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12 de jun. de 2024 · Horace - Poet, Satire, Odes: To a modern reader, the greatest problem in Horace is posed by his continual echoes of Latin and, more especially, Greek forerunners. The echoes are never slavish or imitative and are very far from precluding originality. For example, in one of his satires Horace wrote what looks at first like a realistic account of a journey made to Brundisium (Brindisi, on Italy ...
16 de jun. de 2024 · Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was the leading poet of the Victorian Age in England and by the mid-19th century had come to occupy a position similar to that of Alexander Pope in the 18th. Tennyson was a consummate poetic artist, consolidating and refining the traditions bequeathed to him by his predecessors in the Romantic movement—especially Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats.
Hace 4 días · Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ ˈ r ʌ d j ər d / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short ...
26 de jun. de 2024 · William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) A prominent figure of 20th-century literature, W.B. Yeats is one of Ireland’s greatest writers. As a poet, Yeats is known for his traditional, timeless style and strong symbolism, despite the many free verse modernists of his era. While his early work was inspired by Irish myth and folklore, he later took on ...
2 de jul. de 2024 · 6. 7. A community dedicated to the revival of traditional metered and often rhyming poetry. Read, comment, submit poems, engage in contests and challenges, and more.
20 de jun. de 2024 · William Wordsworth (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England—died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland) was an English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.. Early life and education. Wordsworth was born in the Lake District of northern England, the second of five children of a modestly prosperous ...
20 de jun. de 2024 · Sufism - Mysticism, Poetry, Sufi Orders: Though a Hadith (a recorded saying of the Prophet Muhammad) claims that “he who knows God becomes silent,” the Sufis have produced a literature of impressive extent and could defend their writing activities with another Hadith: “He who knows God talks much.” The first systematic books explaining the tenets of Sufism date from the 10th century ...
