About a type of poem the word puzzle Acrostic puzzle An acrostic from French acrostiche post classical ... verse ref Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed., s.v. acrostic The expected spelling of the English .... ref name acrostic cite web url http outstandingwriting.com acrostic the many pleasures of acrostic poetry title Acrostic Poetry publisher OutstandingWriting.com accessdate 2011 04 30 ref As a form of constrained writing , an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval. A famous acrostic was made in Greek for the acclamation JESUS CHRIST, GOD S SON, SAVIOUR lang gr ... Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order such an acrostic may be called an alphabetical acrostic or Abecedarius . These acrostics occur in the first ... cite web url http www.biblicalhebrew.com alphabet.htm title Acrostic Psalms publisher Biblicalhebrew.com ... alphabet.htm archivedate 17 September 2008 DASHBot deadurl no ref Notable among the acrostic ... works but can also appear in prose. Often the ease of detectability of an acrostic can depend on the intention of its creator. In some cases an author may desire an acrostic to have a better chance of being perceived by an observant reader, such as the acrostic contained in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ... emphasis to, and capitalizing the key letters so such acrostic is relatively easier to discern ... archivedate 8 September 2008 DASHBot deadurl no ref Using letters to hide a message, as in acrostic ... deadurl no ref The William is also an acrostic the first letters of its fifteen stanzas spell WILLEM ... of acrostic poem in English written by Edgar Allan Poe is entitled simply An Acrostic ref name eapoeacrostic cite web url http www.eapoe.org works poems acrstca.htm title Edgar Allan Poe An Acrostic ... alt A Double Acrostic by Lewis Carroll It was while calling one day upon Mrs. Bremer that Lewis Carroll scribbled off this double acrostic on the names of her two daughters, Trina and Freda Image LewisCarroll ... more details
An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzle s, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer. The second part is a long series of numbered blanks and spaces, representing a quotation or other text, into which the answers for the clues fit. In some forms of the puzzle, the first letters of each correct clue answer, read in order from clue A on down the list, will spell out the author of the quote and the title of the work it is taken from this can be used as an additional solving aid. An example For example, two clues in the first part might be cellspacing 8 align center A. Country of the Rising Sun align center 8 5 17 2 14 align center B. Not doing anything align center 9 7 23 20 The second part is initially blank cellspacing 8 align center align center 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 If the answer to clue A is JAPAN , then the second part fills in as follows cellspacing 8 align center A A J N P align center 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Letters 16 and 17 form a two letter word ending in P . Since this has to be UP , letter 16 is a U , which can be filled into the appropriate clue answer in the list of clues. Likewise, a three letter word starting with A could be and , any , all , or even a proper name like Ann . One might need more clue answers before daring to guess which it could be. If the answer to clue B is IDLE , one could narrow down the 5 6 7 word to AND and the following word starting with JI . Some people might already begin to recognize the phrase Jack and Jill went up the hill. History Elizabeth Kingsley is credited with inventing the puzzle for Saturday Review US magazine Saturday Review in 1934, under the name double crostic . Since ... used, and hence most common, as it is a portmanteau of anagram and acrostic , referencing the fact ... more details
