Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??

But the most fundamental objection he has to poets appears in the Tenth Book, and it is derived from his doctrine of ideal forms.

It was one of the most popular and influential philosophical works, read by statesmen, poets, and historians, as well as of philosophers and theologians.

The longer poems differ from the polymetra and the epigrams not only in length but also in their subjects: There are seven hymns and one mini-epic, or epyllion, the most highly prized form for the " new poets ".

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.

The hexameter was first used by early Greek poets of the oral tradition, and the most complete extant examples of their works are the Iliad and the Odyssey, which influenced the authors of all later classical epics that survive today.

The most recent translation is by Bill Porter ( Red Pine ) ( Copper Canyon Press, 2009 ) and distinguishes itself in its extensive commentary by scores of poets, monks, and Chinese scholars.

Although writing exclusively in the English language, Thomas has been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century.

Yet he also became " the most tragic of poets ", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown.

Tragic poets were often mocked by comic poets during the dramatic festivals Dionysia and Lenaia and Euripides was travestied more than most.

In 1586 Angel Day dedicated The English Secretary, the first epistolary manual for writing model letters in English, to Oxford, and William Webbe praised him as " most excellent among the rest " of ourt poets in his Discourse of English Poetry.

One of the most important of these poets was Walther von der Vogelweide.

100 years later, Walther von der Vogelweide ( c. 1170-c. 1230 ) became the most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets.

The clàrsach or harp was the most popular musical instrument in later medieval Scotland and Ireland and Gaelic poets portrayed their Pictish counterparts as very much like themselves.

According to Edward G. Browne, the three most prominent mystical Persian poets Rumi, Sana ' i and Attar were all Sunni Muslims and their poetry abounds with praise for the first two caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar ibn al-Khattāb.

Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his life, his reputation grew after his death, so that by the end of the 19th century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets.

He was the most prominent of the poets included in the Man ' yōshū, and was particularly represented in volumes 1 and 2

:: " e shall often find that not only the best, but the most individual parts of poet's work, may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously.

Maecenas is most famous for his support of young poets, hence his name has become the eponym for a " patron of arts ".

In English literature, Mannerism is commonly identified with the qualities of the " Metaphysical " poets of whom the most famous is John Donne.

He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language.

Other Italian poets of the time, including Dante Alighieri ( 1265 – 1321 ) and Guido Cavalcanti ( c. 1250 – 1300 ) wrote sonnets, but the most famous early sonneteer was Petrarca ( known in English as Petrarch ).

) Among the executed was one of Cuba's greatest poets, Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, now commonly known as " Placido ".

In antiquity, Sappho was commonly regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets.

Moschus ' poetry is typically edited along with other bucolic poets, as in the commonly used Oxford text by A. S. F. Gow ( 1952 ), but the Europa has often received separate scholarly editions, as by Winfried Bühler ( Wiesbaden 1960 ) and Malcolm Campbell ( Hildesheim 1991 ).

Ekphrasis flourished in the Romantic era and again among the pre-Raphaelite poets, but is still commonly practiced.

Even the name itself has been controversial: while a number of poets and critics have used the name of the journal to refer to the group, many others have chosen to use the term, when they used it at all, without the equals signs, while " language writing " and " language-centered writing " are also commonly used, and perhaps the most generic terms.

Nur ad-Dīn Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī () also known as DJāmī, Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn ' Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti who is commonly known as Jami ( August 18, 1414 – November 17, 1492 ), is known for his achievements as a scholar, mystic, writer, composer of numerous lyrics and idylls, historian, and the greatest Persian and Sufi poets of the 15th century.

The town is commonly known by its nickname " La Cuna de los Poetas ," or " Cradle of Poets ," due to the numerous Spanish-language poets who were born there, such as Abelardo Diaz Alfaro and the musician Tomás " Masso " Rivera.

Milton continues, " Of the style and uniformity, and that commonly called the plot, whether intricate or explicit ... they only will best judge who are not unacquainted with Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three tragic poets unequaled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavor to write tragedy ".

For Hellenistic scholars the Cyclic poets, the authors to whom the other poems were commonly ascribed, were νεώτεροι ( neōteroi " later poets "), and κυκλικός ( kyklikos " cyclic ") was synonymous with " formulaic ": then, and in much modern scholarship, there has been an equation between poetry that is later and poetry that is inferior.

Buskers, including musicians, poets and mime artists commonly perform to the shopping crowds.

Literature composed in cafés is commonly referred to as coffee house literature, the writers thereof as coffee house poets.

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

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.

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.

This interest in the " Arthur of romance " and his associated stories continued through the 19th century and into the 20th, and influenced poets such as William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edward Burne-Jones.

The Romantic poets, essayists, artists and authors who employed these themes in their work were later associated with socially progressive attitudes towards sexuality, feminism, pacifism and similar issues.

Still, the Sapphic stanza, strongly associated with Sappho's poetry in the original, has become well known and influential among modern poets as well.

Some poets are closely associated with the vocal delivery style found in hip-hop music and draw heavily on the tradition of dub poetry, a rhythmic and politicized genre belonging to black and particularly West Indian culture.

Yosano Tekkan and the poets that were associated with his Myōjō magazine were one example, but that magazine was fairly short-lived.

The poets generally associated with Cubism are Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, André Salmon and Pierre Reverdy.

Brooke belonged to another literary group known as the Georgian Poets and was one of the most important of the Dymock poets, associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock where he spent some time before the war.

This Gascon " literary fad " was unpopular in Provence in the early 13th century, harming the reputation of the poets associated with it.

This was in reaction to the style of the tanka poets associated with Myōjō magazine ( such as Yosano Akiko ) which emphasized the passionate side of human nature.

Roman poets, including Propertius, Ovid, and Statius, name the river as the Styx, perhaps following the geography of Virgil ’ s underworld in the Aeneid, where Charon is associated with both rivers.

The Castalian Band, a group of poets or makars associated with the Court of James VI of Scotland ( including the king himself ) drew their name from this source.

In Romania, symbolists directly influenced by French poetry first gained influence during the 1880s, when Alexandru Macedonski reunited a group of young poets associated with his magazine Literatorul.

Among the poets associated with German Expressionism were Georg Trakl, Gottfried Benn, Georg Heym, Else Lasker-Schüler, Ernst Stadler, and August Stramm.

Imagism influenced a number of poetry circles and movements in the 1950s, especially the Beat generation, the Black Mountain poets, and others associated with the San Francisco Renaissance.

The poets most often associated with the " Silver Age " are Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak.

* Allen Tate, ( 1899 – 1979 ), poet associated with the Agrarians, a group of Southern poets and most noted for " Ode to the Confederate Dead "

* Lorine Niedecker-only woman associated with the Objectivist poets

In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke and others.

In English literature the term is generally associated with the 17th century metaphysical poets, an extension of contemporary usage.

Some poets, including Carmen Cordero and Maya Santos Febres, have said that a “ poetic portrayal of dance maintains its meaning as a vehicle of resistance .” This could be taken as pushing for change and acceptance These ideas go well with the expression associated with the rumba when it first emerged and when it became more widely accepted by all Cubans.

Brooke and Sassoon were to go on to win reputations as war poets and Lawrence quickly distanced himself from the group and was associated with the modernist movement.

Other poets associated with this group included Plath's one-time husband Ted Hughes, Francis Berry and Jon Silkin.