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John Lawrence Ashbery[ 1] (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. [ 2] Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." [ 3] Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department ...
Imagism. The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, published in 1914. Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered to be the first organized modernist ...
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. [ 1] – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, [ 2] Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The ...
The earliest English poetry. The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation; Bede attributes this to Cædmon ( fl. 658–680), who was, according to legend, an illiterate herdsman who produced extemporaneous poetry at a monastery at Whitby. This is generally taken as marking the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
The poem is an ode, and its subject is the pursuit of the human soul by God's love - a theme also found in the devotional poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan. Moody and Lovett point out that Thompson's use of free and varied line lengths and irregular rhythms reflect the panicked retreat of the soul, while the structured, often recurring refrain suggests the inexorable pursuit as it ...
Medieval poetry. Poetry took numerous forms in medieval Europe, for example, lyric and epic poetry. The troubadours, trouvères, and the minnesänger are known for composing their lyric poetry about courtly love usually accompanied by an instrument. [ 1] Among the most famous of secular poetry is Carmina Burana, a manuscript collection of 254 ...
Kenn Nesbitt (born February 20, 1962)in Berkeley, California. He grew up in Fresno and San Diego and attended National University in San Diego, also done education with Mission bay high school , Le Jolla High school and kirk elementary school is an American children's poet. [ 1][ 2][ 3] On June 11, 2013, he was named Children's Poet Laureate ...
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.