Seria arias are strophic‚ and in A-B-A form (da cappo aria)‚ and were performed in gallant style. A good example of an Opera Seria would be Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orfeo Ed Euridice”. This work was written in 1762‚ and is based on the myth of Orpheus in the underworld. To have an opera plot set to a myth‚ with passion‚ love‚ and gods‚ were typical of the Opera Seria. In this work‚ the orchestra is a lot bigger‚ compared to Pergolessi’s orchestra used in “La Serva Padrona”‚ and plays passionately
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The author attempts to prove that the pre-Romanesque relief on the facade of the parish church of St George in Keutschach (Hodiše) in Austrian Carinthia is a depiction of the Orion constellation. He justifies his theory with historical and art-historical facts. The main emphasis is laid on the fact that traces of late Classical astral mythologisation and deification are also recognisable in the Slovenian folk tradition. The relief‚ which is carved into a damaged plate of white limestone of irregular
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young children‚ whose perceptions of their mother would have otherwise been impossibly spoiled by external interference. Throughout his career he wrote many memorable poems such as River (1983) and Remains of Elmet (1979)‚ Tales from Ovid (1997)‚ The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (1980) and many more. Today he is remembered as one of the greatest English poets. Ted Hughes died on October 29‚ 1998. He was recognized as one of England’s
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it ends with a searing examination of the sins of English society just before the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381: the denunciatory tone is relieved at the very end by a long hymn to the Virgin. Gower’s major Latin poem‚ the Vox clamantis‚ owes much to Ovid; it is essentially a homily‚ being in part a criticism of the three estates of society‚ in part a mirror for a prince‚ in elegiac form. The poet’s political doctrines are
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of their writings on the Greek philosophy (Speivogel‚ 2005). Rome’s famous writers were inspired by the Greek literature. The poet Horace wrote “Satires and Odes” that made fun of human weakness. Odes poems expressed emotions about life. He poet Ovid wrote works that were based on Greek myths. The poet Catullus also admired Greek writings and wrote short poems about love‚ sadness‚ and envy. The writer Virgil drew some of his ideas from the poet Homer and his “Odyssey”. The Roman world of entertainment
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The Inferno follows the wanderings of the poet Dante Alighieri’s poem‚ the Divine Comedy‚ which chronicles Dante’s journey to God‚ and is made up of the Inferno (Hell)‚ Purgatorio (Purgatory)‚ and Paradiso (Paradise). The Inferno begins when Dante strays off the rightful and straight path of moral truth and gets lost in a dark wood. He gets attack by three beasts that symbolize different sins. Fortunately‚ he then meets the spirit of the Roman epic poet Virgil. Virgil to the rescue! He’s an appropriate
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is in some sense a stand-in for Davies as well.) Ramsay counsels his students to write in "the plain style"‚ as Davies does—to highlight the story rather than the writer. Ramsay also appears in the novels What’s Bred in the Bone and "The Lyre of Orpheus" of Davies’ Cornish Trilogy‚ and in the later
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In the excerpt of Christine De Pizan works like the text the City of Ladies we can see why most of her audience were well educated and sophisticated readers. In her text where she answers why women do not sit in the seats of lawyers‚ her answer here is synonymous to the beliefs held in the high middle ages. She says “because of decency they are inclined to it would not be appropriate for them to go and appear boldly in court like men for there are enough men to do so” (page 134) This speaks directly
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on A(lec) D(erwent) Hope The legacy of leading Australian poet A. D. Hope to world literature is unquestionable‚ comprising eleven books of poetry‚ seven collections of critical essays‚ and two plays. His writing‚ compelling in its originality and passion‚ and rigorous in its satirical edge and philosophical insights‚ embodies in its language both the greatness and the frailty of the human spirit. Despite the many critical works Hope wrote during his lifetime‚ he
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Aristotelian Mean Ovid’s “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus” and Aristotle’s “On Happiness‚” each devise and apply the Aristotelian mean to maintain the concept that one must keep a balance between two excesses in life so that humanity can avoid ultimate disaster‚ because Aristotle says we are a product of our parents‚ and if they fail‚ we will most likely follow in their footsteps. In Aristotle’s “On Happiness‚” Aristotle analyzes the Aristotelian mean and about how we must keep a balance between
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