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81 relations: Aegean Sea, Alexander Suvorov, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Allan Cunningham (author), Anacharsis Cloots, Bathos, Beppo (poem), Byron's letters, Carlo Antonio Delpini, Catherine the Great, Cádiz, Charles Maturin, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cicisbeo, Cockney, Constantinople, Cyclades, Don Giovanni, Don Juan, Don Juan Tenorio, England, Epic poetry, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Eunuch, Europe, Exoticism, France, Francesco Berni, French Revolution, Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, Greece, Grigory Potemkin, Henry Fielding, Henry James Pye, Houri, Iambic pentameter, Italy, Jean de La Fontaine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton, John Hookham Frere, John Hunt (publisher), John Keats, John Murray (1778–1843), Lady Byron, Lake Poets, Lord Byron, Ludovico Ariosto, Luigi Pulci, Mazeppa (poem), ..., Metaphysics, Milan, Molière, Morgan Library & Museum, Orthography, Ottava rima, Ottoman Empire, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet laureate, Project Gutenberg, Robert Southey, Romanticism, Saint Petersburg, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Satire, Seduction, Seraglio, Siege of Izmail, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Spain, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Thomas Moore, Thomas Shadwell, Tirso de Molina, Tragicomedy, Unfinished creative work, Uterus, Venice, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Expand index (31 more) »
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea (Αιγαίο Πέλαγος; Ege Denizi) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey.
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Alexander Suvorov
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Суво́ров, r Aleksandr Vasil‘evich Suvorov; or 1730 –) was a Russian military leader, considered a national hero.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic.
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Allan Cunningham (author)
Allan Cunningham (7 December 178430 October 1842) was a Scottish poet and author.
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Anacharsis Cloots
Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots (24 June 1755 – 24 March 1794), better known as Anacharsis Cloots (also spelled Clootz), was a Prussian nobleman who was a significant figure in the French Revolution.
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Bathos
Bathos (Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "bathos, n. Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1885. βάθος, "depth") is a literary term, coined by Alexander Pope in his 1727 essay "Peri Bathous", to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (i.e., pathos).
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Beppo (poem)
Beppo: A Venetian Story is a lengthy poem by Lord Byron, written in Venice in 1817.
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Byron's letters
The letters of Lord Byron, of which about 3,000 are known, range in date from 1798, when Byron was 10 years old, to 9 April 1824, a few days before he died.
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Carlo Antonio Delpini
Carlo Antonio Delpini (died 1828) was an Italian pantomimist and theatrical manager.
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Catherine the Great
Catherine II (Russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Yekaterina Alekseyevna; –), also known as Catherine the Great (Екатери́на Вели́кая, Yekaterina Velikaya), born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader.
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Cádiz
Cádiz (see other pronunciations below) is a city and port in southwestern Spain.
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Charles Maturin
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1782 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels.
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron.
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Cicisbeo
In 18th- and 19th-century Italy, the cicisbeo (plural: cicisbei), or cavalier servente (chevalier servant in French), was the professed gallant and perhaps lover in a sexual sense of a married woman, who attended her at public entertainments, to church and other occasions and had privileged access to his mistress.
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Cockney
The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations.
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Constantinople
Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis; Constantinopolis) was the capital city of the Roman/Byzantine Empire (330–1204 and 1261–1453), and also of the brief Latin (1204–1261), and the later Ottoman (1453–1923) empires.
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Cyclades
The Cyclades (Κυκλάδες) are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece.
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Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni (K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
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Don Juan
Don Juan (Spanish), also Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary, fictional libertine.
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Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio: Drama religioso-fantástico en dos partes (Don Juan Tenorio: Religious-Fantasy Drama in Two Parts), is a play written in 1844 by José Zorrilla.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.
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Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846 – 1920) was a British literary scholar and poet.
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Eunuch
The term eunuch (εὐνοῦχος) generally refers to a man who has been castrated, typically early enough in his life for this change to have major hormonal consequences.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Exoticism
Exoticism (from 'exotic') is a trend in European art and design, influenced by some ethnic groups or civilizations from the late 19th-century.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Francesco Berni
Francesco Berni Francesco Berni (1497/98 – May 26, 1535) was an Italian poet.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.
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Giacinto Andrea Cicognini
Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (1606–1651) was an Italian playwright and librettist, the son of poet and playwright Jacopo Cicognini.
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Greece
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Grigory Potemkin
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski (Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Потёмкин-Таври́ческий; r Grigoriy Aleksandrovich Potyomkin-Tavricheskiy; A number of dates as late as 1742 have been found on record; the veracity of any one is unlikely to be proved. This is his "official" birth-date as given on his tombstone. –) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favourite of Catherine the Great.
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Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones.
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Henry James Pye
Henry James Pye (10 February 1744 – 11 August 1813) was an English poet, and Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death.
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Houri
The houris (from حُـورِی,; plural of or;حورية is also transliterated as or; pronunciation:. حُـورِيَّـة) are beings in Islamic mythology, described in English translations as "full-breasted companions of equal age ",Qur'an.
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Iambic pentameter
Iambic pentameter is a type of metrical line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.
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Italy
Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine (8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.
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John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton
John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton, (27 June 1786 – 3 June 1869), known as Sir John Hobhouse, Bt, from 1831 to 1851, was an English politician and diarist.
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John Hookham Frere
John Hookham Frere PC (21 May 1769 – 7 January 1846) was an English diplomat and author.
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John Hunt (publisher)
John Hunt (1775 – 7 September 1848) was an English printer, publisher, and occasional political writer.
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John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.
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John Murray (1778–1843)
John Murray (27 November 1778 – 27 June 1843) was a Scottish publisher and member of the John Murray publishing house.
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Lady Byron
Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (née Milbanke; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was the wife of poet George Gordon Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron.
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Lake Poets
The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England, United Kingdom, in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.
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Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto (8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet.
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Luigi Pulci
Luigi Pulci (15 August 1432 – 11 November 1484) was an Italian poet best known for his Morgante, an epic and parodistic poem about a giant who is converted to Christianity by Orlando and follows the knight in many adventures.
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Mazeppa (poem)
Mazeppa is a narrative poem written by the English romantic poet Lord Byron in 1819.
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Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality.
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Milan
Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.
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Morgan Library & Museum
The Morgan Library & Museum – formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library – is a museum and research library located at 225 Madison Avenue at East 36th Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language.
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Ottava rima
Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential.
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Poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey (or 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the "Lake Poets" along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Seduction
Seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person, to engage in a relationship, to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; to corrupt, to persuade or induce to engage in sexual behaviour.
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Seraglio
A seraglio or serail is the sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in an Ottoman household.
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Siege of Izmail
The Siege of Izmail was a military investment fought in 1790 on the Black Sea during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792).
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Sing a Song of Sixpence
"Sing a Song of Sixpence" is a well-known English nursery rhyme, perhaps originating in the 18th century.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774.
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Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer".
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Thomas Shadwell
Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642 – 19 November 1692) was an English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689.
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Tirso de Molina
Tirso de Molina (24 March 1579 – 12 March 1648) was a Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet and Roman Catholic monk.
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Tragicomedy
Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms.
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Unfinished creative work
An unfinished creative work is a painting, novel, musical composition, or other creative work, that has not been brought to a completed state.
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Uterus
The uterus (from Latin "uterus", plural uteri) or womb is a major female hormone-responsive secondary sex organ of the reproductive system in humans and most other mammals.
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Venice
Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
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Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_(poem)
