Johann Kaspar ( or Caspar ) Lavater ( 15 November 1741 – 2 January 1801 ) was a Swiss poet and physiognomist.

* January 2-Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet ( born 1741 )

Another famous Zürich writer was Solomon Gesner, the pastoral poet, and yet another was JK Lavater, now best remembered as a supporter of the view that the face presents a perfect indication of character and that physiognomy may therefore he treated as a science.

Another famous Zürich writer was Solomon Gesner, the pastoral poet, and yet another was JK Lavater, now best remembered as a supporter of the view that the face presents a perfect indication of character and that physiognomy may therefore he treated as a science.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

On Earth elections continued and a very advanced poet published a limited edition of verse consisting entirely of punctuation marks and spaces ; ;

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney's Casualty ( published in Field Work, 1981 ) criticizes Britain for the death of his friend.

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

In 1999, the bicentennial year of Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin, Hofstadter published a verse translation of Pushkin's classic novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin.

By this time he had started what was to be an enduring friendship with the romantic poet Patrice Contamine, and had had his first compositions published by his father.

* The Ossian cycle of ancient Celtic poetry supposedly rediscovered and published in 1760 by Scottish poet James Macpherson was actually written in the eighteenth century, possibly based on some fragments of earlier verses.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

James Macpherson was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation, claiming to have found poetry written by Ossian, he published translations that acquired international popularity, being proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the Classical epics.

In literature the most successful figure of the mid-nineteenth century was Walter Scott, who began as a poet and also collected and published Scottish ballads.

The Olney Hymns () were first published in February 1779, and are the combined work of curate John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ) and his poet friend, William Cowper ( 1731 – 1800 ).

Cowper is best known, not just for his contribution to the Olney Hymns, but as a poet, letter-writer, and translator: his works include The Diverting History of John Gilpin ( 1782 ), The Task ( 1785 ) and his translation of Homer, published in 1791.

The poet Pauline Stainer spent several years on the island, and in 1999 published a collection of her poems about Rousay, Parable Island.

Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson from about 1760.

* Scottish poet Rab Wilson published a version in Scots in 2004.

Along with Tom Verlaine, in 1971 Hell also published under the pseudonym Theresa Stern, a fictional poet whose photo was actually a combination of both his and Verlaine's faces, in drag, superimposed over one another to create a new identity.

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 ".

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.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

She had already published extensively, having won various awards, and had come especially to meet Hughes and his fellow poet Lucas Myers.

" In 1970, radical feminist poet Robin Morgan published the poem " Arraignment ", in which she openly accused Hughes of the battery and murder of Plath ; other feminists threatened to kill him in Plath's name.

It was published by John Mason Neale in 1853, and may be a translation of a poem by Czech poet Václav Alois Svoboda.

* Tullia d ' Aragona ( c. 1510 – 1556 ): top courtesan in several Italian cities, and published poet

Bach's choral output reached its apex in two works: the double chorus Heilig ( Holy, Holy, Holy ) of 1776, a setting of the seraph song from the throne scene in Isaiah, and the grand cantata Die Auferstehung Jesu ( The Resurrection of Jesus ) of 1774-1782, which sets a poetic Gospel harmonization by the poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler ( 1725-1798 ).

The family produced a number of notable figures, including Thomas Parnell ( 1679 – 1718 ), the Irish poet and Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton ( 1776 – 1842 ) the Irish politician.

Cunningham's other brothers were the naval surgeon Peter Miller Cunningham ( 1789 – 1864 ) and the poet, Thomas Mounsey Cunningham ( 1776 – 1834 ).

* John Edwards ( 1700 ?– 1776 ), Welsh poet

The demesne officer, wine expert and archaeologist Carl Friedrich Christoph Gok ( 1776 – 1849 ), a half brother of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, suspected in 1847, that the alleged castle on the Schirenhof farm had probably once been a Roman fort.

It is through John Lowell's daughter-in-law, the wife of Francis Cabot, Hannah Jackson ( 1776 – 1815 ), who was a granddaughter of Edward and Dorthy ( Quincy ) Jackson, that descendants of both the Francis Cabot and John Amory families claim relation to the Holmeses of Boston, which include poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and U. S. Supreme Court Justice and Civil War hero Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr ..

Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty ( December 21, 1748 – September 1, 1776 ) was a German poet, known especially for his ballads.

Ann Griffiths ( née Thomas ) ( April 1776 – August 1805 ) was a Welsh poet and writer of Methodist Christian hymns.

In 1776 the Italian poet Count Vittorio Alfieri was presented at their palace ; he became a frequent visitor.

* Alfred Austin ( 1835 – 1913 ), British poet

* 1327 – The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.

* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( d. 1741 )

* 1818 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet ( d. 1870 )

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1848 – José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet ( d. 1880 )

* 1929 – Mukhran Machavariani, Georgian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1931 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1864 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet ( d. 1913 )

* 1910 – Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu poet and lyricist ( d. 1983 )

* 1870 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet ( d. 1919 )

* 1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1931 – Sri Chinmoy, Bengali-American spiritual teacher, poet, and painter ( d. 2007 )

* 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet ( d. 1892 )

* 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet ( d. 1955 )

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

* 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English poet ( d. 1900 )

* 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet ( d. 1988 )

* 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet ( d. 2000 )

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )