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Adamant in classical mythology is an archaic form of diamond. In fact, the English word diamond is ultimately derived from adamas , via Late Latin diamas and Old French diamant . In ancient Greek ἀδάμας ( adamas ), genitive ἀδάμαντος ( adamantos ), literally 'unconquerable, untameable'.
The longest poem in The Lord of the Rings is the "Song of Eärendil", also called Eärendillinwë in a different version. [1] This poem has an extraordinarily complex history. [2] Long before writing The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote a poem he called "Errantry", probably in the early 1930s, published in The Oxford Magazine on 9
Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was their eighth operatic collaboration of fourteen; the next was The Mikado . Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre on 5 January 1884 and ran for 246 performances.
Despite their attempts to convince her, the Princess was adamant that he stay. Over lunch, the poet sang a poem about the poor and the hardships that they face. When he was done, everyone was stunned, and the 45 princes who claimed to be poets stood up and left, knowing that they were not real poets.
An illustration for the 1890 edition of Tennyson's poem. The play is a farcical burlesque of Tennyson's 1847 narrative blank-verse poem, The Princess. Gilbert's play is also written in blank verse and retains Tennyson's basic serio-comic story line about a heroic princess who runs a women's college and about the prince who loves her.
Errantry" is a three-page poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, first published in The Oxford Magazine in 1933. [T 1] It was included in revised and extended form in Tolkien's 1962 collection of short poems, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Donald Swann set the poem to music in his 1967 song cycle, The Road Goes Ever On.
Manuscript copy of lines 153–174, later revised as lines 150–171 [15]. The Vanity of Human Wishes is a poem of 368 lines, written in closed heroic couplets.Johnson loosely adapts Juvenal's original satire to demonstrate "the complete inability of the world and of worldly life to offer genuine or permanent satisfaction."
"The Man of Adamant" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in the 1837 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir , edited by Samuel Griswold Goodrich . It later appeared in Hawthorne's final collection of short stories The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales , published in 1852 by Ticknor, Reed & Fields .