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Olen (poet), early poet from Lycia who went to Delos Onomacritus , (c. 530 – 480 BC), also known as Onomacritos or Onomakritos, a chresmologue , or compiler of oracles Oppian or Oppianus (in Greek, Οππιανος) was the name of the authors of two (or three) didactic poems in Greek hexameters, formerly identified as one poet, but now ...
Alcaeus and Sappho (Brygos Painter, Attic red-figure kalathos, c. 470 BC). Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek.Lyric poetry is, in short, poetry to be sung accompanied by music, traditionally a lyre.
Plato (comic poet) late 5th century BC; Theopompus c. 410 – c.380 BC; Nicophon 5th century BC; Nicochares (d.~345 BC) Eubulus early 4th century BC; Araros, son of Aristophanes 388, 375; Antiphanes (~408–334 BC) Anaxandrides 4th century BC; Calliades 4th century BC; Nicostratus; Phillipus; Philetarus c. 390-c. 320 BC; Anaxilas 343 BC ...
F. M. Cornford (1874–1943), English classical scholar and poet; husband of Frances Cornford; Joe Corrie (1894–1968), Scottish miner, poet and playwright; Gregory Corso (1930–2001), US Beat poet; Jayne Cortez (1936–2012), US poet and performance artist; George Coșbuc (1866–1918), Romanian poet, translator and teacher
Pindar (/ ˈ p ɪ n d ər /; Ancient Greek: Πίνδαρος Pindaros; Latin: Pindarus; c. 518 BC – c. 438 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved.
Alfred Edward Housman (/ ˈ h aʊ s m ən /; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882.
Portrait of Torquato Tasso, 1590s. Torquato Tasso (/ ˈ t æ s oʊ / TASS-oh, also US: / ˈ t ɑː s oʊ / TAH-soh, Italian: [torˈkwaːto ˈtasso]; 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end ...
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. [1]