Much of the poem could have been influenced by Coleridge's opium dream or, as his friend and fellow poet Robert Southey joked, " Coleridge had dreamed he had written a poem in a dream ".

The protagonist of " The Nameless City " states that " it was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet < nowiki > of the Necronomicon < nowiki ></ nowiki > dreamed of " the night before he sang his unexplained couplet:

`` He wanted Mr. Sandburg to pose with one of the guitars he had displayed behind glass in the center of his shop, but the poet eyed this somewhat distastefully.

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

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.

Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

The Germanic poet had such aids in the kennings, which provided for the difficulties of alliteration ; ;

the Homeric poet had epithets, which provided for recurring needs in the hexameter.

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.

No poet has ever presented evil in such stark and tragic terms yet he had an exalted view of Zeus, whom he celebrated with a grand simplicity reminiscent of David's Psalms, and a faith in progress or the healing power of time.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

First described by the 1st-century AD Roman poet Martial, who praised its convenient use, the codex achieved numerical parity with the scroll around AD 300, and had completely replaced it throughout the now Christianised Greco-Roman world by the 6th century.

On his last night in London he had another, in the company of fellow poet Louis MacNeice.

After drinking at the White Horse, a pub he had found through Scottish poet Ruthven Todd, Thomas returned to the Hotel Chelsea, declaring, " I've had 18 straight whiskies.

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.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

Any example of grand or exquisite diction may have been created by the poet who compiled numerous lays into the two works we possess or may be due to one of his completely unknown fellow-craftsmen.

If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

448 – 400 BC ) was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost.

He appears to have been acquainted with the poet Marcus Furius Bibaculus.

The authors are unknown, even if several studies indicate that Galician poet Airas Nunes might well have been the author of a large part of them.

Constantine FitzGibbon, Thomas ' first in-depth biographer, wrote " No major English poet has ever been as Welsh as Dylan ".

Thomas ' work and stature as a poet have been much debated by critics and biographers since his death.

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

This monk, scholar, poet, and artist had been the founder of the Shingon or " True Word " school of Buddhism.

Similarly, it was commonly believed by Medieval people that other ancient figures like the poet Virgil, astronomer Ptolemy and philosopher Aristotle had been involved in magic, and grimoires claiming to have been written by them were circulated.

Hildegard's reincarnation has been debated since 1924 when Austrian mystic Rudolf Steiner lectured that a nun of her description was the past life of Russian poet Vladimir Soloviev, whose Sophianic visions are often compared to Hildegard.

Hesiod ( or ;, Hēsíodos ) was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

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 ".

In 1803, Irish poet Thomas Moore arrived in Bermuda, having been appointed registrar to the Admiralty there.

The poet Ariosto lauded her as the " liberal and magnanimous Isabella ", while author Matteo Bandello described her as having been " supreme among women ".

The book is narrated by a mid-20th century poet, Edward Venn-Thomas, who is transported forward in time by the New Cretans.

In 1891, local residents presented the park with a bronze statue of German poet Schiller, which had been cast in Germany and transported free of charge across the Atlantic.

In 1797 the British Romantic poet Robert Southey — then a young Jacobin — included a section in his collection, " Poems ," a selection of poems under the heading, " Botany Bay Eclogues ," in which he portrayed the plight and stories of transported convicts in New South Wales.

The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.

Years later, in 1847, the Chilean government entrusted the young poet Eusebio Lillo with a new text that would replace the anti-Spain poem of Vera y Pintado, and after being analyzed by Andrés Bello, retained the original chorus (" Dulce patria, recibe los votos ...").

Increasingly unstable after his wife's death, Poe attempted to court the poet Sarah Helen Whitman, who lived in Providence, Rhode Island.

In The Frogs, composed after Euripides and Aeschylus were both dead, Aristophanes imagines the god Dionysus venturing down to Hades in search of a good poet to bring back to Athens.

German artists and intellectuals, heavily influenced by the French Revolution and by the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ), turned to Romanticism after a period of Enlightenment.

Hesiod claimed he was inspired by the Muses to become a poet after they appeared to him on Mount Helicon.

The poet is separated from the rest of humanity after he is exposed to the power to create and is able to witness visions of truth.

In the same year as Radley, George Watson argued that " The case of ' Kubla Khan ' is perhaps the strangest of all – a poem that stands high even in English poetry as a work of ordered perfection is offered by the poet himself, nearly twenty years after its composition, as a fragment.

In 1972, poet William Irwin Thompson named his Lindisfarne Association after the monastery on the island.

Eleazar Kalir ( a Hebrew Galilean poet variously dated from the 6th to 10th century ) mentions a locality clearly in the Nazareth region bearing the name Nazareth נצרת ( in this case vocalized " Nitzrat "), which was home to the descendants of the 18th Kohen family Happitzetz ( הפצץ ), for at least several centuries after the Bar Kochva revolt.

The Writer ’ s Union also formed a committee in April 1968, headed by the poet Jaroslav Seifert, to investigate the persecution of writers after the Communist takeover in February 1948 and rehabilitate the literary figures into the Union, bookstores and libraries, and the literary world .< ref > Golan, Galia.

Tannhäuser, a prominent German Minnesänger and poet, was a contemporary of Pope Urban IV — the pope died in 1264, and the Minnesänger died shortly after 1265.

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

Project Runeberg is named after Finland's national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg.

Senryū is named after Edo period haikai poet Senryū Karai ( 柄井川柳, 1718-1790 ), whose collection launched the genre into the public consciousness.

* Evening Primrose ( 1966 ), a made-for-TV musical about a secret society of people living in department stores and the romance between Ella, a department store denizen, and Charles, a poet who decides to live in the department store after renouncing the world.

The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

Soon after William's birth the family relocated to the Pollexfen home at Merville, Sligo to stay with her extended family, and the young poet came to think of the area as his childhood and spiritual home.

" The relationship did not develop into a new phase after their night together, and soon afterwards Gonne wrote to the poet indicating that despite the physical consummation, they could not continue as they had been: " I have prayed so hard to have all earthly desire taken from my love for you and dearest, loving you as I do, I have prayed and I am praying still that the bodily desire for me may be taken from you too.

* July 14 – Scottish poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw after the collapse of a Catholic plot.

Writing four centuries after Lucretius ' death, he enters under the 171st Olympiad the following line: " Titus Lucretius the poet is born.

Tannhäuser ( Middle High German: Tanhûser ; died after 1265 ) was a German Minnesänger and poet.

During this time he taught himself the Portuguese language to read the poet Camões in the original ; as insufficient Russian-speaking officers were available at the War Office, his knowledge of the Russian language and textual analysis skills were used to translate a Russian parachute training manual-a task he completed after 11pm on top of his normal duties, deducing the meaning of many technical terms from the context ; he was convinced that the Soviet Union must eventually enter the war on the Allied side.

Her nickname, Murasaki, was most probably given at a court dinner in an incident she recorded in her diary: in c. 1008 the well-known court poet Fujiwara no Kintō inquired after the " Young Murasaki "— an allusion to the character named Murasaki in Genji — which would have been considered a compliment from a male court poet to a female author.