in the opening paragraph, too, Steele is accused of extreme egotism, of giving `` himself the preference to all the learned, his contemporaries, from Dr. Swift himself, even down to Poet Cr--spe of the Customhouse ''.

Boogie Down and KRS retorted angrily with songs like The Bridge is Over and South Bronx, which started one of the first notable hip hop wars as MC Shan, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté and Blaq Poet all released songs featuring verses personally attacking KRS and Scott La Rock.

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.

Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles ( 1929 ), and the films Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Les Parents terribles ( 1948 ), Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ), and Orpheus ( 1949 ).

Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles ( 1929 ), and the films Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Les Parents terribles ( 1948 ), Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ), and Orpheus ( 1949 ).

Poet Audre Lorde confronts homophobia and racism in her works, and Cherríe Moraga is credited with being primarily responsible for bringing Latina perspectives to lesbian literature.

There is a description of the figure of Oxford in The Revenge of Bussy D ' Ambois, a 1613 play by George Chapman, who has been suggested as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Among English-language readers, his best-known work is the Duino Elegies ; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

* January 5 – Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.

Other examples are the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate which is designated by a " Presenting Partners " group from within the community ; the Poet Laureate chosen by the League of Minnesota Poets ; the Northhampton Poet Laureate chosen by the Northhampton Arts Council, and the Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate chosen by ten judges representing the Martha's Vineyard Poetry Society.

The Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is appointed as an officer of the Library of Parliament.

The unofficial Poet Laureate of Netherlands is currently: Ramsey Nasr as Dichter des Vaderlands ( Poet of the Fatherland ).

Originally sponsored by Te Mata vineyards and known as the Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate, the award is now administered by the National Library of New Zealand and the holder is officially called New Zealand Poet Laureate.

The present British Poet Laureate is Carol Ann Duffy, appointed poet laureate in May 2009.

Currently the Utah Poet Laureate is Lance Larsen, appointed May 3rd by Governor Gary Herbert.

* Stuart Rene " Stu " LaJoie-Davis, a self-styled " Poet, Traveler, Soldier of Fortune ", is an Earth-born aristocrat and tourist rescued by Mannie when he falls afoul of Loonie customs.

* One famous constrained writing in the Chinese language is The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den which consists of 92 characters, all with the sound shi.

Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1844, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices.

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

It includes a 49-page biographical essay introducing Coleridge " as a Poet of Nature and Romance.

* Critical essay by Dana Gioia The Most Unfashionable Poet Alive

A quatrain from his poem To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence is quoted by Jorge Luis Borges in his essay, Note on Walt Whitman ( in the collection, Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 ):

* The Poet ( essay ), an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet of Iraq, Abdul Wahab al-Bayati, an introductory essay with translations.

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

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

ISBN 1-55860-169-4 .</ ref > ( O < sub > 2 </ sub > Technology, merged with several companies, acquired by Informix, which was in turn acquired by IBM ), POET ( now FastObjects from Versant which acquired Poet Software ), Versant Object Database ( Versant Corporation ), VOSS ( Logic Arts ) and JADE ( Jade Software Corporation ).

* The Persian Poet, contains the translations by Edward FitzGerald and a biography.

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.

For instance, they sometimes allow performance of work by another poet ( e. g. the " Dead Poet Slam ", in which all work must be by a deceased poet ).

Still, the Pearl Poet seems to have been simultaneously entranced and repulsed by homosexual desire.

Poet Harold Massingham also attended this school and was also mentored by Fisher.

Recent English verse translations include those by British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis ( 1963 ) which strove to render Virgil's original hexameter line, Allen Mandelbaum ( honoured by a 1973 National Book Award ), Library of Congress Poet Laureate Robert Fitzgerald ( 1981 ), Stanley Lombardo ( 2005 ), Robert Fagles ( 2006 ), and Sarah Ruden ( 2008 ).

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

* Remember This — An Elegy on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, at the BBC

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.

* Life for Life's Sake: Memories of a Vanished England and a Changing World, by One Who Was Bohemian, Poet, Soldier, Novelist and Wanderer ( 1941 ) memoir

* 1993: Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet by Michael Parker, ISBN 0-333-47181-4

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

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.

* April 25 – Ted Kooser, U. S. Poet Laureate

** Donald Hall, American poet and U. S. Poet Laureate

U. S. Poets Laureate: Philip Levine was named the 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the United States.

Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age ( U. California, 1990 ) ISBN 978-0-520-08349-3, chapters 11 (' The Critic as Poet: Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron ') and 13 (' Armchair Epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the Voyage of Argo ).

Upcoming visitors include U. S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, National Book Award Winner Tim O ' Brien, Pulitzer Prize Winner Robert Stone, and celebrated short-story author Mary Gaitskill.

Called the Poet of the Sierras and the Byron of the Rockies, he may have been more of a celebrity in England than in his native U. S. Much of his reputation, however, came not from his poetry but from the image he created for himself by capitalizing on the stereotypical image of Western frontiersmen.

Anthony Hecht, U. S. Poet Laureate, replied to " Dover Beach " in his poem " The Dover Bitch ".

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.

The Galaxy Series and Distinguished Speaker Series have brought noted entertainers and speakers to the college, including 2005 U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.

" He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1947 − 1948 ( a position now known as the U. S. Poet Laureate ).

Former U. S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins said of Grennan:

* Obituary of Thom Gunn U. S. Poet Laureate ( Robert Pinsky )

: List of U. S. state Poet Laureates

She was the U. S. Poet Laureate between 1992 and 1993.

Hall was named the fourteenth U. S. Poet Laureate, succeeding Ted Kooser.

Ishle was an HBO Def Poet and toured the U. S. and New Zealand with a multicultural cast of poets and musicians, and is currently an Eden Advocate, sponsored by Element.

In 1988 DJ Rockwell Noel and the Poet followed up with Taking U Out, which was even stronger than " Beat You Down ", and harshly attacked both KRS's then wife, Ms. Melodie, and rival radio station WRKS's DJ Red Alert, who was on BDP's side of the battle.