* Aratus, Greek poet from Soli in Cilicia, best remembered for his poem on astronomy Phaenomena ( b. c. 315 BC )

* Aratus, Macedonian Greek mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, botanist and poet ( d. 240 BC )

These included a " conferences " ( Synousiai ) on Euclid, and commentaries ( Exegeseis ) on the Handy Tables and Almagest of Ptolemy, and on the technical poet Aratus.

In his Phaenomena, which set to verse an astronomical treatise written by the philosopher Eudoxus in roughly 350 BC, the poet Aratus describes " those five other orbs, that intermingle with constellations and wheel wandering on every side of the twelve figures of the Zodiac.

Virgil used other Greek writers as models and sources, some for technical information, including the Hellenistic poet Aratus for astronomy and meteorology, Nicander for information about snakes, the philosopher Aristotle for zoology, and Aristotle's student Theophrastus for botany, and others, such as the Hellenistic poet Callimachus for poetic and stylistic considerations.

* Alfred Austin ( 1835 – 1913 ), British poet

* 1327 – The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.

* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( d. 1741 )

* 1818 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet ( d. 1870 )

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1848 – José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet ( d. 1880 )

* 1929 – Mukhran Machavariani, Georgian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1931 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1864 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet ( d. 1913 )

* 1910 – Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu poet and lyricist ( d. 1983 )

* 1870 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet ( d. 1919 )

* 1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1931 – Sri Chinmoy, Bengali-American spiritual teacher, poet, and painter ( d. 2007 )

* 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet ( d. 1892 )

* 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet ( d. 1955 )

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

* 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English poet ( d. 1900 )

* 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet ( d. 1988 )

* 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet ( d. 2000 )

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )

* The 20th-century Irish poet Louis MacNeice references Catullus in his poem " Epitaph for Liberal Poets ," where he mentions Catullus as amongst the first liberal poets-" Catullus / went down young ," mentioning him in the context of the death of the individual and recognising his and the universal plight.

He tells how Ptolemy " placed in a circle around the statue Homer all the cities who laid claim to Homer " and mentions a painting of the poet by the artist Galaton, which apparently depicted Homer in the aspect of Oceanus as the source of all poetry.

Colonial Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz also mentions " Lucrecia " in her poem Redondillas, a commentary on prostitution and who is to blame.

Some of the earliest mentions of the carol occur in the works of the French poet Chretien de Troyes in his series of Arthurian romances.

Eleazar Kalir ( a Hebrew Galilean poet variously dated from the 6th to 10th century ) mentions a locality clearly in the Nazareth region bearing the name Nazareth נצרת ( in this case vocalized " Nitzrat "), which was home to the descendants of the 18th Kohen family Happitzetz ( הפצץ ), for at least several centuries after the Bar Kochva revolt.

The Roman poet Horace mentions it in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simple: " As for me, olives, endives, and smooth mallows provide sustenance.

The discovery of persistence of vision is attributed to the Roman poet Lucretius, although he only mentions it in connection

The Persian poet Rudaki, who widely used names of the musical instruments in his poems, mentions the daf and the tambourine ( taboorak ) in a Ruba ' i:

In the thirteenth century, Gonzalo de Berceo, clergyman of the Suso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla ( La Rioja ) and Spain's earliest known poet, mentions the wine in some of his works.

Suda mentions a feud between Simonides and the Rhodian lyric poet, Timocreon, for whom Simonides apparently composed a mock epitaph that touches on the issue of the Rhodian's medism — an issue that also involved Themistocles.

Quintilian dismisses the story as a fiction because " the poet nowhere mentions the affair, although he was not in the least likely to keep silent on a matter which brought him such glory ..".

Herodotus also mentions an earlier poet Arion, who had amassed a fortune on a visit to Italy and Sicily, so maybe Simonides wasn't the first professional poet, as claimed by the Greeks themselves.

The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Hyginus in his preface to the Fabulae mentions Chaos as the mother / father and Nyx as her sister.

Jason Strugnell, a fictional poet in Wendy Cope's " Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis ", lives in Tulse Hill and mentions it a couple of times in " his " poems.

The Ohio Valley poet James Wright mentions Tiltonsville in his poem, " Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio ".

Nobel laureate poet Wisława Szymborska wrote a poem which mentions holothurians, titled " Autotomy ".

It was about this time that he met the poet Charles Harpur and the newspaperman William Duncan, then editor of the Weekly Register ; he mentions in his Fifty Years of Australian History that these two men became his " chief advisers in matters of intellectual resource ".

However, the 17th century mestizo de sangley poet Carlos Calao mentions Lapu-Lapu under the name of " Cali Pulaco " in his poem Que Dios Le Perdone ( That God May Forgive Him ).

And the Persian poet Ferdowsi mentions Persian cities like Afrasiab and Chach in abundance in his epic Shahnama.

There he struck up a what turned out to be a lifelong friendship with Chicago poet Carl Sandburg, who frequently mentions him in his book, American Songbag ( 1927 ).

In his poem, " Desert Flowers " ( 1943 ), Douglas mentions World War I poet Isaac Rosenberg claiming that he is only repeating what Rosenberg has already written.

The poet Nonnus of Panopolis mentions the resurrection of the boy by Apollo.

This was a significant episode in the history of Clan MacLean, and the 20th century poet Sorley MacLean mentions Inverkeithing in one of his poems.