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  2. Briggflatts - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme scheme also changes throughout the poem as the bulk of the text appears in free verse while other lines do contain rhyming patterns. The poem is noted for its use of sound. [ 5 ] Bunting believed that the essential element of poetry is the sound, and that if the sound is right, the listener will hear, enjoy and be moved; and that ...

  3. List of axioms - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of axioms as that term is understood in mathematics. In epistemology , the word axiom is understood differently; see axiom and self-evidence . Individual axioms are almost always part of a larger axiomatic system .

  4. Basil Bunting - Wikipedia

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    Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) [2] was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist tradition in English.

  5. List of first-order theories - Wikipedia

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    The axioms for fields, plus axioms for each prime number p stating that if p 1 = 0 (i.e. the field has characteristic p), then every field element has a pth root. Algebraically closed fields of characteristic p. The axioms for fields, plus for every positive n the axiom that all polynomials of degree n have a root, plus axioms fixing the ...

  6. The Blue and the Gray (picture book) - Wikipedia

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    Kirkus Reviews called Bunting's work "child's brief sentences, but sprinkled with rhyming words and typographically arranged like a poem in short lines that slow the reading to a somber pace", while also applauding Bittinger's oil paintings. [1]

  7. Eve Bunting - Wikipedia

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    Her novels are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but she has also written the text for picture books. While many of her books are set in Northern Ireland where she grew up, her topics and settings range from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. Bunting's first book, The Two Giants, was published in 1971. Due to the popularity of ...

  8. Maxims (Old English poems) - Wikipedia

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    "Maxims I" (sometimes treated as three separate poems, "Maxims I, A, B and C") and "Maxims II" are pieces of Old English gnomic poetry. The poem "Maxims I" can be found in the Exeter Book and "Maxims II" is located in a lesser known manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B i.

  9. Primitive notion - Wikipedia

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    As evidence, she quotes Felix Hausdorff: "A set is formed by the grouping together of single objects into a whole. A set is a plurality thought of as a unit." Naive set theory: The empty set is a primitive notion. To assert that it exists would be an implicit axiom. Peano arithmetic: The successor function and the number zero are primitive ...