The 'Conversations' themselves are alive with that enthusiasm and sympathetic inquiry that disproves the false saying of the Parisian Aspasia of Landor--'Poets are soon too old for mutual love.
Historians we have, with all of Chaucer's truthfulness and luxuriance of expression, and poets with his fresh tendernesses, his flashing thoughts, and exquisite simplicity of heart.
Horace is just as true and simple in his religion as Wordsworth; but all power of understanding any of the honest classic poets has been taken away from most English gentlemen by the mechanical drill in verse-writing at school.
What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Metaphorical Tailors?
Our simplest prose style is nearer to poetry with us, for this reason, that the poets have made it.
In poetry we are rich enough; but in prose also we owe everything to the licence our poets have taken in the teeth of critics.
This will come home to many, as they think on their happy Oxford days when they had life all before them, even though their contemporaries have not become archbishops like Temple or poets like Matthew Arnold.
Peel, two Viceroys of India in Lord Lansdowne and Lord Curzon, poets like Clough, Matthew Arnold and Swinburne, these are only some of the more outstanding names.
But poets are never prudent; and when a poet falls in--' 'A hansom.
They looked up and down streets with conciliatory eyes, as though embryo poets might be coming those ways, and it were only meet to show respect to those of Shakespeare's cloth.
I daresay it is not the only corner the poetswere ever in.
Some Roman swell once offered a beautiful bound edition of the poets to anyone who would invent a new pleasure.
There is more knowledge to be extracted from this humble English hillock than from all the books of Greece or Rome; for historians and poetsoften lie, but cairns, the burial-places of a thousand generations, never!
You are the only poet I ever met, and I am curious to know what poets think.
To the aid of poetry, composed by poets of the first rank, came the most skilful musicians and the most ingenious machinists.
Even Mommsen himself, who dislikes Plutarch's method as much as Montaigne loved it, cannot get or give a lively notion of ancient Rome, without running to the comic poets and the anecdote-mongers.
Tell Poets of our dayes They doe profane the Muses, In soothing Sin with praise, That all the world abuses.
Later poets have Charon, a grim boatsman, receive the dead at the River of Woe; he ferries them across, provided the passage money has been placed in their mouths, and their bodies have been duly buried in the world above.
Neither Greek literature, nor Greek art, however, really seems to fix either the shape or nature of Kerberos; it was left to the Roman poets to say the last word about him.
The sweetest poets should sing their praises; the most eloquent orators should proclaim their greatness; and the nations should delight to celebrate their worth.
But, though our modern philosophy did not know it, the ancient poets and framers of language must have known it.
This is a study of the mechanism of the inspiration of poets and writers of romance.
Literature and the Science of Human Nature The poets were the first to recognize that "the proper study of mankind is man" as they were also the first to interpret it objectively.
The great founders of religion, the earliest poets and philosophers, the musicians and actors of past epochs, are all great wanderers.
Most of the impassioned expressions of our good poets have come finished from their pen, and appear easy, as if they had in reality been composed without labor; the imagination, therefore, often conceives and brings forth easily.
Our great poetshave not disdained frequently to avail themselves of this word in tragedy: Clytemnestra, in Iphigenia, calls Agamemnon the executioner of his daughter.
It is this which formerly occasioned the belief that poets were inspired by the gods, a notion which was never applied to other artists.
He became, after his death, the judge of cities in which it is pretended that he asked alms during his life, which proves, also, that the Greeks had poets long before they had geographers.
What the brilliant Frenchman says of the influence of woman on the poets and philosophers of a single century could with equal truth be said of the poets and philosophers of every century from Anacreon and Plato to the present day.
So remarkable, indeed, in some instances is the similarity in the productions of the two poets that F.
Of the fifty female poets who flourished in Italy during the Renaissance the most eminent were Gaspara Stampa, Veronica Gambara, and Vittoria Colonna.
It will be quite different from the ideal woman, as portrayed by poets and novelists, for centuries past.
In Ferrara, where it was said that "there were as many poets as there were frogs in the country round about," were gathered the most gifted poets of the Renaissance who had been attracted there to recite their latest masterpieces.
Another recent writer affirms without hesitation that "Hroswitha has earned a place apart in the Pantheon of women poets and writers.
There were, however, no university professors or poets of eminence among the English women, as there were in Italy and Spain, and their creative work was practically nothing.
Among the men attracted to their courts were the most illustrious scholars, artists, poets and musicians of the Renaissance.
But Nature goes to work like Shakespeare and Goethe, poets who make every one of their characters--even if it is the devil himself!
Most of the expressions used may be traced to the comic poets of Athens, and contain no Spartan peculiarities, and yet an accurate explanation of them might lead us into many difficulties.
Sappho was the first among the Greek poets who spoke of it.
The Megarian comedy is ridiculed by Ecphantides, one of the early comic poets of Athens, as rude and unpolished, which circumstance alone makes its higher antiquity probable.
It was drawing towards one of those calm, still, autumnal evenings of which poets sing, but which are to be met with in all their glory only among the beautiful lakes that lay sleeping in the wild woods, and surrounded by old primeval things.
It's just those apparently common things that are so full of it, but the poets don't see it, or else they don't quite dare to give it expression.
The poets were true in their psychology when they pictured the distress of mortal men beloved of goddesses: Tithonus and Aurora, Venus and Adonis, Diana and Endymion.
The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven.
The poets take the liberty ofpersonifying inanimate things.
Many of our modern poets who use the monologue, such as Day, Foss, Riley, and Drummond, are blamed by superficial critics for the roughness of their language.
Browning represents the speaker as one seeking for an expression among the poets of the true heroic spirit.
The biographical cataloguers of the seventeenth century did little more than proclaim Shakespeare and the other great poets of the country to be fit subjects for formal biography as soon as the type should be matured.
He lived in old age much in seclusion, but by a congenial circle he was always warmly welcomed for the freshness and enthusiasm of his talk about the poets who flourished in his youth.
In 1675 a biographical catalogue of poets was issued for the first time in England, and the example once set was quickly followed.
She wondered whypoets and people of that kind made so much of love and so little of friendship, since the latter was obviously the more lasting and satisfactory of the two.
The poets also appear to have had some idea of it (Æneid, v.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
