Milman Parry rigorously defended the observation that the extant Homeric poems are largely formulaic, and was led to postulate that they could be shown entirely formulaic if the complete corpus of Greek epic survived ; ;

The controversy raged on into the early years of the 19th century, with disputes as to whether the poems were based on Irish sources, on sources in English, on Gaelic fragments woven into his own composition as Johnson concluded, or largely on Scots Gaelic oral traditions and manuscripts as Macpherson claimed.

Hell at home in the East Village, Manhattan | East Village, 2008In 1996 Hell wrote a novel, Go Now, that was drawn largely from his own experience, and released a collection of short pieces ( poems, essays and drawings ) called Hot and Cold in 2001.

While most of his works are largely unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies.

The poem, itself a combination of different poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom.

He also published several volumes of original verse, largely metaphysical poems in dramatic form, and a number of verse plays.

The sonnets were significantly influenced by the poems of Burns and the sonnets of William Bowles, a largely forgotten poet of the late 18th century.

His poems, which largely deal with natural phenomena, are characterized by a deep melancholy and a leaning towards the supernatural, which, however, is balanced by a quaint humour, reminiscent of the Volkslied.

Highly regarded in his lifetime and for a period thereafter, he is now largely remembered for his patriotic poem Barbara Frietchie, Snow-Bound, and a number of poems turned into hymns.

The poems of the Milan Papyrus are grouped into sections, and the papyrus largely preserves the section headers for the surviving poems:

His poems consist largely of eulogies and satires, and are concerned with the strife of Hirah and Ghassan, and of the Banu Abs and the Banu Dhubyan.

Later books included Five Operas and Richard Strauss, known as Singing with Richard Strauss in the U. K., a second book of poems in 1969, and Eighteen Song Cycles in 1971, consisting of material drawn largely from earlier works.

He maintained that the Eddic poems and the earlier sagas were largely founded on Christian and Latin tradition imported into Scandinavian literature by way of England.

After World War II there was a largely unsuccessful movement by several poets to write poems in shi ' r hurr or free verse.

William's career battling Saracens is sung in epic poems in the 12th and 13th century cycle called La Geste de Garin de Monglane, some two dozen chansons de geste that actually center around William, the great-grandson of the largely legendary Garin.

From a technical point of view, the poetic production from the late 17th century on increasingly relied on stanza forms incorporating rhymed couplets, and by the 18th century fixed-form poems – and, in particular, the sonnet – were largely avoided.

Virgil introduced political clamor largely absent from Theocritus ' poems, called idylls (" little scenes " or " vignettes "), even though erotic turbulence disturbs the " idyllic " landscapes of Theocritus.

Other than his Selected Odes of Pindar ( 1882 ), Seymour's published work was largely confined to the study of the Homeric poems, viz:

In addition to his musical skills, Gaspar Sanz was noted in his day for his literary works as a poet and writer, and was the author of some poems and two books now largely forgotten.

Although Ronsard attempted a long epic poem of the origins of the French monarchy entitled La Franciade ( modeled on Virgil and Homer ), this experiment was largely judged a failure, and he remains most remembered today for his various collections of Amours ( or love poems ), Odes and Hymnes.

Aside from his fifty-three longer and shorter poems, Da Costa wrote largely on theological subjects.

" In chronicles, poems, sermons, even in legal documents, an immense sadness, a note of despair and a fashionable sense of suffering and deliquescence at the approaching end of times, suffuses court poets and chroniclers alike: Huizinga quotes instances in the ballads of Eustache Deschamps, " monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme ", and in Georges Chastellain's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century poetry of Jean Meschinot.

Little is known of Froissart's life and what is known comes mainly from his chronicle and his poems.

Fragments of the Ryder family chronicle are interspersed with children's stories, songs, letters, poems, parables, and dreams.

It is difficult to precisely date many of Propertius ' poems, but they chronicle the kind of declarations, passions, jealousies, quarrels, and lamentations that were commonplace subjects among the Latin elegists.

According to Zacharias Rhetor he visited Rome and other cities, and the chronicle of Pseudo-Dionysius of Tell-Mahr informs us that he composed poems on the secular games of 404, and wrote on the destruction of Rome by Alaric I in 410.

He put into triplets the chronicle of Giovanni Villani ( Centiloquio ), and wrote many historical poems called Serventesi, many comic poems, and not a few epico-popular compositions on various subjects.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

He had two productive periods, one in the late 1860's, the other in the decade from 1910 to 1920 ( half of the dated poems are from the latter period, and these alone total about one-tenth of all Hardy's poems ).

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

He wrote little fiction in this period with the exception of some imaginative vignettes or prose poems.

It refers primarily to the erudite, shorter hexameter poems of the Hellenistic period and the similar works composed at Rome from the age of the neoterics ; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid.

Little of Emily's work from this period survives, except for poems spoken by characters ( The Brontës ' Web of Childhood, Fannie Ratchford, 1941 ).

In this period the word " Art " was mentioned more and more in connection with motion pictures, and as a result of the increasing artistic ambitions of film-makers, poems began to be transposed directly into films.

Some of those who argue that the Homeric poems developed gradually over a long period of time give an even later date for the composition of the poems ; according to Gregory Nagy for example, they only became fixed texts in the 6th century BC.

More radical Homerists like Gregory Nagy contend that a canonical text of the Homeric poems as " scripture " did not exist until the Hellenistic period ( 3rd to 1st century BC ).

* Hesiod's Catalogue of Women created a vogue for catalogue poems in the Hellenistic period.

In 1966, Virginia Radley considered Wordsworth and his sister as an important influence to Coleridge writing a great poem: " Almost daily social intercourse with this remarkable brother and sister seemed to provide the catalyst to greatness, for it is during this period that Coleridge conceived his greatest poems, ' Christabel ,' ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,' and ' Kubla Khan ,' poems so distinctive and so different from his others that many generations of readers know Coleridge solely through them.

Medieval supply trains are often found in illuminations and even poems of the period.

The collection contains poems ranging from AD 347 ( poems # 85-89 ) through 759 (# 4516 ), the bulk of them representing the period after 600.

The fourth period spans 730 – 760 and includes the work of the last great poet of this collection, the compiler Ōtomo no Yakamochi himself, who not only wrote many original poems but also edited, updated and refashioned an unknown number of ancient poems.

However, both Scotland and Ireland shared a common Gaelic culture during the period in which the poems are set, and some Fenian literature common in both countries was composed in Scotland.

The poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece, first published in 1593 and 1594 under the name " William Shakespeare ", proved highly popular for several decades – with Venus and Adonis published six more times before 1616, while Lucrece required four additional printings during this same period.

Pius II was also the author of numerous erotic poems and an obscene comedy titled Chrysis ( such ethics were not unusual for his period ).

Moreover, over a period of a thousand years, not a single Jewish woman wrote a halakhic, literary, theoretical, mystical, or poetic work, with the exception of a handful of poems written by Jewish women in Spain.