: a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A. D.

They are said to go back at least to the Greek poet Lycophron, in the third century BCE ; but this relies on an account of Lycophron given by John Tzetzes in the 12th century.

Dryden, the English poet, used the word " clip " to describe the swift flight of a falcon in the 17th century when he said " And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.

In France, Henri Langlois called Hawks " the Gropius of the cinema " and Swiss novelist and poet Blaise Cendrars said that the film " definitely marked the first appearance of contemporary cinema.

Much has been said of Davy as a poet, and John Ayrton Paris somewhat hastily says that his verses " bear the stamp of lofty genius ".

Several poems attributed to Taliesin, a poet said to have lived in the 6th century, also refer to Arthur, although these all probably date from between the 8th and 12th centuries.

After 1488, no other appointments of women are known, although it is said that the Garter was granted to Neapolitan poet Laura Bacio Terricina, by Edward VI.

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

" Breton included the idea of the startling juxtapositions in his 1924 manifesto, taking it in turn from a 1918 essay by poet Pierre Reverdy, which said: " a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities.

American poet, Robert Frost said of TR, " He was our kind.

The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne said, " More nauseous and foolish cant was never chattered than that which would deride the memory or depreciate the merits of Bowdler.

The first of the programmes said that, towards the end of his life and struggling with depression and ill health, Williams abandoned Christian faith following discussions with the poet Philip Larkin.

" Nonetheless, the Cubist poets ' influence on both Cubism and the later movements of Dada and Surrealism was profound ; Louis Aragon, founding member of Surrealism, said that for Breton, Soupault, Éluard and himself, Reverdy was " our immediate elder, the exemplary poet.

* Louise Labé ( 1524 – 1566 ), a female Lyons poet of the Renaissance which at the siege of Perpignan, or in a tournament there, is said to have dressed in male clothing and fought on horseback in the ranks of the Dauphin, afterwards Henry II

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

The poet / critic Randall Jarrell said of his poetry, " William Carlos Williams is as magically observant and mimetic as a good novelist.

Nimoy has said that many of them, on meeting him, are eager to show him their work and discuss it with him as if he were a scientific peer, as opposed to an actor, photographer, and poet.

Solon the poet can be said to appear ' self-righteous ' and ' pompous ' at times and he once composed an elegy with moral advice for a more gifted elegiac poet, Mimnermus.

The famous Heian period waka poet, Ono no Komachi, is said to have been born in Yuzawa City, Ogachi Town, located in the southeast of the prefecture.

He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as " the handsomest young man in England ".

The poet Max Jacob said he came to Montparnasse to " sin disgracefully ", but Marc Chagall summed it up differently when he explained why he had gone to Montparnasse: " I aspired to see with my own eyes what I had heard of from so far away: this revolution of the eye, this rotation of colours, which spontaneously and astutely merge with one another in a flow of conceived lines.

That is, if you were to rely on what was said of Keats by most established critics ( critics now remembered principally for their injustice to one of the greatest English writers ), you would present the author of ` Ode to a Nightingale ' as a presumptuous ` Cockney poet ' whose works were ` driveling idiocy.

" Even Greil Marcus, whose previous writings had been favourably inclined towards Morrison, said: " It's Van acting the part of the ' mystic poet ' he thinks he's supposed to be.

Although his work now only survives in fragments, he was revered by the ancient Greeks as one of their most brilliant authors, able to be mentioned in the same breath as Homer and Hesiod, yet he was also censured by them as the archetypal poet of blame — his invectives were even said to have driven his former fiancee and her father to suicide.

* Mikhail Lermontov ( 1814 – 1841 ) Russian poet and writer ( A Hero of Our Time )

; 1878: Galician poet Naphtali Herz Imber writes a poem Tikvatenu ( Our Hope ), later adopted as the Zionist hymn Hatikvah.

A principal source is The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ the reported ( yet disputed ) visions of the stigmatic German nun Anne Catherine Emmerich ( 1774 – 1824 ), as written by the poet Clemens Brentano.

* The poet Fernando Pessoa-known defender of Masonic and Rosicrucian ideals and possible Rosicrucian Initiate, as he states " Initiated from Master to Disciple in the three minor degrees of the ( apparently extinct ) Portuguese Templar Order " ( Rosicrucians seem to have had a deep presence in Portugal, intermixed with Templar tradition, and with evidence in monuments and literature, from medieavel times into the 20th century )-wrote an hermetic poem titled " No Túmulo de Christian Rosenkreutz " the Tomb of C. R. C, which states in the final line / verse: " Our Father Rose-n-creuz knows and keeps silent.

Irish poet Eavan Boland mentions the coffin ships in her poem " In a Bad Light " from the collection In a Time of Violence, and in her memoir Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time.

He captured a world that any contemporary poet will recognize as " the poetry scene "; his Poetry and the Age might even now be retitled Poetry and Our Age.

Xavier de Fourvière Rieux, French ( 1853-1912 Celebrated preacher, author and poet in the Provençal language ; Prior of Storrington ( W. Sussex ) Our Lady of England Priory 1903-1912

Recently Charles was back on stage in the Off Broadway production " Lightning at Our Feet ", inspired by poet Emily Dickinson, under the direction of Obie winner Bob McGrath, with film maker Bill Morrison and composer Michael Gordon, which was part of the Next Wave festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 2008, where she sang and acted, channeling the iconic 19th century poet.

