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Moore, Thomas Sturge

(Encyclopedia)Moore, Thomas Sturge, 1870–1944, English author. Although his themes were classical and conservative, his poetic technique was innovative. His first volume of poetry, The Vinedresser, appeared in 18...

Lohenstein, Daniel Caspar von

(Encyclopedia)Lohenstein, Daniel Caspar von däˈnēĕl käsˈpär fən lōˈənshtīn [key], 1635–83, German dramatist, novelist, and poet. Lohenstein is credited with having created baroque tragedy in Germany. ...

Luzán, Ignacio de

(Encyclopedia)Luzán, Ignacio de ēgnäˈthyō ᵺā lo͞othänˈ [key], 1702–54, Spanish scholar and critic. He studied the classics and the humanities in Italy. From 1747 to 1749 he was secretary at the Spanish...

Gershom ben Judah

(Encyclopedia)Gershom ben Judah grˈshəm bĕn jo͞oˈdə [key], c.965–c.1040?, rabbi, religious poet, and scholar. He was also called Me'or ha-Golah [light of the exile]. He lived his entire adult life in Mainz,...

Ibycus

(Encyclopedia)Ibycus ĭbˈĭkəs [key], fl. before 500 b.c., Greek lyric poet, b. Rhegium, S Italy. The extant fragments of his work contain the earliest-known example of the triadic choral lyric. He spent some tim...

Jammes, Francis

(Encyclopedia)Jammes, Francis fräNsēsˈ zhäm [key], 1868–1938, French poet. He lived most of his life in the Pyrenees. Jammes is usually grouped with the symbolists, but he is distinguished from them by the si...

Deutsch, Babette

(Encyclopedia)Deutsch, Babette doich [key], 1895–1982, American poet, b. New York City. Her poems are noted for their technical virtuosity and wide range of tone and subject matter. Her best-known collections inc...

Colvin, Sir Sidney

(Encyclopedia)Colvin, Sir Sidney kōlˈvĭn [key], 1845–1927, English man of letters. Slade professor of fine arts at Cambridge and keeper of prints at the British Museum, he was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenso...

Eminescu, Mihail

(Encyclopedia)Eminescu, Mihail mēhäēlˈ yĕmēnĕˈsko͝o [key], 1850–89, Romanian poet. Eminescu is considered the foremost Romanian poet of his century. His poems, lyrical, passionate, and revolutionary, wer...

Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín

(Encyclopedia)Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín hōsāˈ hwäkēnˈ fārnänˈdās dā lēsärˈdē [key], 1776–1827, Mexican journalist, novelist, and dramatist, known by his pseudonym El Pensador Mexicano. ...