From the very childhood, Mikhail Lermontov was good at drawing, playing musical instruments and writing poems. The ability to rhyme was generally a part of a nobility's upbringing in the 19th century.

His poems provided a fixed model of heroism, nobility and the good life to which all Greeks, especially aristocrats, subscribed. In his works, disgrace due to dishonor is the worst that can happen ...

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In poems like The Bell Buoy and The Destroyers there is scarcely a muffled line, and the grave and noble movement of the Recessional is mated to the nobility of his theme. Yet not to advance in ...

His name only appears once, in a poem written to him by his friend ... He took aim at women, homosexuals, intellectuals and the nobility. In the fourth satire, he tells how the Emperor Domitian ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The concept of nobility in the middle ages is the focus of this volume. Embracing regions as diverse as England (before and after the ...

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One chronically overstimulated guy headed to a silent meditation retreat to spend ten days tuning into his psyche. That’s when the real noise began.

For many of us, chrysanthemums are the unofficial flowers of fall. As the air turns crisp, I love to see their fiery-colored ...

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Thus opens Maggie Nelson's heart-swelling poem-essay-dispatch from the frontlines of obsession ... poisoners, and back-stabbing nobility hell-bent on social climbing at any cost. A piece of popcorn on ...