Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and time periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed through the course of literary history, resulting in a history of poets as diverse as the literature they have produced.
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... In the time of the Greek oral poet Hesiod, Elysium would also be known as the Fortunate Isles or the Isles (or Islands) of the Blessed, located in the western ... The Isles of the Blessed would be reduced to a single island by the Thebean poet Pindar, describing it as having shady parks, with residents indulging their athletic and musical ... Hesiod name Cronus as the ruler, while the poet Homer in the Odyssey describes fair-haired Rhadamanthus dwelling there ...
... writer and screenwriter, 66 (lung cancer) January 21 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss novelist and poet, 73 January 30 - Dorothy Thompson, influential journalist, 67 May 26 - William ... poet, novelist and memoirist, 75 October 19 - Mihail Sadoveanu, Romanian novelist, 80 November 2 - James Thurber, humorist, 66 December 7 - Roussan Camille ...
7 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet, 79 June 10 – Henry Treece, historical novelist, 54 June 30 – Margery Allingham, crime novelist, 62 July 25 – Frank O'Hara, poet, 40 (ruptured liver ...
... novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, playwright, and journalist January 20 - R ... Salvatore, science fiction and fantasy author March 15 - Ben Okri, poet and novelist March 11 - Dejan Stojanović, Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist ...
... Eliot, American/British poet and dramatist, 76 January 12 – Lorraine Hansberry, journalist and dramatist, 34 (cancer) March 13 – Fan S ... Noli, Albanian bishop and poet, 83 May 3 – Howard Spring, novelist, 76 June 5 – Thornton Burgess, children's author, 91 June 13 - Martin Buber ... Costain, popular historian, 80 October 15 – Randall Jarrell, poet, 54 (road accident) October 30 – Arthur Schlesinger, Sr ...
Famous quotes containing the word poet:
“The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet is representative. He stands among partial men for the complete man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)