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Edward Powys Mathers The Garden of Bright Waters

One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems

Poetry
English
13305 Words
Ages 6 and up
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The Garden of Bright Waters: One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems from various authors was translated by Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939). He was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords. Powys Mathers was born in Forest Hill, London, the son of a newspaper proprietor. He was educated at Loretto and Trinity College, Oxford. I am hoping that some readers will look on this collection primarily as a book of poems. The finding and selection of material and the shaping of the verses is my principal part in it. Most of the songs have been written from, or by comparing, the literal translations of French and Italian scholars, checked wherever possible by my own knowledge. When my first and very great debt to these has been stated, there remains my debt to the late John Duncan, to Mr J. Wing, and to a friend, a distinguished writer both in Persian and Turkish, who wishes to remain unnamed. The kindness of these writers lies in trusting their work to my translation and helping me in that task. My book also owes much to suggestions prompted by the wide learning of Mr. L. Cranmer-Byng. My final debt is to him and to another generous critic. I have arranged my poems in the alphabetical order of their countries, and added short notes wherever I considered them necessary, at the instance of some kindly reviewers of an earlier book, which was not so arranged and provided. [more]

Keywords: Love Poems, Poetry, Asia, Asiatic Poems, Garden of Bright Waters, Love Poetry, Oriental Poetry, Edward Powys Mathers, Afghanistan, Arabic, Balushistan, Burma, Caucasus, China, Annam, Cambodia, Daghestan, Georgia, Hindustan, Japan, Kafiristan, Kazacks, Corea, Kurdistan, Laos, Manchuria, Persia, Siam, Syria, Tatars, Tibet, Turkistan, Turkey, Asian Poetry [more][Less]

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Anonymous Anonymous Oriental Literature

The Literature of Arabia

Literary Collections
English
49789 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the United States it is legally defined as "a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author."[1] In the case of very old works, the author's name may simply be lost over the course of history and time. In such cases the author is often referred to as Anonymus, the Latin form of "anonymous". In the case of works where the creator's name is kept secret, the author's reasons may vary from fear of persecution to protection of his or her reputation. In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by an anonymous author describing the use of national security letters by the FBI. In this case, the author, who would have preferred to be named, was legally prohibited from disclosing his or her identity.[citation needed] [more]

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Edward Bagby Pollard Oriental Women

Woman In All Ages and in All Countries, Volume 4 (of 10)

Short Story
English
106867 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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The relative position which woman occupies in any country is an index to the civilization which that country [more]

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Anonymous .. Oriental Literature

The Literature of Arabia

Fiction
English
49304 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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The romantic figure of Antar, or Antarah, takes the same place in Arabian literature as that of Achilles among the Greeks. The Cid in Spain, Orlando in Italy, and Arthur in England, are similar examples of national ideals put forth by poets and romance writers as embodiments of a certain half-mythic age of chivalry, when personal valor, prudence, generosity, and high feeling gave the warrior an admitted preeminence among his fellows. [more]

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