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• obscure — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French oscur, obscur, from Latin obscurus Date: 15th century 1. a. dark, dim b. shrouded in or hidden by darkness c. not clearly seen or easily distinguished ; faint < ob …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• obscure — ob|scure1 [əbˈskjuə US ˈskjur] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: Latin obscurus] 1.) not well known and usually not very important ▪ an obscure poet ▪ The details of his life remain obscure . 2.) difficult to understand ▪ obscure legal… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• obscure — 1 adjective 1 not at all well known and usually not very important: an obscure poet | The exact origin of the paisley design is obscure. 2 difficult to understand: obscure legal phrases obscurely adverb 2 verb (T) 1 to make something difficult to …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• John Suckling (poet) — Sir John Suckling (February 10 1609 ndash; June 1 1642) was an English Cavalier poet whose best known poem may be Ballad Upon a Wedding . He is well known as a Carpe Diem or Cavalier poet, and also as the supposed inventor of the card game… …   Wikipedia

• Hanshan (poet) — Hanshan (zh cpl|c=寒山|p=Hánshān|l=Cold Mountain, fl. 9th century) was a legendary figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Taoist and Chan tradition. He is honored as an incarnation of the Bodhisattva… …   Wikipedia

• Max Dunn (poet) — Maxell Walter Dumont Dunn (? – 4 September 1963) was an Australian editor, publisher, poet, and literary translator. Biography Born in Dublin, Ireland, Dunn s early life remains obscure, though he claimed to have been educated at the University… …   Wikipedia

• Robert Chester (poet) — Robert Chester (flourished 1601) is the mysterious author of the poem Love s Martyr which was published in 1601 as the main poem in a collection which also included much shorter poems by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John… …   Wikipedia

• Eubulus (poet) — Eubulus was an Athenian Middle Comic poet, victorious six times at the Lenaia, first probably in the late 370s or 360s BC ( IG II2 2325.144; just before Ephippus)According to the Suda (test. 1), which dates him to the 101st Olympiad (i.e. 376/2)… …   Wikipedia

• Michael O'Brien (American poet) — Michael O Brien (b. March 4th 1939) is an American poet. He began his poetry career as part of the Eventorium , a relatively obscure group of New York artists with an interest in surrealism. O’Brien’s early work is now extremely difficult to find …   Wikipedia

• Patrick Hamilton (poet) — Patrick Hamilton ( c1575 May 1658) was a Minister of The Church of Scotland during a turbulent period in Scotland’s History. He seems to have chosen the wrong side in the dispute between King Charles I and the Scottish Covenanters. He was also a… …   Wikipedia

• Letters of Obscure Men —    Satirical collection of imaginary letters supposedly addressed by several scholastic theologians and monks to Ortwin Gratius, a Cologne humanist who had supported the theologians and Dominican friars of Cologne in their efforts to prosecute… …   Historical Dictionary of Renaissance