, such as an acrostic following the order of the Hebrew alphabet or spelling out the name of the author .... The composers of various piyyutim usually used acrostic form in order to hint their identity in the piyyut ... acrostic align center Passover align center Adon Olam align center font lang he ... align center font lang he font Double alphabetic acrostic align center Shabbat and Jewish ... alphabetic acrostic, then spells out Meir, son of Rabbi Yitzchak, may he grow in Torah and in good ... Acrostic spells Baruch Chazak , or Blessed be he, with strength , or possibly Baruch is the author ... lang he font Acrostic spells Dunash, the name of author Dunash ben Labrat . align ... tradition align center El Adon align center font lang he font Alphabetic acrostic align ... . Acrostic spells Moshe chazak , referring to Moses ibn Ezra align center Ne ilah conclusion of Yom ... acrostic each stanza begins with the word alei each line ends with the suffix eiha meaning her or of hers ... font Alphabetic acrostic each stanza ends with standard alternating line align center Sukkot Sh mini Atzeret align center Hakafot align center font lang he font Alphabetic acrostic align ... called font lang he font Alphabetic acrostic, each line ends Amen align center Rosh ... acrostic align center Sukkot align center Ki Hineh Kachomer align center font lang he ... Kippur align center Ki Lo Na eh align center font lang he font Alphabetic acrostic align center Passover align center L kha Dodi align center font lang he font Acrostic spells ... didut align center font lang he font Acrostic spells Menucha rest refrain align center Shabbat align center Ma oz Tzur align center font lang he font Acrostic spells name of author ... font Acrostic spells name of author, Moshe align center Shabbat align center Mipi El align center font lang he font Alphabetic acrostic align center Shabbat and Simchat Torah align ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A regards ring was a Victorian era Victorian engagement ring in which the initials of the precious stone s mounted on the band spelled out the word regards in an implicit acrostic Ruby , Emerald , Garnet , Amethyst , Ruby , Diamond , Sapphire . Later variations included the spelling of another word or a person s name. One variant was love Lapis lazuli , Opal , Prasiolite Vermarine , Emerald . See also Dearest ring DEFAULTSORT Regards Ring Category Rings Category Engagement Category Victorian era Fashion stub ... more details
Image LewisCarroll DoubleAcrostic GertrudeChataway.png thumb right alt A Double Acrostic by Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll wrote this unique double acrostic for Gertrude Chataway. The verses embody her name in two ways by letters, and by syllables. This is the only double acrostic of its kind. Gertrude Chataway 1866 1951 was the most important child friend in the life of the author Lewis Carroll , after Alice Liddell . It was Gertrude who inspired his great nonsense poetry nonsense mock epic The Hunting of the Snark 1876 , and the book is dedicated to her, and opens with a poem that uses her name as a double acrostic. ref cite book title An anatomy of literary nonsense volume 67 series Costerus first Wim last Tigges publisher Rodopi year 1988 isbn 905183019X page 161 ref Carroll first became friends with Gertrude in 1875, when she was aged nine, while on holiday at the English seaside resort of Sandown . ref cite book title The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll first Stuart Dodgson last Collingwood publisher T. Fisher Unwin year 1898 page 379 ref He made a number of pen and ink sketches of Gertrude as a young girl. He continued to correspond with her, and to spend numerous seaside holidays with her, including several when she was in her late twenties. ref cite book title Lewis Carroll through the looking glass first Angelica Shirley last Carpenter publisher Twenty First Century Books year 2003 isbn 0822500736 page 103 ref References reflist Further reading http www.gutenberg.org files 11483 11483 8.txt The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll Gutenberg e book . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Chataway, Gertrude ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1866 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1951 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Chataway, Gertrude Category 1866 births Category 1951 deaths Category Lewis Carroll ... more details
& Schuster gave her a series, and she introduced an acrostic feature for the Sunday Times puzzle ... nytxword acrostic.htm History of the NYT Acrostic ref This form of puzzle is still popular today ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Bob Lodge 1940 2008 had created many puzzles and contests for GAMES Magazine . Bob was an expert trickster in the way he wrote and constructed puzzles, often placing many layers of red herrings within his creations for puzzlers to decipher. Over the years, he made several Acrostic puzzle acrostic puzzles and other challenges which reflected his wide range of interests, including U.S. geography, presidential history, stamp collecting, and mathematical brain teasers. One of his most ambitious contests included the number based scavenger hunt Ultimate Calculatrivia in late 2003. A resident of Washington U.S. state Washington state , Bob died on December 21, 2008 after a battle with cancer. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Lodge, Bob ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robert Carter Lodge SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1940 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2008 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Lodge, Bob Category Puzzle designers Category 1940 births Category 2008 deaths US writer stub ... more details
