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.

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.

Lord reacted to Kirk's and Parry's essays with " Homer as Oral Poet ", published in 1968, which reaffirmed Lord's belief in the relevance of Yugoslav poetry and its similarities to Homer and downplayed the intellectual and literary role of the reciters of Homeric epic.

Poet and physician John Keats doodled in the margins of his medical notes ; other literary doodlers have included Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Plath.

Poet Phoebe Cary — at whose New York City literary gatherings Dodge was a regular guest — wrote a lengthy poem about it called " The Leak in the Dike ", published posthumously in 1873, which has been widely anthologized in books of poetry for schoolchildren.

* George Bruce ( 1909 – 2002 ): Poet of the Scottish literary renaissance

William Carlos Williams — a longtime acquaintance of the New Jersey-born Ginsberg and himself a future Pocket Poet with a 1957 edition of his early modernist classic, Kora in Hell ( 1920 ) — was recruited for an introduction, perhaps to lend literary justification to Howls sensational depictions of drug use and homosexuality.

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 ").

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.

Poet and literary theorist Pietro Bembo edited an edition of Petrarch, the great 14th century poet, in 1501, and later published his theories on how contemporary poets could attain excellence by imitating Petrarch, and by being carefully attentive to the exact sounds of words, as well as their positioning within lines.

Hotchkiss also has a strong literary tradition ; alumni authors include Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Archibald MacLeish and Pulitzer Prize Winner John Hersey.

This aesthetic concern emerges frequently in his literary work, so much so that he was known as the " Poet of Beauty " amongst his contemporaries.

While there he settled in with the literary set, won two Bowdoin prizes, and was considered the Class Poet.

Wood was also, amongst other vocations a writer and a poet, his poem " The Poet in the Desert " ( 1915 ) was a literary success, and some have suggested that he may have taken poetic license and embellished Joseph's speech.

Randall Jarrell ( May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965 ) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate.

* Kelly Grovier – Poet and literary critic for The Observer and The Times Literary Supplement

Poet and literary critic.

Mazzoni is most known for his work on literary criticism, particularly his defenses of Dante ’ s Divine Comedy, Discorso in Difesa Della Commedia Della Divino Poeta Dante ( The Discourse in Defense of the Comedy of the Divine Poet Dante ), published in 1572 and a second effort, Della Difesa Della Comedia Di Dante ( On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante ), which was not published until 1688.

The $ 10, 000 prize winner is chosen by a three-member jury appointed by a selection committee composed of the Librarian of Congress, the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a publisher named by the Academy of American Poets and a literary critic nominated by the Bobbitt family.

Three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky, said of the Prize in 2000, “ I don ’ t know of any other literary prize that has such a high standard .”

The Academy also runs numerous programs, including Poets. org, the most popular site about poetry on the web ; National Poetry Month ( April ), the largest literary celebration in the world ; an array of Awards & Prizes for poets at every stage of their careers ; American Poet, a biannual literary journal ; a web forum ; and the Poetry Audio Archive, which includes hundreds of recorded poetry readings dating back to the early 1960s.

Poet, writer, translator, literary theorist, and linguist of German and Ukrainian parentage.

Poet and critic W. J. Turner commented in The Spectator, " This book alone, in my opinion, ranks him as a major poet ".

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* David Holbrook, Poet, author, critic

Poet and critic Hayden Carruth grew up in the town.

* Poet, critic and essayist Laura Riding and her husband Schuyler B. Jackson lived in Wabasso from about 1941 until her death on September 2, 1991.

* Richard Wilbur ( born 1921 ), poet, critic, and translator grew up in North Caldwell and won two Pulitzer Prizes and served as United States Poet Laureate.

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

* Borislav Zdravković, Poet and Theater critic.

He was poetry critic for several national newspapers and was the Poetry Society nominee for Poet Laureate but was overlooked in favour of Ted Hughes.

Poet and critic T. S. Eliot, in his 1929 " Dante " essay, responded to Richards:

Poet and critic Khal Torabully has put forward the concept of " coolitude ," a poetics that results from the blend of Indian and Mauritian cultural diversity.

Poet / critic Randall Jarrell praised Book I of the poem with following assessment: Paterson ( Book I ) seems to me the best thing William Carlos Williams has ever written.

For his work as a lyricist, jazz critic and historian Leonard Feather called him the " Poet Laureate of Jazz " while Time dubbed him the " James Joyce of Jive.

Architectural critic and Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman was an admirer of Hatch End railway station and described it as " half-way between a bank and a medium sized country house "-Metroland.

* Marjorie Welish — Poet, author, artist and art critic.

Poet, writer, literary critic, translator.

When Seamus Heaney gave an Oxford lecture on the poet he opened by addressing the assembly, " Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry ", querying how ' Thomas the Poet ' is one of his forgotten attributes.

* 1978: Dylan: Life and Death of a Poet, a BBC Wales film of Thomas ' final two visits to America ; directed by Richard Lewis.

" Poet and editor Thomas Hood wrote, " If Christmas, with its ancient and hospitable customs, its social and charitable observances, were ever in danger of decay, this is the book that would give them a new lease.

* Poet Dylan Thomas owned a house at 54 Delancey Street from 1951 until his death in 1953.

Poet James Thomas Stevens resides in Lamy.

Dymock is renowned for its wild daffodils in the spring, and these were probably the inspiration for the line " Two roads diverged in a yellow wood " in Frost's poem The Road Not Taken, which was a gentle satire on his great friend, and fellow Dymock Poet, Edward Thomas.

Poet Thomas Kinsella said that on looking over the membership he felt his standards were higher.

* Thomas Warton is succeeded as Poet Laureate of Great Britain by Henry James Pye.

* Gwyn Thomas, Welsh poet, academic and the present National Poet for Wales.

* Thomas Warton becomes Poet Laureate

These include Lord and Lady Dacre ( 1594 – 1595 ); Sir John Lawrence ( 1638 ); Lady Jane Cheyne ( 1698 ); Francis Thomas, " director of the china porcelain manufactory "; Sir Hans Sloane ( 1753 ); Thomas Shadwell, Poet Laureate ( 1692 ).

The title has been adapted and parodied by many writers including Dylan Thomas in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Ogden Nash in his poem Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man, Joseph Heller in Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, A. M. Klein in his poem Portrait of the Poet as Landscape, Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts ' A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man, Grayson Perry's biography Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, punk band Dillinger Four's song Portrait of the Artist as a Fucking Asshole, and William Eastlake's Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses.

* Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset ( 1536-1608 ), Poet and Lord Treasurer.

( See Jack Dempsey, ed., " New English Canaan by Thomas Morton of ' Merrymount '" and his biography " Thomas Morton: The Life & Renaissance of an Early American Poet " Scituate MA: Digital Scanning 2000 ).

William Muir the Campsie Poet was a relative of Thomas Muir's.

*(( Daniel Thomas Moran )) Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2005-2007, Assistant Professor Boston University's Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine.

Daniel Thomas Moran, Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2005-2007, Assistant Professor Boston University's Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine.

He became Poet Laureate in 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position.

And with Newcastle's marriage he succeeded, as he was made Poet Laureate in 1718 by the Lord Chamberlain, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, as a reward for a flattering poem on Pelham-Holles ' marriage .< ref >

* Thomas McGrath ( 1916-1990 ), Poet, Rhodes scholar, and Professor of English

He was the subject of the film Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas, by Jonathan Robinson, which featured a soundtrack by Kip Hanrahan.

Thomas Brisbane, The Early Years of Alexander Smith, Poet and Essayist.