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Cavalier poets
Cavalier poets a group of English poets associated with Charles I and his exiled son. Most of their work was done between c.1637 and 1660. Their poetry embodied the life and culture of upper-class, pre-Commonwealth England, mixing sophistication with naïveté, elegance with raciness. Wri... Read more
metaphysical poets
metaphysical poets name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th cent. The term was first used by Samuel Johnson (1744). The hallmark of their poetry is the metaphysical conceit (a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images), a reliance on intellectual wit, learned imag... Read more
poet laureate
poet laureate , title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. It is an outgrowth of the medieval English custom of having versifiers and minstrels in the king's retinue, and of the later royal patronage of poets, such as Chaucer and Sp... Read more
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue , 1860-87, French symbolist poet. He was one of the first French poets to write in free verse. The revolutionary form of Les Complaintes (1885) and Derniers Vers (1890) influenced later French poets as well as such foreign poets as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. ... Read more
bard
bard in Wales, term originally used to refer to the order of minstrel-poets who composed and recited the poems that celebrated the feats of Celtic chieftains and warriors. The term bard in present-day usage has become synonymous with poet, particularly a revered poet. ... Read more
John Dyer
John Dyer 1700?-1758, English nature poet, b. Wales. He is best known for the topographical poem Grongar Hill (1726). ... Read more
William Hamilton
William Hamilton 1704-54, English poet, b. Scotland. He is best known for the poem "The Braes of Yarrow" (1724). ... Read more
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe 1860-1936, American editor, critic, and poet, b. Chicago. In 1912 she founded Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, which paid and encouraged both established and new poets. Monroe's literary reputation is based on her editorship of this important magazine. She introduced to readers such wr... Read more
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Edmund Clarence Stedman 1833-1908, American banker, poet, and critic, b. Hartford, Conn., attended Yale. A successful Wall St. broker, he was also one of the leading poets of his time although his somewhat derivative poetry, similar to Tennyson's in style, is little read today. As critic he wrote h... Read more
Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara 1926-66, American poet, b. Baltimore, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1950), Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (M.A., 1951). His poetry is spontaneous, vernacular, witty, personal, and very much of its time and place—New York City, 1951-66. Closely associated with many of the painters of his tim... Read more

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metaphysical poets
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature metaphysical poets. Poets generally grouped under this label include Donne (who is regarded...Quiddities’. The label is misleading, since none of these poets is seriously interested in metaphysics (except Herbert of Cherbury...
Cavalier poets
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Cavalier poets a group of English poets associated with Charles I and his exiled son. Most of their work...indebtedness to both Ben Jonson and John Donne. The leading Cavalier poets were Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling, and...
Lives of the English Poets, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Lives of the English Poets, The, by Dr Johnson , published 1779...edition of the works of selected English poets, from the period of Milton onwards. The final total was 52, including 4 minor poets suggested by Johnson himself ( Blackmore...
Lake Poets
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Lake Poets, Lake School, terms applied to Coleridge , Southey , Wordsworth , and sometimes...in the Edinburgh Review of August 1817. In his Recollections of the Lake Poets , De Quincey denies the existence of any such ‘school’...
graveyard poets
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature graveyard poets, a term applied to 18th-cent. poets who wrote melancholy, reflective works, often set in graveyards, on the theme of human mortality. Examples include T. Parnell's ‘Night-Piece on Death’ (1721...
Lake poets
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Lake poets Three English poets ( William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and Robert Southey ) who lived in the Lake District around 1800.
Poets' Corner
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Poets' Corner, part of the south transept of Westminster Abbey containing the tombs or monuments of Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare, Jonson , Milton , Drayton , Samuel Butler , A. Behn , Gay , and many later distinguished poets and authors.
Liverpool poets
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Liverpool poets, the name given to a group of three poets, Adrian Henri , Roger McGough , and Brian Patten (1946– ), who came together in the 1960s in the period of the Liverpool euphoria generated partly by the success...
Poets Laureate and Prizes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Poets Laureate and Prizes Poets Laureate Ben Jonson 1619–37 Sir William D'Avenant 1638–? Official Holders John Dryden 1668–89 Thomas Shadwell 1689–92 Nahum Tate 1692–1715 Nicholas Rowe...
Black Mountain poets
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Black Mountain poets, a group of poets associated with Black Mountain College, an experimental liberal arts college founded in 1933 near Asheville, NC, which became in the early 1950s a centre of anti-academic poetic revolt. A leading figure...

