Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar, born...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jim Morrison: Encyclopedia Ii - Jim Morrison - Biography
Jim Morrison - Early years. Morrison was the son of Admiral George Stephen Morrison and his wife Clara Clark Morrison, who met in Hawai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - D. H. Lawrence: Encyclopedia - D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, prolific and controversial English writers of ...   » Read the article

Article - Life After Death: What Becomes Of The Soul After Death
The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. We want to now the truth behind near death experiences and become...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: The Phenomenon Of Death
Death is separation of the soul from the physical body. Death becomes the starting point of a new and better life. Death does not end you...   » Read the article

Article - Sraaddha: Prayer For The Dead - Prayer And Kirtan For The Dead
The prayers, good thoughts or good wishes and Kirtan become helpful to the departed souls. They can be of invaluable assistance to the de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death Poem: Encyclopedia - Death Poem
A death poem (辞世の句: jisei no ku) is a poem written near the time of one's own death. It is a tradition for literate persons to wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 600: Encyclopedia - 600
600 - Environmental change. The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people. Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1247: Encyclopedia - 1247
1247 - Events. Shams ad-Din disappears resulting in Jalal Uddin Rumi writing 30,000 verses of poetry about his disappearance. Romford,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Saadi: Encyclopedia - Saadi
Saadi or Sadi (سعدی in Persian) (English name: Mushrif-ud-Din Abdullah) (1184 - 1283/1291?) was an Persian poet, a native of Shiraz, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dante Alighieri: Encyclopedia - Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante, (c. June 1, 1265 – September 13/14, 1321) was an Italian Florentine poet. His greatest ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biblical Poetry: Encyclopedia - Biblical Poetry
This article is concerned with Biblical poetry, specifically poetry in the Hebrew Bible. The question whether the literature of the ancie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Waley: Encyclopedia - Arthur Waley
Arthur David Waley (August 19, 1889 – June 27, 1966) was a noted English Orientalist and Sinologist. Waley was born in Tunbridge Wells,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wallace Stevens: Encyclopedia - Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. Wallace Stevens - Life and Career. Stevens was born...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglo-saxon Literature: Encyclopedia - Anglo-saxon Literature
Anglo-Saxon literature (or Old English literature) encompasses literature written in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) during the 600-year Anglo-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The White Goddess: Encyclopedia - The White Goddess
The author and poet Robert Graves' study of the nature of poetic myth-making, The White Goddess, first published in 1948, and revised, am...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine P. Cavafy: Encyclopedia - Constantine P. Cavafy
Constantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes (Greek Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβά�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adam Asnyk: Encyclopedia - Adam Asnyk
Adam Asnyk (born September 11, 1838 in Kalisz, died August 2, 1897 in Krakow), was a Polish poet and dramatist. Adam Asnyk - Biography. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilfred Owen: Encyclopedia - Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was an English poet. Wilfred Owen - Biography. Wilfred Owen - Earl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antimachus: Encyclopedia - Antimachus
Antimachus, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC. Scarcely anything is known of his life. His poetic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achilles Last Stand: Encyclopedia - Achilles Last Stand
"Achilles Last Stand" is a song by British rock group Led Zeppelin. It is found on the 1976 album Presence. Led Zeppelin was working on t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jim Morrison: Encyclopedia Ii - Jim Morrison - Legacy
Morrison remains one of the most popular and influential singers in rock history, as The Doors' catalogue has become a staple of classic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jim Morrison: Encyclopedia Ii - Jim Morrison - Jim Morrison In Fiction
In the early 1980s, low budget filmmaker Larry Buchanan made the film Beyond the Doors aka Down On Us, which advanced the theory that Mor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - D. H. Lawrence: Encyclopedia Ii - D. H. Lawrence - Life
D. H. Lawrence - Early life 1885-1912. The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner, and Lydia, née Beardsall, a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Lewis’s Death And Legacy
Lewis died on November 22, 1963, at the Oxford home he shared with his brother, Warren. He is buried in the Headington Quarry Churchyard,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Lewis’s Death And Legacy
Lewis died on November 22, 1963, at the Oxford home he shared with his brother, Warren. He is buried in the Headington Quarry Churchyard,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Career As A Writer On Christianity
In addition to his career as an English professor and an author of novels, Lewis also wrote a number of books about Christianity — perh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Career As A Writer Of Fiction
