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    co-educational. In Cambridge, Churchill College, King's College and Clare College were the first men's colleges to admit women in 1972. Girton had already...
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    identification was rejected early in the 21st century by the historian Clare Downham, who has argued that later Norse writers synthesized the two Erics...
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  • The Passion of Joan of Arc. "Her Kind" is divided into three seven-line stanzas with the refrain "I have been her kind" every seventh line. The refrain...
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    John Keats (category Alumni of King's College London)
    and shadows numberless,  Singest of summer in full-throated ease. First stanza of "Ode to a Nightingale", May 1819 "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode on Melancholy"...
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  • tradotte e annotate. Hoepli. p. 109. ISBN 9788820300333. "The Birkbeck College coat of arms" (PDF). Birkbeck's Magazine. No. 35. 2016. pp. 10–11. Retrieved...
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    Emily Dickinson (category Mount Holyoke College alumni)
    brewed –" is an example of the edited versions; the last two lines in the first stanza were completely rewritten. In 1864, several poems were altered and published...
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    folk motifs: the beheading game, and the exchange of winnings. Written in stanzas of alliterative verse, each of which ends in a rhyming bob and wheel, it...
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    a 2010 BBC documentary about the poem and its use of landscape. For the Stanza Stones Trail, which runs through 47 miles (76 km) of the Pennine region...
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    follows the standard pattern for the time – a uniform series of four-line stanzas, each preceded by a two-line refrain (in the early English carol this was...
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    depressed and almost suicidal: a state of mind reflected in his poem "Stanzas written in Dejection – December 1818, Near Naples". While in Naples, Shelley...
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    "Fair Margaret And Sweet William (Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) CJS2/10/3087)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved...
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (category Bowdoin College alumni)
    Portland Gazette on November 17, 1820, a patriotic and historical four-stanza poem called "The Battle of Lovell's Pond". He studied at the Portland Academy...
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    Lord Byron (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
    denounced Elgin's actions in his poem The Curse of Minerva and in Canto II (stanzas XI–XV) of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Byron's image as the personification...
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  • Mervyn Peake (category Alumni of Croydon College)
    though the Penguin edition of 1982, with many corrections, including a whole stanza inadvertently omitted from the hardback edition. The Collected Poems of...
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    Aaron Swartz (category Lake Forest College alumni)
    constitutionally guaranteed right to a fair trial ...,' the video statement said. Stanza, Arrow (January 6, 2014). "Springer Link hacked in honor of Aaron Swartz"...
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    Retrieved 2 October 2020. "Binorie (Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) CJS2/10/2181)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved...
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    as leading the trend for pastoral poetry, helping to develop the Habbie stanza as a poetic form. James Macpherson (1736–1796) was the first Scottish poet...
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  • for all four voices, while the stanzas are assigned to varying voices. The third stanza is in B major, and the final stanza in D major. The duration is given...
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  • the first four stanzas of the 1864 hymn "For the Beauty of the Earth" by Folliott Sandford Pierpoint. Pierpoint had written eight stanzas as a hymn for...
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    on a Bible quotation, three arias and, as the closing chorale, the last stanza from Samuel Rodigast's hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" (1674). The...
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    December 2021. "Little Musgrave (Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) CJS2/9/1553)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved...
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    twelve in the day and at six in the afternoon, its chimes played the first stanza of the National Anthem of Peru. The German Tower was built as a gift from...
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    14th-century Middle English version of the Vulgate Mort Artu known as the Stanzaic Morte Arthur makes Morgan an unquestionably good sister of Arthur, concerned...
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  • French with the first half of the first stanza and chorus sung in English and the second half of the first stanza sung in French. From 1994 until 2016,...
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    Nicholas Ferrar (category Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge)
    away to boarding school in Berkshire, and in 1605, aged 13, he entered Clare Hall, Cambridge. He was elected a fellow-commoner at the end of his first...
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    songs, including Emmett's "I'm Gwine ober de Mountain" (1843). The second stanza clearly echoes "Gumbo Chaff" from the 1830s: "Den Missus she did marry Big...
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  • John Berryman (category Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge)
    poetry seriously. For two years, Berryman also studied overseas at Clare College, Cambridge, on a Kellett Fellowship from Columbia. He graduated in 1936...
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    (A Treatise on Cosmic Fire) not only reproduces Blavatsky's apocryphal Stanzas of Dzyan but is dedicated to Blavatsky, as well. Parallels between Theosophy...
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    Holman Day (category Colby College alumni)
    brought a libel suit on the paper and put a blackhand value on his three stanza gem to the extent of a sum never received by the great Longfellow in his...
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    Dorothy L. Sayers (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    almost doggerel". Sayers retained Dante's terza rima structure—three-line stanzas linked by their rhyme scheme—a difficult form to use in English translations...
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