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Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include Lục bát, Song thất lục bát, and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven syllables each line for eight lines," "seven syllables each line for four lines" (a type of quatrain), and "five ...
Merlin is a partly lost French epic poem written by Robert de Boron in Old French and dating from either the end of the 12th [2] or beginning of the 13th century. [3] The author reworked Geoffrey of Monmouth's material on the legendary Merlin, emphasising Merlin's power to prophesy and linking him to the Holy Grail. [4]
Phan Khôi (October 06, 1887 – January 16, 1959) was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the government, but for which he himself was ultimately persecuted by the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Hàn Mặc Tử's early poems—praised by Phan Bội Châu—are famous for their purity of diction and form, and show him to be a fluent Classicist with a strong interest in realistic subjects. Subsequently, his poetry showed the influence of French Symbolism , and after he fell sick, became increasingly violent and despondent.
Some of her poems were collected and translated into English in John Balaban's Spring Essence (Copper Canyon Press, 2000, ISBN 1 55659 148 9). An important Vietnamese poet and her contemporary is Nguyễn Du, who similarly wrote poetry in demotic Vietnamese, and so helped to found a national literature.
Tố Hữu (4 October 1920 – 9 December 2002) was a Vietnamese revolutionary poet [1] and politician. [2] Tố Hữu is considered one of the most important Vietnamese poets of the 20th century. His poems are known for their lyrical beauty, their political engagement, and their insights into the Vietnamese people.
Nguyễn Du (阮 攸; 3 January 1766 – 16 September 1820), courtesy name Tố Như (素 如) and art name Thanh Hiên (清 軒), is a celebrated Vietnamese poet and musician. He is most known for writing the epic poem The Tale of Kiều. [1] [2]
Nguyễn Chí Thiện (27 February 1939 – 2 October 2012) was a North Vietnamese dissident, activist and poet who spent a total of twenty-seven years as a political prisoner of the communist regimes of both North Vietnam and of post-1975 Vietnam, [1] before being released and allowed to join the large Overseas Vietnamese community in the United States.