In the beginning of the sixth book, Clement intends to demonstrate that the works of Greek poets were derived from the prophetic books of the Bible.

Thrax defines grammar at the beginning of the Tékhnē as " the practical knowledge of the general usages of poets and prose writers.

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

Its anonymous author calls himself Bion's heir and an " Ausonian " (= Italian ), which may mean that Bion traveled to Italy at some point, perhaps for patronage in Rome ( as Greek poets were beginning to do in his lifetime ).

Anyway, arising from an improvisatory beginning ( both tragedy and comedy — tragedy from the leaders of the dithyramb, and comedy from the leaders of the phallic processions which even now continue as a custom in many of our cities ), grew little by little, as poets developed whatever part of it had appeared ; and, passing through many changes, tragedy came to a halt, since it had attained its own nature.

She, along with other political poets of the early Modernist period, has been coming under increasing critical scrutiny at the beginning of the 21st century.

Stobaeus quoted more than five hundred writers, generally beginning with the poets, and then proceeding to the historians, orators, philosophers, and physicians.

Welsh writing in English from the beginning tended to be dominated by men, but the period after World War II produced some distinguished Welsh women poets, including Ruth Bidgood ( 1922-), Gillian Clarke ( 1937-), and Sheenagh Pugh ( 1950-).

Welsh writing in English tended from the beginning to be dominated by men, but the period after World War II produced some distinguished Welsh women poets, including Ruth Bidgood ( born 1922 ), Gillian Clarke ( born 1937 ), and Sheenagh Pugh ( born 1950 ).

In the chapter on Abraham Cowley in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets ( 1779-81 ), Samuel Johnson refers to the beginning of the seventeenth century in which there " appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets ".

Around the same time, a number of British surrealist poets were beginning to emerge, among them David Gascoyne, George Barker and Hugh Sykes Davies.

From his father's death in 1894 dates the beginning of his third period, during which he was especially influenced by his reading of the symbolist poets and Russian literature, particularly Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy.

This culminated in the work of the poets of the Celtic Revival at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

Although these major British poets had effectively been written out of official histories of 20th century British poetry, by the beginning of the 1960s a number of younger poets were starting to explore poetic possibilities that the older writers had opened up.

The Mahjari poets were emigrants who mostly wrote in the Americas, but were similarly beginning to experiment further with the possibilities of Arabic poetry.

In Romanticism ( beginning of the 19th century ) important topics are: the poetry of José de Espronceda and other poets ; prose, which can have several forms ( the historical novel, scientific prose, the description of regional customs, journalism — where Mariano José de Larra can be mentioned —; the theater, with Ángel de Saavedra ( Duke of Rivas ), José Zorrilla, and other authors.

Shaped in part by the French " nouveau roman " of writers like Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French " La Nouvelle Vague " cinema of Godard and Truffaut, and Latin American “ Boom ,” Spanish novelists and poets, beginning perhaps with Luis Martín Santos's novel, Tiempo de silencio ( 1961 ), returned to the restless literary experimentation last seen in Spanish letters in the early 1930s.

A few of these Living Masters of their times include Lao Tsu, Jesus, Pythagoras, Socrates, Kabir, the Sufi Masters and mystic poets Hafez and Rumi, the Ten Sikh Gurus beginning with Guru Nanak, Tulsi Sahib, and the Radhasoami / Radha Soami and offshoot Masters, including Shiv Dayal Singh, Baba Sawan Singh, Baba Faqir Chand and Sant Kirpal Singh.

In the beginning of the 20th century Hungarian poets were claiming to follow in the footsteps of Sándor Petőfi writing in an imitated folksy style yet lacking Petőfi's vision ( and, mostly, talent ) which was not able to renew itself.

* Stesichorus: A famous Sicilian poet, he is quoted invoking the Muse and the Graces in a song that denounces Carcinus, Morsimus and Melanthius as inferior poets ( beginning with lines 775 and 796 ).

The poets known as the Contemporáneos saw Velarde, together with Tablada, as the beginning of modern Mexican poetry.

Between the end of this decade and the beginning of the following one emerged the Novísimos (" Newest "), a generation of poets ( Arturo Cambours Ocampo, Carlos Carlino and José Portogalo ), fiction writers ( Arturo Cerretani, Roberto Arlt, Luis Maria Albamonte and Luis Horacio Velázquez ) and playwrights ( Roberto Valenti, Juan Oscar Ponferrada and Javier Villafañe ).

Novels followed, beginning with William Waste ( 1947 ), The Lady in the Tower ( 1955 ), A girl among poets ( 1957 ), then a gothic fantasy, Bezill ( 1962 ), then Light Over Water ( 1963 ), in which a journalist researches into the world of the occult.

Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.

He is, rather, concerned with the effect on society and he wants the poets to join his fight for justice.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

And, besides, there are a large number of scholars, artists, composers of music, novelists, poets, essayists, choreographers, lawyers, servants of government, and men of affairs -- hundreds, indeed -- who serve the Foundation well with the advice they give us freely and gratis out of their experience.

Nothing in all this is autobiographical: unlike the poets of Deor and Widsith, the poet of Beowulf is not concerned with his own identity ; ;

In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII ( 161 – 215 ).

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

Alcaeus himself seems to underscore the difference between his own ' down-to-earth ' style and Sappho's more ' celestial ' qualities when he describes her almost as a goddess ( as cited above ), and yet it has been argued that both poets were concerned with a balance between the divine and the profane, each emphasising different elements in that balance.

His lyrics with diverse themes, mostly following a somewhat modernized version of the " aşık " ( wandering folk poets ) tradition were heavily marginal in the popular music scene of 1980s which was mostly dominated by love-themed lyrics.

Cerberus ' depiction in ancient art is not as definitive as in literature ; the poets and linguists of ancient Greece and Rome mostly agreed on the physical appearance ( with the notable exception in Hesiod's Theogony in which he had 50 heads ).

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

Along with the nobility and clergy caste, the Celtic population treated poets as the upper caste.

This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich.

Juvenal, for example, was fond of occasionally creating verses that placed a sense break between the fourth and fifth foot ( instead of in the usual caesura positions ), but this technique —- known as the bucolic diaeresis -— did not catch on with other poets.

In his biography in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius attests to Domitian's ability to quote the important poets and writers such as Homer or Virgil on appropriate occasions, and describes him as a learned and educated adolescent, with elegant conversation.

The work of Domitian's court poets Martial and Statius constitutes virtually the only literary evidence concurrent with his reign.

Other passages, alluding to Domitian's love of epigrammatic expression, suggest that he was in fact familiar with classic writers, while he also patronized poets and architects, founded artistic Olympics, and personally restored the library of Rome at great expense after it had burned down.

His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism, both of them being frequently lampooned by comic poets such as Aristophanes.

Tragic poets in the fifth century competed against each other at the City Dionysia with a tetralogy each i. e. three tragedies and a satyr-play.

Epigram is associated with ' point ' because the European epigram tradition takes the Latin poet Martial as its principal model ; he copied and adapted Greek models ( particularly the contemporary poets Lucillius and Nicarchus ) selectively and in the process redefined the genre, aligning it with the indigenous Roman tradition of ' satura ', hexameter satire, as practised by ( among others ) his contemporary Juvenal.

Bulwer-Lytton is also credited with the appellation for the Germans " Das Volk der Dichter und Denker ", that is, the people of poets and thinkers.

Almost all the writers and poets in the Italian literature of the golden age are in some way connected with Florence, leading ultimately to the adoption of the Florentine dialect, above all the local dialects, as a literary language of choice.