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 ).

Indeed, Gregory of Nazianzus, who, along with Pope Gregory VII, features as the villain in many of these stories, may have been taken by Sappho's poetry but were interested in ending her influence and increasing their own.

In her English translation of Irish myth, Lady Augusta Gregory ( Gods and Fighting Men, 1904 ), describes Brigit as " a woman of poetry, and poets worshipped her, for her sway was very great and very noble.

He had always published verse and won a Gregory Award for his poetry in 1967.

In 1967 he won the Eric Gregory Award for his poetry and the 1970 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

* The Obvious Flap, poetry, collaboration with Gregory Betts, BookThug, 2011.

Kirstie Blair states that the suppression of emotion in Procter's work makes the narrative poems all the more powerful, and Gill Gregory argues that Procter's poetry often explores female sexuality in an unconventional way, while as often voicing anxiety about sexual desires.

He co-edited Oxford Poetry and in 1997 received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for his poetry.

Paar's prime time show aired for three years, including guests such as Brother Dave Gardner, Peter Ustinov, Lawrence of Arabia's brother, Richard Burton, Oscar Levant, Lowell Thomas, Muhammad Ali reciting his poetry to piano accompaniment by Liberace, an occasionally funny Judy Garland, Jonathan Winters, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby ( whose nickname for Paar was " The Boss "), Bette Davis, Robert Morley, Cliff Arquette ( as Charlie Weaver ), Dick Gregory and many others.

Gregory Nagy ( in Hungarian: Nagy Gergely ) ( pronounced / nadj ;/), born in Budapest Hungary in 1942, is an American professor of Classics at Harvard University, specializing in Homer and archaic Greek poetry.

Here, Irish writers including William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, " AE " Russell, Edward Martyn and Edward Plunkett ( AKA Lord Dunsany ) stimulated a new appreciation of traditional Irish literature and Irish poetry in the late 19th and early 20th century.

He used his poetry to advance in society, to promote political ideas he supported, usually conceived of by Radegunde or by Gregory, and to pass on personal thoughts and communications.

Horace Gregory ( April 10, 1898 Milwaukee, Wisconsin – March 11, 1982 Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts ) was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor.

The winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 1999 Vogue Young Writer ’ s Award, his first collection of poetry, The Blue Book ( Seren, 2000 ),-a collection of poems about family, first love and farming life-was short-listed for the Wales Book of the Year and the Forward Poetry Prize Best 1st Collection, 2001.

In 1989 he won a major Eric Gregory Award for poets under thirty and his first collection of poetry, Householder, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1991.

) Mamet's profanity is not employed for shock value, but is rather an integral component of his characters ' " profane poetry ", which, according to frequent collaborator Gregory Mosher, " worked the iambic pentameter out of the vernacular of the underclass.

Pseudo-classical artificiality found an even more advanced representative in John of Damascus, in the opinion of the Byzantines the foremost writer of canones, who took as a model Gregory of Nazianzus, even reintroducing the principle of quantity into ecclesiastical poetry.

He held a Gregory Fellowship in poetry at the University of Leeds between 1956 to 1958.

< div style =" text-align: center ; border: none "> Bob Holman </ div > One of the goals of a poetry slam is to challenge the authority of anyone who claims absolute authority over literary value.

Bob Holman, a poetry activist and former slammaster of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, once called the movement " the democratization of verse.

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.

The first work in the series was John Corigliano's Mr Tambourine Man, based on the poetry of Bob Dylan, which was presented on 11 September 2009.

Despite being the son of a country vicar and publishing two volumes of poetry Snow was England's most formidable fast bowler between Fred Trueman and Bob Willis and played Test Matches with both of them at either end of his career.

Weberman, deconstructs the poetry of Bob Dylan and speculates about the tramps on the Grassy Knoll through his various websites.

The Nuyorican Poets Café and Da Poetry Lounge have a close association with the poetry slam movement which was popularized by Russell Simmons ’ Def Poetry Lounge with both main hosts Bob Holman and Shihan apprearing several times on the show.

Mottram's first book of poetry, Inside the Whale, was published by Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum in 1970.

During this period, Mottram was twice a guest lecturer at Kent State University, where, along with Black Mountain poet Ed Dorn, he was an early supporter of the musical group Devo, and its founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis, whose poetry Mottram published when he was editor of the Poetry Review.

In September 2006, an article for The New York Times noted similarities between Bob Dylan's lyrics in the album, Modern Times and the poetry of Timrod.

