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Alecsandri, Vasile

(Encyclopedia)Alecsandri, Vasile väsēˈlē älĕksänˈdrē [key], 1821–90, Romanian poet, dramatist, and statesman. He was (1858) provisional foreign minister and subsequently served in various diplomatic post...

Czuczor, Gergely

(Encyclopedia)Czuczor, Gergely gĕrˈgĕlĭ tso͝oˈtsôr [key], 1800–1866, Hungarian philologist and poet, a Benedictine monk. With John Fogarasi he compiled a Hungarian dictionary (completed 1861). He also wrot...

Hooft, Pieter Corneliszoon

(Encyclopedia)Hooft, Pieter Corneliszoon pēˈtər kôrnāˈlĭsōn hōft [key], 1581–1647, Dutch historian, poet, and dramatist. His great work was a history of the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain, Neder...

Apollinaris Sidonius

(Encyclopedia)Apollinaris Sidonius (Caius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius) əpŏlĭnârˈĭs sīdōˈnēəs, sĭdōˈ– [key], fl. 455–75, Latin writer, b. Lyons. He had a minor role in imperial politics and was bi...

Dunash ben Labrat

(Encyclopedia)Dunash ben Labrat do͞oˈnäsh bĕn läˈbrät [key], 920–90, Hebrew grammarian and poet, b. Fès. He was also called Rabbi Adonim Halevy (ha-Levi). He wrote an exhaustive criticism of Menahem's Heb...

Warton, Thomas, the elder, c.1688–1745, English poet

(Encyclopedia)Warton, Thomas, the elder, c.1688–1745, English poet, father of Joseph and Thomas Warton. He was professor of poetry at Oxford from 1718 to 1728. His collected poems, edited by Joseph Warton, and pu...

Bijns, Anna

(Encyclopedia)Bijns, Anna äˈnä bīns [key], 1494?–1575?, Flemish poet of Antwerp. Her three volumes (1528, 1548, 1567) of lyric verse place her among the foremost Dutch poets of her age. She excelled in robust...

Blunden, Edmund Charles

(Encyclopedia)Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896–1974, English author. Beginning his career as a poet of nature, Blunden became a cosmopolitan teacher and writer. His prose works include Undertones of War (1928), an a...

Ransom, John Crowe

(Encyclopedia)Ransom, John Crowe, 1888–1974, American poet and critic, b. Pulaski, Tenn., grad. Vanderbilt Univ. and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He is considered one of the great stylists of 20th-centu...

Nâzım Hikmet

(Encyclopedia)Nâzım Hikmet (Nâzım Hikmet Ran) näzĭmˈ hēkmĕtˈ rän [key], 1902–63, widely recognized as Turkey's foremost modern poet, b. Salonika, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloníki, Greece), grad. Mosco...