One of the documents found is Shakespeare’s will, but there are other documents from later and earlier years that provide further information and evidence that he did exist. The narrative poem “Venus and Adonis” was published by Stratford native Richard Field, with a dedication to the Earl of Southampton signed "William Shakespeare. Another dedication to Shakespeare was the volume “Loves Martyr” by Robert Chester contained short poems written by several well-known poets. One of the poems known as "The Phoenix and the Turtle" is signed "William Shakespeare." The volume was printed by Richard Field, who had printed Shakespeare's two narrative poems.
The Aeneid, written by Virgil, is a prime representation of epic poetry and it encompasses all epic themes. In his attempt to continue the Aeneid, Maffeo Vegio looks to use Virgilian style and tone to tell story Aeneas' story after Aeneas kills Turnus. Although he touches upon some Virgilian techniques, he would be viewed through Virgil's eyes as a sub-par epic poet. Vegio does not capture the Aeneid accurately, partly because he does not stay faithful to the epic dactylic hexameter, and he arouses a different attitude toward the story as perceived by the reader than Virgil does. Some of the Virgilian techniques that Vegio attempts to imitate include the use of epithets, similes and metaphors, role of the gods, symbolism, and various others.
Spanish poetry was heavily influenced by Spanish and Portuguese poets; one masterpiece that came out of this time was Luis de Camões’ epic, Os Lusíadas. “There were two main poetic schools after the mid-1500s-the Castilian school of Salamanca and the Andalusian school of Seville. Poets of both schools wrote in the style of the Italian poet Petrarch (Encyclopedia 759).” Spanish poetry seemed very important to learn. During the 1500s there were poets called mystics who sought a union of the heart with God and a well known one was Saint John. Saint Teresa of Avila was an author who wrote mystical literature, and two similar writers are Fray Luis de Grenada and Fray Luis de León.
An epic story that inspired many authors to write their own version of it, “The Odyssey.” The mastermind of this story was Homer (Greek; W Hómēros), a blind poet, who majored in ancient Greek literature. He was said to be born around 800 B.C. and yet, we still read one of his greatest novels to this day. Odysseus, who is the main character of the story, has many obstacles to overcome. But luckily, his courage helps him find his way home.
Jordan Humphrey 09/17/2014 World Literature Hairy-chested and brawny, Enkidu begins his literary life as Gilgamesh’s sidekick. In the most ancient of the stories that compose The Epic of Gilgamesh, he is a helper to Gilgamesh. As those legends evolved into chapters of a great epic poem, Enkidu’s role changed profoundly. Much more than a sidekick or a servant, he is Gilgamesh’s soul mate, brother, and equal, even his conscience. In the later stories the gods bring Enkidu into the world to provide a counterpoint to Gilgamesh.
Comparing Hap by Thomas Hardy and The Second Coming by Yeats Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was one of the great writers of the Late Victorian era. One of his great works out of the many that he produced was his poem Hap, which he wrote in 1866, but did not publish until 1898 in his collection of poems called Wessex Poems. This poem seems to typify the sense of alienation that he and other writers were experiencing at the time, as they "saw their times as marked by accelerating social and technological change and by the burden of a worldwide empire" (Longman p. 2165). The poem also reveals Hardy's own "abiding sense of a universe ruled by a blind or hostile fate, a world whose landscapes are etched with traces of the fleeting stories of their inhabitants" (Longman p. 2254). The poem's major theme seems to be this sense of the world being ruled by a hostile and blind fate, not by a benevolent God pushing all of the buttons.
Frost’s very first volume of poetry A Boy’s Will (1913) brought him fame. Though it came out in 1913, Frost once wrote to William Stanley Braithwaite about A Boy’s Will, as “an expression of my life for the ten years from eighteen on when I thought I greatly preferred stocks and stones to people” (Selected Letters of Robert Frost.158). The book was first published in London as at that time he was in England to pursue his career as a poet leaving his farming career in New England. And in America it was published in 1915. The volume was highly praised in England and Ezra Pound with whom Frost had an acquaintance there, wrote a commendable review of that book.
The education in Oxford was a preparation for public service in the military, clergy, law, or the governmental complex that had their center in the royal court. Universities during the sixteenth century also valued the study of poetry. Students were required to memorize long passages of Latin verse analyze their rhetorical and grammatical structures and then translate them into English. In 1574 Raleigh left Oxford without a degree and entered Lyon’s Inn and then Middle Temple, both institutions where students studied law. The first examples of Raleigh’s poetry were those that he wrote to his fellow contemporary George Gascoigne on the publication of Gascoigne’s satire The Steel Glass (1576) and was published as a preface in the
In that essay I am going to speak about the seminar on the George Orwell`s essay “Why I write”. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. Noted as a novelist and critic as well as a political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. An essay “Why I Write” was written in 1946 and it is detailing Orwell`s personal journey to becoming a writer. It offers a type of mini-biography as he writes of having first completed poems and trying his hand at short-stories before finally becoming a full-fledged writer, but also examines the motivation of writing itself through the four reasons for writing.
These two poems are in admiration of poets before Keats’ time - the Greek poet, most famous for the Odyssey and the Iliad, Homer and the playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Here, they have inspired Keats to create new work and there is a feel of the original in both. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, Keats gives the sense of a journey, using phrases such as ‘realms of gold’, ‘goodly states and kingdoms’ and ‘Round many western islands’ which is a similar experience to the Odyssey, using the idea of travel - giving it the sense of the original. Keats uses warm words ‘gold’ and ‘goodly’ which start the poem on a positive note and he continues this rich and happy tone throughout. George Chapman is described as ‘loud and bold’ which gives him an imaginable personality in so few words, as well as showing Keats’ admiration for the man reciting Homer’s work.