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Saint Earconwald or Erkenwald [a] (died 693) was a Saxon prince [1] and Bishop of London between 675 and 693. [2] He is the eponymous subject of one of the most important poems in the foundations of English literature [3] (thought to be by the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl Poet).
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c. 530 – c. 600/609 AD; French: Venance Fortunat), known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus (/ v ə ˈ n æ n ʃ ə s ˌ f ɔːr tj ə ˈ n eɪ t ə s /, Latin: [weːˈnantɪ.ʊs fɔrtuːˈnaːtʊs]), was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a bishop of the Early Church who has been venerated since the Middle Ages.
Gavin Douglas (c. 1474 – September 1522) was a Scottish bishop, makar and translator. Although he had an important political career, he is chiefly remembered for his poetry. Although he had an important political career, he is chiefly remembered for his poetry.
The literary fame of Avitus rests on his many surviving letters (his recent editors make them ninety-six in all) [13] and on a long poem, Poematum de Mosaicae historiae gestis (also known as De spiritualis historiae gestis), in classical hexameters, in five books, dealing with the Biblical themes of original sin, expulsion from Paradise, the Deluge, and the Crossing of the Red Sea.
Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius, better known as Sidonius Apollinaris (5 November, [1] c. 430 – 481/490 AD), was a poet, diplomat, and bishop.Born into the Gallo-Roman aristocracy, he was son-in-law to Emperor Avitus and was appointed Urban prefect of Rome by Emperor Anthemius in 468.
Bishop wrote seventeen drafts of the poem, [6] [self-published source] with titles including "How to Lose Things," "The Gift of Losing Things," and "The Art of Losing Things". [7] By the fifteenth draft, Bishop had chosen "One Art" as her title. [8] The poem was written over the course of two weeks, an unusually short time for Bishop. [7]
According to critic Marjorie Evasco, "The themes of Buyser's poetry lay very much within the tradition of pastoral and Romantic poetry where nature and the ordinary lives of ordinary people were celebrated. Buyser also wrote about the problems of human emotion and sentiment, but his mode of approach was influenced by the techniques of ...
Valentinus had expected to become a bishop, because he was an able man both in genius and eloquence. Being indignant, however, that another obtained the dignity by reason of a claim which confessorship had given him, he broke with the church of the true faith.