As a youth, he enjoyed writing poetry and loved listening to his uncle's old 78 rpm records — particularly the music of country and folk artists such as Hank Williams, Bob Wills, and Woody Guthrie.

Restless and often estranged from his poetry, Kees began to collaborate with the jazz clarinetist Bob Helm in 1953 on ballads and torch songs ( some written for the singer Ketty Lester ).

Furthermore, such critics may have simply missed the point ; with the exception of its lone hit, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was a spare, mostly instrumental soundtrack album that many would later find to be of great integrity, once they ceased to expect the work to be just another of Bob Dylan's " modern poetry " works.

In London, the Troubadour at Earl's Court, where Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Sandy Denny and Martin Carthy sang, became a poetry club in the 1990s, but is now a folk club again.

His accomplished and trademark sardonic lyrics have been compared by some to Bob Dylan, and his poetry is known to examine overlooked aspects of everyday life as well as chance and often hilarious juxtapositions.

He is known as a champion of Victorian poetry ; an enthusiast of Bob Dylan, whose lyrics he has analysed at book-length ; a trenchant reviewer of writers he considers pretentious ( Marshall McLuhan, Christopher Norris, Geoffrey Hartman, Stanley Fish ); and a warm reviewer of those he thinks humane or humorous ( F. R. Leavis, W. K. Wimsatt, Christina Stead ).

McGrath has been recognized by some of the most prestigious American poetry awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award ( for The Bob Hope Poem in Spring Comes to Chicago, his third book of poems ), a Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, a Ploughshares Cohen Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a MacArthur Foundation " Genius Award.

Tarantula is an experimental prose poetry collection by Bob Dylan, written between 1965 and 1966.

In 2010, the first Dylanfest celebrated the music, art and poetry of Bob Dylan in October at the Coraki Hotel.

Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the Oral tradition, the spoken word, and slam poetry.

Kaufman is known for his essays on success, war poetry, and " Kaufmanisms.

All of his poetry shows strong and occasionally wild emotions especially in regard to Lesbia.

He shows the ways in which American poetry has inherited Webster and drawn upon his lexicography in order to reinvent it.

That nature has been depicted and celebrated by so much art, photography, poetry and other literature shows the strength with which many people associate nature and beauty.

C. S. Lewis wrote that de Vere's poetry shows " a faint talent ," but is " for the most part undistinguished and verbose.

Prose poetry is a hybrid genre that shows attributes of both prose and poetry.

Scholars have noted that Song of Songs shows similarities of various kinds with other Ancient Near Eastern love poetry in general, but particularly some Sumerian erotic passages, and the Ramesside Egyptian love poetry.

Conversely, Slam poetry movement founder Marc Smith has been critical of the commercially successful Def Poetry television and Broadway live stage shows produced by Russell Simmons, decrying it as " an exploitive entertainment that diminished the value and aesthetic of performance poetry ".

The new and emerging poetry shows great diversity.

He shows the ways in which American poetry has inherited Webster and drawn upon his lexicography in order to reinvent it.

In short, Ronsard shows eminently the two great attractions of French 16th-century poetry as compared with that of the two following ages-magnificence of language and imagery and graceful variety of metre.

Thus he taught himself how to play cello, guitar, the piano and other instruments, wrote lyrics and poetry and later also assumed jobs as actor in some movies and TV shows or at the theatre.

Some events include classical and rock concerts, conferences, ballroom dancing, poetry recitals, education, motor shows, marathons, ballet, opera and circus shows.

The text of Oldcastle shows no clear signs of Drayton's hand ; traits of style consistent through the entire corpus of his poetry ( the rich vocabulary of plant names, star names, and other unusual words ; the frequent use of original contractional forms, sometimes with double apostrophes, like " th ' adult ' rers " or " pois ' ned ' st ") are wholly absent from the text, suggesting that his contribution to the collaborative effort was not substantial.

" Other critics since Armstrong agree that Procter's poetry, while ladylike on the surface, shows signs of repressed emotions and desires.

While Carter's atonal music shows little trace of American popular music or jazz, his vocal music has demonstrated strong ties to contemporary American poetry.

He shows the ways in which American poetry has inherited Webster ideas and has drawn upon his lexicography in order to develop the language.

She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years.

In these journals, Elizabeth shows a natural bent toward contemplation, she loved nature, poetry, and music, especially the piano.