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Bitter digestifs typically contain carminative herbs, which are thought to aid digestion. [5] As a consequence, the poet has found himself inoculated against future ailments. He has been made "sick of welfare" but finds it appropriate ("a kind of meetness", with echoes of 'meat') that he has become ill ("To be diseased"), before there was any ...
Tristram of Lyonesse is a long epic poem written by the British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, that recounts in grand fashion the famous medieval story of the ill-fated lovers Tristan and Isolde (Tristram and Iseult in Swinburne's version).
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (1986) is the first book of criticism by the Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and classicist Anne Carson.. A reworking of her 1981 doctoral thesis Odi et Amo Ergo Sum ("I Hate and I Love, Therefore I Am"), [1] Eros the Bittersweet "laid the groundwork for her subsequent publications, […] formulating the ideas on desire that would come to dominate her poetic ...
To the Bitter End, the English translation of Bis zum bitteren Ende, the first-hand account of the German resistance by Hans Bernd Gisevius; Bitter End, a 1940 Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout "The Bitter End" (short story), an alternative history mystery story by Randall Garrett
Bittersweet is based on the premise that "light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired". [1] Cain encourages the reader to accept feelings of sorrow and longing as inspiration to experience sublime emotions—such as beauty and wonder and transcendence—to counterbalance the "normative sunshine" of society's pressure ...
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Bitter (beer), a British term for pale ale Bitters , an herbal preparation with bitter flavour now used mostly in cocktails A category of plants with bitter flavour, many dark leafy greens
Robert Myron Coates (April 6, 1897 – February 8, 1973) was an American novelist, short story writer and art critic. He published five novels; one classic historical work, The Outlaw Years (1930) which deals with the history of the land pirates of the Natchez Trace; a book of memoirs, The View from Here (1960), and two travel books, Beyond the Alps (1962) and South of Rome (1965).