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Germania on Guard on the Rhine, Hermann Wislicenus, 1873 " Die Wacht am Rhein" (German: [diː ˈvaxt am ˈʁaɪn], The Watch on the Rhine) is a German patriotic anthem.The song's origins are rooted in the historical French–German enmity, and it was particularly popular in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II.
Poet Dylan Thomas c. 1937–1938. " Do not go gentle into that good night " is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [ 1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [ 2] the poem was written in 1947 while Thomas visited Florence with his family.
The line is one of the most highly regarded and widely debated lines in contemporary poetry, [2] [1] and has often been seen as having had cemented Wright's poetic legacy. [3] The line has been widely interpreted. In 2010, Dan Piepenbring [ de], writer for The Paris Review, summarized a large amount of the attention directed towards the poem:
Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. Though it was first published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing, rewriting, and expanding Leaves of Grass[ 1] until his death in 1892. Six or nine individual editions of Leaves of Grass were produced, depending on how they are distinguished. [ 2]
—Yvonne De Carlo, Yvonne: An Autobiography De Carlo (left) and her mother at the Florentine Gardens, c. 1941 De Carlo was born Margaret Yvonne Kao Middleton on September 1, 1922, at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her nickname was "Peggy" because she was named after the silent film star Baby Peggy. Her mother, Marie De Carlo, was born in France to a Sicilian ...
The following is a list of the top 10 films chosen annually by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma, a French film magazine.The magazine started the lists in 1951, but did not publish a list from 1952 to 1953 and from 1969 to 1980 and 2003.
Journey , p. 11) – One of Angelou's most famous statements Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now consists of 24 "journalistic homilies" or "meditations", many of which are autobiographical, that range in number from 63 to a few hundred words. Siona Carpenter of Religion News Service considered Journey as a part of the increase in popularity of motivational and inspirational books written ...
Inferno (Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for 'Hell') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso . The Inferno describes the journey of a fictionalised version of Dante himself through Hell , guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil .