1) Churchyard, Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. He spent most of his life as a professional soldier, serving in Scotland, Flanders, and France. His best-known work, the poem Shore's...
2) Grasmere. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Lake District, near Lake Grasmere. Dove Cottage was the home of William Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808; it now contains a Wordsworth museum. The Wordsworth family and...
3) Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Irish life and supernatural, mysterious atmosphere. His two best works are the novels The House by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas (1864). Other works include...
4) miracle play. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Roman Catholic Church. It developed from the 10th to the 16th cent., reaching its height in the 15th cent. The simple lyric character of the early texts, as shown...
5) Bournemouth. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Bourne to a popular resort and fine-arts center. It has an excellent sandy beach, a temperate climate, and numerous parks. The writer Mary Shelley is buried in the...
6) Gravesham. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Industries include shipbuilding, metal casting, engineering, paper making, printing, and the production of tires, rubber products, and cement. Known as the "gateway...
7) graveyard school. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...English poets who wrote primarily about human mortality. Often set in a graveyard, their poems mused on the vicissitudes of life, the solitude of death and the grave,...
8) Wrexham. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Welsh Wrescam, town (1981 pop. 39,929) and county borough, 193 sq mi (499 sq km), NE Wales. It lies in the coal field of N Wales. Wrexham's industries include the...
9) Buckinghamshire. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The county seat is Aylesbury. The Thames River forms the southern boundary of the county. In S Buckinghamshire are the chalky Chiltern Hills with their beech forests;...
10) elegy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Greek and Roman poetry, a poem written in elegiac verse (i.e., couplets consisting of a hexameter line followed by a pentameter line). The form dates back to 7th...
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