Dictionary entries related to "Poets"

metaphysical poets
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable metaphysical poets a group of 17th-century poets whose work is characterized by the use of complex and elaborate...and Andrew Marvell. The application of metaphysical to these poets is first recorded from the mid 18th century. The genesis of...
Lake Poets
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Lake Poets the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth, who lived in and were inspired by the Lake District; they are also known as the Lake School . Both terms are first recorded in the Edinburgh Review of 1816...
Metaphysical Poets
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Metaphysical Poets. A group of 17th-cent. poets including J. Donne , G. Herbert , R. Crashaw , Henry Vaughan , St Robert Southwell , F. Quarles , and T. Traherne . The term was originally used in a pejorative sense, implying a pretentious...
Poets' Corner
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Poets' Corner the part of the south transept of Westminster Abbey where several distinguished poets are buried or commemorated; the name is recorded from the mid 18th century, but poetical quarter in the same sense is recorded in 1711.
Metaphysical(s) Poets
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Metaphysical(s) Poets. Term applied by Samuel Johnson to a group of 17th-cent. Christian poets (especially J. Donne , G. Herbert , T. Traherne , H. Vaughan ). He intended it as a term of dismissal, but they have come to be recognized...
Tragedy and Comedy
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...for tragedy, taking it to mean that the poets were originally held in low esteem, but...of their very realistic stories. Tragic poets deal with public affairs, the histories...and sorrowful matters, whereas comic poets recite the deeds of private persons and...
bard
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...commentators, the bards were singers and poets who occupied a lower status than the vates...as the cynfeirdd [W, early or original poets], and their poetry as hengerdd. In following...known as gogynfeirdd [W, rather early poets]. Elements of Welsh bardic philosophy...
Fugitive-Agrarians
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Agrarianism began in 1914 when a group of amateur poets in Nashville, Tennessee, started meeting...participants. In April 1922, the Nashville poets launched The Fugitive, a magazine that...Louis D., Jr. The Wary Fugitives: Four Poets and the South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana...
bérla ne filed
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...lrae na filed [Ir., speech or jargon of the poets]. The esoteric speech of poets, a mixture of kennings, riddles, traditional...to myth and ritual. It was known to more than poets, as Cúchulainn uses it when speaking...
Love, Western Notions of
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...kind. In fact Greek literature from the poets to the playwrights was essentially misogynistic...of the first century b.c.e. lyric poets Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius was...man. Lucretius, a contemporary of the poets, agreed that love made one miserable...

Thesaurus entries related to "Poets"

tower
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...rise, ascend, mount, rear, reach/stand high. phrase: tower above   he towers above the rest of the modern poets | his writing towers above the rest synonyms : surpass, excel, outshine, outclass, overshadow, cap, top, transcend...
lie
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...the other side of the hill synonyms : be, be situated, be located, be placed, be positioned, be found.   3. two poets lie there synonyms : be buried, be interred.   4. lie dormant synonyms : remain, continue, stay, be.  ...
immortal
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...perpetual, lasting, enduring, constant, abiding, immutable, indissoluble; lit. sempiternal.   2. immortal poets synonyms : famous, celebrated, remembered, commemorated, honored, lauded, glorified. antonyms: mortal; ephemeral...
obscure
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...unheard-of, out-of-the-way, off the beaten track, remote, hidden, secluded, godforsaken.   5. obscure poets synonyms : little-known, unknown, unheard-of, undistinguished, insignificant, inconspicuous, minor, unimportant...
major
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...adjective   1. the major part is complete synonyms : larger, bigger, greater, main.   2. one of our major poets synonyms : greatest, best, most important, leading, foremost, chief, main, outstanding, first-rate, notable, eminent...
idyll
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English idyll • noun   1. poets writing idylls synonyms : pastoral, eclogue, rural poem.   2. enjoying an idyll synonyms : wonderful/perfect/romantic time, moment of bliss, paradise, heaven on earth.
bright
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...resplendent is a slightly more formal, even poetic, way of describing a striking brilliance (the sky was resplendent with stars). Poets also prefer adjectives like effulgent and refulgent , both of which can be applied to an intense, pervading light, sometimes...
unknown
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...incognito.   3. unknown territory synonyms : unfamiliar, unexplored, uncharted, untraveled, undiscovered.   4. unknown poets synonyms : unheard-of, little-known, obscure, undistinguished, unrenowned, unsung.
nameless
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...adjective   1. nameless graves synonyms : unnamed, untitled, unlabeled, untagged, innominate.   2. nameless poets/benefactors synonyms : unnamed, anonymous, unidentified, undesignated, unspecified.   3. nameless fears/vices...
company
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...m expecting company synonyms : guests, house guests, visitors, callers, people; someone.   4. a company of poets synonyms : group, crowd, party, band, assembly, cluster, flock, herd, troupe, throng, congregation; informal bunch...

