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Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. [1] The poem reads in full:
Istanbul #2461 (also Ni 2461, [1] L.2461) is an ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablet.Some have labelled it the world's oldest love poem. [2] [3] It is on display at the Istanbul Museum of the Ancient Orient (Mesopotamia Hall).
Most scholars believe that the Exeter Book was compiled by a single scribe; [56] however, the works were almost certainly originally composed by poets. [54] A riddle in Old English, written using runic script, features on the Franks Casket. One possible solution for the riddle is 'whale', evoking the whale-bone from which the casket made. [57]
The volume also aimed to "present the complete textual history of one of the most famous love letters ever written". [43] According to Thefreelibrary.com, Ian Small "creates an 'eclectic text' based on Vyvyan Holland's 1949 text into which he has collated and interpolated material from the manuscript.
Material: Vellum: Size: ≈ 23.5 cm × 16.2 cm × 5 cm (9.3 in × 6.4 in × 2.0 in) Format: One column in the page body, with slightly indented right margin and with paragraph divisions, and often with stars in the left margin; [12] the rest of the manuscript appears in the form of graphics (i.e. diagrams or markings for certain parts related to illustrations), containing some foldable parts
The Sentences (Latin: Sententiae in quatuor IV libris distinctae; Sententiarum. English: Sentences Divided into Four Books; Sentences) is a compendium of Christian theology written by Peter Lombard around 1150. It was the most important religious textbook of the Middle Ages.
A man in the U.K. spent as much time behind bars as it takes to watch an episode of Stranger Things after receiving what is being called the country's shortest ever prison sentence.. Shane Jenkins ...
(1936) contains a sentence composed of 1,288 words (in the 1951 Random House version) [6] Jonathan Coe's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club has a sentence with 13,955 words. [6] It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel written in one long sentence.