The site used to offer free downloads of a program called AARON — a visual art synthesizer developed by Harold Cohen — and of " Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet ", which automatically creates poetry.

* Harold Norse has a poem, We Bumped Off Your Friend the Poet, inspired by a review of Ian Gibson's Death of Lorca.

His critical work, especially The Burden of the Past and the English Poet, responds to and anticipates some aspects of the work of Harold Bloom.

English had, however, been used as a literary language for centuries before Chaucer's life, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries — John Gower, William Langland, and the Pearl Poet — also wrote major literary works in English.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

Poet and lead singer of King Missile, John S. Hall has also long been a vocal opponent, taking issue with such factors as its inherently competitive nature and what he considers its lack of stylistic diversity.

John Betjeman, the future Poet Laureate, also wrote about her, describing her as " the essence of English girlhood ".

Ockham and his works have been discussed as a possible influence on several late medieval literary figures and works, especially Geoffrey Chaucer, but also Jean Molinet, the Gawain Poet, François Rabelais, John Skelton, Julian of Norwich, the York and Townely Plays, and Renaissance romances.

In modern times, the title may also be conferred by an organization such as the Poetry Foundation, which has a designated Children's Poet Laureate.

In 2006 he was also featured in an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge.

It is also the home institution of NC Poet Laureate emeritus Fred Chappell.

Cyrene is also mentioned in the second and third hymns of Callimachus as well as in The Poet and the Women ( written by Aristophanes ) whence Mnesilochus comments that he " can't see a man there at all-only Cyrene " when setting eyes upon the poet Agathon who emerges from his house to greet Euripides and himself dressed in women's clothing.

Poet Percy Dovetonsils can also be found playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on a disappearing piano and as a " Master Detective " on the " Private Eye-Private Eye " presentation of the US Steel Hour on CBS March 8, 1961.

The Convention of Cintra is also the name of a pamphlet written by the future British Poet Laureate William Wordsworth in 1808 ; he also wrote a passionate sonnet that, in his own words, was " composed while the author was engaged in writing a tract occasioned by " the Convention, in which he laments the bondage felt by " suffering Spain ".

A citizen who became famous in the " wild west " is " Captain Jack " Crawford, ( also known as the " Poet Scout ") western actor, scout for General George Crook's campaign in the Black Hills, native of Carndonagh, Ireland and performer with William F. Cody ( Buffalo Bill ), was postmaster and had a small general store in Girardville in 1869-1874, leaving town to go out west to find Gold.

Albert Craig, dubbed the Surrey Poet, was also born and raised in Meltham.

Earle is also the subject of two biographies, Steve Earle: Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet, by David McGee and Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle by Lauren St. John.

' Poet ' comes from the Greek ' poetes ' which means ' maker ', a fact remarked upon in various contemporary texts ; also, in Elizabethan English the word ' maker ' was used to mean ' poet '.

Boydell also published The Original Work of William Hogarth in 1790 and The Poetical Works of John Milton and The Life of the Poet ( i. e., Milton ) in 1794.

Outside of his Middle-earth works, Tolkien also worked on alliterative modern English translations of several Middle English poems by the Pearl Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo.

* Life of Michael Bruce, Poet of Loch Leven, by James Mackenzie. A restatement of the case for Bruce's authorship, coupled with a rather violent attack on Logan, is to be found in the with Vindication of his Authorship of the " Ode to the Cuckoo " and other Poems, also Copies of Letters written by John Logan, first published ( 1905 ),

Poet William Barnes also lived in Sturminster Newton.

He also wrote fat-clown parts for himself to play: Jaques in All's Lost by Lust ( a role " personated by the Poet ," the 1633 quarto states ), and Bustopha in The Maid in the Mill, his collaboration with John Fletcher.

Baba Nagarjun was a major Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as (" Janakavi-the People's Poet ").

He also wrote " The " Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den ".

The Poet and teacher William A. Byrne, ( William Dara ) attended Carlow.

Poet and children's writer Gianni Rodari has described adult life as " a school without grembiule and school desk ".

Robert Southey ( or ; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843 ) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called " Lake Poets ", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843.

The school mascot is " The Poet.

In September 2009, the school had a visit from the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy who gave a speech to pupils from the school and others from the whole of Aberdeenshire.

Poet and critic Samuel Johnson, who gave the school its now-used name.

The Southern Review was co-founded in 1935 by three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Penn Warren who served as U. S. Poet Laureate and wrote the classic novel All the King's Men, and renowned literary critic of the New Criticism school, Cleanth Brooks.

These were followed by other serials: Meiji Nijūkunen no Haikukai or " The Haiku World of 1896 " where he praised works by disciples Takahama Kyoshi and Kawahigashi Hekigotō, Haijin Buson or " The Haiku Poet Buson " ( 1896-1897 ) expressing Shiki's idea of this 18th-century poet whom Shiki identifies with his school of haiku, and Utayomi ni Atauru Sho or " Letters to a Tanka Poet " ( 1898 ) where he urged reform of the tanka poetry form.

Poet and priest Patrick Hartigan ( pen name: John O ' Brien ) was born near Yass in 1878 and he studied at the local convent school as a youth.

Poet Laureate Alfred Austin, and the poet Oliver St John Gogarty (" Stately plump Buck Mulligan " in James Joyce's Ulysses ) were educated at the school, ( as were the sons of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh ).

He has been referred to as the 20th Century's Aboriginal Poet Laureate, and many of his plays are on Australian school syllabuses.

Poet Robert Lowell wrote for the school literary magazine while a student, as did Lost Generation literary figure Harry Crosby.

Poet William Wordsworth was educated in its grammar school, whilst Beatrix Potter lived nearby, marrying William Heelis, a local solicitor in the early 20th century.

`` You are the ' Peoples' Poet ' '' was her appraisal in 1908, and she stopped teaching and writing to devote herself to the fulfillment of her husband's career.

Poet was the captured, arms pinioned to his side, and he twisted convulsively trying to escape.

As if this was a signal, Poet abruptly began to thrash the water and the quick movement slowly made them sink through the water.

Poet was not fighting Nick now.

When he graduated, he was named Class Poet.

A case was made by the Oxfordian Peter R. Moore that the Rival Poet was Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

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* Nobel Laureate, Chemist and Poet Roald Hoffmann was named after Amundsen

In 1813 Scott was offered the position of Poet Laureate.

Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.

Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984, following Sir John Betjeman.

Due to his wide poetic acclaim, Morris was quietly approached with an offer of the Poet Laureateship after the death of Tennyson in 1892, but declined.

Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

( Ben Jonson received a royal pension of 100 marks in 1616, causing some historians to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate, even though John Fletcher was more popular ).

The punning nickname Colossus of Roads was given to Telford by his friend, the eventual Poet Laureate, Robert Southey.

An ode in her memory, " So many true princesses who have gone ", composed by the then Master of the King's Musick Sir Edward Elgar to words by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, was sung at the unveiling and conducted by the composer.

That poem was put into music in the 1994 album Anatomy of a Poet, by band In the Nursery.

The first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate was awarded to George Bowering in 2002.

In December, 2011, Fred Wah was named Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada.

The first holder of the title was Bill Manhire who held the post of Poet Laureate from 1998 – 99.

Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1340 – 1400 ) was called Poet Laureate, being granted in 1389 an annual allowance of wine.

The title of Poet Laureate, as a royal office, was first conferred by letters patent on John Dryden in 1670, two years after Davenant's death.