ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PAEAN
Via Latin from Greek paiān hymn to Apollo, from his title Paiān, denoting the physician of the gods.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAEAN»
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paean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
paean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
girls is an erotic spree, a journey into the most forbidden corners of male desire, a story about men who have been rendered numb by their power, who have sacrificed everything for success, who have lost their souls and can find meaning ...
This is something that comes from the poetry itself, not in the projection of Dickinson's semi-mythical reclusiveness onto Niedecker, but in the way both women wrote poetry that can be read for a lifetime without losing its magic or ...
Lorine Niedecker, Karl Young, 2003
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Paean to Apollo: A 21st Century Hymn
Paean to Apollo: A 21st Century Hymn (Copyright © 2010) by Peter L. Smith. All
rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may
be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission ...
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On Mozart: A
Paean for Wolfgang
The author uses an imaginary conversation to pay tribute to Mozart on the bicentennial of his death, describing his contributions to the Enlightenment, discussing the phenomenon of a prodigy, and speculating as to future works Mozart might ...
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A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, ed. by W. Smith
The paean was always of a joyous nature, and its tune and sounds expressed
hope and confidence. The sound of Hi appears to have been invariably
connected with it. (Athen. xv. pp. 696, e. f. 70 1 , b.c.) It was sung by several
persons, one of ...
Greek antiquities, William Smith (sir), sir William Smith, 1848
1409s There remains the paean, which speakers began to use in the time of
Thrasymachus, though they had then no name to give it. The paean is a third
class of rhythm, closely akin to both the two already mentioned; it has in it the
ratio of ...
Aristotle, W. D. Ross, 2010
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities
The paean was always of a joyous nature, and its tune and sounds expressed
hope and confidence. The sound of m appears to have been invariably
connected with it. (Athen. xv. p. 696. e. f. 701. b.c.) It was sung by several persons
, one of ...
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Tragedy and Athenian Religion
As we saw, the Athenian Kleochares had composed a prosodion, a paean, and "
a hymn" which were sung by a chorus of boys at the sacrifice of the Delphic
Theoxenia. The prosodion was sung at the procession to the altar. The hymn
referred ...
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, 2003
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Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism
E. B. White. s. Paean. to. Life. The Environmental Imagination of Charlotte's Web
Lynn Overholt Wake [A]ny writer who sees the world in ecological perspective
faces a hard problem: how, despite the perfection of our technological boxes, ...
Sidney I. Dobrin, Kenneth B. Kidd, 2004
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Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History
Lydian " B ?A Hyperlydian B Diagram 10 The tonal material of Limenios' paean ,
in the context of non-Dorian .104 Thus we would reckon rather with an underlying
Hypodorian. More can be inferred from the virtually complete two sections of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAEAN»
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paean is used in the context of the following news items.
'Hundred Days' asks the question, 'what would you do?'
Created and performed by the indie music duo The Bengsons, it's a paean to love and anxiety and growing up. And then there is death. «Cincinnati.com, Jul 15»
Lunatic Man Plans to Open Chain of Lunatic Butter Coffee Shops
It would be bad enough if that level of grossness were just another paean to Americans' reverent, undying butter worship, but it gets worse: ... «Jezebel, Jul 15»
Theater Review: 'Stone' celebrates Barre's granite heritage
BARRE — Lost Nation Theater has positioned its paean to the world of Barre granite, “Stone,” to open during the Barre Heritage Festival, and it ... «Barre Montpelier Times Argus, Jul 15»
Will 'neurotic' Japan go postcapitalist?
In many ways “Neurotic Beauty” is a paean to traditional craft. Berman references Soetsu Yanagi, a major promoter of the Folk Craft movement ... «The Japan Times, Jul 15»
The Astonishing, Anti-Science, States'-Rights Court Opinion …
The resulting opinion is a sort of paean to states' rights and to bad science. It is an astonishing document to emerge from a federal appellate ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
Interview: Rab Douglas, 43, not finished career yet
... embarked on a lengthy paean to his goalkeeper. It included the news he'd happily pin Douglas down to another season after the up-coming ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
REVIEW, THE BLOCKHEADS LIVE IN DORCHESTER: There ain't …
... take on Clever Trevor and, a personal favourite, a marvellous march through Sweet Gene Vincent, Dury's paean to his disabled teenage idol. «Bournemouth Echo, Jul 15»
Ann Arbor's worth a visit, even if you're not on a college tour
It has a musical paean from raspy-voiced hometown boy Bob Seger, who was referring to Ann Arbor when he crooned about "feeling lonely ... «Post-Bulletin, Jul 15»
The Times newspaper has chided Southern for its decision to scrap …
The Times earned its Thunderer nickname as a result of its opinionated leading articles but today's final leader was largely a nostalgic paean of ... «Brighton and Hove News, Jul 15»
Dick Yarbrough: It's time to make peace over symbols
The legislature was so moved by the experience that they forgot all about the earlier flap in Augusta and adopted the paean as our official state ... «Gainesville Times, Jul 15»
