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111Plautus — For the Roman noble, see Rubellius Plautus. Plautus Born c. 254 BC Sarsina, Umbria Died 184 BC Rome …
112Vladimir Nabokov — This article is about the novelist. For his father, the politician, see Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov. This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov in 1969 …
113Hipponax — of Ephesus was an Ancient Greek iambic poet.Expelled from Ephesus in 540 BC by the tyrant Athenagoras, he took refuge in Clazomenae, where he spent the rest of his life in poverty. His deformed figure and malicious disposition exposed him to the… …
114Emily Dickinson — From the daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847. The only authenticated portrait of Emily Dickinson later than childh …
115Trochee — Metrical feet Disyllables ˘ ˘ pyrrhus, dibrach ˘ ¯ iamb …
116Pentameter — In poetry, a pentameter is a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. Iambic pentameter is one of the most commonly used meters in English, used extensively by many poets, including William Shakespeare, John Milton, and William Wordsworth …
117Ottava rima — For etymology and similar terms see Octave. Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, it later came to be popular in the writing of mock heroic works. Its earliest known use is in the …
118Blank verse — is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter (like that which is used in Shakespearean plays). The first known use of blank verse… …
119José Carreras — Josep Carreras i Coll (born December 5, 1946, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), better known as José Carreras, is a Spanish Catalan tenor. One of the most prominent opera singers of his generation, and particularly eminent in the operas of Verdi and… …
120Dionysios Solomos — Born April 8, 1798(1798 04 08) Zakynthos, Mer Égée (modern day Greece) Died February 9, 1857( …
