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Nezahualcoyotl (Classical Nahuatl: Nezahualcoyōtl [nesawalˈkojoːtɬ], modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ), "Howling Coyote" (April 28, 1402 – June 4, 1472) was a scholar, philosopher , warrior, architect, poet and ruler of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian era Mexico.
"Character of the Happy Warrior" is a poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Composed in 1806, after the death of Lord Nelson, hero of the Napoleonic Wars, and first published in 1807, [1] the poem purports to describe the ideal "man in arms" and has, through ages since, been the source of much metaphor in political and military life.
This couplet testifies to a social revolution: Homer's poetry was a powerful influence on later poets and yet in Homer's day it had been unthinkable for a poet to be a warrior. [29] Archilochus deliberately broke the traditional mould even while adapting himself to it.
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
Ossian playing his harp, by François Pascal Simon Gérard, 1801 Oisín and Niamh on their way to Tír na nÓg, illustration by Albert Herter, 1899. Oisín (Irish pronunciation: [ˈɔʃiːnʲ, ɔˈʃiːnʲ]), Osian, Ossian (/ ˈ ɒ ʃ ən / OSH-ən), or anglicized as Osheen (/ oʊ ˈ ʃ iː n / UH-sheen) was regarded in legend as the greatest poet of Ireland, a warrior of the Fianna in the ...
The Roman poet Ovid, born in the city.. Amores (Latin: Amōrēs, lit. ' The Loves ') [1] is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets.It was first published in 16 BC in five books, but Ovid, by his own account, later edited it down into the three-book edition that survives today.
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.. War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, [1] the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the ...
Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.