The rich repertoire of songs and scores preserves ancient folk music and poems and has influenced opera, puppet theatre and other performing art traditions.
They recount Islamic and Gnostic poems and epics containing mythological, historical or legendary themes.
Forster, the young Graham Greene and countless others would make the long ascent to her flat, read stories and poems, and exchange compliments and insults over strong tea and halfpenny buns.
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Poetry recital was highlighted in the BBC's Off by Heart competition, where in 2009, thousands of primary school children learned and performed poems and, this year, secondary school pupils will begin tackling passages from Shakespeare.
Others in the running for an guild award in March include BBC Radio 3's World and Music, a sequence of classical music interspersed with both popular and less familiar poems and prose read by leading actors.
"There was a huge state funeral and there were many pieces of journalism reporting the event in the national press and many of them talk about 'tears gushing from every eye' and the 'nation's tears', 'Britannia's tears' at the falling of her hero and poems about Nelson and so on, " says Dr Dixon.
In 1917 he served on the front line in France and began to write poems and letters about his experiences in the trenches.
But he continued to write and his novels, poems and essays and in his later years he was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government.
The findings show that more girls admit they read text messages, magazines, emails, fiction, song lyrics and social networking message boards and poems than boys, while more boys said they read newspapers, comics and manuals.
Over a period of more than half a century, Bukowski, who was born in Germany and brought to America at the age of three, chronicled, in poems and novels, his life as a drifter and a drunk as he lurched through the mean streets of Los Angeles.
Pupils would be read poems by their teachers, learn simple poems by heart and practise recitals from the age of five.
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She and John regularly copied out and illustrated poems for their mother, Jackie, upon birthdays and Mother's Days.
Friends posted poems and pictures' and urged Jim to "shake things up" in his new digs.
It is framed by coloured banners with religious inscriptions, illustrations and poems dedicated to the deceased.
Initially, it was poems and songs, and then it kind of became the spoken word through hip-hop.
Detectives found several weapons and 300 pieces of gruesome artwork and poems in his north London house.
He left behind more than 200 lurid drawings, paintings and poems that gave clues to two unsolved murders.
Detectives had found several weapons and 300 pieces of gruesome artwork and poems in his north London house.
Despite the intense heat, they enjoyed speeches, prayers and poems, prior to the official transfer of the land.
Pupils will be judged on how accurately they remember poems and how well they perform them to an audience.
Out fell a letter, scrawled in a looping, difficult hand, as well as four poems and another, smaller envelope.
Ritual praise songs and poems are dedicated to the contestants in the events.
There was also the publication of the plays and poems themselves in his lifetime, with his name attached as the author.
The Tommaso in question was Tommaso de' Cavlieri, a handsome young Roman nobleman to whom Michelangelo addressed several love poems and drawings.
One of the reasons he wrote letters and poems so copiously was that they lifted his spirits, diverting him from the demons within.
The text, which Lang assembled, intersplices various tellings of the story of Tristan and Isolde with the flinty stories and poems of Lydia Davis.
Kipling, who lived from 1865 to 1936, was best known for his fictional short stories including The Jungle Book and poems Mandalay and If.
The fact that this species has been capable of creating pyramids, cathedrals, frescoes and poems that are nothing less than divine makes it worth saving.
Asking digital readers to pony up for essays, journalism and poems is no longer a fringe proposition, as major media outlets are embracing digital-subscription models.
Dr. Seuss is known for a number of books and poems.
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