Article - Death Poetry: Ode To Death
Death poetry! The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Becomes ...   » Read the article

Article - Death Poetry: What Is Real Death?
A poem about death. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Bec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilfred Owen: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilfred Owen - Poetry
Owen is regarded by some as the leading poet of the First World War, known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare. M...   » 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

Encyclopedia - 1912 In Literature: Encyclopedia - 1912 In Literature
See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature. 1912 in literature - Events. Virgi...   » 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

Article - Soul’s Journey After Death: Soul’s Journey After Death
The soul accompanied by the chief vital air (Mukhya Prana), the sense-organs and the mind and taking with itself Avidya, good and evil ac...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: The City Of Justice
Lord Yama is the King of justice. His city is built of diamonds and jewels. It is effulgent and impregnable. It is full of palaces and ma...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Goloka
Kine form high and excellent energy. The gift of kine is highly spoken of. Those good men, who, shorn of pride, make gift of kine, are co...   » Read the article

Article - Reincarnation: Karma And Reincarnation - Ii
The doctrine of reincarnation is accepted by the majority of mankind at the present day. It has been held as true by the mightiest Easter...   » 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

Encyclopedia - 1923 In Literature: Encyclopedia - 1923 In Literature
See also: 1922 in literature, other events of 1923, 1924 in literature, list of years in literature. 1923 in literature - Events. 1923 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1971 In Literature: Encyclopedia - 1971 In Literature
See also: 1970 in literature, other events of 1971, 1972 in literature, list of years in literature. 1971 in literature - Events. The D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1943 In Literature: Encyclopedia - 1943 In Literature
See also: 1942 in literature, other events of 1943, 1944 in literature, list of years in literature. 1943 in literature - Events. Georg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Minos: Encyclopedia - Minos
In Greek mythology, Minos was a semi-legendary king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. The Minoan civilization has been named after him. B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aldous Huxley: Encyclopedia - Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was a British writer who emigrated to the United States. He was a member of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christopher Marlowe: Encyclopedia - Christopher Marlowe
Christopher ("Kit") Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo
Novelist, poet, playwright, dramatist, essayist and statesman, Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802–May 22, 1885) is recognized as one ...   » Read the article

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 - 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 - 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

