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Portrait of Lady Su Hui along with the poem. The Star Gauge (Chinese: 璇璣圖; pinyin: xuán jī tú), or translated as "the armillary sphere chart", is the posthumous title given to a 4th-century Chinese poem written by the Sixteen Kingdoms poet Su Hui for her husband.
John Gower (/ ˈ ɡ aʊ. ər /; c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. [1] He is remembered primarily for three major works—the Mirour de l'Omme , Vox Clamantis , and Confessio Amantis — three long poems written in French, Latin, and ...
Ammons's other awards include a 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for A Coast of Trees; [19] a 1993 Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Garbage; the 1975 Bollingen Prize for Sphere; the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal; the Ruth Lilly Prize; and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation ...
Harold Edward Monro (14 March 1879 – 16 March 1932) was an English poet born in Brussels, ... In this Monro took a broad view of the sphere of poetry, ...
William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [3] [4] [5] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
Eumelus of Corinth (Greek: Εὔμελος ὁ Κορίνθιος Eumelos ho Korinthios), of the clan of the Bacchiadae, is a semi-legendary early Greek poet to whom were attributed several epic poems as well as a celebrated prosodion, the treasured processional anthem of Messenian independence that was performed on Delos.
Holman in 2024. Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam.As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author, editor, publisher, performer, emcee of live events, director of theatrical productions, producer of films and television programs ...
Aratus of Soli. Aratus (/ ə ˈ r eɪ t ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἄρατος ὁ Σολεύς; c. 315/310 – 240 BC) was a Greek didactic poet.His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phenomena (Ancient Greek: Φαινόμενα, Phainómena, "Appearances"; Latin: Phaenomena), the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus.