Alain de Lille ( or Alanus ab Insulis ) ( c. 1116 / 1117 – 1202 / 1203 ), French theologian and poet, was born in Lille, some years before 1128.

* 1938 – Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Philosopher and Urdu / Persian poet ( b. 1877 )

* 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.

* 1971 – Seyhan Kurt, French / Turkish poet, writer

Hermanus " Herman " Brood ( pronounced " Hairmon Broat " / bro: t /; November 5, 1946 – July 11, 2001 ) was a Dutch musician, painter, actor, poet and media personality.

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson ( 1178 / 79 – 1241 ) ca.

He supported the ornithologist John James Audubon, the poet / writer Edgar Allan Poe, and the presidential campaign of Henry Clay.

* 1948 – Valeri Brainin, Russian / German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet

In Poland, the rough equivalent of this term is " coffee shop revolutionist " meaning a journalist, poet or any other intellectual who criticizes capitalism and free market mechanisms in his / her publications, but has generally weak understanding of economy because of living in the ivory tower of salon life, so he / she has no idea about the real life of the poor.

* 1877 – Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Philospher and Urdu / Persian poet ( d. 1938 )

Many scholars believe that the original poem was composed in an oral tradition by an aoidos ( epic poet / singer ), perhaps a rhapsode ( professional performer ), and was more likely intended to be heard than read.

Gil Scott-Heron, a jazz poet / musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as " The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ", " H2OGate Blues Part 2: We Beg Your Pardon America ," and " Johannesberg ," has been cited as an influence on many rappers.

* 3-Rasul Gamzatov, 80, Avarian / Soviet / Russian poet, called the " People's poet of Dagestan ".

Audience members furthermore become part of each poem's presence, thus breaking down the barriers between poet / performer, critic, and audience.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

* December 20 – Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet / author ( d. 1990 )

** Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang, a poet and a prominent Indian / Pakistani Muslim leader ( d. 1952 )

* Venantius Fortunatus ( c. 540-600 / 9 ), Venetian poet, traveler, bishop of Poitiers ( c. 599-600 / 9 )

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward.

* 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( d. 1903 )

* 1884 – Béla Balázs, Hungarian critic, writer, and poet ( d. 1949 )

* 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

One critic, the poet Armand Silvestre, credited Pissarro with being “ basically the inventor of this painting ”.

Poet and critic W. J. Turner commented in The Spectator, " This book alone, in my opinion, ranks him as a major poet ".

Reviewing the volume, critic Philip Toynbee declared that " Thomas is the greatest living poet in the English language ".

" Fellow poet and critic Glyn Jones believed that any traces of cynghanedd in Thomas ' work was accidental, although he felt Thomas consciously employed one element of Welsh metrics ; that of counting syllables per line instead of feet.

* 1883 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic ( b. 1812 )

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

The comic poet, Aristophanes, is the earliest known critic to characterize Euripides as a spokesman for destructive, new ideas, associated with declining standards in both society and tragedy ( see Reception for more ).

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

He was both an admirer and a critic of Rudyard Kipling, praising Kipling as a gifted writer and a " good bad poet " whose work is " spurious " and " morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting ," but undeniably seductive and able to speak to certain aspects of reality more effectively than more enlightened authors.

Lessing was a poet, philosopher and critic.

From the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival, particularly associated with a group of Glasgow writers focused around critic, poet and teacher Philip Hobsbaum and editor Peter Kravitz.

Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.

Together with the Estonian poet, writer and art critic Ilmar Laaban, they developed their concept of Irrealism through several essays, exhibitions, projects, manifest and a book, " Irréalisation ".

Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.

* 1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, literary critic, and art historian

* 1871 – James Weldon Johnson, American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist ( d. 1938 )

* 1922 – Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic ( d. 1987 )

* 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor ( b. 1924 )

* 1812 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic ( d. 1883 )