Encyclopedia - Cao Cao: Encyclopedia - Cao Cao
Cao Cao (155 – 220), whose name is also often transliterated and should be correctly pronounced as Ts'ao Ts'ao, was a regional warlord ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad Iqbal: Encyclopedia - Muhammad Iqbal
Allama Dr Sir Muhammad Iqbal (محمد اقبال,علامه محمد اقبال لاهوري) (November 9, 1877–April 21, 1938), commo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad Iqbal: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad Iqbal - Return To The Subcontinent
Upon his return to India from Europe in 1908, Iqbal embarked on a career in law, academics and poetry, all at once. Of the three pursuits...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taras Shevchenko: Encyclopedia Ii - Taras Shevchenko - Life
Born into a serf family in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev guberniya (then a part of the Russian Empire), Shevchenko was orphaned at the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad Iqbal: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad Iqbal - Iqbal's Legacy
Iqbal is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the Urdu language, admired both in India and Pakistan. He is also highly regarded ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilfred Owen: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilfred Owen - Biography
Wilfred Owen - Early life. Owen was born at Plas Wilmot near Oswestry in Shropshire on the 18th of March 1893 of mixed English and Wels...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilfred Owen: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilfred Owen - Death
In July of 1918, Owen returned to active service in France, though he might have stayed on home-duty indefinitely. His decision was almos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boris Vian: Encyclopedia Ii - Boris Vian - Career
Vian received a degree as a civil engineer and began his career at the French Association for Standardisation. This was by all accounts a...   » 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 - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Declining Years And Death
When Hugo returned to Paris in 1870, the country hailed him as a national hero. He went on to weather, within a brief period, the Siege o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Political Life And Exile
After three unsuccessful attempts, Hugo was finally elected to the Académie Francaise in 1841, solidifying his position in the world of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Prison Sentence
Shakur began serving his prison sentence at Clinton Correctional Facility later that February. Soon after, his multi-platinum album, Me A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Prison Sentence
Shakur began serving his prison sentence at Clinton Correctional Facility later that February. Soon after, his multi-platinum album, Me A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Prison Sentence
Shakur began serving his prison sentence at Clinton Correctional Facility later that February. Soon after, his multi-platinum album, Me A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Post-prison
Immediately after his release from prison, Shakur went back to work recording. He released the notorious song "Hit 'Em Up", a bitterly sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Post-prison
Immediately after his release from prison, Shakur went back to work recording. He began a new group, Tha Outlawz, and with them released ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Early Poetry And Fiction
By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by cat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Awards
Tupac was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame in 2002. [1] In 2003, MTV's "22 Greatest MCs" countdown listed Tupac as the "number 1 MC...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Awards
Tupac was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame in 2002. [1] In 2003, MTV's "22 Greatest MCs" countdown listed Tupac as the "number 1 MC...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - The Second Shooting
At the intersection of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada, Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting on Septembe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Early Life
Tupac Shakur was raised under difficult circumstances. He never got to know his biological father, and his stepfather Dr. Mutulu Shakur â...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Early Life
Tupac Shakur was raised under difficult circumstances. He never got to know his biological father, and his stepfather Dr. Shaka Zulu Shak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - The Second Shooting
At a red light on the corner of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada, Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - The Second Shooting
At a red light on the corner of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada, Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - The First Shooting
Shortly before his verdict was announced, Shakur was shot five times in an apparent robbery attempt outside a New York music studio. He r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Discography
All releases are under the alias of 2Pac unless stated. Tupac Shakur - Albums. Released while living: 2Pacalypse Now (1991) Strictly 4...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Discography
All releases are under the alias of 2Pac unless stated. Tupac Shakur - Albums. Released while living: 2Pacalypse Now (1991) (Gold U.S....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Discography
All releases are under the alias of 2Pac unless stated. Tupac Shakur - Albums. Released while living: 2Pacalypse Now (1991) (Gold U.S....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - The First Shooting
Shortly before his verdict was announced, Shakur was shot five times in an apparent robbery attempt outside a New York music studio. He r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Rise To Fame
In 1991, Shakur had trouble shopping his solo debut, 2Pacalypse Now. Eventually, Interscope records executives Ted Field and Tom Whalley ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Rise To Fame
In 1991, Shakur had trouble shopping his solo debut, 2Pacalypse Now. Eventually, Interscope records executives Ted Field and Tom Whalley ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erich Mühsam: Encyclopedia Ii - Erich Mühsam - Works
Erich Mühsam - Books. Die Eigenen (1903) Räterepublik (1929) Die Befeiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat (1932) Unpolitische Erinnerunge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Early Life And Influences
Victor Hugo was the youngest son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1773–1828) and Sophie Trébuchet (1772-1821). He was born in 1802 i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Religious Views
