In a body of work totaling hundreds of volumes, Isou and the Lettrists have applied their theories to all areas of art and culture, most notably in poetry, film, painting and political theory.

The former sets out Isou ’ s theory of the ' amplic ' and ' chiselling ' phases, and, within this framework, presents his views on both the past history and the future direction of poetry and music.

Isou first discovered these phases through an examination of the history of poetry, but the conceptual apparatus he developed could very easily be applied to most other branches of art and culture.

Notwithstanding the considerably more recent origins of film-making, compared to poetry, painting or music, Isou felt in 1950 that its own first amplic phase had already been completed.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

Hughes felt encouraged and supported by Hodhart's supervision, but attended few lectures and wrote no more poetry at this time, feeling stifled by literary academia and the " terrible, suffocating, maternal octopus " of literary tradition.

Through Savigny and his circle of friends — German romantics such as Clemens Brentano and Ludwig Achim von Arnim — the Grimms were introduced to the ideas of Johann Gottfried Herder, who felt that German literature should return to what he defined as Volkspoesie ( natural poetry ) as opposed to Kunstpoesie ( artistic poetry ).

" Plutarch commended " the saying of Simonides, that he had often felt sorry after speaking but never after keeping silent " and observed that " Simonides calls painting silent poetry and poetry painting that speaks " ( later paraphrased by the Latin poet Horace as ut pictura poesis ).

In poetry, he felt that the first amplic phase had been initiated by Homer.

He won a poetry contest in 1912 hosted by The Lyric Year, despite competing against Edna St. Vincent Millay's famed " Renascence ", a victory he felt was misjudged.

Although it is hard to tell because of the fragmentary nature of the evidence, Moschus ' influence on Greek bucolic poetry is likely to have been significant ; the influence of Runaway Love is felt in Bion and other later bucolic poets.

Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that, though Lowell had significant technical skill, his poetry " rather expresses his wish, his ambition, than the uncontrollable interior impulse which is the authentic mark of a new poem ... and which is felt in the pervading tone, rather than in brilliant parts or lines.

He is remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry in plain language with few stylistic preoccupations.

He noted that " Mr. Sheen elicits a real poetry from the role " and felt that, while watching him, " you start to appreciate the derivation of the term star.

McAuley and Stewart decided to perpetrate a hoax on Harris and Angry Penguins by submitting to the magazine nonsensical poetry, which they felt captured the worst of modernist tendencies, under the guise of a fictional poet.

John Hewitt ( 1907 – 1987 ), whom many consider to be the founding father of Northern Irish poetry, also came from a rural background but lived in Belfast and was amongst the first Irish poets to write of the sense of alienation that many at this time felt from both their original rural and new urban homes.

He felt that his poetry was unsuccessful, however ; he was not able to make his two selves ( whom he oddly described as the " archaic, uncouth, and even barbarous " Olsen and the " hysterically self-conscious dandy " Valentine ) speak with one voice.

The judging panel was chaired by the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, who said "" What we felt we were tapping into was a huge reservoir of folk poetry.

The next generation of poets, the so-called romantic poets, had begun to a far greater extent to absorb the impact of developments in Western poetry, and felt constrained by neo-classical traditions which the previous generation had tried to uphold.

The poem describes the state of indolence, otherwise known as laziness, and was written during a time when he felt that he should devote his efforts to earning an income instead of composing poetry.

She felt it was part of a poet's calling to point out the injustice of the Vietnam War, and she also actively participated in rallies, reading poetry at some.

) Shevchenko's poetry contributed greatly to the growth of Ukrainian national consciousness, and his influence on various facets of Ukrainian intellectual, literary, and national life is still felt to this day.

Though the movement itself lasted only ten years — until Orhan Veli's death in 1950, after which Melih Cevdet Anday and Oktay Rifat moved on to other styles — its effect on Turkish poetry continues to be felt today.

The press was founded in 1967 by the poets Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce and Smith's wife Irene in response to what they felt to be the stagnant state of Irish poetry at the time.

Combellack argues further, and here he makes his main point, that once The Iliad and The Odyssey are thought formulaic poems composed for an audience accustomed to formulaic poetry, Homeric critics are deprived of an entire domain they previously found arable.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

Though evincing many features characteristic of oral poetry, the Iliad and Odyssey were at some point committed to writing.

* Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view

Some classical poetry forms, such as Venpa of the Tamil language, had rigid grammars ( to the point that they could be expressed as a context-free grammar ) which ensured a rhythm.

Many languages and poetic forms have very specific poetic dictions, to the point where distinct grammars and dialects are used specifically for poetry.

The lyrics up to this point ( most of them written by Peart ) were heavily influenced by classical poetry, fantasy literature, science fiction, and the writings of novelist Ayn Rand, as exhibited most prominently by their 1975 song " Anthem " from Fly By Night and a specifically acknowledged derivation in 2112 ( 1976 ).

Some classical Tamil poetry forms, such as veṇpā, have rigid grammars for rhyme to the point that they could be expressed as a context-free grammar.

Although his complete poems add up to fewer than 2500 verses, two of them — the Spiritual Canticle and The Dark Night of the Soul are widely considered masterpieces of Spanish poetry, both for their formal stylistic point of view and their rich symbolism and imagery.

Macsen is also frequently referred to in Welsh poetry as a point of comparison to later Welsh leaders.

On this point Samuel Taylor Coleridge requested, jokingly, that novice poets should know the " definitions of prose and poetry ; that is, prose ,— words in their best order ; poetry ,— the best words in their best order.

While light poetry is sometimes condemned as doggerel, or thought of as poetry composed casually, humor often makes a serious point in a subtle or subversive way.

The classical period came to be seen by later generations, especially in the fourteenth and 15th centuries and outside of Occitania, as representing the high point of lyric poetry and models to be emulated.

* Greek Lyric II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympis to Alcman ( Loeb Classical Library ) translated by David A. Campbell ( June 1989 ) Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-99158-3 ( Original Greek with facing page English translations, an excellent starting point for students with a serious interest in ancient lyric poetry.

Some modern scholars have found in the surviving poetry evidence that Ibycus might have spent time at Sicyon before journeying to Samos — mythological references indicate local knowledge of Sicyon and could even point to the town's alliance with Sparta against Argos and Athens.

Keating's History is more a compilation of traditions than a reliable history, but in this case scholars point to references in early Irish poetry and the existence of a closed hunting season for deer and wild boar between Samhain and Beltaine in medieval Scotland as corroboration.

Hu did not elaborate at length on this point, merely stating that some recent forms of poetry had neglected proper grammar.

Suttungr put the dwarves on a rock about to be submerged, at which point they bargained for their life by offering him the mead of poetry.

Instead, the new wave of poetry, from the war poets, was written from the point of view of the disenchanted trench soldier.

In the words of T. S. Eliot: " The point de repère usually and conveniently taken as the starting-point of modern poetry is the group denominated ' imagists ' in London about 1910.

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.