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The Ancient Greek poet known as Stesichorus is generally accepted as being one of the first lyric poets of the Western World. He takes his place in a group known as the ”Nine Lyric Poets”, in the company of others such as Pindar of Thebes, Sappho of Lesbos and Simonides of Ceos, who were all around during the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries BC. The work ...
Thomas Warton was one of the so-called “Graveyard Poets” of the English 18th century. His often mournful style, as evidenced in his poem The Pleasures of Melancholy, confirms this assertion. Additionally he was a literary critic, historian and rector of a small parish in Oxfordshire called Kiddington. He is often referred to as the younger, thus distinguishing him from Thomas Warton elder who ...
Thomas Weelkes was an English musician, poet and composer of mostly religious themed pieces, including madrigals and anthems. His skill as an organist was recognised first at Winchester College and then at the prestigious Chichester Cathedral. His date of birth is unclear but it is known that he was baptised on the 25th October 1576 in his home village of Elsted which lies close ...
Thomas William Heney was an Australian poet and novelist who also worked as a journalist for different newspapers around the country from the age of sixteen onwards. He was also an occasionally acerbic literary critic and yet he was a gentle, modest man who took his responsibilities as a newspaper editor seriously. He was born on the 3rd November 1862 in Sydney, the ...
Thomas Yalden was a poet and Church of England minister who produced a number of religious pieces and translations from classic works. He was born on the 2nd January 1670 in Oxford, although some reports suggest that his place of birth was Exeter. He was educated at an Oxford city grammar school and then at Magdalen College where he studied first as a commoner ...
Timothy Dwight was an American poet and writer of hymns as well as being a minister in the Congregational church and an academic. During the last 22 years of his life he served as President of Yale College. One of his best known poems, The Conquest of Canaan, had the distinction, when written in 1785, of being the first true American epic poem. He ...
Thomas Ernest Hulme, often referred to as T. E. Hulme, was an English poet who was also an art and literary critic and occasional writer of political articles. He lived at a tragic time for the world of course and was one of the growing movement of modernist writers and artists whose work was influenced by the onset of the First World ...
Trần Nhân Tông was a 13th century Vietnamese poet and ruler of his country who had inherited the throne from his father and who then, in turn, passed it on to his own son Trần Anh Tông in 1294. He had served his country well during three momentous Mongol invasions, acting as joint supreme commander alongside his father, Retired Emperor Thánh Tông. The victories ...
Tran Thanh Tong was a 13th century Vietnamese poet and scholar who ruled his country as king for a little over twenty years. He voluntarily abdicated in the year 1279 in favour of his son Tran Nhan Tong. His reign was remarkable for a number of reasons. As well as being a great military leader, he believed in education and actually ...
The Indian poet and classical music composer Tyagaraja is famous for many compositions. One of his most popular was Pancharatna Kritis, which is translated into English as Five Gems. These pieces of music are still heard today, accompanied with words that are sung in his honour. He has been known by a number of names including Kakarla Tyagabrahmam, Saint Tyagaraja, Tyagayya in Telugu ...
