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Alexander Montgomerie Alexander Montgomerie
Alexander Montgomerie , c.1556-c.1610, Scottish poet. His principal poem, The Cherry and the Sloe (1597), is a pedestrian and ambiguous allegory that enjoyed considerable popularity in its time. Montgomerie's other work includes a verse polemic against Home of Polwarth, 70 sonnets, and... Read more
Lamentations Lamentations
Lamentations book of the Bible, placed immediately after Jeremiah, to whose author it has been ascribed since ancient times. It was probably composed by several authors. It is a series of five poems mourning the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon. Each of the the first four poems is an... Read more
Witter Bynner Witter Bynner
Witter Bynner , 1881-1968, American poet, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Harvard, 1902. As a poet Bynner had a remarkable facility for catching the cadences of other writers and cultures. Under the pseudonym Emanuel Morgan he collaborated with Arthur Davidson Ficke in writing Spectra (1917), a book... Read more
Catullus Catullus
Catullus (Caius Valerius Catullus) , 84? BC-54? BC, Roman poet, b. Verona. Of a well-to-do family, he went c.62 BC to Rome. He fell deeply in love, probably with Clodia, sister of Cicero's opponent Publius Clodius. She was suspected of murdering her husband. Catullus wrote to his beloved,... Read more
Taliesin Taliesin
Taliesin or Taliessin , 6th cent.?, Welsh bard, whose Book of Taliesin is one of the great Welsh poetic works. The book exists only in a 13th-century form, but tradition places Taliesin in the 6th cent., as a contemporary of the battles his poems celebrate. One theory about Taliesin is that he... Read more
skald skald
skald in ancient Scandinavia, a composer and reciter of poems honouring heroes and their deeds; the complex syllabic and rhyme structure of most skaldic verses make it likely that the majority of them have come down from oral tradition uncorrupted. Typically, skalds of the 10th and 11th centuries... Read more
epithalamium epithalamium
epithalamium , song or poem written to celebrate a marriage. An elaborate form of pastoral , the epithalamium usually tells of the happenings of the wedding day. Nymphs, shepherds, and appropriate mythological figures are present to share the poet's joy. Epithalamiums were written in ancient times... Read more
David Wagoner David Wagoner
Wagoner, David [Russell] (1926–), born in Ohio, a professor at the University of Washington since 1954, is best known as a poet of quiet and accomplished lyric power, often writing of the Northwestern scene. His poems are collected in Dry Sun, Dry Wind (1953), A Place to Stand (1958), The... Read more
Ovid Ovid
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , 43 BC-AD 18, Latin poet, b. Sulmo (present-day Sulmona), in the Apennines. Although trained for the law, he preferred the company of the literary coterie at Rome. He enjoyed early and widespread fame as a poet and was known to the emperor Augustus. In AD 8, for no... Read more

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