In addition to his scholarly work, Lewis wrote a number of popular novels, including his science-fiction Space Trilogy, his fantasy Narni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Career As A Writer On Christianity
In addition to his career as an English professor and an author of fiction, Lewis also wrote a number of books about Christianity — per...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Early Life
Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), to Albert James Lewis and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis. At the a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - My Irish Life
Lewis experienced a certain cultural shock when living in England. "No Englishman will be able to understand my first impressions of Engl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Conversion To Christianity
Although raised as a Christian, Lewis was an atheist for much of his youth. When he later wrote an account of his adult reconversion to C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Career As A Scholar
Lewis taught as a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, for nearly thirty years, from 1925 to 1954, and later was the first Professor of Me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Career As A Writer Of Fiction
The Pilgrim's Regress. His first novel after becoming a Christian was The Pilgrim's Regress, his take on John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Prog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Bibliography
C. S. Lewis - Nonfiction. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936) Rehabilitations and other essays (1939) — with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. S. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - C. S. Lewis - Early Life
Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), to Albert James Lewis and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis. At the a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - D. H. Lawrence: Encyclopedia Ii - D. H. Lawrence - Works
Realism was the main feature of Lawrence's writings and his unflinching depictions of the gritty struggles of everyday life give many of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iain Lom: Encyclopedia Ii - Iain Lom - Biography
Iain Lom's family were the MacDonalds of Keppoch. His dates of birth and death are unknown, but we know that he was present at (and wrote...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - D. H. Lawrence: Encyclopedia Ii - D. H. Lawrence - List Of Lawrence's Writings
A note on the editions cited below D H Lawrence is one of the great literary artists of the twentieth century - yet the texts of his writ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hafez: Encyclopedia Ii - Hafez - Life
Very little credible information is known about Hafez's life, particularly its early part - there is a great deal of more or less mythica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong: Encyclopedia Ii - Mao Zedong - Cult Of Mao
One of the reasons Mao is most remembered is the Cult of Mao, the personality cult that was created around him. Mao presented himself as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong: Encyclopedia Ii - Mao Zedong - Leadership Of China
The People's Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949. It was the culmination of over two decades of popular struggle led by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong: Encyclopedia Ii - Mao Zedong - Legacy
Mao's legacy has produced a large amount of controversy. Some Chinese mainlanders continue to regard Mao Zedong as a great revolutionary ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong: Encyclopedia Ii - Mao Zedong - Leadership Of China
The People's Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949. It was the culmination of over two decades of civil and international ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacques Mauduit: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacques Mauduit - Life
Much of the biographical information about Mauduit comes from the writings of Marin Mersenne. Mauduit was born in Paris, and being an ari...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - Petrarch And After
Two facts characterize the literary life of Petrarch: classical research and the new human feeling introduced into his lyric poetry. Nor ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dante Alighieri: Encyclopedia Ii - Dante Alighieri - Life
Dante Alighieri - Early history and family. Dante was born in 1265 and he tells us he was born under the sign of Gemini, placing his bi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Mature Fiction
Victor Hugo's first mature work of fiction appeared in 1829, and reflected the acute social conscience that would infuse his later work. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilfred Owen: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilfred Owen - Relationship With Sassoon
Owen, however, would have strongly disagreed with the assumption that he was superior, or even that he was a poet opposed to war. His poe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Merrill: Encyclopedia Ii - James Merrill - Works By Merrill
Since his death, Merrill's work has been anthologized in three divisions: Collected Poems, Collected Prose, and Collected Novels and Play...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orpheus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Orpheus
Orpheus (Greek) An early religious teacher and reformer in Greece about whom clustered so many legends that in course of time his hist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong: Encyclopedia Ii - Mao Zedong - Early Life
The eldest son of four children of a moderately prosperous peasant farmer and money lender, Mao Zedong was born in the village of Shaosha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong: Encyclopedia Ii - Mao Zedong - War And Revolution
