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...Balder Dead is a beautiful epic poem by Matthew Arnold. It draws from Norse mythology to retell the story of the the death of Odin's son, Balder, instigated by the treacherous jealousy of Loki. (Summary by Nathan)...

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...famous Elizabethans: Essex, Marlowe, Raleigh and Donne, within the context of the history of ideas, with reference to poetry, astrology, history, and mythology including the concept of the Goddess....

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...cient concepts and deities in his works. I admittedly am no scholar of Greek mythology, but I am fascinated enough to be caught up in his brilliant pr... ...ed by Eros’s trusty bow, will hold me therefore dear to her heart.” In Greek mythology Eros is the God of Love. Eros according to legend was responsib...

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...1801), the German philosopher and early Romantic poet whose pen name was simply “Novalis”. The work alternates poetry and prose, exploring a personal mythology of darkness and light, but it is also a free-associative chronicle of a young man rationalizing the untimely death of his fiancé. This version (1897) was translated by influential fantasy author and novelist George ...

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...The Mabinogion is a collection of eleven prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs, and early medieval historical traditions. While some details may hark back to older Iron Age traditions, each of these tales is the product of a highly developed Welsh narrative tradi...

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...oetry project for April 8, 2012. Longfellow predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses....

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...nsitional Part Two (Hesitation) and attains a more hopeful tone in the final Part Three (Escape). Yet a dreamy effect, influenced by Celtic and Druid mythology, persists throughout. Spirits in Bondage consists of forty poems that provide an intriguing insight into the youthful heart of C.S. Lewis and occasionally provides interesting lyrical foreshadowing of some of the la...

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...herself by thinking it other than her own personal concoction at a different mythology the way Psalm 104 might have seemed original long after the Gre... ...uded herself in a sense that she was free from the powers of men, sexuality, mythology, motherhood, and all human concern that gnawed into one's entra...

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...ter during the demoniacal possession of a suffering conscience (or, in the mythology of the play, haunted by the Furies), and in circumstances of imme...

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...represents the four elements personified by their goddesses, and Aurelia’s mythology, founded on Fenelon, was just sufficient to en- able her to recog...

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...topic. As an undergraduate I had taken a course with Philip Wheelwright based upon his manuscript of "The Burning Fountain" and became interested in mythology. I subsequently spent a year at a Danish folk college, whose headmaster gave daily lectures on the pagan mythology of the Nordic folk. Until the 1950s not much had been done on the relationship between Ibsen and N...

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...f the world. This chant remains as an authentic work or primitive literature. Moreover, it is one of the principal sources of information on Hawaiian mythology, early culture, political structure, and way of life. The original text of the Kumulipo was first printed in Honolulu in 1889 from a manuscript copy in the possession of King Kalakaua. Several translations were made...

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...egun research on the chant before 1938. She was perhaps already studying it twenty years earlier when she began planning another major work, Hawaiian Mythology, which was published in 1940 (reissued in 1970 by the University of Hawaii Press). In that book she refers several times to the Kumulipo, and gives translations of parts of it as worked out with specific Hawaiian in...

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................................................................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68...

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........................ 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM... ...y 5, 1840.] LECTURE I THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGAN- ISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. W E HAVE UNDERTAKEN to discourse here for a little on Great Men,... ... among several other books he wrote, a kind of Prose Synopsis of the whole Mythology; elucidated by new fragments of traditionary verse. A work constr... ...; he first has made Life alive!—We may call this Odin, the origin of Norse Mythology: Odin, or whatever name the First Norse Thinker bore while he was... ...the Past, and covering the whole Northern Heaven, is not that Scandinavian Mythology in some sort the Portraiture of this man Odin? The gigantic image... ...This, I should say, is more sincerely done in the Scandinavian than in any Mythology I know. Sincerity is the great charac- teristic of it. Superior s... ...y of the World. Of the distinctive poetic character or merit of this Norse Mythology I have not room to speak; nor does it concern us much. Some wild ...

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...ellow was an American poet and educator. He predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses. (Summary adapted...

