According to the historian Herodotus, the poet threw away his shield to make good his escape from the victorious Athenians then celebrated the occasion in a poem that he later sent to his friend, Melanippus.

Salieri collaborated with Casti to produce a parody of the relationship between poet and composer in Prima la musica e poi le parole ( First the Music and then the Words ).

This Bragi was reckoned as the first skaldic poet, and was certainly the earliest skaldic poet then remembered by name whose verse survived in memory.

In 1732, to avoid an unwanted marriage, he left the town for Milan and then for Verona where the theatre manager Giuseppe Imer helped him on his way to becoming a comical poet as well as introducing him to his future wife, Nicoletta Conio.

A favorite target of Poe's criticism was Boston's then acclaimed poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was often defended by his literary friends in what would later be called " The Longfellow War ".

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

Charles Cros, a French poet and amateur scientist, is the first person known to have made the conceptual leaps from recording sound as a traced line to the theoretical possibility of reproducing the sound from the tracing and then to a definite method for accomplishing the reproduction.

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 Milesian poet Amergin calmed the sea with his verse, then his people landed and defeated the Tuatha Dé Danann at Tailtiu.

Following the Peterloo massacre of 1819, poet Percy Shelley wrote the political poem The Mask of Anarchy later that year, that begins with the images of what he thought to be the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a new form of social action.

He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1930 to 1933, during which time he fell under the influence both of the poet A. E. Housman, then Professor of Latin at the university, and of the writings of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

A popular myth comprehended by some Bengali authors about Jayadeva, the famous Sanskrit poet of Orissa ( then known as the Kalinga ) and author of Gita Govinda, was one of the Pancharatnas ( meaning 5 gems ) in the court of Lakshman Sen ( although this may be disputed by some ).

The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).

It brought the poet in his own time the hostility of its victims and their sympathizers, who pursued him implacably from then on with a few damaging truths and a host of slanders and lies ...".

His son Romilly ( 1906 – 1986 ) was in the RAF, briefly a civil servant, then a poet, author and an amateur physicist.

The relationship ended when she became the lover, then the wife of the surrealist poet Robert Desnos.

Krusty's show has gone through various phases: a clip from 1963 shows Krusty interviewing Robert Frost then dumping a load of snow on the poet.

French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had Roubaud's first book, a collection of mathematically-structured sonnets, published by Éditions Gallimard, and then invited Roubaud to join the Oulipo as the organization's first new member outside the founders.

Her close friend and fellow poet Mandelstam was deported and then sentenced to a Gulag labour camp, where he would die.

In 1965, Gudrun's younger sister Johanna married Günther Maschke, then a revolutionary Marxist poet and member of the Situationist International group Subversiven Aktion, which included Rudi Dutschke as a member.

Then in 1951, a few years after befriending the West Coast poet Kenneth Rexroth, the Patchens moved to the West Coast, living first in San Francisco and then moving to Palo Alto, California in 1957.

He then spends what might be his last hours on Earth returning to his mortal roots as a frustrated poet, triumphantly knocking them dead ( figuratively ) in an open mic poetry slam at a bar.

The oracle of Apollo then instructed them to atone for their error and rid themselves of their suffering by honouring the poet, which led to the shrine being dedicated to him.

In the same account, Themistocles is said to have rejected an attempt by the poet to bribe him, then likened himself as an honest magistrate to a good poet, since an honest magistrate keeps the laws and a good poet keeps in tune.

This seems odd when one recalls that he wrote poetry longer than any other major English poet: `` Domicilium '' is dated `` between 1857 and 1860 '' ; ;

The character of the duchess recalls the Victorian poet and essayist Algernon Charles Swinburne's comment in A Study of Shakespeare that in tragedies such as King Lear Shakespeare had shown such a bleak world as a foil or backdrop for virtuous heroines such as Ophelia and Imogen, so that their characterisation would not seem too incredible.

The Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis ( Epigrams Book IV, 55 ) " recalls in grateful verse " the town of Tutela next to his own native Bilbilis.

Karl Kerenyi, in quoting this passage, remarks, " At the core of this richly elaborated myth, in which the poet even recalls the rhyta, it is not easy to separate the Cretan elements from those originating in Asia Minor.

A contemporaneous witness ( P Breatnach ) recalls playing his harmonica as soon as the poet stopped reciting and being told to be quite by all and sundry.

" Jawbreaker's tour manager Christy Colcord recalls that " Most of fans hovered around Blake because he was, like, this poet to them.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

The grammarian Athenaeus quoted some verses about perfumed ointments to prove just how unwarlike Alcaeus could be and he quoted his description of the armour adorning the walls of his house as proof that he could be unusually warlike for a lyric poet.

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.

When Seamus Heaney gave an Oxford lecture on the poet he opened by addressing the assembly, " Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry ", querying how ' Thomas the Poet ' is one of his forgotten attributes.

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.

The poem celebrates creativity and how the poet is able to experience a connection to the universe through inspiration.

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.

As a whole, the poem is connected to Coleridge's belief in a secondary Imagination that can lead a poet into a world of imagination, and the poem is both a description of that world and a description of how the poet enters the world.

The myth of the lost poem tells how an inspired work was mysteriously given to the poet and dispelled irrecoverably.

* Accept your feelings-Accepting feelings is not ignoring them or avoiding them, but welcoming them ; Vietnamese poet and writer Thich Nhat Hanh recommends we say, " Hello Loneliness, how are you today?

Notice how what is used by the poet where a word like lo or behold would be expected.

Cheryl Exum, whose work on the Song is also widely known and highly regarded, considers, however, that " The subjectivity conferred upon the woman by the poet inevitably reflects a patriarchal worldview ; how could it not?

Virgil, the Roman epic poet, wrote, in book three of The Aeneid, of how Aeneas and his crew landed on the island of the cyclops after escaping from Troy at the end of the Trojan War.

" Thus spoke a forgotten poet long ago in Rohan, recalling how tall and fair was Eorl the Young, who rode down out of the North ," Aragorn explains.

Published in 1905 in the Smith Academy Record, a school magazine of the school he was attending, the story explicitly shows how the would-be poet was concerned with his own unique version of the " King ".

But after relating in general terms the glories of Scyld's reign, the poet describes Scyld's funeral, how his body was laid in a ship surrounded by treasures, the poet explains:

* American poet Charles Bukowski wrote a poem about Vallejo in his book What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

When he asked Philoxenus how he liked it, the poet replied only " Take me back to the quarries.

Charles Darwin represented a widespread preference for a biological interpretation of such statements when he commented on the above lines thus: " The Grecian poet, Theognis ... saw how important selection, if carefully applied, would be for the improvement of mankind.

Voltaire's story ( in his Letters on the English Nation ) that Her Grace used to go to Wycherley's chambers in the Temple disguised as a country wench, in a straw hat, with pattens on and a basket in her hand, may be apocryphal, for disguise was superfluous in her case, but it shows how general was the opinion that, under such patronage as this, Wycherley's fortune as poet and dramatist was now made.