Mao escaped the white terror in the spring and summer of 1927 and led the ill-fated Autumn Harvest Uprising at Changsha, Hunan, that autu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong: Encyclopedia Ii - Mao Zedong - Writings
Mao is the attributed author of Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, known in the West as the "Little Red Book": this is a collection o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong: Encyclopedia Ii - Mao Zedong - Family
Mao Zedong had several wives which contributed to a large family. These were: Luo Yixiu (罗一秀, 1889-1910) of Shaoshan: married 1907...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong: Encyclopedia Ii - Mao Zedong - Political Ideas
During his early political career, Mao developed his political thinking. His ideas have had a monumental impact on generations of Chinese...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dante Alighieri: Encyclopedia Ii - Dante Alighieri - Works
The Divine Comedy describes Dante's journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso), guided first by the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare's Reputation - 17th Century
It is impossible to calculate Shakespeare's reputation in his own lifetime and shortly after. England scarcely had a modern literature to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Dirac: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Dirac - Views
Dirac was known among his colleagues for his precise and taciturn nature. When Niels Bohr complained that he didn't know how to finish a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Reception Of Nietzsche
Among the first to recognize Nietzsche's importance was the German novelist Thomas Mann, who showed Nietzsche's influence in his novels, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Reception Of Nietzsche
Among the first to recognize Nietzsche's importance was the German novelist Thomas Mann, who showed Nietzsche's influence in his novels, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magic: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Magic
MAGIC From Latin magi, pl. (Greek magoi, pl. of magos, a Magian, one of the Median tribe; also an enchanter, properly a wise-man who i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dafydd Ap Gwilym: Encyclopedia Ii - Dafydd Ap Gwilym - Poetry
It is believed that about one hundred and fifty of his poems have survived, though many others have been attributed to him over the centu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Welsh Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Welsh Literature - Welsh Poetry 1100-1600
From ca.1100 until ca.1600 Welsh poetry can be divided roughly into two distinct periods: the period of the Poets of the Princes who work...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edith Sitwell: Encyclopedia Ii - Edith Sitwell - Poetry
She published her first poem The Drowned Suns in the Daily Mirror in 1913 and between 1916 and 1921 edited Wheels, an annual poetic antho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Poetry - The 20th Century
Irish poetry - Yeats and modernism. In the 1910s, Yeats became acquainted with the work of James Joyce, and worked closely with Ezra Po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Poetry - Ancient
Japanese poetry - Poems in Kojiki and Nihonshoki. Until Korean scholars brought Chinese classical texts to Japan in the 6th century, Ja...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wallace Stevens: Encyclopedia Ii - Wallace Stevens - Poetry
Stevens' first book of poetry, Harmonium, was published in 1923. He produced only two more major books of poetry during the 1920s and 193...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michael Palmer: Encyclopedia Ii - Michael Palmer - Beginnings
Michael Palmer's first stirrings as a poet occurred in the early 1960's. Palmer's 'moment', as such, was two-fold. First, he edited the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ralph Hodgson: Encyclopedia Ii - Ralph Hodgson - Early Life
He was born in Darlington. From about 1890 he worked for a number of London publications. He was a comic artist, signing himself 'Yorick'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Seamus Heaney: Encyclopedia Ii - Seamus Heaney - Bibliography
Poetry Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber, 1966) Door into the Dark (Faber & Faber, 1969) Wintering Out (Faber & Faber, 19...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Restoration Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Restoration Literature - Poetry
The Restoration was an age of poetry. Not only was poetry the most popular form of literature, but it was also the most significant form ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biblical Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Biblical Poetry - Characteristics Of Ancient Hebrew Poetry
Biblical poetry - Rhyme. Ancient Hebrew poetry contains no rhyme. Although the first song mentioned above (Exodus 15:1-19) contains ass...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglo-saxon Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglo-saxon Literature - Old English Poetry
Old English poetry is of two types, the heroic Germanic pre-Christian and the Christian. It has survived for the most part in four manusc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David Holbrook: Encyclopedia Ii - David Holbrook - Works
David Holbrook - Novels. Holbrook wrote several novels based on his own life and his family history. These were not romans à clef—mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edmund Spenser: Encyclopedia Ii - Edmund Spenser - Poetry
The first poem to earn Spenser notability was a collection of eclogues called The Shepheardes Calendar, written from the point of view of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Graves: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Graves - Life
Graves, born in Wimbledon, England, received his early education at Charterhouse School and won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxfor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kim Jong-chul Poet: Encyclopedia Ii - Kim Jong-chul Poet - Style
