"In Praise of Limestone" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in Italy in May 1948. Central to his canon and one of Auden's finest poems, it has been the subject...
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Limestone (calcium carbonate CaCO3) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the...
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Landscape (section The Romantic era in Britain)
countryside, and W. H. Auden's "In Praise of Limestone" (1948) uses a limestone landscape as an allegory. Subgenres of topographical poetry include the...
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Topographical poetry (redirect from Poetry of places)
In following centuries, Matthew Arnold's "The Scholar Gipsy" (1853) praised the Oxfordshire countryside, and W. H. Auden's "In Praise of Limestone" (1948)...
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W. H. Auden (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
had emphasised in the 1930s); his poems on these themes included "In Praise of Limestone" (1948) and "Memorial for the City" (1949). In 1947-1948, Auden...
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Forio (category Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Naples)
In Praise of Limestone. And the American Poet, Theodore Roethke, dedicated his poem The Storm, to "Forio d'Ischia" as printed in Selected Poems of Theodore...
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Ischia (redirect from Island of Ischia)
poem "In Praise of Limestone" here, the first poem he wrote in Italy. In 1949, British classical composer William Walton settled in Ischia. In 1956, he...
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"In Praise of Limestone", "Prime", "Nones," "Memorial for the City", "Precious Five", and "A Walk After Dark". "Nones" is a contemporary setting of the...
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poem in XXIV elegies Vernon Watkins, The Lady with the Unicorn W. H. Auden, "In Praise of Limestone", a poem published in Horizon in July (written in May)...
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Witheford, The Falcon Mark W. H. Auden, Nones, including the poem "In Praise of Limestone" E. C. Bentley, Clerihews Complete Basil Bunting, Seeds, a long...
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Hạ Long Bay (category Bays of Vietnam)
of 775 islets. The limestone in this bay has gone through 500 million years of formation in different conditions and environments. The evolution of the...
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Because they are located primarily in limestone formations, the caves continue to come under threat from the limestone mining industry. According to the...
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Pamukkale (category Hot springs of Turkey)
classical antiquity. The Turkish name refers to the surface of the shimmering, snow-white limestone, shaped over millennia by calcite-rich springs. Dripping...
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. Facing directly...
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human-made structure for more than 3,800 years. Over time, most of the smooth white limestone casing was removed, which lowered the pyramid's height to the...
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The Bahamas (redirect from Tourism in the Bahamas)
formation of the North Atlantic. The 6.4 km (4.0 mi) thick limestones, which predominate in The Bahamas, date back to the Cretaceous. These limestones would...
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of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. There were thousands and thousands of proverbs...
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Dovedale (category Valleys of the Peak District)
and the limestone features Lovers' Leap and Reynard's Cave. The limestone rock that forms the geology of Dovedale is the fossilised remains of sea creatures...
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Yorkshire Dales (category Valleys of North Yorkshire)
Carboniferous Limestone, which is particularly visible in the south-west in features such as Malham Cove. It is overlain in many areas by the Yoredale Series of alternating...
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Dallas (redirect from Healthcare in Dallas)
"Increased gang activity leads to spike of violent crime in Dallas". KHOU. Smith, Kelli (October 13, 2021). "City leaders praise Dallas police chief's crime plan...
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Nigeria (redirect from Sport in Nigeria)
supply of natural resources. Its wide array of underexploited mineral resources include coal, bauxite, tantalite, gold, tin, iron ore, limestone, niobium...
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quarters were constructed from field stone; for example, local limestone was used in Maryland. Contemporary documentarians report that former slave houses...
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This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between...
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Leipzig (redirect from Museums in Leipzig)
there are also some limestone areas to the north of the city. The landscape is mostly flat, though there is also some evidence of moraine and drumlins...
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Jason Clarke (category Shire of Winton)
brought up in Winton, Queensland. His father worked as a sheep shearer in rural South Australia outside a small township of Padthaway on the Limestone Coast...
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Antigua and Barbuda (redirect from Sport in Antigua and Barbuda)
Antigua Barbuda Redonda Limestone formations, rather than volcanic activity, have had the most impact on the topography of both Antigua and Barbuda,...
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The Times quoted Omar as stating "Muslims should be proud of smashing idols. It has given praise to Allah that we have destroyed them." During a 13 March...
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name of Ptolemy, so that when the plaster eventually fell off, Sostratus's name would be visible in the stone. The blocks of sandstone and limestone used...
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Institute (NKRI), North Korea has substantial reserves of iron ore, coal, limestone, and magnesite. In addition, North Korea is thought to have tremendous...
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