Early lifeWilliam Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. He was b ...
Days The dating of his life is a contested issue in scholarly circles and it is covered below in Dating.Hesiod was the poet who told the story of Pandora's Jar in approximately 650 BC. Epic narrative ...
A dactyl (Greek: δ?κτυλο?, dáktylos, “finger”) is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, a ...
Dactylic hexameter (also known as "heroic hexameter") is a form of meter in poetry or a rhythmic scheme. It is traditionally associated with the quantitative meter of classical epic poetry in both Gre ...
Etymology Further information: Names of European cities in different languages: AAthena, patron goddess of Athens; National Archaeological MuseumIn Ancient Greek Athens' name was ?θ?ναι (Athēna ...
Pindar (Ancient Greek: Π?νδαρο?, Pindaros, pronounced ; Latin: Pindarus) (c. 522–443 BC), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his ...
Greek literature refers to writings composed in areas of Greek influence, throughout the whole period in which the Greek-speaking people have existed.Ancient Greek literature (before AD 350) Main arti ...
Hexameter is a metrical line of verse consisting of six feet. It was the standard epic metre in classical Greek and Latin literature, such as in the Iliad and Aeneid. Its use in other genres of compos ...
In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet. The particular foot, of course, can vary, as follows:Anapestic tetrameter:"And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea" (Lord Byron ...
The foot is the basic metrical unit that generates a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Gree ...
Scansion or a system of scansion (verb: to scan) is the act of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse. In classical poetry, these patterns are bas ...
Jump to: navigation, search Sprung rhythm is a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is constructed from feet in which the first syllable is stressed and may be followed b ...
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was a Latino-American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine ...
Life Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. She was the daughter of mechanical engineer and ...
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in narrative and epic form ...