The chief inspiration for the character of the Lady of Pain is the 19th century poem Dolores ( Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs ) ( literally, Our Lady of Seven Pains ), by English Decadent poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Another poet wrote, " Our friends in vast numbers and languishing forms, left lifeless in the mountains and corroded by worms ".

Ali was also a translator of the Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz ( The Rebel's Silhouette ; Selected Poems ), and was the editor for the Middle East and Central Asia segment of Jeffery Paine's _Poetry of Our World_.

The Umayyad-period poet al-Kutami wrote the oft-quoted verses: " Our business is to make raids on the enemy, on our neighbor and our own brother, in

Nevertheless, it continued to publish more traditional articles, including pieces signed by Brunea-Fox and poet Demostene Botez, as well as the regular columns Carnetul nostru (" Our Notebook "), Cronica evenimentelor externe (" The Chronicle of Foreign Events "), Cronica muzicală (" The Musical Chronicle "), Glose politice (" Political Glosses "), Ultima oră (" Latest News "), and the cartoon section Chestia zilei (" The Daily Issue ").

" Womanist " was then developed in 1983 by Alice Walker -- Black novelist, poet, essayist, and activist -- in her collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers ' Gardens: Womanist Prose.

The Umayyad-period Bedouin poet al-Kutami wrote the oft-quoted verses: " Our business is to make raids on the enemy, on our neighbor and our own brother, in the event we find none to raid but a brother.

The album, which was previously known under the title River of Tears, had been rumored to have a " Burzumic " feel before its release, and in some ways this was borne out by the album's release ; its songs were in many ways significantly more minimalistic than those on Blood in Our Wells and its lyrics based completely on the 1931-1932 works of Ukrainian poet Oleh Olzhych.

The second, Charmes ( from the Latin carmina, meaning " songs " and also " incantations "), further confirmed his reputation as a major French poet.

Gil Scott-Heron, a jazz poet / musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as " The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ", " H2OGate Blues Part 2: We Beg Your Pardon America ," and " Johannesberg ," has been cited as an influence on many rappers.

The British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins claimed to have discovered this previously unnamed poetic rhythm in the natural patterns of English in folk songs, spoken poetry, Shakespeare, Milton, et al.

The Milan Papyrus, recovered from a dismantled mummy casing and published in 2001, has revealed the high esteem in which the poet Posidippus of Pella, an important composer of epigrams ( 3rd century BC ), held Sappho's " divine songs ".

According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.

* Troob: A local minstrel and poet, ( a " troubadour ") who travels the kingdom writing songs and commentary on Id's ways of life.

The Rhodian poet Timocreon was among his most eloquent enemies, composing slanderous drinking songs.

As a child he heard his mother, Katarina Sofia Calamnius, sing the songs of the Finnish-Swedish poet Franzén.

Vivekananda was a singer and a poet, and composed many songs and poems including his favourite Kali the Mother.

He and his close friend, the humanist poet Girolamo Benivieni, composed lauds and other devotional songs for the Carnival processions of 1496, 1497 and 1498, replacing the bawdy Carnival songs of the era of Lorenzo de ’ Medici.

Andy Razaf ( December 16, 1895 – February 3, 1973 ) was an American poet, composer and lyricist of such well-known songs as " Ain't Misbehavin '" and " Honeysuckle Rose ".

21, of 1912, a novel cycle of expressionist songs set to a German translation of poems by the Belgian-French poet Albert Giraud.

A famous poet and composer of songs, active in the early Middle Ages, was the philosopher Peter Abelard ( 1079 – 1142 ).

His mother's side of the family was musically inclined and his maternal grandfather was a poet, which inspired young Martin to write songs.

In Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey Phemius () is an Ithacan poet who performs narrative songs in the house of the absent Odysseus.

A genre which ' had no model and can have no successors ' ( Kellgren ), these songs were to grow swiftly in number until they made up the great work on which Bellman's reputation as a poet chiefly rests.

Guitarist Jimmy A and singer Sharon McCall also performed occasionally with the band, whose repertoire contained a number of songs penned by English poet and fellow Exit Records musician Steve Scott.

American poet and singer Rod McKuen began translating Brel's songs into English, and the Kingston Trio recorded one of his English versions on their Time to Think album, " Seasons in the Sun ", based on Brel's " Le moribond " ( The dying one ).

While in prison, Hernández produced an extraordinary amount of poetry, much of it in the form of simple songs, which the poet collected in his papers and sent to his wife and others.

This is one of the most melodious Czech lullabies, first collected by Karel Jaromír Erben ( 1811 – 1870 ), Czech romantic writer, poet and collector of Czech folk songs and fairy tales.

Also in 1986, Royal Music released Rehearsal For Reality ( also known as Rehearsal 4 Reality ), a compilation album that included some previously released songs, but also six new songs, including three instrumentals, and " More than a Dream " written by British poet Steve Scott.