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.

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 Thomas Holley Chivers, who often accused other writers of stealing poems, said that the only thing Bryant " ever wrote that may be called Poetry is ' Thanatopsis ,' which he stole line for line from the Spanish.

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.

An important edition was edited by Cecil Day Lewis, later Poet laureate.

A selection of his short stories was published posthumously in 1978 under the title In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories and was edited by James Atlas who had written a biography on Schwartz, Delmore Schwartz: The Life of An American Poet, two years earlier.

These letters, modelled after Irish-born Poet, Laurence Sterne ´ s Sentimental Journey, were first printed in the Moscow Journal, which he edited, but were later collected and issued in six volumes ( 1797 – 1801 ).

In 1867, Burroughs published Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person, the first biography and critical work on the poet, which was extensively ( and anonymously ) revised and edited by Whitman himself before publication.

* The Writings of Anna Wickham: Free Woman & Poet ( 1984 ) edited by R. D.

* " Suematsu Kencho, 1855-1920: Statesman, Bureaucrat, Diplomat, Journalist, Poet and Scholar ," by Ian Ruxton, Chapter 6, Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume 5, edited by Hugh Cortazzi, Global Oriental, 2005, ISBN 1-901903-48-6

* A Poet Returns: Some Later Poems by Lady Margaret Sackville ( 1940 ) edited by Eva Dobell

* Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery ( edited with Linda Anderson ) Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series: 1, 2002

* " Poet and Painter Overture ," in The New American Poetry, edited by Donald M. Allen ( New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1960 ), pp. 418-419.

) He also edited periodicals devoted to poetry: The Poetry Chapbook and Poet Lore: A Quarterly of World Literature.

* " I Want to Be the Poet of Your Kneecaps: Poems of Quirky Romance ", Black Moss Press, 1999 ( edited by John B. Lee )

* The New York based Spanish language poet Giannina Braschi published El imperio de los sueños, a poetic homage to Poet in New York ( 1st edition: Anthropos editorial del hombre, 1988 ; 2nd edition: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico ).

Poet John Greenleaf Whittier was said to have thrown his 1855 edition into the fire.

Many were gathered into the compilation All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet ( London, 1630 ; facsimile reprint Scholar Press, Menston, Yorkshire, 1973 ); and The Spencer Society brought out their Works of John Taylor ... not included in the Folio edition of 1630 ( 5 volumes, 1870 – 78 ).

* Casey Finch, " The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet " ( Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford, 1993 ) a parallel text with an earlier edition of the Andrew, Waldron and Peterson edition, above

* 1341: Petrarch, the " Father of Humanism ", becomes the first Poet Laureate since antiquity.

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.

The furor was so great that the premiere of another film financed by the de Noailles, Jean Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet, had to be delayed for over two years until outrage over L ' Age d ' Or had died down.

Poet Ramdhari Singh ' Dinkar ' was another great poet with some Chayavaadi element in his poetry although he wrote in other genres as well.

Euripides, who had only just recently died, is challenging the great Aeschylus to the seat of " Best Tragic Poet " at the dinner table of Pluto, the ruler of the underworld.

Poet of Allmusic rated it three stars out of five, saying that the album had " one great tune, two good ones, and a whole lot that get by on McCoy's powerful vocals ".

It is notable for being the birthplace of the great Tamil Poet Mahakavi Bharathiar.

Main fields of scientific activity of Prof. Tsereteli were: Sumerology, history of Georgia and the Caucasus, history of Ibero-Caucasian civilization, Rustvelology ( Shota Rustaveli was a great Georgian Poet of the 12th century ), the rights of the Nations ( Peoples ), sociology, etc.

Poet and courtier, he was buried in old St Paul's, in London, having died 25 days after a fatal wounding from a bullet in the thigh at the battle of Zutphen, but his tomb was destroyed in the great fire of London in 1666.

“ The People ’ s Anthem ” was a great favourite for many years, and in the 1920s it was suggested that Elliott ’ s poem qualified him to be designated Poet Laureate of the League of Nations.

Programmes from the early festivals state that " Yn Cruinnaght Vanninagh Ashoonagh is held under the auspices of The World Manx Association and The Manx Society in commemoration of our great National Poet and with the object of preserving national sentiment.

" The " great National Poet " referred to is Thomas Edward Brown ( 1830 – 1897 ) whose poems, including lengthy verse-stories in Manx dialect ( of English, though with some Gaelic words ), were published by Macmillan.

My dear Adam, this philosophy of yours is nearly of the same date as your ancestor's in Eden, and I can only say in reply, “ Who ever “ expected to see a dog do so ?” We have all read and heard of that snarling sect, the Cynicks, and if we could convert dogs into philosophers, or what is harder still, philosophical propositions into meat and bones, ( which I fear is more than most Scotch Professors can do ) I should apply metaphorically the following lines from a celebrated Poet, a great observer of human nature:

Poet Nasīmī (?- 1417 ) and other Hurufis make kabbalistic tendencies subordinate to mystic concepts of Sufism, and specifically those of Mansur Al-Hallaj, who was another great influence on Nasīmī.

To Thomas Carlyle in On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History ( 1841 ), Shakespeare was one of the great poet-heroes of history, in the sense of being a " rallying-sign " for British cultural patriotism all over the world, including even the lost American colonies: " From Paramatta, from New York, wheresoever … English men and women are, they will say to one another, ' Yes, this Shakespeare is ours ; we produced him, we speak and think by him ; we are of one blood and kind with him '" (" The Poet as Hero ").

Critics have spent a great deal of effort attempting to identify the Poet.

* Poet Masaoka Shiki, one of the " four great masters " of the haiku / In the prepschool age

Inspired by a rendition of The Dnieper Mermaid ( an opera by Ferdinand Kauer ), performed by a wandering troupe of actors, Pisemsky, along with an older boy, his roommate, organized a home theater and had great success with his first role, that of Prudius in The Cossack Poet by Prince Alexander Shakhovskoy.

:[...] in several Respects there is a great Relation between them ; and according to Aristotle ( who informs us, That ' tis Fiction rather than Verse which makes a Poet ) a Writer of Romance may be reckon'd among the Poets.

Vidyapatinagar is known as the Nirvana sthali of the great Saint & Poet Vidyapati.