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  2. Thomas Woolner - Wikipedia

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    Woolner was a close friend of a number of writers of the day, notably Thomas Carlyle and Alfred Tennyson. He provided the latter with the scenario for his poem "Enoch Arden". He also corresponded with Charles Darwin, who named part of the human ear the 'Woolnerian Tip' after a feature in Woolner's sculpture Puck. Woolner had discussed the ...

  3. The Child (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The Child" is an English poem written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1930. [1] [2] It was his only poem originally written in English. [1] [2] Later, he translated it in Bengali as "Sishutirtha". [1] It was one of Tagore's most outstanding poem in his poetic career. [2] It was originally written in a single night.

  4. Divine intervention - Wikipedia

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    Divine intervention is an event that occurs when a deity (i.e. God or gods) becomes actively involved in changing some situation in human affairs. In contrast to other kinds of divine action, the expression "divine intervention" implies that there is some kind of identifiable situation or state of affairs that a god chooses to get involved with, to intervene in, in order to change, end, or ...

  5. Mahana no atua - Wikipedia

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    Mahana no atua (English: Day of the God) is an 1894 oil painting by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin which is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. [1] The painting was executed in Paris on Gauguin's return from his first period of living and working in Tahiti and is more imaginative than real. It depicts a central ...

  6. Mass of the Children - Wikipedia

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    Mass of the Children is a major work of English composer John Rutter and a non-liturgical Missa brevis, with the traditional Latin and Greek Mass text interwoven with several English poems. Mass of the Children consists of five movements: Kyrie; Gloria; Sanctus and Benedictus; Agnus Dei; Finale (Dona nobis pacem)

  7. Sándor Petőfi - Wikipedia

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    Every Hungarian primary school child learns some of his poems by heart [citation needed]. The Hungarian 10 Forint banknote valid between 1947 and 1992 depicted Sándor Petőfi on the obverse. Petőfi has a larger than life terra cotta statue near the Pest end of Erzsébet Bridge , sculpted by Miklós Izsó and Adolf Huszár [ hu ] .

  8. Kumārasambhava - Wikipedia

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    The play closely follows the poem, not just in its sequence of events but also in much of its wording, making the Pārvatīparinaya appear as an effort to adapt an epic poem into a play. However, the play modifies certain elements of Kalidasa's plot, often adding details that evoke familiar features of well-known Sanskrit dramas.

  9. A Psalm of Life - Wikipedia

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    Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]