the poet of The Odyssey, reputed blind, reveals himself not at all in singing of the blind minstrel Demodocus.

Albert B. Lord suggests that the Homeric poems were dictated to a scribe by a minstrel who held in his mind the poems fully matured but did not himself possess the knowledge of writing since it would be useless to his guild, and Magoun argues that the Beowulf poet and Cynewulf may have dictated their verse in the same fashion.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

Although Thomas described himself as the " Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive ", he stated that the phrase " Swansea's Rimbaud " was coined by poet Roy Campbell.

Apart from the several theological discourses, Gregory was also one of the most important early Christian men of letters, a very accomplished orator, perhaps one of the greatest of his time, and also a very prolific poet, writing several poems with theological and moral matter and some with biographical content, about himself and about his friends ( one short poem, " Eis ta Emmetra ", actually lays down some rules for the composition of poetry ).

His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic, an individual with a distinctive role to play.

His brother George wrote that John " feared that he should never be a poet, & if he was not he would destroy himself ".

As a poet, Coleridge places himself in an uncertain position as either master over his creative powers or a slave to it.

The poem would not be about the act of creation but a fragmentary view revealing how the act works: how the poet crafts language and how it relates to himself.

In the same year as Radley, George Watson argued that " The case of ' Kubla Khan ' is perhaps the strangest of all – a poem that stands high even in English poetry as a work of ordered perfection is offered by the poet himself, nearly twenty years after its composition, as a fragment.

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.

Writing during the reign of the Emperor Domitian ( AD 81 – 96 ), the Roman poet Martial expressed his admiration for Otho's choice to spare the Empire from civil war through sacrificing himself:

Several other contemporary authors refer to Oxford as an openly acknowledged poet, and Puttenham himself quotes one of Oxford's verses elsewhere in the book, referring to him by name as the author.

Collections issued during his lifetime by the poet himself include:

Suleiman himself was an accomplished poet, writing in Persian and Turkish under the nom de plume Muhibbi ( Lover ).

Mike Doughty ( who billed himself at the time as " M. Doughty ") was a folk singer ( he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiata and played around the school together ), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn and Marc Ribot.

The Manchester Poetry Festival's Richard Michael became interested in sponsoring this event, and Henry Normal, an up and coming poet, initially decided to sponsor it himself.

Readers often did and sometimes do identify the poet himself with various characters and their vicissitudes, whether gratitude by an old rustic to a new god ( Ecl.

To the surprise of many who saw him as a respectable poet and decorator from that point on he threw himself wholeheartedly into the nascent Socialist movement, becoming co-author of the Social Democratic Federation manifesto.

Quite early in his career he began to distinguish himself as a lyric poet, with the three successive volumes of his Heather Blossoms ( 1845-1854 ).

* July 26 – In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself " Black Bart " makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach.

" The poet emphasizes that the Danes " did not find fault " with Hrothgar, " for that was a good King ".

The poet emphasizes the mental struggles of Sarah, the resignation of Abraham to the Divine will, the anxious forebodings of Isaac, and the affectionate sympathy of the servants, in other words, a psychological analysis of the characters.

Attempting to express the " language of the common man ", Wordsworth and his fellow Romantic poets focused on employing poetic language for a wider audience, countering the mimetic, tightly constrained Neo-Classic poems ( although it's important to note that the poet wrote first and foremost for his / her own creative, expression ).

* De Antiquitate Litterarum libri II ( addressed to the tragic poet Lucius Accius ; it's therefore one of his earliest writings )

The poetry gatherings saved Western music and gave it this renaissance that it's had ... However, there is no chance for a cowboy poet.

: the whole post-Gutenberg galaxy of expanding communications can become the subject-matter of the poet, it's just that most poets are afraid to face up to the consequences of it.

" Since the Roland poem concerns the " evil " Saracens, it's possible that the poet derived Califerne from caliph.

" The relationship did not develop into a new phase after their night together, and soon afterwards Gonne wrote to the poet indicating that despite the physical consummation, they could not continue as they had been: " I have prayed so hard to have all earthly desire taken from my love for you and dearest, loving you as I do, I have prayed and I am praying still that the bodily desire for me may be taken from you too.

The poet was a hard self-critic and is known latterly to have destroyed manuscripts of his writing.

In The Romantic ' 90s, Richard Le Gallienne, a poet identified with the New Literature of the Decadence, described The Yellow Book as the following: " The Yellow Book was certainly novel, even striking, but except for the drawings and decorations by Beardsley, which, seen thus for the first time, not unnaturally affected most people as at once startling, repellent, and fascinating, it is hard to realize why it should have seemed so shocking.

In 1963, the poet / critic Randall Jarrell praised Shapiro's work: Karl Shapiro's poems are fresh and young and rash and live ; their hard clear outlines, their flat bold colors create a world like that of a knowing and skillful neoprimitive painting, without any of the confusion or profundity of atmosphere, of aerial perspective, but with notable visual and satiric force.

The death of Eleonore in 1838 hit Tyutchev hard and appears to have silenced him as a poet for some considerable time: for ten years afterwards he wrote hardly any lyric verse.

Among such was the poet Aleksey Pleshcheev who, according to the verdict, " for distributing letters Belinsky, was deprived of all rights of the state and sent to hard labor in factories for 4 years.

Virgil's model for composing a didactic poem in hexameters is the archaic Greek poet Hesiod, whose poem Works and Days shares with the Georgics the themes of man's relationship to the land and the importance of hard work.

After eighteen hard months in the mountains, the consumptive poet was obliged to put an end to his career as a teacher and as a writer, and to seek medical treatment in Turin in Northern Italy where his sister Ollga was studying mathematics.

New Directions also published many now-famous writers, including Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, when they had a hard time finding homes for their work, and Tennessee Williams was published as a poet for the very first time in a New Directions poetry collection.

The poet prays to the Muses to provide him with divine inspiration to tell the story of a great hero.

As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words :" l ' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta " (" Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour "), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth.

" Mainstream writers respond that several sonnets literally do tell his name, containing numerous puns on the name Will ; in sonnet 136 the poet directly says " thou lov ' st me for my name is Will.

In Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson ’ s documentary A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, Lorde says, " Let me tell you first about what it was like being a Black woman poet in the ‘ 60s, from jump.

*" There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture – that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

The poem says that this is the fault of Loki, yet that " you have heard this already ", and that another, wiser than the poet, could tell the story of how Thor was repaid by a lava-dweller with his children.

A poet said " Our sweetest songs tell of our saddest thoughts ", and on his return, Zaki found enough inspiration to start composing his first, ( and to date, only ), solo album-" Signature ".

And not alone this ; but it is not easy to tell all that were then slain of Momonians and Meathians, and of the men of Erinn likewise, ut dixit the poet:

As a poet he gives fresh airs to the flamenco, although he does not tell specific stories, it is very easy to see yourself reflected in them.

In his debut novel, poet Yakich ( The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine ) uses the second person to tell the story of a high school English teacher whose wife dies after ingesting a cashew, leaving him a single dad to his almost toddler son, Owen.

" Mr Walsh used to tell me ," he says, " that there was one way left of excelling ; for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct, and he desired me to make that my study and my aim.