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The table of years in poetry is a compact directory of all "years in poetry" pages—decades and centuries prior to 1500. Contents: 2000s - 1900s - 1800s - 1700s - 1600s - 1500s - 1400s - 1300s - Other
536 – Agathias born about this year (died 582/594); Ancient Greek poet and historian; 539 – Chilperic I born (died September 584) Frankish king of Neustria and a Latin poet; 543 – Saint Columbanus (died 615), Hiberno-Latin poet and writer; 544 – Arator declaims his poem De Actibus Apostolorum in the Church of San Pietro-in-Vinculi
Magoun thought that formulaic poetry was necessarily oral in origin. That sparked a major and ongoing debate over the extent to which Old English poetry, which survives only in written form, should be seen as, in some sense, oral poetry. The oral-formulaic theory of composition has now been applied to a wide variety of languages and works.
The Proletarian poetry is a genre of political poetry developed in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that endeavored to portray class-conscious perspectives of the working-class. [64] Connected through their mutual political message that may be either explicitly Marxist or at least socialist , the poems are often aesthetically disparate.
The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century. Note: List of years in poetry exists specifically for poetry. See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. Several attempts have been made to create a list of world ...
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The efforts of ancient thinkers to determine what makes poetry distinctive as a form, and what distinguishes good poetry from bad, resulted in "poetics"—the study of the aesthetics of poetry. [16] Some ancient societies, such as China's through the Shijing , developed canons of poetic works that had ritual as well as aesthetic importance. [ 17 ]
It is a new oral poetry originating in the 1980s in Austin, Texas, using the speaking voice and other theatrical elements. Practitioners write for the speaking voice instead of writing poetry for the silent printed page. The major figure is American Hedwig Gorski who began broadcasting live radio poetry with East of Eden Band during the early ...