Aaron ben Eliezer Lipman was a rabbi of the town of Zempelburg , West Prussia, formerly included in the kingdom of Poland flourished toward the middle of the seventeenth century. He was an intimate friend of Shabbethai Hurwitz , rabbi of Prague . His work, orban Aharon The Offering of Aaron , was first published at Amsterdam , in 1646, and has gone through several editions. It summarizes in alphabetical order the decisions which R. Moses Isserles RMA has laid down in his ritualistic work, Torat a at. Aaron is also known as the author of an acrostic meditation te innah , beginning Elohai dalfah eni My eye droppeth tears, O my God . References Jewish Encyclopedia Category 17th century German people Category German rabbis ... more details
Other people Emily Cox Emily Cox disambiguation BLP sources date April 2011 Image Emily Cox.jpg thumb 200px Emily Cox. Emily Cox is a US puzzle writer . She and her partner, Henry Rathvon , wrote The Atlantic Puzzler, ref name Arnot2008 cite book last Arnot first Michelle title Four Letter Words And Other Secrets of a Crossword Insider url http books.google.com books?id A3Fsm9MszQC&pg PT78 accessdate 16 April 2011 date 2008 08 05 publisher Penguin isbn 9780399534355 page 78 ref a cryptic crossword featured each month in the magazine The Atlantic Monthly from 1997 to August 2009 ref cite web title Sections url http www.theatlantic.com magazine archive 2009 09 sections 7643 publisher The Atlantic Monthly ref . After March 2006, the Puzzler was published solely online at The Atlantic s website. They also create acrostic puzzle acrostic puzzles for The New York Times , cryptic crosswords for Canada s National Post , various puzzles for the US Airways in flight magazine, and Sunday crosswords for The Boston Globe . Cox and Rathvon are now also contributing cryptic crosswords to the Wall Street Journal on Saturdays. References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cox, Emily ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Cox, Emily Category Puzzle designers Category Year of birth missing living people Category The Atlantic magazine people Category Living people Category Article Feedback 5 US writer stub ... more details
Rabbi Israel ben Joseph Alnaqua Hebrew also, Al Nakawa , Al Nakava , Ankava , Ankoa , Alnucawi , etc, Hebrew , , , died 1391 was an ethical writer and martyr who lived in Toledo, Spain Toledo , Spain . He died at the stake, together with Judah ben Asher , in the summer of 1391. He is the author of an ethical work in twenty chapters, entitled Menorat ha Maor Shining Menorah Temple Candelabra . The work commences with a long poem, an acrostic on the author s name. Then follows a preface in rimed prose. The introduction to each chapter is headed by a poem, giving the acrostic of his name, Israel. It was printed in 1578. A manuscript of it is in the Bodleian . An abridgment of it was published at Cracow , 1593, under the title Menorat Zahav Kullah Candlestick Wholly of Gold . It is divided into five sections, which contain observations on laws in general on education on commerce on the behavior of litigants and judges in court on conduct toward one s fellow men. This is supplemented by a treatise, , consisting of Talmudic and midrashic sayings and maxims, which has been published in German Hebrew characters in Wagenseil s Belehrung der J d. Deutschen Red und Schreibart , K nigsberg, 1699. Other family members Ephraim Alnaqua Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography Zunz , Z. G. p. 435 Benjacob , O ar ha Sefarim, p. 337, No. 1436 Steinschneider , Cat. Bodl. No. 5447 S. Schechter , Monatsschrift, xxxiv. 114, 234. References JewishEncyclopedia Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Alnaqua ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1391 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Alnaqua Category 1391 deaths Category Jewish writers de Israel Ibn al Naqawa fr Isra l Al Naqawa ... more details
