Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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They reluctantly agree, when a stranger appears in the person of an asthetic poet, Algernon Lovelace, who sings "A poet...
...until after the Persian wars that comedy began its true course. Cretinus, who died in 422 B. C., was the real originator of Attic comedy. He was a poet of great merit. Though much addicted to drink, he lived to the great age of ninety-eight. Aristophanes ridiculed him in the "Nights," but regretted it afterwards, as Cretinus amply revenged himself in the "Whiskey Flask...
...mooted question. If he intended to bring about a reform, he made a dismal failure. Great as his talents were, he took no stock in tragedy or philosophy, but chose to exert all his energies in comedy. His efforts were well rewarded, for he still remains the greatest comic poet of all time...
...upon the third circle from the throne itself, which place she had made for herself by her virtue upon earth. By the earnest entreaty of Beatrice, Dante is lifted into the highest circles of salvation. It is a fitting consummation of the form and of the life of a poet. In 1320 the Divine Comedy was finished, and in the next year Dante died...
...indirect accomplishment of his attempt to lead men to righteousness. In every generation men have listened to his words and been helped by them. If we read the poem simply for the sake of the poetry, we find in it a pleasure, which only the words of the great poet can give us. The reader of the poem becomes its lover. Poetry is the garb which wisdom has chosen for itself, and the lover of poetry is the lover of wisdom...