Rateliff maintains that Sauron first appears in the Tolkien legendarium as Sauron the Necromancer in the poem, The Lay of Leithian, and after the destruction of the tower at Tol Sirion, the Necromancer fled to Taur-na-Fuin, which he thought to be Mirkwood.
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Some of the most beautiful things in this show are the shikisi, or poem cards, in which the visual form of Koetsu's writing chimes wonderfully with the loops and eddies of Sotatsu's water, the spikes of his plant stems and the slow blur of his distant mountains.
Poet Alan Gilbert brought up another potential calendar conflict, interrupting himself during his own poem to ask the crowd about the relationship between the phrase "midnight madness, " used in his poem, and the nickname of the NCAA basketball tournament, March Madness.
Maybe the poem in its entirety was not a good poem, nor its author even a halfway-good poet.
But the story told in the poem's plot became a British stage play that made it across the ocean within a few years.
If is the kind of poem you find in the Wal-Mart poster bins along with Desiderata.
The nature and consequence of our resistance is captured in a poem written before the Great War by Sam Walker Foss and recited in the Nebraska statewide oratory contest by the late Ted Sorensen's father.
In February, he attended a special event at the Bishop's Palace in Wells to hear the poem performed for the first time.
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In the poem she said how much "my Dad loved his job and the kids".
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Or at least that's the story being plugged by the historical manuscript dealer who is selling the only handwritten copy of the poem in private hands.
Sarantis Symeonoglou is professor of art history and archaeology at Washington University in St Louis, US. He has spent years trying to tie locations on Ithaki to details in the poem.
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The silent movie, the Viennese symphony and the epic poem all had their heydays in the past.
Erdogan, who was jailed in the 1990s for reading a poem about Islam in public, sparred with military commanders during his first years in office.
The Taj Mahal in India has been called a poem in stone, a moon-white dream, a tear on the face of humanity.
Not too many years ago, Pinney says, If was voted the favorite poem in England.
He is then led up through Purgatory, and, in the final poem, to Paradise, where he meets a transfigured vision of Beatrice, the girl he had loved in Florence as a young man.
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Music could not be authentic, he often said, in the way a poem or a painting was.
He wrote a poem about it in the voice of what he imagined his friend's killers thought.
First published in 1910, the poem was thought by many scholars to be about George Washington, Pinney says.
King is prolific, and not just in books: A recent profile noted that over the course of a few weeks this year he had a story published in the New Yorker, a review of a Raymond Carver biography in the New York Review of Books, an article in the horror magazine Fangoria and a poem in Playboy.
Literary sleuth and Vassar literature professor Don Foster, who famously exposed Joe Klein as the author of the book Primary Colors, sides with the family of Hudson Valley gentleman poet Henry Livingston Jr. in arguing that Livingston is the Christmas poem's true author.
Socially-conscious, anti-establishment rappers like Lupe Fiasco, who wrote a poem in an issue of the Occupied Wall Street Journal last year, are logical proponents.
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What ensues is a strange blend of manhunt and tone poem, in which even the most brutal characters seem rapt in the face of red earth and endless sky.
Illustrators began using Moore's words to mold a visual image of Santa Claus almost as soon as the poem was first printed in upstate New York's Troy Sentinel in 1823.
And the ceremony at which 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh received the freedom of the borough saw a poem read in tribute to Pte Craig Barber, 20, from Ogmore Vale, Bridgend.
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The title comes from a poem by the feminist poet Forough Farrokhzad, recited during a mysterious scene in which a girl milks a cow in a dark cellar, her face hidden.
He revised the clue-poem's wording several times over the years, and made other changes in his plans.
Writing The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Dragon-Slayers was probably not what the unknown author of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf had in mind.
Before Moore's poem, American Christmas customs were in the European tradition.
The poem, written on Army notepaper in blue crayon, consists of four 10-line stanzas, each ending with the name of a distant outpost of the British empire.
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