Menahem Zioni Ziyyuni ben Meir of Speyer was a kabbalist of the middle of the 15th century, author of the cabalistic commentary iyyuni, from which he derives his name. He based his work upon Rashi and Na manides , and especially upon the old cabalistic literature of the geonic period. The iyyuni is introduced by poems in alphabetic and acrostic order. The division Bereshit begins with a preface on the importance of the assumption of the creation of the world, and in support of this view the arguments of Maimonides are quoted at length. Short poems serve as transitions to the several parashiyyot , and in conclusion there is an acrostic poem, to which, in the second edition, another poem is added. The verse of Zioni quoted by Leopold Dukes L. Dukes Orient, Lit. iv. 798 from a manuscript chrestomathy constitutes the last stanza of this final poem. The book is frequently quoted in the Yal u Re ubeni . It was printed by Vincentio Conti at Cremona in 1559, in rabbinic script, and after this edition was burned in the same year by marauding Spanish soldiers, it was reprinted there in the following year. Menahem is not to be identified with Menahem Zion b. Me r as does Heidenheim, Pijjutim und Pajtanim, p. 8 , a payye an of the twelfth century well known under the name of Menahem b. Machir Zunz , G. V. 2d ed., p. 405 . Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography Ph. Bloch, Die J dische Mystik und Kabbala, in Winter and W nsche, Die J dische Litteratur, iii. 282 Zunz , Z. G. p. 105 Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. i. 774 M. Steinschneider , Cat. Bodl. col. 1742. JewishEncyclopedia Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Zioni, Menahem ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Zioni, Menahem Category Kabbalists Category German rabbis Category Year of death unknown ... more details
The Aposticha lang el Church Slavonic Slavonic stikh ry na stikh vne are a set of hymns stichera accompanied by psalm verses stichos ref Citation last Kallistos Ware first Bishop author link Timothy Ware last2 Mary first2 Mother author2 link contribution Glossary year 1969 publication date 1984 title The Festal Menaion Translated from the Original Greek editor last editor first editor link edition volume series pages 545 6 place London publisher Faber and Faber id isbn 0 571 11137 8 url accessdate ref that are chant ed towards the end of Vespers and Matins in the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Byzantine Rite . The Greek term literally means hymns on the verses. The aposticha belong to a family of hymns, known as stichera , which are normally tied to psalm verses in the Daily Office . Unlike other stichera, which normally follow their psalm verses, the aposticha are unique in that they precede their psalm verses. Aposticha are found at Vespers every day, but at Matins they occur only on ordinary weekdays, being omitted on higher ranking feast day s. At Vespers on Sundays i.e., Saturday evening there is one more sticheron than on weekdays. The aposticha at Sunday Vespers form an acrostic in the original Greek the first sticheron is not part of the acrostic . References Reflist Sources Archimandrite Ephrem, Aposticha and Sticheron in Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity Oxford Blackwell Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0631189661 Monks of New Skete, http www.ogreatmystery.com newskete hymnsofentreaty introduction.html Introduction in Hymns of Entreaty Cambridge, New York New Skete, 1987. ISBN 093512909X External links http www.stanthonysmonastery.org music Vespers Finale 202003 20 20 5B2190 Aposticha Brief 5D.pdf Vespers Aposticha for Sunday, Mode 1 Byzantine chant Category Eastern Christian liturgy Category Christian hymns Category Religious music Category Liturgy of the Hours ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Joachim Aberlin d. after 1554 was a Germany German pastor, teacher and songwriter and is author of a large number of songs for the Reformed Church . He wrote the hymn al Der gantz Psalter The whole Psaltery in 1537, and 68 songs for the psalter of Sigmund Salminger in 1538. According to an acrostic in one of his larger poems Bibel oder heilige Geschrift Gesangsweis in drei Liedern aufs k rzeste zusammenverfasset. Z rich bey Froschouer . he was born in the village of Garmenschwiler between the Danube and the Bodensee . Sources Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 1 20 20 