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...f bad attitude clamping down upon their limbs. Dagon here is not the creature aka the demi-God from H. P. Lovecraft’s work or the Fish-God from the mythology of the ancient past as I relate but the urban legend who emerged in 1955 where it’s frighteningly plausible. ...

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...ly published as The First Book of Urizen in 1794. Later editions dropped the word first. The book takes its name from the character Urizen in Blake's mythology, who represents alienated reason as the source of oppression. The book describes Urizen as the primeaval priest, and describes how he became separated from the other Eternals to create his own alienated and enslavin...

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...analysis of the work precedes the text itself, which he describes as the growth of an age in which philosophy is not wholly separated from poetry and mythology. (Summary by Philippa)...

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...t these advantages. He joined himself to the following of what, in the old mythology of love, was prettily called nonchaloir; and in an odd mixture of... ...e grown person, cold mutton is cold mutton all the world over; not all the mythology ever in- vented by man will make it better or worse to him; the b...

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...ost recalls Daedalus’ address to 41 Balzac Icarus; for where, save in old mythology, can you look for comparisons worthy of this man of antique mould...

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...or pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hun- dred thousand Patriotic Men; and...

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...reasons which it would be easy to give, reasons emanat- ing from the gross mythology of the ancients, no Grecian, 24 no Roman, could have conceived a ...

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... The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write.[1] Many of the books were illustrated by Henry J. Ford, Lancelot Speed, and G. P. Jacomb-Hood also contributed some illustrations....

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...We should praise it falsely to call it so; for the feeble, though elegant, mythology of Greece was incapable of breeding anything so deep as the myste... ...cal education, could have been so much at home in the details of the elder mythology? Tooke’s ‘Pantheon’ might have been obtained by favor of any Engl... ...T riton wind his wreathed horn;’ whether this, or the passage on the Greek mythology in ‘The Excursion.’ Whichever he means, I am the last man to deny...

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...e: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the fol...

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... English speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A bri... ...re has been taken in rendering these finely shaded verbs. A glance at the mythology of this interesting people will place the import of this remark i... ..., but at the same time were connected with them. The basic idea in Finnish mythology seems to lie in this: that all objects in nature are governed by ... ... tain, by the wicked hostess of the dismal Sariola, he, like Atlas in the mythology of Greece, relinquishes the support of the heavens, thunders alon... ...s an object in nature. Wisdom and law, virtue and justice, find in Finnish mythology no protector among the gods, who trouble themselves only about th... ...d ing snows and piercing winds of the north. Lemmas is a god dess in the mythology of the Finns who dresses the wounds of her faithful sufferers, an... ...with hungry whirlpools, and angry waterfalls. Like Helheim of Scandinavian mythology, Manala, or T uonela, was considered as corresponding to the uppe... ... him over the Finnish Styx, like Charon, the son of Erebus and Nox, in the mythology of Greece. The second daughter of T uoni is Lowyatar, black and b... ...y escape and go forth to torture and slay the children of men; as in Hindu mythology, Kali (black) sits in judgment on the dead. Various other spiritu...

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...cp. “Works and Days,” l. 145 and note. (22) sc. Atlas, the Shu of Egyptian mythology: cp. note on line 177. (23) Oceanus is here regarded as a continu... ...f Athens (fl. 144 B.C.) was a pupil of Aristarchus. He wrote a Handbook of Mythology, from which the extant work bearing his name is derived. (23) Pri... ...Cyrene and Aristaeus, cp. Vergil, “Georgics,” iv. 315 ff. (61) A writer on mythology of uncertain date. (62) In Epirus. The oracle was first consulted...

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...thing new in musical composition and abstract specula- tion of an indecent mythology, or political contrivances and schemes of Government, and we do n...

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...e, pending your Centuries, etc., I do earnestly desire the best book about mythology (if it be German, so much the worse; send a bunctionary along wit...

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...r pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hundred thousand Patriotic Men; and, ...

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... pull it back down to join another line of type. According to back shop mythology, these marvelous machines have ten thousand moving parts! Duri...

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...r- winian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy. Nothi...