Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forty-five he made his immortal journey to Scotland What took him there no one can tell. After returning to London he was made Poet Lauriet, the first as we know it. Despite his income the wolf came to his door, and his life became one round of drink, debt, and medicancy, except when he shut himself up at his work...
...senior class in Sheffield Scientific School, of Yale University, has appointed the following class officers: Historians, James Evans of Morristown, N. J.; Thomas King Hanna, Jr.; Kansas City; Oliver Peter Nicolai, Cleveland, Ohio; Louis Warren Hill, St. Paul; Thomas Henry Lewis, Evanston, III.; George Albert Hutchinson, Chicago; class poet, Ira Edward Wright, New Orleans; class orators, Oliver Chandler Billings and Lawrence Thornton Bliss, New York; Hampton Howell, Brooklyn, N. Y.; graduation committee, Joseph Judson Brooks, Jr., Pittsburg, Pa,; Howard Joseyh Hazelhurst, Brooklyn, Wallace Charles Winter. St. Paul, Minn...
...fifteenth century was the poorest in literature which England has known; for there was no poet worthy of note from the time of Chancer to the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII. This can easily be explained by the Law of Leisure. In a time of national rest, literature, and especially poetry, flourishes much better than when a country is thrown into confusion by political disputes. "Poetry", as Wordsworth says, "is the expression of emotion recollected in tranquility. "Now the age which followed Chaucer was one of unusual political activity. Either men did not write...
Drummond was the greatest of the poets who followed Spenser's style. He had started his career as a lawyer, but on inheriting his father's estate he devoted himself to poetry. His first works appeared about 1615 and after that he wrote a good deal. "The Flowers of Zion" is his best book. In all his works there is a religious solemnity noticeable which we find in no other poet of the time...
...Wright, of New Orleans has been elected class poet of the senior class of the Sheffield Scientific School...