For those who `` like poetry but never get around to reading it '', the Library of Congress makes it possible for poets to be heard reading their own work.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

And in our own language ,— for he was familiar with English poetry ,— speaking of the soul ’ s dread departure from the body:

It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits ( such as its own poetry, and music ).

Crete has its own distinctive Mantinades poetry.

While in Ottawa he also collected and published French Canadian Folk Songs, and a volume of his own poetry.

You ought to have heard him recite poetry — his own, too, it was, he told me.

She is a figure of imaginary power within the poem who can inspire within the narrator his own ability to craft poetry.

His own prose ( and his poetry ) became exemplars of this new style.

Many other " national epics ," epic poetry considered to reflect the national spirit, were produced or revived under the influence of Romantic nationalism: particularly in the Russian Empire, national minorities seeking to assert their own identities in the face of Russification produced new national poetry – either out of whole cloth, or from cobbling together folk poetry, or by resurrecting older narrative poetry.

Whereas previous rulers had been influenced by Persian culture ( Suleiman's father, Selim I, wrote poetry in Persian ), Suleiman's patronage of the arts had seen the Ottoman Empire assert its own artistic legacy.

The only contemporary source for Sappho's life is her own poetry, and scholars are skeptical of reading it biographically.

Indeed, Gregory of Nazianzus, who, along with Pope Gregory VII, features as the villain in many of these stories, may have been taken by Sappho's poetry but were interested in ending her influence and increasing their own.

In some later poetry each tribe of the Tuatha Dé Danann was given its own mound.

Adorno ’ s 1949 dictum —" To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric "— posed the question of what German culture could mean after Auschwitz ; his own continual revision of this dictum — in Negative Dialectics, for example, he wrote that " Perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream "; while in “ Commitment ,” he wrote in 1962 that the dictum " expresses in negative form the impulse which inspires committed literature "— was part of post-war Germany ’ s struggle with history and culture.

In this reflected version of her own house, she finds a book with looking-glass poetry, " Jabberwocky ", whose reversed printing she can read only by holding it up to the mirror.

Wordsworth's father, although rarely present, taught him poetry, including that of Milton, Shakespeare and Spenser, in addition to allowing his son to rely on his own father's library.

* The Poetic Function focuses on " the message for its own sake " and is the operative function in poetry as well as slogans.

As the first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms ( their second album proper, 1985's Meat Is Murder, made Number 1 in the UK ), they elevated rock's standard four-piece formula to new heights of magic and poetry.

Also in 1983, Kilmer self-published a collection of his own poetry entitled " My Edens After Burns ", that included poems inspired by his time with Pfeiffer.

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

Curt was too involved in his own problems to pay much attention.

The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

That world was in scale with my own smallness.

And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.