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writer and verse
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.
The witty sally of a Baroque writer, John Dryden, against the verse of Donne in the previous generation, affords a concise contrast between Baroque and Mannerist aims in the arts:
" Mr. Nash, the league leading writer of light verse ( Averaging better than 6. 3 lines per carry ), lives in Baltimore and loves the Colts ," it declares.
Urban was a skilled writer of Latin verse, and a collection of Scriptural paraphrases as well as original hymns of his composition has been frequently reprinted.
According to the American writer Kevin Self, in the 1920s a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga-as a prefix for 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third ( 1908 ) edition of Galgenlieder ( Gallows Songs ).
He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse ; much of his poetry was written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids ( 1959 ).
Constraints are very common in poetry, which often requires the writer to use a particular verse form.
Though James was himself a prose writer and sponsored mostly prose works, he had an appreciation of verse.
As a writer, Flora Brovina is the author of three volumes of lyric verse.
Street, maternal niece of Edward Lear ( 1812 1888 ), the famous English watercolourist and writer of humorous verse.
* Hulda Saenger Walter ( 1867 1929 ) Poet, writer of German verse
His success as a writer was coeval with his earliest publication ; his Comical Tales in verse, poems that recall the Broad Grins that Colman the younger brought out a decade later, took the town by storm, and the struggling young poet found himself a popular favourite at twenty-one.
Barnabe Barnes was well acquainted with the work of contemporary French sonneteers, to whom he is largely indebted, and he borrows his title, apparently, from a Neapolitan writer of Latin verse, Hieronymus Angerianus.
Walter Barrington, second son of the ninth Viscount, who was a writer of humorous verse.
He began his career as a writer helping produce, and contributing humorous verse and skits to some of the Communist Party's factory papers.
An orator and writer of Latin verse, he left three books of graceful Latin poems ( printed with Salmon Macrin's Odes, 1546, by R Estienne ), and some other compositions, including Francisci Francorum regis epistola apologetica ( 1542 ).
The election of Daurat as their leader proved his personal influence, and the value his pupils set on the learning to which he introduced them, but as a writer of French verse he is the least important of the seven.
Also added as regulars were their grumpy neighbor Mr. Bickley ( who was seen occasionally in the first season and ironically worked as a verse writer for a greeting-card company ) portrayed by Tom Poston, and Nelson Flavor ( Jim Staahl ), Mindy's snooty cousin who ran for city council.
* Thomas Hamilton ( writer ) ( 1789 1842 ), Scottish writer of prose and verse ( 1827 military novel, Cyril Thornton )
His first published writings appeared in 1905 and attracted the attention of Valery Bryusov, who invited him to contribute to his influential literary magazine Vesy ( The Balance ), the center of the Symbolist movement, where in 1906 he published his verse cycle " Alexandrian Songs " ( modeled on Les Chansons de Bilitis, by Pierre Louÿs ) and the first Russian novel with a homosexual theme, Wings, which instantly achieved notoriety and made him a widely popular writer.
In his later work Moultrie became the writer of much blank verse of a conscientious and explanatory type.
* March 18-Bonaventura Baron, theologian, philosopher, teacher and writer of Latin prose and verse ( born 1610 )
A little later the poet Ausonius handed down some of these fables in verse, which Julianus Titianus, a contemporary writer of no great name, translated into prose, and in the early 5th century Avianus put 42 of these fables into Latin elegiacs.

writer and poems
Notwithstanding the distinction he enjoyed as a tragic poet, he appears to have had greater merit as a writer of epic poems, elegies, epigrams, and cynaedi.
Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.
Dylan Marlais Thomas ( 27 October 1914 9 November 1953 ) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", " And death shall have no dominion ", the " play for voices ", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet and writer lived in Whalsay from the mid-1930s through 1942, and wrote many poems there, including a number that directly address or reflect the Shetland environment such as " On A Raised Beach ", which was inspired by a visit to West Linga.
While it is hardly surprising that a writer reuses some of his own inventions now and then, it is noteworthy that the themes of Carroll's poems (" Jabberwocky ", " The Mouse's Tale ", " The Pig-Tale ", " The Mad Gardener's Song ") run through all of his major works like, to borrow Gardner's expression, " demented fugues ".
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE ( 19 April 1900 28 April 1976 ) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.
The British writer Helen Stevenson published a Chinese-box-like postmodern meditation on Giraud's poems in her 1995 novel Pierrot Lunaire.
The book secured her reputation as a new and striking young writer, the poems Grey-eyed king, In the Forest, Over the Water and I don ’ t need my legs anymore making her famous.
Hooft was a prolific writer of plays, poems and letters, but he concentrated from 1618 onwards on writing his history of the Netherlands ( Nederlandsche historiën ), inspired by Roman historian Tacitus.
While her writing was not published formally in her lifetime ( except as Schoolcraft appropriated it under his own name ), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as " the first Native American literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, the first known poet to write poems in a Native American language, and the first known American Indian to write out traditional Indian stories.
Lowell persuaded D. H. Lawrence to contribute poems to the 1915 and 1916 volumes, making him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist.
Though he is known to classical scholars as the last possessor of complete versions of Callimachus ' Hecale and Aitia, he was a versatile writer, and composed homilies, speeches and poems, which, with his correspondence, throw considerable light upon the miserable condition of Attica and Athens at the time.
Graeme Edge found a significant secondary role in the band as a writer of poetry, and some of their early albums from the late Sixties begin with various band members reciting poems by Edge that were conceptually related to the lyrics of the songs that would follow.
He is also said to have been a writer of erotic poems.
The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling (( 1865-1936 ), a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature ( 1907 ).
The poet Catullus wrote several love poems concerning a frequently unfaithful woman he called Lesbia, identified in the mid-second century AD by the writer Apuleius ( Apologia 10 ) as a " Clodia.
In the 1960s he became a powerful and prolific writer of both poems and drama, and it was through his radio play Jack Winter's dream that he became internationally known.
Rückert was master of thirty languages and made his mark chiefly as a translator of Oriental poetry and as a writer of poems conceived in the spirit of Oriental masters.
James Macpherson () ( 27 October 1736 17 February 1796 ) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the " translator " of the Ossian cycle of poems.
England interested him deeply ; and his attachment to the gifted English writer, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, whom he shortly afterwards married ( and who in 1901 became the wife of Professor E. Duclaux, director of the Pasteur Institute at Paris ), led him to translate her poems into French in 1888.

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