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Additionally, she was a passionate supporter of Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union and its endeavors to urge either abstinence or moderation in the use of alcohol. [235] For example, Crosby wrote the words for the song "The Red Pledge" before 1879, [259] which advocated total abstinence from imbibing alcohol. [260]
The term "courtly love" appears in only one extant source: Provençal cortez amors in a late 12th-century poem by Peire d'Alvernhe. [5] It is associated with the Provençal term fin'amor ("fine love") which appears frequently in poetry, as well as its German translation hohe Minne. [5] Provençal also uses the terms verai'amors, bon'amors. [6]
Everyone needs someone : poems of love and friendship. Old Tappan, N.J., Fleming H. Revell, 1978. In the vineyard of the Lord / Helen Steiner Rice, as told to Fred Bauer. Old Tappan, N.J., Fleming H. Revell, 1979. And the greatest of these is love : poems and promises / Helen Steiner Rice ; compiled by Donald T. Kauffman.
The parallel development of German Romanticism also produced Christian religious poetry by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Clemens Brentano, as well as the rediscovery and publication of ancient and Medieval religious poetry by linguists and antiquarians like Baron Joseph von Laßberg, Friedrich Blume, and Johann Martin Lappenberg.
Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), among first Englishwomen to publish a volume of original poems and seek patronage; Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), English writer, teacher, and polemicist; Anne de Marquets (c. 1533–1588), French poet; Camille de Morel (1547–1611), French poet and writer; Isabella di Morra (c. 1520–1546), Italian poet of the ...
Her poems, frequently occasional, typically celebrate the refined pleasures of platonic love. [ citation needed ] Jeremy Taylor in 1659 dedicated to her his Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship , and Cowley , Henry Vaughan the Silurist, the Earl of Roscommon and the Earl of Cork and Orrery all celebrated her talent.
Arguing for a serious interpretation of the poem, for instance, C. M. Bowra suggests that it discusses a genuine religious experience. On the other hand, A. P. Burnett sees the piece as "not a prayer at all", but a lighthearted one aiming to amuse. [34] Some elements of the poem which are otherwise difficult to account for can be explained as ...
Milton J. Bates interprets the poem as a "shocking version" of Santayana's argument in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900) that poetry and religion are equally fictions of the human mind, simply reflecting the values of the human maker. [1]