Aberlin, Joachim Paul Pressel ADB Aberlin, Joachim Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Aberlin, Joachim ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION German pastor, teacher, songwriter and author DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Aberlin, Joachim Category 16th century deaths Category German songwriters Germany writer stub de Joachim Aberlin ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 Shovavim is a season in the Jewish calendar, the weeks when the Parshah parshioth of Shemot parsha Shmos until Mishpatim , the first six parshioth of the Book of Exodus , are read in the synagogue, when the Kabballah Kabbalists teach that it is auspicious to repent of sins. Some have the customs of Ta anit fasting and giving extra tzedakah during this time, and of reciting Selichot Selichos and other Kabbalistic prayers and tikkunim . The word Shovavim Shin, Vav, Bet, Bet, Yud, Mem is an acrostic for the names of the Parshah parshioth read during this period Shin Shemot parsha Shemot Vav Va eira Bet Bo parsha Bo Bet Beshalach Yud Yitro parsha Yitro Mem Mishpatim When it is a Jewish leap year, two more weeks are added, the readings of Terumah parsha Terumah Tetzaveh . Shabbat Category Shabbat Category Hebrew calendar Judaism stub ... more details
refimprove date December 2009 Expand Estonian date December 2008 Andrus R uk Andrus R uk born 1957 is an Estonia n artist and poet. In 1981 , in the 9th number of the literary journal Looming journal Looming his poem Silmades taevas ja meri In the eyes sky and sea appeared. It is an acrostic the first letters of the verses read SINIMUSTVALGE blue black white , the colours of the flag of Estonia . For this he was excluded from the Estonian State Institute of Arts currently Estonian Academy of Arts . ref Teet Kallas . Sinimustvalge s gis 1981 . In Looming journal Looming 1998 , 4, pp 617 625. ref References reflist translation ref et Andrus R uk Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Rouk, Andrus ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1957 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Rouk, Andrus Category 1957 births Category Living people Category Estonian artists Estonia bio stub et Andrus R uk ... more details
Davtak Kertogh Davtak the Poet was a 7th century Armenia n poet, the first secular writer in Armenian literature. ref The Heritage of Armenian Literature By Agop Jack Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian, Wayne State University Press, 2002, P. 94 ref He is the author of Elegy on the Death of the Great Prince Javanshir Jevansher , dedicated to the first Sassanid Persia n prince of Caucasian Albania , who accepted Christianity and was murdered. The only surviving poem by Kertogh is written in alphabetical acrostic verse. References reflist External links http www.vostlit.info Texts rus5 Kalank text22.phtml?id 621 . II, .35 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kertough, Davtak ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Kertough, Davtak Category Armenian poets Category Year of birth unknown Category Year of death unknown Armenia poet stub hy ru ... more details
Psalm 111 is the 111th psalm from the Book of Psalms . Psalm 111 and 112 are the only Psalms that are acrostic by phrase in the Bible ref Pratico, Gary Basics of Bible Hebrew p.6 Copyright 2001 ref that is, each 7 9 syllable phrase begins with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet in order. Uses Judaism Verse 4 5 are found in the repetition of the Amidah during Rosh Hashanah ref The Complete Artscroll Machzor for Rosh Hashanah page 323, 461 ref . Verse 10 is recited upon awakening following Modeh Ani and Ritual washing in Judaism handwashing ref The Complete Artscroll Siddur page 2 ref . Protestant Worship This is a Psalm of praise to God for His great works v.2 His enduring Righteousness v.3 His grace and compassion v.4 His provision v.5 Truth and Justice v.7 Redemption theology Redemption for His people v.9 Granting of wisdom to those who revere him v.10 References reflist Psalms Category Psalms 111 id Mazmur 111 ... more details
signed acrostic ally in the Ninth Ode. Not all of these are signed in the acrostic, but that for the Angels in Tone 1 has as its acrostic the following, The first hymn of Theophanes for the Angels , while ... more details
