An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα (epígramma, "inscription"...
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The "Stalin Epigram", also known as "The Kremlin Highlander" (Russian: Кремлёвский горец) is a satirical poem by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, written...
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"Epigrams on Programming" is an article by Alan Perlis published in 1982, for ACM's SIGPLAN journal. The epigrams are a series of short, programming-language-neutral...
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Martial (redirect from Martial's Epigrams)
poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors...
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Signs and Epigrams is a solo album by pianist Sylvie Courvoisier which was released on the Tzadik label in 2007. In his review for Allmusic, Blair Sanderson...
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Look up epigram in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist, or a concise and witty statement. Epigram may also...
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Epigram is a functional programming language with dependent types, and the integrated development environment (IDE) usually packaged with the language...
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Epigram (foaled 1949 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1952 Queen's Plate, Canada's most prestigious race and...
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Epigram Books is an independent publishing company in Singapore. It publishes works of Singapore-based writers, poets and playwrights. Epigram was founded...
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Seventeen Epigrams were attributed to Homer in antiquity. They are preserved in a number of texts, including the Life of Homer (Pseudo-Herodotus), the...
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"amatory" epigrams (one commemorative, six erotic, and one funerary); dedicatory epigrams; sepulchral epigrams, and dedicatory or descriptive epigrams. Typical...
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Xenia motif (redirect from Xenia epigram)
later presents in general. It also came to include xenia epigrams. A xenia epigram is an epigram commemorating hospitality or attached to a gift, sometimes...
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The Cyzicene epigrams are a collection of nineteen numbered Greek epigrams, each accompanied by a short prose preamble, which, together with a one-sentence...
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Epigram is an independent student newspaper of the University of Bristol. It was established in 1988 by James Landale, now a senior BBC journalist, who...
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and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index...
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Epigraphy (redirect from Epigram (inscription))
discussion concerning the James Ossuary. An epigraph (not to be confused with epigram) is any sort of text, from a single grapheme (such as marks on a pot that...
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Agathon (section Plato's epigram)
Plato's other alleged epigrams) was actually written sometime after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become...
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Narrative Children Epic Dramatic Verse novel National Lyric Ballad Elegy Epigram Ghazal Haiku Hymn Limerick Ode Qasida Sonnet Villanelle Lists Epic Groups...
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An epigram of Amazaspos (Georgian: ამაზასპის ეპიგრამა) is a poetic funerary epigram written in Ancient Greek on an inscription found at the Villa Medici...
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(1772–1834), which includes fragments not published within his lifetime, epigrams, and titles such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. Third...
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crisis and political perseverance of Boris Johnson: Epigram Interviews Darren Jones, MP". Epigram. Retrieved 29 June 2024. DJ: 'I would quite like to...
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Greek epigrams is largely based on works surviving in multi-author anthologies. The earliest known dateable anthology of epigrams is the Attic Epigrams collected...
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Violet Florence Martin. The playwright and poet Oscar Wilde, noted for his epigrams, was born in Ireland. In the 20th century, Ireland produced four winners...
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1980s. Death of a Perm Sec was one of four finalists for the inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize in 2015, and was subsequently shortlisted for the Singapore...
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1966) is a Singaporean author, including of wuxia novels. He won the 2017 Epigram Books Fiction Prize for best original and unpublished novel in the English...
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I do not like (or love) thee, Doctor Fell is an epigram, said to have been translated by satirical English poet Tom Brown in 1680. Later it has been recorded...
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