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This book was written in a style that was different from the prevalent writing tradition. It is a collection of 2000 commentaries written on the events related to the history of Rajasthan. Bankidas was considered an A śu-Kavi , an extempore poet who could compose poetry off-hand (i.e. without preparation).
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 ...
"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.
Majd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni al-Kalbī [1] (also Usamah, Ousama, etc.; Arabic: مجد الدّين اُسامة ابن مُرشد ابن على ابن مُنقذ الكنانى الكلبى) (4 July 1095 – 17 November 1188 [2]) or Ibn Munqidh was a medieval Arab Muslim poet, author, faris (knight), and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in ...
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War. This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry . Pre-1500
The poet Luis Francia included Lacaba's work in a portfolio of Filipino poems for the 45th Issue of BOMB. [4] His work has been collected in two anthologies: Salvaged Poems (1986) and Salvaged Prose (1992). [5] Aside from his published works, the collection also features unpublished prose writings found in his filing cabinets in Pateros, Rizal. [6]
In 1898 the French painter Étienne Dinet published [4] his translation of a 13th-century epic Arab poem Antar, which brought Antar bin Shaddad to European notice. [4] It has been followed by a number of derivative works such as Diana Richmond's Antar and Abla [5] which furthered western exposure to the Antar bin Shaddad legends. "Antar" is the ...
Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689), Pashtun Afghan poet, warrior and tribal chief; Omar Khayyám (1048–1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet; Khaqani (1120–1199), Persian poet; Kherdian, David (born 1931), Armenian-American writer, poet, and editor; Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939), Russian poet and literary critic