Hugo's religious views changed radically over the course of his life. In his youth, he identified as a Catholic and professed respect for...   » 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 - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Drawings
Many are not aware that Hugo was almost as prolific in the visual arts as he was in literature, producing more than 4,000 drawings in his...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Early Life And Influences
Victor Hugo was the youngest son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1773–1828) and Sophie Trébuchet (1772-1821). He was born in 1802 i...   » 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 - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - His Plans At Time Of Death
Shakur indicated after getting out of jail that he had future plans, including mostly getting out of the rap scene by releasing high-qual...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Theatrical Work
Hugo did not achieve such quick success with his works for the stage. In 1827, he published the never-staged verse drama Cromwell, which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aldous Huxley: Encyclopedia Ii - Aldous Huxley - Biography
Aldous Huxley - Early years. Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was the son of the writer Leonard Huxley by his first wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aldous Huxley: Encyclopedia Ii - Aldous Huxley - Biography
Aldous Huxley - Early years. Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was the son of the writer Leonard Huxley by his first wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - His Plans At Time Of Death
Shakur indicated after getting out of jail that he had future plans, including mostly getting out of the rap scene by releasing high-qual...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Names
His aliases included 2Pac and Makaveli. Among his fans especially, he is referred to simply as "Tupac". The name "Tupac Amaru" means Shin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Names
His stage names included 2Pac and Makaveli. Among his fans especially, he is referred to simply as "Tupac". The name "Tupac Amaru" means ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tupac Shakur: Encyclopedia Ii - Tupac Shakur - Early Life
He was born Lesane Parish Crooks in New York City on June 16, 1971 to Afeni Shakur, a member of the Black Panthers. Serving jail-time on ...   » 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 - 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 - Slam Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Slam Poetry - Slam And Academia
Slam Poetry has sometimes been attacked by the academic poetry community. In an interview published in a recent Paris Review, literary cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Works
Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy. Aus meinem Leben, 1858 Ãœber Musik, 1858 Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 Fatum und Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Works
Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy. Aus meinem Leben, 1858 Ãœber Musik, 1858 Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 Fatum und Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Minos: Encyclopedia Ii - Minos - The Historical And Scholarly Minos
He reigned over Crete and the islands of the Aegean Sea three generations before the Trojan War. He lived at Knossos for periods of nine ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boris Vian: Encyclopedia Ii - Boris Vian - Selected Bibliography
Boris Vian - Prose. As Boris Vian: Trouble dans les Andains (1947, posthumously published in 1966) Vercoquin et le plancton (1947) L'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schiller Institute: Encyclopedia Ii - Schiller Institute - Cultural Activity
Schiller Institute - Music. In 1988 the Schiller Institute initiated a campaign to return to the so-called "Verdi tuning" in the world ...   » 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 - 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 - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Works
Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy. Aus meinem Leben, 1858 Ãœber Musik, 1858 Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 Fatum und Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Works
Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy. Aus meinem Leben, 1858 Ãœber Musik, 1858 Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 Fatum und Ge...   » 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 - 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 - Muhammad Iqbal: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad Iqbal - Iqbal In Europe
In 1905, he went to Europe and began studies at Trinity College, Cambridge. While in England he also was able to practise law, which he d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhammad Iqbal: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhammad Iqbal - Later Years And Death
After returning from a trip to Afghanistan in 1933, Iqbal's health deteriorated. But his religious and political ideas were gaining wide ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Declining Years And Death
When Hugo returned to Paris in 1870, the country hailed him as a national hero. He went on to weather, within a brief period, the Siege o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Hardy: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Hardy - Poetry
In 1898 Hardy published his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, a collection of poems written over 30 years. Hardy claimed poetry was h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christopher Marlowe: Encyclopedia Ii - Christopher Marlowe - Works
The dates of composition are approximate. Christopher Marlowe - Plays. Dido, Queen of Carthage (c.1583) (with Thomas Nashe) Tamburlain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christopher Marlowe: Encyclopedia Ii - Christopher Marlowe - Works
The dates of composition are approximate. Christopher Marlowe - Plays. Dido, Queen of Carthage (c.1583) (with Thomas Nashe) Tamburlain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christopher Marlowe: Encyclopedia Ii - Christopher Marlowe - Literary Career
The brief Dido, Queen of Carthage seems to be Marlowe's first extant dramatic work, possibly written at Cambridge with Thomas Nashe. Marl...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - Aldous Huxley: Encyclopedia Ii - Aldous Huxley - Films
Huxley wrote many screenplays, and many of his novels were later adapted for film or television. Notable works include the original scree...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aldous Huxley: Encyclopedia Ii - Aldous Huxley - Selected Works
Aldous Huxley - Novels. Crome Yellow (1921) Antic Hay (1923) Those Barren Leaves (1925) Point Counter Point (1928) Brave New World (19...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Theatrical Work
Hugo did not achieve such quick success with his works for the stage. In 1827, he published the never-staged verse drama Cromwell, which ...   » Read the article