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  • 41Christopher Smart's asylum confinement — Christopher Smart The English poet Christopher Smart (1722–1771) was confined to mental asylums from May 1757 until January 1763. Smart was admitted into St Luke s Hospital for Lunatics …

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  • 42Albanian literature — Albania, part of the ancient Illyrian territories, a cross road of civilizations and geopolitical interests during the barbarian onslaughts and later on a province of the Eastern and Western Empires, Rome and Byzantium, after, over centuries,… …

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  • 43Ballades lyriques — Lyrical Ballads La Complainte du vieux marin, par Gustave Doré. Les Lyrical Ballads (Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems), « Ballades lyriques » sont un recueil de poèmes de William Wordsworth et Samuel Taylor Coleridge, publié pour …

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  • 44Lyrical Ballads — La Complainte du vieux marin, par Gustave Doré. Les Lyrical Ballads (Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems), « Ballades lyriques » sont un recueil de poèmes de William Wordsworth et Samuel Taylor Coleridge, publié pour la première… …

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  • 45Madrigal — Mad ri*gal (m[a^]d r[i^]*gal), n. [It. madrigale, OIt. madriale, mandriale (cf. LL. matriale); of uncertain origin, possibly fr. It mandra flock, L. mandra stall, herd of cattle, Gr. ma ndra fold, stable; hence, madrigal, originally, a pastoral… …

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  • 46idyll — (n.) also idyl, c.1600, picturesque pastoral poem, from L. idyllium, from Gk. eidyllion short, descriptive poem, usually of rustic or pastoral type, lit. a little picture, dim. of eidos form (see OID (Cf. oid)) …

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  • 47idyl — n. [Written also Idyll.] 1. Bucolic, eclogue, pastoral, pastoral poem. 2. Short poem (highly wrought) …

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  • 48Henryson, Robert — (ca. 1425–ca. 1505)    Robert Henryson was the outstanding Scottish poet of the 15th century, and author of one of the finest late medieval narrative tragedies, The Testament of Cresseid. For centuries Henryson was classified among a group of… …

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  • 49Nahum Tate — Born Nahum Teate 1652 Dublin, Ireland Died 1715 Southwark, London, Great Britain Occupation …

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  • 50bucolic — bu·col·ic || bjuː kÉ’lɪk n. pastoral poem; writer of pastoral poems; farmer, rustic (Archaic) adj. rural, pastoral, idyllic …

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