Orphan date February 2009 Geraint the Blue Bard lang cy Geraint Fardd Glas is a reputed 9th century Welsh bard and harpist, although modern scholars are dismissive of his existence. He has been definitively shown by Welsh scholar G. J. Williams to be the invention of Iolo Morganwg ref G. J. Williams, Iolo Morganwg University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1956 , pp. 288 9. ref , a talented author and antiquarian now infamous for his numerous literary forgeries. Iolo called him Geraint Fardd Glas or Y Bardd Glas o r Gadair the Blue Bard of the Bardic Chair and associated him with his version of the early history of Morgannwg Glamorgan . Iolo makes the figure of Geraint, otherwise unattested in Welsh manuscript sources or tradition, the inventor of cynghanedd and brother of king Morgan of Morgannwg . He even went so far as to equate him with Asser in the court of Alfred the Great . He invented numerous Sayings etc. attributed to Geraint and printed in the notorious third volume of the Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales . Iolo based his invention on some vague references in medieval English and Scots poetry to a certain Glascurion the name Geraint Fardd Glas and its variants only occurs in Iolo s works mentioned in Chaucer s House of Fame Ther herde I pleyen on an harpe That sowned bothe wel and sharpe, Orpheus ful craftely, And on his syde, faste by, Sat the harper Orion, And Eacides Chiron, And other harpers many oon, And the Bret Glascurion Glascurion figures as Glasgerion in the English and Scots folk ballad Glasgerion was a kings owne sonne, And a harper he was good He harped in the kings chamber, Where cuppe and candle stoode, And soe did hee in the queens chamber, Till ladies waxed wood. And then bespake the kings daughter. References references External links Chaucer s House of Fame http www.georgetown.edu labyrinth library me chaucer HF.html Child Ballad 67 Glasgerion http www.sacred texts.com neu eng child ch067.htm Category Literary hoaxes Category Welsh literature Wal ... more details
refimprove date April 2010 The Fruits of the Earth lang fr Les nourritures terrestres is a prose poem by Andr Gide , published in France in 1897. The book was written in 1895 the year of Gide s marriage and appeared in a review in 1896 before publication the next year. Gide admitted to the intellectual influence of Nietzsche s Also Sprach Zarathustra ref http www.jstor.org pss 3188574 Catherine Hill Savage, Les nourritures terrestres and Also Sprach Zarathustra ref but the true genesis was the author s own journey from the deforming influence of his puritanical religious upbringing to liberation in the arms of North African boys. Andre Maurois draws attention to the similarity of moral outlook between the two works in these words Like Thus Spake Zarathustra , Les Nourritures Terrestres is a gospel in the root sense of the word glad tidings. Tidings about the meaning of life addressed to a dearly loved disciple whom Gide calls Nathanael. ref http www.andregide.org studies e maurois.html Andre Maurois, From Proust to Camus Profiles of Modern French Writers ref Nathaniel comes from the Hebrew name , Nethan el , meaning God has given . ref http www.mfnames.com mnames n origin and meaning of nathaniel.htm MFnames.com Origin and Meaning of Nathaniel ref ref http www.mfnames.com mnames n origin and meaning of nathanael.htm MFnames.com Origin and Meaning of Nathanael ref The book has three characters the narrator, the narrator s teacher, Menalque, and the young Nathanael. Menalque has two lessons to impart through the narrator. The first is to flee families, rules, stability. Gide himself suffered so much from snug homes that he harped on its dangers all his life. The second is to seek adventure, excess, fervor one should loathe the lukewarm, security, all tempered feelings. Not affection, Nathanael love ... A subtly structured collection of lyrical fragments, reminiscences, poems, travel notes, and aphorisms, the book came to command such a following after World ... more details
There was a jolly harper man, br That harped aye frae toun to toun br A wager he made, with two knights ... that steed s tail, br Syne shut the stable door behin. Then he harped on, and he carped on, br Till ... more details
Infobox Officeholder honorific prefix name The Earl Fitzwilliam honorific suffix br small Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council PC small image 2ndEarlFitzwilliam.jpg imagesize 200px caption Fitzwilliam as painted by William Owen, 1817. order Earl Fitzwilliam term 10 August 1756 8 February 1833 br age in years and days 1756 8 10 1833 2 8 predecessor William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam William Fitzwilliam successor Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam order1 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland term start1 13 December 1794 term end1 13 March 1795 monarch1 George III of the United Kingdom George III primeminister1 William Pitt the Younger Hon. William Pitt the Younger predecessor1 John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland The Earl of Westmorland successor1 John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden The Earl Camden birth date birth date 1748 5 30 df y birth place death date death date and age 1833 2 8 1748 5 30 df y death place nationality United Kingdom British party Whig British political party Whig alma mater spouse 1 Lady Charlotte Ponsonby br c. 1750 1822 br 2 Hon. Louisa Molesworth br 1749 1824 William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council PC 30 May 1748 8 February 1833 , styled Viscount Milton until 1756, was a United Kingdom British Whig British political party Whig statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1782 he inherited his uncle Charles Watson Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham s estates, making him one of the richest people in Britain. He played a leading part in Whig politics until the 1820s. Early life 1748&ndash 1782 Fitzwilliam was the son of William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam , by his wife Lady Anne, daughter of Thomas Watson Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham . Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister Charles Watson Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham was his maternal uncle. He inherited the two Earl Fitzwilliam earldoms of Fitzwil ... more details
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