Philippe Couplet, SJ (1623–1693), known in China as Bai Yingli, was a Flemish Jesuit missionary to the Qing Empire. He worked with his fellow missionaries...
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Schwätzerin ('The Gossip') polka-mazurka op. 144 (1863) Wiener Couplets ('Viennese Couplets') waltz op. 150 (1863) Dorfschwalben aus Österreich ('Village...
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Wilhelm Wiesberg (category Wienerlied)
1885, 1886: Mein’ Vaterstadt in Lied und Wort. [5 volumes]. 1885: Wiener Couplets für Pianoforte und Gesang, gesungen von Wiesberg. 1885: Duette für...
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The Wienerlied (German, literally: Viennese song, pl. Wienerlieder) or Weanaliad (viennese, pl. Weanaliada) is a traditional song genre which has its roots...
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"no voice" and according to contemporary witnesses after a nonsens-Wiener Couplet [de], he had to appear up to ten times on stage. His popularity "soon...
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in sequence as the initial letters of the words in the first line of a couplet poem, amor electis, iniustis ordinor ultor ("I am loved by the elect, for...
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During that period he began writing two-line poems, take-offs of John Wieners’ couplets and of Sappho's fragments, and continues those to the present. These...
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nationalism adapted to the growth of the Third World variety by developing the couplet of mature Western versus immature Eastern nationalism.... This East-West...
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He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the...
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Latin prosody (section Elegiac couplet)
to form the second line of a couplet, in which the first line is dactylic hexameter. Thus it resembles an elegiac couplet except that the first half of...
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