The first section of the poem, ( the first fitt ), helps the poet illustrate the settings of the poem by introducing Hrothgar ’ s lineage.

Scyld ’ s funeral helps the poet to elaborate on the glory of battle in a heroic society and how earthly possessions help define a person ‘ s importance.

The poet also describes the horror of death in battle, a theme continued from the second part of the poem, through the Last Survivor ’ s eyes.

Larry Benson argued that the interpretation of Beowulf as an entirely formulaic work diminishes the ability of the reader to analyze the poem in a unified manner, and with due attention to the poet ’ s creativity.

As a poet, she was well known and highly regarded in her own day ; she completed 41 works during her 30 year career ( 1399 – 1429 ), and can be regarded as Europe ’ s first professional woman writer.

The poet relies on listeners ’ familiarity with such conventions to carry the meaning.

Other sources, including the Roman poet Ovid, claim instead that Lycaon ’ s punishment was transformation into a wolf, an early example of lycanthropy.

As can readily be seen with the context restored, Barkstead compares his poem about Venus and Adonis (“ my Muse ”) with Shakespeare ’ s, saying that his poetry sung " the withered tree " while Shakespeare ’ s " sung the fair blossom ", and that Shakespeare deserves laurel, the emblem of victory or poetic superiority, but that Barkstead, the lesser poet, deserves only cypress in comparison.

The Writer ’ s Union also formed a committee in April 1968, headed by the poet Jaroslav Seifert, to investigate the persecution of writers after the Communist takeover in February 1948 and rehabilitate the literary figures into the Union, bookstores and libraries, and the literary world .< ref > Golan, Galia.

For the Scottish poet, Edwin Muir “ Mr. Huxley ’ s experiment is extraordinary, and is beautifully described ”.

* November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet noted for Paradise Lost and other works including Lycidas ; On His Blindness ; L ’ Allegro ; On The Late Massacre In Piedmont ; Paradise Regained ( b. 1608 )

His will left bequests to Southey ( who would later write Telford ’ s biography ), the poet Thomas Campbell ( 1777 – 1844 ) and to the publishers of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia ( to which he had been a contributor ).

The poet, philosopher and first President of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor tried to transform Dakar into the " Sub-Saharan African Athens " ( l ’ Athènes de l ’ Afrique subsaharienne ), as his vision was for it.

It is generally accepted that Bosch ’ s art was created to teach specific moral and spiritual truths in the manner of other Northern Renaissance figures, such as the poet Robert Henryson, and that the images rendered have precise and premeditated significance.

He and his close friend, the humanist poet Girolamo Benivieni, composed lauds and other devotional songs for the Carnival processions of 1496, 1497 and 1498, replacing the bawdy Carnival songs of the era of Lorenzo de ’ Medici.

Hugo writes that ‘ quiconque naissait poète se faisait architecte ’ (" whoever is born a poet becomes an architect "), arguing that while the written word was heavily censored and difficult to reproduce, architecture was extremely prominent and enjoyed considerable freedom.

* Experimental Canadian poet Christian Bök ’ s Eunoia is a univocalic that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters.

He had already begun work on his opera Peter Grimes based on the writings of Suffolk poet George Crabbe ; he worked on the piece whilst living at 45a St John ’ s Wood High Street, the address now marked by a memorial plaque.

The Fundación Valparaíso ( Valparaíso Foundation ), founded by the North American poet Todd Temkin, has executed major neighborhood redevelopment projects ; has improved the city ’ s tourist infrastructure ; and administers the city's jazz, ethnic music, and opera festivals ; among other projects.

His close friendships with Monet and poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who translated the ‘’ Ten O ’ Clock Lecture ’’ into French, helped strengthen respect for Whistler by the French public.

The story of Deucalion and Pyrrha is also retold in the Roman poet Ovid ’ s famous collection of Metamorphoses.

In the 1st century BC., the Roman poet Virgil describes Charon in the course of Aeneas ’ s descent to the underworld ( Aeneid, Book 6 ), after the Cumaean Sibyl has directed the hero to the golden bough that will allow him to return to the world of the living:

Fjalar and Galar mixed the blood with honey and the mixture became mead, and whomever partakes of it becomes a poet or scholar ( Kvasir ’ s blood had become the Mead of Poetry ).

After this high point, Quintilian ’ s influence seems to have lessened somewhat, although he is mentioned by the English poet Alexander Pope in his versified “ An Essay on Criticism ”:

Flora Brovina ( born 30 September 1949 ) is a Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women ’ s rights activist.

Flowers are laid at the memorial every year on the anniversary of his death, and a commemorative event including music and readings of the poet ´ s works is held every year in the park to mark the anniversary.

The Barranco de Viznar is the site of mass graves and was proposed as another possible location of the poet ´ s remains.

Robert Burns became a ‘ people ’ s poet ’ in Russia.

The poem The Poetresses hasty Resolution, like many of Cavendish ’ s epistles, expresses excuses for any errors that may be found in the poet ’ s work and begs for praise.

Mozart wrote to his father in May 1783 about Salieri and Lorenzo Da Ponte, the court poet: " You know those Italian gentlemen ; they are very nice to your face!

He was educated at the court of his father at Constantinople under the tutelage of the poet Aemilius Magnus Arborius.

Thompson was born in Oxford to Methodist missionary parents: His father, Edward John Thompson ( 1886-1946 ) was a poet and admirer of the Nobel-prize winning poet Tagore.

By this time he had started what was to be an enduring friendship with the romantic poet Patrice Contamine, and had had his first compositions published by his father.

One of the objectors was the property-owner, Dr Gogarty, the father of the Irish poet, Oliver St. John Gogarty.

Indeed, his father recognized that Jack was a far better painter than he, and also believed that ' some day I will be remembered as the father of a great poet, and the poet is Jack '.

His fascination for language was nurtured by his parents: his mother, Winifred, had studied French, and his father, Wilfred, was a dialectologist, a dialect poet, and an English teacher with a love for grammar and Elizabethan drama.

Among prominent individuals from New Hampshire are founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, and author Dan Brown.

The conception of a " rebirth " of Classical Latin learning is first credited to an Italian poet Petrarch, the father of Humanism, a term that was not coined until the 19th century, but the conception of a rebirth has been in common use since Petrarch's time.

After his death, Gosse was portrayed as a despotic father of uncompromising religious views in Father and Son ( 1907 ), the literary masterpiece of his son, poet and critic Edmund Gosse.

* December 17 – Samuel Wesley, English poet and father of the Wesley brothers ( d. 1735 )

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Al-Mu ' tamid went, however, considerably further in patronage of literature than his father, for he chose as his favourite and prime minister the poet Ibn Ammar.

Bertolucci initially wished to become a poet like his father.

A devoted father to his daughter Valentina ( wife of Louis, Duke of Orleans and mother of the famous poet, Charles of Orleans ), Gian Galeazzo reacted to gossip about Valentina at the French Court by threatening to declare war on France.

* 239 BC – Quintus Ennius, Latin poet and writer, considered the father of Roman poetry ( d. 169 BC )

* 169 BC – Quintus Ennius, epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets, and often called the founder of Roman literature or the father of Roman poetry.

It was founded by professor Ivan Tsvetaev ( father of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva ).

Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and a poor street poet, Pierre Gringoire, but especially those of Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame.

The plot focuses on thirteen-year-old Rynn Jacobs ( Foster ), a mysterious child whose dark secrets concerning her absent poet father are prodded by various nosy villagers in a New England town.

Her father is a poet, and they have recently moved from England.