Kim's first publications generally explored basic human emotions. These are sometimes thought to be typical of Korean poetry. Basic emoti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Objectivist Poets: Encyclopedia Ii - Objectivist Poets - Objectivists After Objectivism
In 1935, the Oppens joined the Communist Party of America, and George abandoned poetry in favour of political activism. In 1950, the coup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Literature Of Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Literature Of Brazil - Romanticism
Neoclassicism lasted for an unnaturally long time, stifling innovation and restricting literary creation. It was only in 1836 that Romant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Literature Of Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Literature Of Brazil - Romanticism
Neoclassicism lasted for an unnaturally long time, stifling innovation and restricting literary creation. It was only in 1836 that Romant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argentine Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Argentine Literature - History
Argentine literature - Beginning. We can say Argentine literature begins about the year 1550, with Matías Rojas de Oquendo and Pedro G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clerihew: Encyclopedia Ii - Clerihew - Examples
The first ever Clerihew: Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Edmund Clerihew Bentle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death In June: Encyclopedia Ii - Death In June - Early Death In June 1981-1985
Death In June soon left the reticent punk scene behind and began to infuse their sound with electronics and martial style drumming, combi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jonakr's Sons: Encyclopedia Ii - Jonakr's Sons - Legend
According to the Edda and the Völsunga saga, they were the sons of Gjuki's daughter Gudrun and king Jonakr. Svanhild, the daughter of Si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Doors Film: Encyclopedia Ii - The Doors Film - Dramatization Not Biography
The film is based mostly on real people and actual events, but is clearly Stone's vision and dramatization of those people and events. Kr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julia A. Moore: Encyclopedia Ii - Julia A. Moore - Biography
Young Julia grew up on a farm, the eldest of four children. When she was ten, her mother became infirm, and Julia assumed many of her mot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homoeroticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Homoeroticism - In Romanticism
Homoeroticism has been a strong undercurrent in much Romantic and Neo-Romantic visual art. The Romantic emphasis on beauty, perfect love ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cao Zhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Cao Zhi - Poetry
Despite his failure in politics, Cao Zhi was hailed as one of the representatives of the poetic style of his time, together with his fath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Berryman: Encyclopedia Ii - John Berryman - Writers' Workshop
While Berryman was on the faculty of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, W. D. Snodgrass, the original confessional poet, was one o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mak Dizdar: Encyclopedia Ii - Mak Dizdar - Poetry
A text about time Long have I lain here before thee And after thee Long shall I lie Long Have the grasses my bones Long Have the worms my...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blue Kaffee: Encyclopedia Ii - Blue Kaffee - Features
The core functionality of Blue Kaffee has always been an online journal or "blog" system. The vast majority of users are introduced to th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Creeley: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Creeley - Life
Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. He was raised by his mother with four sisters, and lost his left eye at the age of four. He...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Peace & Freedom Band: Encyclopedia Ii - The Peace & Freedom Band - A Poor Man's 'tommy'!
The Poll Tax was to inspire the band's next album in 1991. Rance, Bruce, and Savage were fierce critics of this, with Rance being given a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Takeda Shingen: Encyclopedia Ii - Takeda Shingen - Story Of Shingen And Itagaki
Shingen is a popular Sengoku Jidai warlord, of whom a lot of written stories are dedicated (either dramatized fiction or factual). Here i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rudyard Kipling: Encyclopedia Ii - Rudyard Kipling - Death And Legacy
Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. He died of a brain haemorrhage i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Das Lied Von Der Erde: Encyclopedia Ii - Das Lied Von Der Erde - Origins
Mahler conceived of the work in 1907, which was undoubtedly the worst year of his life. The summer of that year is likened to the three h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Topaz Mcgonagall: Encyclopedia Ii - William Topaz Mcgonagall - Life And Poetry
Born in Edinburgh, of Irish parentage, he was working as a handloom weaver in Dundee, Scotland when an event occurred that was to change ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Confederate Wars: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Confederate Wars - The Cost
The death toll of the conflict was huge. William Petty, a Cromwellian who conducted the first scientific land and demographic survey of I...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Topic Pages I - 8
This is a sitemap for popular topic pages at Global Oneness. Click on a link and you will find multiple articles related to the topic: ...   » Read the article