century knew no other artifice than the arrangement of acrostic poems. The acrostic played an important part, in Syriac hymnody and its use, especially the alphabetic acrostic , seems to have been introduced in imitation of the Psalms and the Lamentations of Jeremias . Sometimes the acrostic ... six, or of any other multiple of twenty two. The verbal acrostic is more rare. The name of Jesus ... acrostics. St. Ephraem signed some of his poems with his acrostic. From the ninth century the influence .... In acrostic poems the rhyme is sometimes supplied by the corresponding letter of the alphabet ... of a refrain when there was none in the original. Thus a hymn by St. Ephraem , the acrostic of which ... similar to those in the prologue and forming an alphabetic acrostic . These compositions of rather ... more details
A mesostic is a poem or other typography such that a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text. It is similar to an acrostic , but with the vertical phrase intersecting the middle of the line, as opposed to beginning each new line. The practice of using index words to select pieces from a preexisting text was developed by Jackson Mac Low as diastics . It was used extensively by the experimental composer John Cage Walsh 2001 . There are two types of mesostic fifty percent and one hundred percent. In a fifty percent mesostic, according to Andrew Culver John Cage s assistant , Between any two capitalized letters, you can t have the second letter . ref Cage 57. ref In a one hundred percent mesostic, Between any two capitalized letters, you can t have either letter . ref Cage 57. ref An example of a one hundred percent mesostic although using the ampersand to avoid spelling out and is poor form KITCHEN let us maKe of thIs modesT plaCe a room Holding tons of lovE &, Naturally, much good food, too Notes references References Cage, John. Musicage . Ed. Joan Retallack . Hanover & London Wesleyan University Press , 1996. Walsh, Michael Sunday, Jun. 24, 2001. http www.time.com time magazine article 0,9171,162589,00.html Sounds of Silence , Time Magazine. External links http www.euph0r1a.net mesostomatic Mesostic Generator http www.everything2.com index.pl?node id 494752 Mesostic at everything2 Category Graphic poetry de Mesostichon it Mesostico pt Mes stico ro Mezostih ... more details
Sahakdukht was an Armenia n composer of hymns, poet , and pedagogue who lived in the 8th century. An ascetic , she lived in a cave in the Garni Valley , near present day Yerevan there she produced ecclesiastical poems as well as liturgical chants. Of these, the only one to survive is Srbuhi Mariam St. Mary , a nine stanza acrostic verse. It is believed that many of her hymns were dedicated to the Virgin Mary . Some of them are supposed to have helped to further shape the genre in subsequent centuries. Sahakduxt is also known to have taught lay music lovers and clerical students a number of sacred melodies this she did while seated behind a curtain, as the mores of the period required. Her brother was the music theorist Stepannos Syunetsi . References Arzruni, ahan. Sahakduxt fl. early 8th century . Armenian hymnographer, poet and pedagogue. The Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers . Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel , eds. New York London W. W. Norton & Company , 1995. pp. 400 401. Category Armenian composers Category Women composers Category Year of birth missing Category Year of birth unknown es Sahakduxt hy it Sahakduxt ru ... more details
Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World French language French Parcelles d espoir l echo de ce monde ref http politics.guardian.co.uk backbench comment 0,,1812163,00.html Paris Diary , 4 July 2006, The Guardian . ref is reputedly the longest modern handwritten poem in the world, unveiled on 4 August 2006 by its author, France French public notary Patrick Huet. It comprises 7,547 verses and is reported to be almost 1 km 0.621 mi long, at 994.1 m. ref http www.abc.net.au news newsitems 200608 s1706896.htm Frenchman displays world s longest poem , 5 August 2006, Australian Broadcasting Corporation . ref The poem takes the form of an acrostic , in which the initials of each line collectively spell out the 30 articles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights . The display of the work was unveiled before a court official in Lyon , so that the poem could be considered for inclusion in Guinness World Records . There remain other, far longer epic poems , such as the Indian Mahabharata and Persian Shahnameh , although these are far older. References references Category 2006 poems Pieces of Hope Category French poems Pieces of Hope Category World records Pieces of Hope ... more details
