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Because poets historically emphasize an original poetic vision in order to guarantee their survival into posterity, the influence of precursor poets inspires a sense of anxiety in living poets. Thus Bloom attempts to work out the process by which the small minority of 'strong' poets manage to create original work in spite of the pressure of ...
Gerald Locklin (February 17, 1941 – January 17, 2021) [1] was an American poet. He was a professor of English at California State University, Long Beach and the poetry editor of Chiron Review . Biography
It is common in ghazals for the poet's nom de plume, known as takhallus to be featured in the maqta '. The maqta ' is typically more personal than the other couplets in a ghazal. The creativity with which a poet incorporates homonymous meanings of their takhallus to offer additional layers of meaning to the couplet is an indicator of their skill.
In spite of his unconventionality and unorthodox views on religion and his own profession, he was very successful. [4] He married Anne Jane Patton, from Donegal , and had three daughters, only one of whom, Katherine, born 1830, survived infancy.
John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets). Keats based the poem on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved of the moon goddess Selene.
Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley started to write works for and about the working man; pieces that the common man could relate to. According to Christensen, "To get the real animating principle of the Romantic Movement, one must not study it inductively or abstractly; one must look at it historically.
William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
Descriptive poetry is the name given to a class of literature that belongs mainly to the 16th, ... in spite of the splendid effort of the artist, is monotonous and ...