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A poet is someone who writes poetry. A poet exists within a cultural and intellectual tradition and usually writes in a specific language. Some feel that the qualities of good poetry are to some extent timeless and address issues common to all humanity; others are more interested in the particular and the ephemeral.
In the English language, poets often considered to be some of the most influential and profound include Chaucer, W.B. Yeats, Wordsworth, and T.S. Eliot. The English poets also gave birth to a revolutionary form of poetry called free verse. Believed to have originated with Walt Whitman, free verse is not bound by rhyme or meter. In the Western tradition, Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Goethe round out a basic list. In world poetry, Li Bai, Du Fu, Basho, and Omar Khayyám complete one defensible canon. As the very definition of a canon is political and personal, and the notion of poetry itself is fluid and subject to change, complete objectivity is impossible. Relying on numerous inclusionist lists is a possible, partial solution.
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Lear, Edward@
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Peacock, Thomas Love@
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Raleigh, Walter@
Rossetti, Christina@
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POETSVROUW/POETSMAN - Dynamische persoon gezocht voor poets en logistieke taken in rust- en verzorgingstehuis. Erva... http://ow.ly/15ZkAf
kk_jobs (Koopjeskrant Jobs) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:23:47 -0000
POETSVROUW/POETSMAN - Dynamische persoon gezocht voor poets en logistieke taken in rust- en verzorgingstehuis. Erva... http://ow.ly/15ZkAf
Finally Joe Bugner gets a poem RT: @PoetrySociety: Simon Armitage's 'Lives of the Poets' - to mark PoSoc 100yrs http://tinyurl.com/my5hyd
steeveetee (Stephen Troussé) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:20:35 -0000
Finally Joe Bugner gets a poem RT: @PoetrySociety: Simon Armitage's 'Lives of the Poets' - to mark PoSoc 100yrs http://tinyurl.com/my5hyd
Simon Armitage's 'Lives of the Poets' - to mark Poetry Society 100 yrs: "in the pretty rose they see Joe Bugner" http://tinyurl.com/my5hyd
PoetrySociety (PoetrySociety) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:08:40 -0000
Simon Armitage's 'Lives of the Poets' - to mark Poetry Society 100 yrs: "in the pretty rose they see Joe Bugner" http://tinyurl.com/my5hyd
Download CHEMICAL POETS ARE... GOIN' BACK TO ARKHAM. Info here: http://tinyurl.com/yln3bcd #free #music #hiphop #electronica #experimental
blacklanterns (Black Lantern Music) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:01:50 -0000
Download CHEMICAL POETS ARE... GOIN' BACK TO ARKHAM. Info here: http://tinyurl.com/yln3bcd #free #music #hiphop #electronica #experimental
Started at #newhospital - think the wards are all named after poets. There's a Burns Ward.
amateursuman (Suman Biswas) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:38:46 -0000
Started at #newhospital - think the wards are all named after poets. There's a Burns Ward.
Great article on one of my favourite poets, Siegfried Sassoon: http://tinyurl.com/ylajdc8
little_wing123 (Friya Engineer) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:32:17 -0000
Great article on one of my favourite poets, Siegfried Sassoon: http://tinyurl.com/ylajdc8
Irish Authors on the Web - Large number of links to information about authors from 600 AD to the present.
Aisle16 - Collective of five poets and one comedian with a distinctive hard-edged style which attacks the status-quo of media and celebrity driven worlds. Gigs, news, images, biographies, texts and sound files.
Anthony, David Gwilym: Poetry for All - Poet working in a variety of traditional forms including Japanese tanka. Details of his book, Words to Say, a reading on CD, and reviews.
Dunnett, Alan - Poet, freelance theatre director and course director at Drama Centre, London. Includes poems, reviews and publication list.
Meta Description: [ Alan Dunnett was born in London in 1953. He read English at Oxford before going to drama school. After some years as a freelance theatre director, he became Acting Tutor at Central School of Speech & Drama. He is currently Head of Postgraduate Studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Dr... ]
Keith Barnes - Dedicated to the English poet Keith Barnes, 1934-1969. Includes 'K.B.' published by Maurice Nadeau in 1987, 'Les Bougons' (2002) by Jacqueline Starer and information on writers of the beat generation. English and French.
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