Dido’s Problem The Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro (70–19 B.C.) tells in his epic Aeneid the story of queen Dido, the daughter of the Phoenician king of the 9th century B.C. After the assassination of her husband by her brother she fled to a haven near Tunis. There she asked the local leader, Yarb, for as much land as could be enclosed by the hide of a bull. Since the deal seemed very modest,...

This article aims to show how Dante Alighieri was ‘used’ in Renaissance Polish literature. known by intellectuals first of all as a political theorist. Only the second half 14th century did writers start refer him great poet (Długosz). However, rather than read and topic character demonstrate excellence vernacular poetry. Andrzej Trzecieski Younger, fact, wrote couple epigrams his friend Mikoła...

Robert Burns's poem, Death and Doctor Hornbook, 1785, tells of the drunken narrator's late night encounter with Death. The Grim Reaper is annoyed that ‘Dr Hornbook’, a local schoolteacher who has taken to selling medications and giving medical advice, is successfully thwarting his efforts to gather victims. The poet fears that the local gravedigger will be unemployed but Death reassures him tha...

one of the prominent shophists lived in 4th and 5th hegira centuries (11th & 12th ad centuries) is ibn bakooyeh shirazi. in a poetic verse that saadi (14th ad century) mentioned baba koohi as pseudonym for ibn bakuyeh shirazi and within a phrase written by isa ibn joneid shirazi (15th ad cen.) at tazkereh-e- hezar mazar (literally hgiography of thousand tombs) book with title of babakoohi as we...

Many prominent representatives of Azerbaijani science deeply studied the legacy Imadaddin Nasimi, creator poetry XIV century, poet truth, justice, who sacrificed his life for faith and became world famous tragic end. Under thick layers 600-year history, new pages great thinker were opened, valuable works written about stormy poet, life, rich poetry, philosophy rhetoric. Thus, School Nasimi was ...

In England, medicine has always been something of a refuge for individuals whose lives have been dislocated by religious and political strife. This was particularly true in the seventeenth century when changes in Church and State were occurring at a blinding speed. In his book The experience of defeat, Christopher Hill has described the erratic careers of a number of radical clergy and intellec...

IN his poem 'Whispers of Immortality' Mr. T. S. Eliot places John Donne in the same category as the dramatist John Webster as a man who was 'much possessed by death and saw the skull beneath the skin'. Superficially, the preoccupation with death ofboth authors suggests a common depressive disposition. Nevertheless, Donne wears his rue with a difference, and the melancholy he exhibits is as char...

[The] assimilation of [the poet] to another, either by the use of voice or gesture, is the imitation of the person whose character he assumes[.] [...] Then in this case the narrative of the poet may be said to proceed by way of imitation[.] [...] Or, if the poet everywhere appears and never conceals himself, then again the imitation is dropped, and his poetry becomes simple narration. (Book III...