Thalaba the Destroyer is an 1801 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's school boy days, but he did...
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is a nursery rhyme dating from the early 19th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 821. The author of the rhyme is uncertain, but may be English...
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Robert Southey (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Them (1799) Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) The Inchcape Rock (1802) Madoc (1805) Letters from England: By Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella (1807), the observations...
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multi-volume oriental poem Thalaba the Destroyer (1797). The hero of Southey's story, Thalaba, is the son of Hodeirah and the last surviving member of his...
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Robert Southey's monumental oriental epic poem Thalaba the Destroyer (1801), where the main character Thalaba's deceased beloved Oneiza turns into a vampire...
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List of epic poems (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du (c. 1800) Thalaba the Destroyer by Robert Southey (1801) Madoc by Robert Southey (1805) Psyche by Mary Tighe (1805) The...
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von Corinth (The Bride of Corinth) (1797) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801), John Stagg's "The Vampyre" (1810)...
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and whose Thalaba the Destroyer, a favourite poem of Shelley's, prefigures Alastor in imagery and quest-narrative. Shelley sent a copy of the book to Southey...
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generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight...
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Vathek (redirect from The history of the caliph vathek)
Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) and Thomas Moore's Lalla-Rookh (1817). John Keats's vision of the Underworld in Endymion (1818) is indebted to the novel...
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Kubla Khan (section The nature of paradise)
Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer, a work which drew on the same sources as Kubla Khan. At both time periods, Coleridge was again in the area of Ash Farm...
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Curse of Kehama (redirect from The Curse of Kehama)
formed the basis for one of the poem's villains. The poem was started in 1802 following the publication of Southey's epic Thalaba the Destroyer. After...
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death. From the outset she could not work in the curious metre Southey chose: "I have been at work trying that metre of [Southey's poem] 'Thalaba', a fine...
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mille et une nuits (Continuation of the Thousand and One Nights) (1788–1790) Robert Southey – Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) Robert Southey – Curse of Kehama...
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reception of Thalaba the Destroyer and Madoc. This return to writing was promoted by the poet Walter Savage Landor who encouraged Southey to complete the epic...
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Granville Bantock (category Academics of the University of Birmingham)
Hall) Dramatic Poem for cello and orchestra (1941) Tone Poem No. 1, Thalaba, The Destroyer (1900, after Robert Southey) Tone Poem No. 2, Dante and Beatrice...
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long poem Thalaba the Destroyer: "I am sensible of having derived great improvement from the frequent perusal of Gebir at that time." The poem received...
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Henry Herbert Southey (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
English physician. The son of Robert Southey (1745–1792) by his wife, Margaret Hill (1752–1802), and younger brother of Robert Southey, the poet, he was born...
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Vernon Handley (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
the nickname "Tod" because his feet were turned in at his birth, which his father simply summarised: "They toddle". Handley preferred the use of the name...
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Henry James Pye, Alfred William Barnes Rhodes, The Satires of Juvenal Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
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Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-01-12. "Armada de Chile | Thalaba, fragata". armada.cl. September 28, 2013. Archived from the original...
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