This sort of account emerges from Solon's poems ( e. g. see below Solon the reformer and poet ), in which he casts himself in the role of a noble mediator between two intemperate and unruly factions.

" Here Solon is presented as a partisan in a democratic cause whereas, judged from the viewpoint of his own poems, he was instead a mediator between rival factions.

One of his poems parodied a famous hymn to the Muses written by Solon.

Because of these, Thespis is often called the " Father of Tragedy "; however, his importance is disputed, and Thespis is sometimes listed as late as 16th in the chronological order of Greek tragedians ; the statesman Solon, for example, is credited with creating poems in which characters speak with their own voice, and spoken performances of Homer's epics by rhapsodes were popular in festivals prior to 534 BC.

This recurs in a different form in the much later statement of Diogenes Laertius ( 1. 2. 57 ) that Solon made a law that the poems should be recited " with prompting ".

Possibly the most adept at musical depiction in his program music was the German composer Richard Strauss, whose symphonic poems include Death and Transfiguration ( portraying a dying man and his entry into heaven ), Don Juan ( based on the ancient legend of Don Juan ), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks ( based on episodes in the career of the legendary German figure Till Eulenspiegel ), Don Quixote ( portraying episodes in the life of Miguel de Cervantes ' character, Don Quixote ), A Hero's Life ( which depicts episodes in the life of an unnamed hero often taken to be Strauss himself ) and Symphonia Domestica ( which portrays episodes in the composer's own married life, including putting the baby to bed ).

The novel portrays a collection of young genderqueer artists as they write poems, have sex, move in and out of cheap rented rooms, and duck into the neighborhood's many speakeasies.

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.

He also posed as an author and patron of literature ; his poems, severely criticized by Philoxenus, were hissed at the Olympic games ; but having gained a prize for a tragedy on the Ransom of Hector at the Lenaea at Athens, he was so elated that he engaged in a debauch which proved fatal.

He modeled his court after Athens and was a patron of the poets Pindar and Bacchylides, both of whom dedicated poems to Alexander.

The Black Swan, a collection of poems Merrill's Amherst professor ( and lover ) Kimon Friar published privately in Athens, Greece in 1946, was printed in just one hundred copies when Merrill was 20 years old.

These barristers, doctors, and other professional men named their club after the Greek court poet Anacreon ( 6th century BC ), whose poems, " anacreontics ", were used to entertain patrons in Teos and Athens.

At Athens, by 330 BC, there was a law that rhapsodes should perform the Homeric poems at every Panathenaic festival ; this law is appealed to as glory of Athens by the orator Lycurgus.

Canto General, an oratorio for two voices, mixed choir and orchestra by Mikis Theodorakis based on poems from Canto General by Pablo Neruda was recorded live on August 13, 1975, at the Karaiskakis-Stadium, Pireus and on August 16, 1975, at the Panathinaikos-Stadium, Athens.

On the Latin stage the prologue was often more elaborate than it was in Athens, and in the careful composition of the poems which Plautus prefixes to his plays we see what importance he gave to this portion of the entertainment ; sometimes, as in the preface to the Rudens, Plautus rises to the height of his genius in his adroit and romantic prologues, usually placed in the mouths of persons who make no appearance in the play itself.

and whose poems, " anacreontics ", were used to entertain patrons in Teos and Athens.

In 1992 writer Lefteris Xanthopoulos shot a documentary titled Who's the Crazy Hare ( The Crazy Hare being one of the poet's most known poems ) about Sachtouris at the poet's house, in Kypseli, Athens.

Although she wrote poetry from at an early age, her most important poems were written during the last four years of her life, when, suffering from consumption, she was secluded in an Athens sanatorium.

They were poems in a strange language, of which he could barely touch a meaning -- enough to make his being ache with the desire for the fullness he sensed there.

If anything, her poems suggest the opposite – they speak of quietly experienced but intensely felt emotions, hidden from others, without any indication of being requited.

The poem's emphasis on imagination as subject of a poem, on the contrasts within the paradisal setting, and its discussion of the role of poet as either being blessed or cursed by imagination, has influenced many works, including Alfred Tennyson's " Palace of Art " and William Butler Yeats's Byzantium based poems.

She is also similar to the later subject of many of Coleridge's poems, Asra, based on Sara Hutchinson, whom Coleridge wanted but was not his wife and experienced opium induced dreams of being with her.

When coming to Kubla Khan, he pointed out: " instead of being content to have written finely under the influence of laudanum, recommends ' Kubla-Khan ' to his readers, not as a poem, but as ' a psychological curiosity ' ... Every lover of books, scholar or not, who knows what it is to have his quarto open against a loaf at his tea ... ought to be in possession of Mr. Coleridge's poems, if it is only for ' Christabel ', ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Ancient Mariner '.

It is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.

It is best known for being the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.

Whilst some critics have accused Heaney of being " an apologist and a mythologizer " of the violence, Blake Morrison suggests the poet " has written poems directly about the Troubles as well as elegies for friends and acquaintances who have died in them ; he has tried to discover a historical framework in which to interpret the current unrest ; and he has taken on the mantle of public spokesman, someone looked to for comment and guidance ...

Many of his poems are still read by British schoolchildren, the best-known being The Inchcape Rock, God's Judgement on a Wicked Bishop, After Blenheim ( possibly one of the earliest anti-war poems ) and Cataract of Lodore.

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Kabir, being illiterate, expressed his poems orally in vernacular Hindi, borrowing from various dialects including Avadhi, Braj, and Bhojpuri.

He was fond of poetry, with his favourite poet being John Keats, although his favourite poems were William Wordsworth's " Ode to Duty " and Robert Browning's " A Grammarian's Funeral ".

* One of the most famous symphonic poems in a mythological series composed by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns in the 1870s is titled Le Rouet d ' Omphale, or The Spinning Wheel Of Omphale, the rouet being a spinning wheel that the queen and her maidens used — in this version of the myth, it was Delphic Apollo who condemned the hero to serve the Lydian queen disguised as a woman.

Taken together, several stanzas from four poems collected in the Poetic Edda refer to Ymir as a primeval being who was born from venom that dripped from the icy rivers Élivágar and lived in the grassless void of Ginnungagap.

It was a highly stylised imitation of the ballads and poems that were still being told throughout the Spanish countryside.

The letter originated from the rune in the Elder Fuþark, called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs (" giant ") in the Scandinavian rune poems, its reconstructed Proto-Germanic name being Thurisaz.

The proximity of the poems to the epistles and their similarity in subject and tone, suggest that they may be interpreted as being written from Cavendish ’ s own point of view.

Far from being simple transcriptions of birdsong, these works are sophisticated tone poems evoking both place and atmosphere.

He wrote poems to her and reflected on the relationship in " A Midsummer Diary for M ." Merton struggled to maintain his vows while being deeply in love with the woman he referred to in his personal diary as " M ".

It is certain that both are his, and possibly other things in The Passionate Pilgrim also ; Shakespeare's share in the twenty poems of that miscellany being doubtless confined to the five short pieces which have been definitely identified as his.

During this period he started his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into blank verse, and his versions ( published in 1791 ) were the most significant English renderings of these epic poems since those of Alexander Pope earlier in the century, although later critics have faulted Cowper's Homer for being too much in the mold of John Milton.

They are very short, only forty lines in all ; but they have a unique interest as being the only love poems by a Roman woman that have survived.

Cendrars ' relationship with painters like Chagall and Léger led him to write a series of revolutionary abstract short poems published in 1919 under the title Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques ( Nineteen elastic poems ), some being tributes to his fellow artists.