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Poets do not go gentle, but go sooner, it seems
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/24/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Herald Tribune 04-24-2004 What is it about poets? Even in the pantheon of troubled artists, poets tend to be perceived as singularly despairing...the largest studies of its kind shows that poets tend to die younger than other types of writers...
Poets and politics
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 4/11/2003; ; 700+ words ; Poets can help us feel more deeply about an issue...debate over whether to attack Iraq, many poets have spoken out -- mostly against the war...intended to read anti-war poems, hundreds of poets submitted their work to www.poetsagainstthewar...
Poets are out in the presses.(ESSAY)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...literary journals abound, and they include a great number of poets, both emerging and established. April has been declared...Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, are given to poets. Poets make appearances on BookTV and PBS. Thanks to the university...
Dr. Christian Poets, World Renowned Neonatologist, Presents Research on New Developments in Pulse Oximetry at the 44th Annual Japan Society for Premature and Newborn Medicine Meeting.
PR Newswire; 11/22/1999; 700+ words ; ...22 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Christian Poets, world-renowned neonatologist from the...Newborn Medicine Meeting in Okayama. Dr. Poets was invited to this meeting to discuss the clinical implications of Masimo SET. Dr. Poets presented the pitfalls of conventional...
The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 10/11/2000; ; 700+ words ; The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of a...Edwin mims published The Christ of the Poets, an examination of images of Christ in English...consider Hildegard of Bingen, the Franciscan poets, the 16th-century mystical poets and the...
Southern poets in conversation.(Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets) (book review)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets. By Ernest Suarez. With T. W. Stanford...the first such collection to feature poets exclusively. For this alone Ernest Suarez...particular. There are plenty of southern poets writing poems at least as remarkable as...
What are Poets for in a Post Po-Mo Society?(Arts and Living)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 9/6/2009; 700+ words ; ...fruitful and meaningful at the end of the day. Poets as thinkers and guardians of truth Poets today are like Bamboo Beaters, they rouse people...from indifference and complacency. Most often, poets create a discordant sound reflective of social...
Live Poets Society
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/17/2010; ; 700+ words ; There are your brooding poets, your poets whose tubercular, star- crossed lives, when made into movies...The Greenhouse Effect on a recent Sunday, sitting with other poets and friends in a small room bubbling with bonhomie. When it...
35 Arab poets compete for top honours.
Newspaper article from: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates); 6/10/2009; 700+ words ; ...Editor Abu Dhabi: Thirty-five new Arab poets will participate in the third season of the Prince of Poets television contest show that kicks off tomorrow...organisers said. "We are pleased to have 35 new poets selected from the 200 who were interviewed...
AN UNCERTAIN HOUR STIRS POETS TO ACTION, AND TO RELEVANCE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/8/2003; 700+ words ; ...seems the moment before war, America's poets are suddenly again playing a traditional...and the slumbering legions of American poets were set marching when Laura Bush postponed...Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman. Some of the poets invited to the event said they would use...