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    Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings...
    108 KB (12,611 words) - 06:54, 8 October 2024
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    Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire...
    70 KB (8,027 words) - 02:29, 12 October 2024
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    'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of...
    37 KB (4,099 words) - 19:18, 7 October 2024
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    T. S. Eliot (category Modernist poetry in English)
    in English-language Modernist poetry. His use of language, writing style, and verse structure reinvigorated English poetry. He is also noted for his critical...
    98 KB (11,683 words) - 06:12, 8 October 2024
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    Haiku (category Japanese poetry)
    is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan, and can be traced back from the influence of traditional Chinese poetry. Traditional Japanese haiku...
    46 KB (5,485 words) - 23:32, 29 September 2024
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    Sylvia Plath (category Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners)
    story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965)...
    91 KB (10,091 words) - 20:59, 6 October 2024
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    Anthology (redirect from Poetry anthology)
    anthologies became an important part of poetry publishing for a number of reasons. For English poetry, the Georgian poetry series was trend-setting; it showed...
    9 KB (1,081 words) - 13:08, 29 September 2024
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    20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, in 1913 Tagore became the first non-European and the first...
    111 KB (10,942 words) - 13:35, 8 October 2024
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    Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, Sappho...
    82 KB (10,035 words) - 06:14, 7 October 2024
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    Robert Frost (category Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners)
    his lifetime, Frost is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic...
    54 KB (6,036 words) - 18:58, 28 September 2024
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    Literature (section Poetry)
    is complicated by various hybrid forms such as digital poetry, sound poetry, concrete poetry and prose poem, and more generally by the fact that prose...
    91 KB (9,168 words) - 10:34, 5 October 2024
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    W. H. Auden (category Oxford Professors of Poetry)
    February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with...
    89 KB (9,940 words) - 05:45, 25 September 2024
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    Rapping (redirect from Rap poetry)
    (rhythm, rhyme), and "delivery" (cadence, tone). Rap differs from spoken-word poetry in that it is usually performed off-time to musical accompaniment. It also...
    93 KB (10,646 words) - 21:24, 7 October 2024
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    "catchall" term that includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including poetry readings, poetry slams, jazz poetry, pianologues, musical readings, and hip...
    24 KB (2,714 words) - 04:41, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lyric poetry
    Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term for both...
    24 KB (2,843 words) - 17:55, 26 June 2024
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    and London and spent his childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult...
    71 KB (8,992 words) - 06:23, 11 October 2024
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    Allen Ginsberg (category Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates)
    Woodberry Poetry Prize, served as president of the Philolexian Society (literary and debate group), and joined Boar's Head Society (poetry society). He...
    110 KB (12,979 words) - 21:38, 24 September 2024
  • speaking to formal academic writing. However, it differs most notably from poetry, in which language is organized by a rhythmic metre, a rhyme scheme, writing...
    9 KB (1,071 words) - 16:22, 6 October 2024
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    has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with...
    102 KB (12,463 words) - 01:00, 30 September 2024
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    earliest attested example of Old English poetry. It is also one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language. The poem, The...
    146 KB (17,873 words) - 13:56, 1 October 2024
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