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

Ahmed was a poet who wrote a number of political and lyrical works under the name Bahti.

The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.

129 ) indicate that the poet, his brothers and Pittacus made plans to overthrow him and that Pittacus subsequently betrayed them ; Alcaeus and his brothers fled into exile where the poet later wrote a drinking song in celebration of the news of the tyrant's death ( frag.

* Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg ( 1806 – 1876 ) – Austrian poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Anastasius Grün.

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!

" Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: " Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist ".

* Archibald MacLeish wrote a poem entitled " You Also, Gaius Valerius Catullus ," where he addresses the poet.

" Of the Australian national flag, the Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote in 1893: The English flag may flutter and wave, where the world wide oceans toss, but the flag the Australian dies to save, is the flag of the Southern Cross.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

Chaucer was a courtier, leading some to believe that he was mainly a court poet who wrote exclusively for nobility.

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

Constantine FitzGibbon, Thomas ' first in-depth biographer, wrote " No major English poet has ever been as Welsh as Dylan ".

Ernest Lawrence Thayer ( August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940 ) was an American writer and poet who wrote " Casey at the Bat ".

* The Italian Renaissance poet Lucrezia Tornabuoni chose Esther as one of biblical figures on which she wrote poetry.

The poet and colonist Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims " were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same ".

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

He once wrote a paper under a pseudonym derived from Kobayashi Issa, a famous Japanese haiku poet.

It thus became expected that educated Europeans should learn at least some Italian ; the English poet John Milton, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

The poet Richard Barnfield wrote that Dowland's " heavenly touch upon the lute doth ravish human sense.

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

Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, a poet from Hindustan who visited at the time wrote: " Dine and drink in Kabul: it is mountain, desert, city, river and all else.

The bondage endurable by an oral poet is to be estimated only by a very skilful oral poet, but it appears safe to assume that no sustained narrative in rhyme could be composed without extreme difficulty, even in a language of many terminal inflections.

On Earth elections continued and a very advanced poet published a limited edition of verse consisting entirely of punctuation marks and spaces ; ;

If a poet writes down several lines, intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which it is written makes it a poem.

According to an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.

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 ).

To persons who are in the habit of poetical composition, a similar phenomenon would not be a stranger occurrence, than the spirited dialogues in prose which take place in dreams of persons of duller invention than our poet, and which not unfrequently leave behind a very vivid impression.

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.

Unlike the works of her fellow poet, Alcaeus, Sappho's surviving poetry has very few allusions to political conditions.

Shah Jahan was very interested in Persian inscription and a Persian poet who requested a famous Persian calligrapher to decorate his palace and castles.

As nothing is essential to the fable, but unity of action, and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety, I cannot think it much to be lamented, that they were not known by him, or not observed: Nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him, that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus.

Yeats was a very good friend of Indian Bengali poet Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

The note reads: " The first years of his life Virgil spent in Cremona, right until the assumption of his toga virilis, which he accepted on his 17th birthday, when the same two men held the consulate, as when he was born, and it so happened that on the very same day Lucretius the poet passed away.

W. H. Auden praises it, saying " To succeed in these tales, as Berlioz most brilliantly does, requires a combination of qualities which is very rare, the many-faceted curiosity of the dramatist with the aggressively personal vision of the lyric poet.

It was written in 1894 by the priest and poet Matija Zemljič and quickly became very popular among Slovenian mountaineers.

Famous Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was very fond of mangoes.

Fuller was an early disciple of English poet and magician Aleister Crowley and was very familiar with his, and other forms of, magick and mysticism.

In The Greek Myths the mythographer and poet, Robert Graves, translates and interprets the legends and myth fragments about Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, and Orestes, as suggesting a ritual killing of a " king " ( Agamemnon ) in very early religious ceremonies that were suppressed when patriarchy replaced the matriarchies of very ancient Greece.

He also had a sister called Megatime but very little is known about her: she married a Cyrenaean man called Stasenorus or Stasenor to whom she bore a son, Callimachus ( so called " the Younger " as to distinguish him from his maternal uncle ), who also became a poet, author of " The Island ".

Besides, this gypsyism gives me the appearance of an uncultured, ignorant and primitive poet that you know very well I ’ m not.

Indeed, evidence suggests that Rosales was very nearly shot as well for helping García Lorca by the Civil Governor Valdes. The Basque Communist poet Gabriel Celaya wrote in his memoirs that he once found García Lorca in the company of Falangist José Maria Aizpurua.

The Earl of Rochester, real-life Restoration rake, courtier and poet, is flatteringly portrayed in Etherege's The Man of Mode ( 1676 ) as a riotous, witty, intellectual, and sexually irresistible aristocrat, a template for posterity's idea of the glamorous Restoration rake ( actually never a very common character in Restoration comedy ).