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Nezahualcoyotl (Classical Nahuatl: Nezahualcoyōtl [nesawalˈkojoːtɬ], modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ), "Fasting Coyote" [1] (April 28, 1402 – June 4, 1472) [citation needed] was a scholar, philosopher (), warrior, architect, poet and ruler of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian era Mexico.
"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.
Apart from being a warrior of immense might in literary sources, Egil is also celebrated for his poetry, considered by many historians to be the finest of the ancient Scandinavian poets [5] [11] and Sonatorrek, the dirge over his own sons, has been called "the birth of Nordic personal lyric poetry".
This couplet testifies to a social revolution: Homer's poetry was a powerful influence on later poets and yet in Homer's day it had been unthinkable for a poet to be a warrior. [29] Archilochus deliberately broke the traditional mould even while adapting himself to it.
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Neoclassical ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.
2.6 – The poet mourns the death of Corinna's parrot. 2.7 – The poet defends himself to his mistress, who is accusing him of sleeping with her handmaiden Cypassis. 2.8 – The poet addresses Cypassis, asking her to keep their affair a secret from her mistress. 2.9a – The poet rebukes Cupid for causing him so much pain in love. 2.9b – The ...
Bersi Skáldtorfuson, in chains, composing poetry after he was captured by King Óláfr Haraldsson (illustration by Christian Krohg for an 1899 edition of Heimskringla). A skald, or skáld (Old Norse: ; Icelandic:, meaning "poet"), is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry in alliterative verse, the other being Eddic poetry.