William Shakespeare is one of the most notable poets and literary influencers of all time. Not only was he a poet, but he was also a playwright and actor. He was born in 1564 and his birthday is commonly celebr
Who were the masters of English poetry, some via translation? These poems are, in the opinion of the editorial staff of The HyperTexts and other knowledgeable contributors, among the best poems of all time. The masterful poets here with the number of poems in parens include Conrad Aiken (2)...
Famous poems from some of the all time most popular poetsDavid Olsen
Ariosto, as well as the philosophy of Aristotle and Cicero. About a knight seeking the hand of the virginal and veracious Una, Spenser tries to connect Queen Elizabeth to the most famous of all British ancestors, King Arthur. The poem was well received by the throne...
The Tang Dynasty(唐朝) is a great time for poets(诗人).There are so many famous poets at this time. Do you want to know about them? Let's have a look.When we talk about poets' in the Tang Dynasty, we may think of Li Bai first. He enjoys drinking and writing poems. Today, we...
There were many famous poets living in the Tang period such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and Li Shangyin. Poems of the Tang Dynasty edited in the Qing Dynasty is a collection of more than 48,900 poem that were written by over 2,200 poets. But it didn’t cover all the poems of ...
This is the one line from T. S. Eliot’s prose (as opposed to his poetry) which we include here. Eliot made this pronouncement in an essay on the playwright Philip Massinger, and it has since become one of his most famous statements about the way poets get ‘inspiration’ for their wo...
meaning " questions to heaven",written by Qu Yuan (about 340 BC-278 BC),one of the greatest poets of ancient China.In Tianwen,Qu Yuan raised questions about the sky,stars,nature and the world around us.It shows his doubt about traditional ideas and the spirit of looking for the truth....
Li Bai and Du Fu are the most famous among them and many of their poems are well-known at home and abroad even today.Li Bai was a romantic(浪漫的) poet during the Tang Dynasty. He was regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest poets in Chinese history. He got ...
Milton's view ' influenced deeply such Romantic poets as William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who regarded Satan as the real hero-a rebel against the tyranny of Heaven.弥尔顿在《失乐园》中创造了一个强有力而又令人同情的撒旦形象。他创造的角色和莎士比亚创造的亦正亦邪的埃古和麦克白有相似之处。