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"Alphabet" is a book-length poem following the tradition of Abecedarian poems, in which each line begins with the next letter of the alphabet sequentially from A through Z. Each of the poem's fourteen sections [3] of the poem is tied to a letter of the alphabet and the number of lines found in each section is dictated by the Fibonacci sequence ...
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (/ ˈ æ ŋ ɡ r ə / ANG-grə; French: [ʒɑ̃ oɡyst dɔminik ɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style.
Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.
It (Danish: Det) is a 1969 book of poetry by the Danish writer Inger Christensen.The book focuses on social criticism, and lines from it have frequently been quoted in the Danish political discourse. [1]
Inger Christensen (16 January 1935 – 2 January 2009) [1] was a Danish poet, novelist, essayist and editor. She is considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation. She is considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation.
Lettering is an act or result of artfully drawing letters, instead of writing them simply. Lettering is considered an art form, where each letter in a phrase or quote acts as an illustration . Each letter is created with attention to detail and has a unique role within a composition . [ 1 ]
The letter size falls within the range of the historical quarto size, which since pre-modern times refers to page sizes of 8 to 9 inches (200 to 230 mm) wide and 10 to 11 inches (250 to 280 mm) high, and it is indeed almost exactly one quarter of the old Imperial (British) paper size known as demy quarto – 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches ...
The book contains important aspects of the history of humankind from Ancient Greece (letter 6) to the time of writing the book, when Nehru anticipated a new major conflict arising (letter 195). In later editions, Nehru added notes at the end of some letters on 20th century events, with updates made in November 1938, as well as a postscript.