he man sure had a palate covered o'er / With brass or steel, that on the rocky shore / First broke the oozy oyster's pearly coat / And risk'd the living morsel down his throat, " wrote John Gay (1685–1732), one of many poets since antiquity who became fascinated with the subject. More recently, Irish bard Seamus Heaney after enjoying fresh oysters with some friends, was so moved that he wrote a...

quṭb al-dīn shīrāzī wrote several huge works not only on mathematical sciences and philosophy, but also on medicine: a commentary on volume 1 of ibn sīnā’s al-qānūn fī al-ṭibb entitled al-tuḥfa al-saʿdīya in nine volumes. this is not surprising because quṭb al-dīn came from a family of physicians and he received medical education in his youth by reading ibn sīnā’s qānūn. this enormous commentar...

among french writers, pierre loti was a of rare ones who, because of his position as a navigation officer, traveled around the world and visited many countries and enjoyed other peoples’ customs. mixing his fine and detailed observations of these real travels to his poetic imagination, he wrote unique stories in an agreeable prose. loti is not unknown in iran. though he is generally considered ...

Vedanayaka Sastri, who was patronized by King Sarabhoji of Thanjavur is a Tamil Christian. He wrote many books in related to Christianity. Although his were not published due financial problems, some for three times during lifetime. One among those ‘Sastira Kummi’ which very famous. In this book we can know about thoughts feminism. This simple language and he has recorded messages it, condemnin...

Zusammenfassung Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg (1750-1819) grew up in Copenhagen when the circle of literati and scholars around Johann Hartwig Bernstorff was effective there. Klopstock a family friend later mentor to young count, also well acquainted with other members Circle . He wrote his first poems as teenager, 1772 he became member Göttinger Hainbund , had close contact representative...

pink floyd was a british band whose work began in the late 60s. roger waters, the main contributor of the band, wrote almost all the lyrics and was also a main figure behind producing the motion picture of the album. he deliberately attacks western media in both the lyrics he has written for the band and his solo projects. the present study finds this tendency of assaulting the media deeply roo...