An elegiac poet

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• Elegiac — refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of dactylic hexameter, followed by a line of dactylic… …   Wikipedia

• Elegiac couplet — Elegiac couplets are a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than those of epic poetry. The ancient Romans frequently used elegiac couplets in love poetry, as in Ovid s Amores . As with heroic… …   Wikipedia

• elegiac — ELEGIÁC, Ă, elegiaci, ce, adj. Care are caracterele elegiei; p. ext. melancolic, nostalgic, trist, jalnic. ♦ (Despre poeţi) Care scrie elegii sau lucrări cu caracter de elegie. [pr.: gi ac] – Din fr. élégiaque, lat. elegiacus. Trimis de… …   Dicționar Român

• Maximianus (poet) — Maximianus or Maximian (sometimes referred to as Maximianus Etruscus) was a Latin elegiac poet of the 6th century who has been called in some sort, the last of the Roman poets .[1] Contents 1 Life 2 Poetry 3 Reception …   Wikipedia

• Peter Porter (poet) — Peter Neville Frederick Porter (born 16 February 1929) is an Australian born British poet. He was a regular participant in the weekly meetings of The Group.LifePorter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother died in 1938. He emigrated …   Wikipedia

• Ben Howard (poet) — Ben W. Howard [ [http://www.acisweb.com/members.php?type=profiles American Conference for Irish Studies: Member Profiles] ] (born 1944 in Iowa [ [http://people.alfred.edu/ fhowardb/ Ben Howard, Professor of English at Alfred University] ] ) is an …   Wikipedia

• Mimnermus — Mimnermos was one of several ancient, Greek poets who composed verses about solar eclipses, and there was in fact a total solar eclipse of his home town, Smyrna, on April 6, 648 BC[1] His poetry survives only as a few fragments yet they afford us …   Wikipedia

• List of Ancient Greek poets — This Assortment of Ancient Greek poets covers poets writing in the Ancient Greek language, regardless of location or nationality of the poet. For a list of modern day Greek poets, see List of Greek poets. Contents: Top · 0–9 A B C D E F G H… …   Wikipedia

• Tyrtaeus — (also Tyrtaios , Greek: polytonic|Τυρταῖος) was a Greek elegiac poet who lived at Sparta about the middle of the 7th century BC.According to the older tradition he was a native of the Attic deme of Aphidnae, and was invited to Sparta at the… …   Wikipedia

• Sextus Propertius — Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet born around 50 45 BCE in Mevania (although other cities in the region of Umbria claim this dignity Hespillus, Ameria, Perusia and Assisium), and died a short time after 15 BCE. [John Lemprière s …   Wikipedia

• Propertius, Sextus — born 55/43, Assisi, Umbria died after 16 BC, Rome Roman poet. Very few details of his life are known. The first and best known of his four books of elegies (see elegy), Cynthia, was published in 29 BC, the year he met its heroine (his mistress,… …   Universalium