Gwen le gallienne biography of barack obama
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List of biographical films
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A Timeline of Poetry in English
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Note that these divisions simplify the history of poetry and are useful only for characterizing general trends. A poet in one period may have more in common with a poet in another than with contemporaries.
Old English
ROMAN LEGIONS LEAVE BRITAIN
ANGLO-SAXONS INVADE BRITAIN
BATTLE OF CAMLAN: ARTHUR, A ROMANO-BRITON LEADER, KILLED
AUGUSTINE LEAVES ROME AS MISSIONARY TO BRITAIN
Touchstone poems
Caedmon, an uneducated herdsman, about this date discovers that he can extemporaneously utter poetry at the newly-founded monastery at Strenæshalc (Whitby) and makes verses on creation. He is the first known poet and this the first known poem in English. Inspired Denise Levertov's "Caedmon" ()
Births
The Venerable Bede
Cynewulf writes and signs four Anglo-Saxon poems: Christ II, Elene, The Fates of the Apostles, andJuliana.
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- The following commercial sound recordings and audio books were transferred to the Ransom Center Library and will be cataloged online in The University of Texas Library Catalog:
- August 12, The Night of the Murdered Poets by Morris Moshe Cotel. Piano Sonata, Narrated by Eli Wallach, Grenadilla Records, (one 33 rpm record album)
- Blacklisted (six-part series, National Public Radio, )
- Episode three, "A Long Way From Home" and episode four, "Rainy Season" (1 cassette tape, without a case)
- Episode five, "How I Killed Hugh G. Foster" and episode six, "Reprieved" (1 cassette tape)
- Brecht on Brecht, arranged and translated by George Tabori (with original cast including Anne Jackson). Columbia Records, (one 33 rpm record album)
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Read by Eli Wallach. Warner Audio Publishing, Inc. (2 cassette tapes in original case)
- Christ in Concrete (A Musical Monodrama). Narration by Eli Wallach; the spoken word of the opera version/monodrama composed by Harold Sele