Multiple issues orphan February 2009 unreferenced August 2008 notability August 2008 A pruntiform is an acrostic poetic form in which the first word of each line of a poem or stanza corresponds sequentially to the words in the first line of the poem or stanza . The form was invented by the United States poet Randy Prunty in the late 20th century. The following example is a stanza from his poem sequence, Van Gogh Talks 3rdness, 2000 blockquote how maybe just delaying repeats the way ahead br maybe can be seen now angry face or perhaps seductive eye br just can t tell the difference both are appealing to point of wanting to see higher br delaying northward? what would be done with that space and look how typical br repeats past boundary to the imagination when have all this in front of me br the black on white offering eye not so different from almond br way ahead better relax can t let every white disturb my wanting to be there br ahead not to texture but touch comparing finger tip ridges with ridges of green and blue br blockquote Category Genres of poetry ... more details
italictitle The Ilias Latina is a short Latin language Latin hexameter version of the Iliad of Homer that gained popularity in Antiquity and remained popular through the Middle Ages . It was very widely studied and read in Medieval schools as part of the standard Latin educational curriculum. According to Ernest Robert Curtius , it is a crude condensation , into 1070 lines. ref European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages , p.49 ref It is attributed to Publius Baebius Italicus , said to be a Roman Senator , and to the decade 60 CE 70 CE . ref http ccat.sas.upenn.edu bmcr 1999 1999 01 06.html Book review by Eleanor Dickey ref It includes at least two acrostic elements the first lines spell out ITALICUS, while the last lines spell SCRIPSIT, taken together translating Italicus wrote it . References reflist Further reading Marco Scaffai , Baebii Italici Ilias Latina Bologna, 1982 George A. Kennedy classicist George A. Kennedy , The Latin Iliad. Introduction, Text, Translation, and Notes External links http nodictionaries.com publius baebius italicus ilias latina 1 12 Online Latin text with adjustable interlinear vocabulary http www.thelatinlibrary.com ilias.html Original Latin text online Category Iliad Category Latin poems Category Translations de Ilias Latina eo Iliado Latina fr Iliade latine la Ilias Latina ... more details
Image Michelangelo Buonarroti 033.jpg thumb right Michelangelo s rendering of The Erythraean Sibyl The Erythraean Sibyl was the prophetess of classical antiquity presiding over the Apollo nian oracle at Erythrae , a town in Ionia opposite Chios , which was built by Neleus , the son of Codrus . Image Siena.Duomo.floor03.jpg thumb left 200px Erythraean Sibyl as a floor mosaic in the Duomo di Siena Cathedral of Siena The word Sibyl oracle Sibyl comes via Latin from the ancient Greek word sibylla , meaning prophet ess. Sibyls would give answers whose value depended upon good questions unlike prophet s who typically answered with responses indirectly related to questions asked. There were many Sibyl s in the ancient world, but this oracle prophesied Alexander the Great s divine parentage, according to legend. Presumably there was more than one Sibyl at Erythrae. One is recorded as having been named Herophile,. ref Giovanni Boccaccio s Famous Women translated by Virginia Brown 2001 Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press ISBN 0 674 01130 9 p. 42 ref At least one is said to have been from Chaldea , a nation in the southern portion of Babylonia , being the daughter of Berossus who wrote the Chaldean history, and Erymanthe. Apollodorus Apollodorus of Erythrae , however, says that one who was his own countrywoman predicted the Trojan War and prophesied to the Greeks both that Troy would be destroyed and that Homer would write falsehoods. In Christian iconography the Erythraean Sibyl sometimes appears as one who prophesied the Redemption. Examples were in mediaeval paintings in Salisbury cathedral, ref Modern Gothic by Alexander Murray Times Literary Supplement 24 October 2008 page 8. ref and others are shown in the illustrations on this page. The word Wiktionary acrostic acrostic was first applied to the prophecies of the Erythraean Sibyl, which were written on leaves and arranged so that the initial letters of the leaves always formed a word. The Erythraean Sibyl in t ... more details
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