His short stories are experimental and often draw their material from the Bible, legends, ballads, and world history in general.
"Bibles, legends, history are signposts: they are pointing to the future, not the past.
His painted "high" subjects – from the Bible, classical legend, ancient history, epic poetry.
His work was part of a renewed ecclesiastic concern to instruct the laity, which resulted in a wealth of Bible stories, legends, and didactic short stories.
The characters in The World's Wife come from fairytales, Bible stories, legends, modern horrors (Hindley, here recast as the devil's wife) and ancient myths.
Whitman too was touched by India's "deep diving bibles and legends" and "far-darting beams of the spirit," and poets from Emily Dickinson to Bob Dylan were all touched by our national bard.
The world's greatest literature including The Bible, the Faust legend, and even the ancient Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh all caution that the quest for fame can be a recipe for sorrow.
I showed him an infamous flier the Republican National Committee had willingly taken credit for, featuring a crossed-out Bible and the legend, "This will be Arkansas if you don't vote".
FROM the Bible, Greek and Norse legends and fairy and folk tales, the apple is enshrined in our history.
A great number of publications, popular as well as scholarly, were a product of the revival, which also produced religious verse in free metres, lyrical hymns, popular ballads employing cynghanedd (a complex system of accentuation, alliteration, and internal rhyme), and verse dramas based on historical tales, incidents from the Bible, and Welsh mythology and legend.
