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Or the mode of love to this fragment by a recent poet: `` Know ye, fair folk who dwell on earth Or shall hereafter come to birth, That here, with dust upon his eyes, Iraj, the sweet-tongued singer, lies.
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.
He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.
Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.
We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.
Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.
`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.
The poet in a written tradition who generally never blots a line may once in a while pause and polish without incurring blame.
Any example of grand or exquisite diction may have been created by the poet who compiled numerous lays into the two works we possess or may be due to one of his completely unknown fellow-craftsmen.
Albert B. Lord suggests that the Homeric poems were dictated to a scribe by a minstrel who held in his mind the poems fully matured but did not himself possess the knowledge of writing since it would be useless to his guild, and Magoun argues that the Beowulf poet and Cynewulf may have dictated their verse in the same fashion.
C. Wheeler Barnes of Denver, head of the Scottish Rite in Colorado, praised Pike as a historian, author, poet, journalist, lawyer, jurist, soldier and musician, who devoted most of his mature years to the strengthening of the Masonic Order.
One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.
: a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A. D.
The German poet Unica Zürn, who made extensive use of anagram techniques, came to regard obsession with anagrams as a " dangerous fever ", because it created isolation of the author.
760 d. 18 February 814 ) was a Frank who served Charlemagne as a diplomat, abbot, poet and semi-son-in-law.
Ahmed was a poet who wrote a number of political and lyrical works under the name Bahti.
The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.
Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.
* Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg ( 1806 – 1876 ) – Austrian poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Anastasius Grün.
He was a poet and a member of the völkisch agitators who, together with journalist Karl Harrer, founded the German Workers ' Party ( DAP ) in Munich with Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart in 1919.
* 1902 – Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet who designed the flag of the State of Maranhão ( b. 1833 )

poet and lost
448 – 400 BC ) was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost.
In the Symposium, Agathon is presented as the friend of the comic poet Aristophanes, but this alleged friendship did not prevent Aristophanes from harshly criticizing Agathon in at least two of his comic plays: the Thesmophoriazousae and the ( now lost ) Gerytades.
Gaetulicus, a poet, produced a number of flattering writings about Caligula, but they too are lost.
The myth of the lost poem tells how an inspired work was mysteriously given to the poet and dispelled irrecoverably.
Impressed by the fate of the city, the relics, and not least legend's excessive descriptions, the German poet Detlev von Liliencron wrote a popular poem called " Trutz, Blanke Hans " about this lost city which starts with the words: " Heut bin ich über Rungholt gefahren, die Stadt ging unter vor sechshundert Jahren ".
In 1904 Canadian poet Bliss Carman published Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, which was not just a translation of the fragments but an imaginative reconstruction of the lost poems.
David's popularity in Wales is shown by the Armes Prydein Fawr c. 930, a popular prophetic poem in which the poet prophesied that in the future, when all might seem lost, the Cymry ( the Welsh people ) would unite behind the standard of David to defeat the English ; A lluman glân Dewi a ddyrchafant (" And they will raise the pure banner of Dewi ").
The poet Francesco Petrarca spent some time there, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti called him to take charge of the magnificent library which owned about a thousand books and manuscripts, subsequently lost.
According to fellow poet and close friend Warren Kinthompson, he had " lost his will to live after the death of a younger sister.
But Pausanias writing in the 2nd century AD reported another early source ( now lost ): " The Lycian Olen, an earlier poet, who composed for the Delians, among other hymns, one to Eileithyia, styles her ' the clever spinner ', clearly identifying her with Fate, and makes her older than Cronus .” Being the youngest born to Gaia, Cronus was a Titan of the first generation and he was identified as the father of Zeus.
* A Greek poet whose work is now lost, contemporaneous with Sappho and Erinna, apostrophized in Erinna's Distaff.
In the 20th century, the word lost much of its original connotation of Celtic revivalism or Romanticism, and could refer to any professional poet or singer, sometimes in a mildly ironic tone.
Pausanias shares his source with Castor of Rhodes, who used the king-list in compiling tables of history ; the common source was convincingly identified by F. Jacoby as a lost Sicyonica by the late 4th-century poet Menaechmus of Sicyon.
Gaius Asinius Pollio ( sometimes wrongly called Pollius or Philo ) ( Teate Marrucinorum-currently Chieti in Abruzzi 75 BC – AD 4 ) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch.
He praises Philitas, the veteran poet of Cos, and criticizes " the fledgelings of the Muse, who cackle against the Chian bard and find their labour lost.
* A schoolmate of Arthur Rimbaud confessed he lost a notebook of poems by the famous poet.
He is to be distinguished from Antimachus of Teos, a much earlier poet to whom the lost Cyclic epic Epigoni was apparently ascribed ( though the attribution may result from confusion ).
A long and eloquent Discours au roi ( detailing the duties of a prince, and translated from a Latin original written by Michel de l ' Hôpital, now lost ) was dedicated to Francis II in 1559, and is said to have secured for the poet a tardy pension.
About 2 / 3 of the Greek original is now lost, but the full version was translated to Latin by the Roman poet Catullus, and his version exists to this day.
Kendall had indeed lost heart ; he drifted into drinking and Alexander Sutherland in his essay draws a lurid picture of the depths into which the poet had fallen.
* September ( date unknown )-Antônio Gonçalves Dias, poet ( born 1823 ) ( lost at sea )
But both have been suspected of being prejudiced witnesses: The poet had a grudge against Cleon, who may have accused him before the Council of having ridiculed ( in his lost play Babylonians ) the policy and institutions of his city in the presence of foreigners and at the time of a great national danger.
" Herodotus also wrote that the 7th century BC poet Aristeas wrote of the Hyperboreans in a poem ( now lost ) called Arimaspea about a journey to the Issedones, who are estimated to have lived in Kazakh Steppe.
Old English scholar and noted commentator on the Ruthwell Cross Daniel H. Haigh argues that the inscription of the Ruthwell Cross must be fragments of one of Caedmon's lost poems, stating " On this monument, erected about A. D. 665, we have fragments of a religious poem of very high character, and that there was but one man living in England at that time worthy to be named as a religious poet, and that was Caedmon ".

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