhappy affair with a married woman ( Lesbia ); others reflect an affair with the youth… …
84French literature — Introduction the body of written works in the French language produced within the geographic and political boundaries of France. The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the …
85Rutilius Claudius Namatianus — ▪ Roman poet flourished AD 417 Roman poet who was the author of an elegiac (elegy) poem, De reditu suo, describing a journey from Rome to his native Gaul in the autumn of AD 417. The poem is chiefly interesting for the light it throws on… …
86Theognis — ▪ Greek poet flourished 6th century BC, Megara [Greece] ancient Greek elegiac (elegy) poet whose work preserved a glimpse into Greek society in a time of turmoil. More than half of all surviving elegiac poetry in ancient Greek was… …
87Comoedia Lydiae — The Comoedia Lydiae (or Lidia) is a medieval Latin elegiac comedy from the late twelfth century. The argument at the beginning of the play refers to it as the Lidiades (line 3, a play on Heroides), which the manuscripts gloss as comedia de Lidia… …
88Medicamina Faciei Femineae — (Cosmetics for the Female Face, also known as The Art of Beauty) is a didactic poem written in elegiac couplets by the Roman poet Ovid. In the hundred extant verses, Ovid defends the use of cosmetics by Roman women and provides five recipes for… …
89Decasyllabic quatrain — is a term used for a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables each, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB. Examples of the decasyllabic quatrain in heroic couplets appear in some of the earliest texts in the… …
90Piano music of Gabriel Fauré — Fauré in 1907 The French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) wrote in many genres, including songs, chamber music, orchestral pieces and choral works.[1] Among his best known compositions are those for piano, written between the 1860s and the… …
