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World Poetry Day

the Beatles. Publicity still from Help! (1965) directed by Richard Lester starring The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) a British musical quartet. film rock music movie

What's the Difference Between Tempo and Rhythm?

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Woman Playing a Theorbo to Two Men, oil on canvas by Gerard Terborch, 1667-1668. (Baroque Art)

What’s That Sound?: 8 Intriguing Early Musical Instruments

The last big concert of Jimi Hendrix before he died in London was in Germany on the isle of Fehmarn 6th of September 1970. The festival was called Love-and-Peace-Festival.

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Malayan Leaf Frog - Megophrys nasuta

9 Animals That Look Like Leaves

Odissi Indian classical female dancer on white background. (Indian dancer; classical dancer; Indian dance)

6 Classical Dances of India

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Why Do We Say “A Pair of Pants”?

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Terpander: Facts & Related Content

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Flourished	c.647 BCE - • Lésbos • ancient Greece

Theognis

Greek poet

Stesichorus

Greek poet

Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp

American musician and educator

Paul Bowles

American composer, translator, and author

Francis Bebey

Cameroonian writer and composer

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

Homer

Homer

Greek poet

Pindar

Greek poet

Hesiod

Hesiod

Greek poet

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence: Sappho and Alcaeus

Alcaeus

Greek poet

Simonides of Ceos

Greek poet

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence: Sappho and Alcaeus

Sappho

Greek poet

Archilochus

Greek author

Anacreon, Roman copy of a 5th-century-bc bust by Phidias; in the Louvre, Paris.

Anacreon

Greek poet

Fragment of Bacchylides' work, from a papyrus roll of the 2nd century ad; in the British Museum, London.

Bacchylides

Greek lyric poet

Yanni

Yanni

Greek-American musician and composer

Callimachus

Greek poet and scholar

Xenophanes

Greek poet and philosopher

Empedocles

Greek philosopher and scholar

Ibycus

Greek poet

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Portrait of Plato (ca. 428- ca. 348 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher.

An Odyssey of Grecian Literature

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.

Ancient Greece

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry