mock-heroic poem
51Annie Allen — is a book of poetry published by noted African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks which was published in 1949, and for which she received the Pulitzer Prize. This made her the first African American writer to ever receive a Pulitzer Prize. The work… …
52Hudibrastic — Hudibrastically, adv. /hyooh deuh bras tik/, or, often, /yooh /, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler s Hudibras (published 1663 78), a mock heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets. 2. of a playful burlesque… …
53Saint-Amant, Marc-Antoine Girard, sieur de — ▪ French poet born c. Sept. 30, 1594, Rouen, France died Dec. 29, 1661, Paris one of the most original and interesting of French early 17th century poets and one of the first members of the French Academy. The early poems of Saint… …
54Jacob Balde — Jacob Balde † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jacob Balde A German poet, b. 4 January, 1604, in the Imperial free town of Ensisheim in Upper Alsace; d. at Neuburg, 9 August, 1668. He studies the classics and rhetoric in the Jesuit college of… …
55Ироикомическая поэма — Гравюра У. Хогарта …
56BATRACHOMYOMACHIA — a mock heroic poem, The Battle of the Frogs and Mice, falsely ascribed to Homer …
57GARTH, SIR SAMUEL — a distinguished physician, born in co. Durham; had an extensive practice; author of a mock heroic poem entitled The Dispensary (1661 1718) …
58Boileau, Nicolas — (1636 1711) poet, critic of bourgeois background, Nicholas Boileau, or Boileau Despréaux, as he is known, was born in Paris and educated at the sorbonne. Considered to have had an important influence on French literature, as both a poet and …
59Barlow, Joel — (1754 1812) Poet, b. at Reading, Connecticut, served for a time as an army chaplain, and thereafter betook himself to law, and finally to commerce and diplomacy, in the former of which he made a fortune. He was much less successful as a poet… …
60Tennant, William — (1784 1848) Poet and scholar, a cripple from his birth, was b. at Anstruther (commonly called Anster) in Fife. As a youth he was clerk to his brother, a corn merchant, but devoted his leisure to the study of languages, and the literature of… …
