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in addition to his distinguished military career against the
Ottoman Turks
,
Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha
(pictured)
, was also an accomplished
poet
,
harpsichordist
, and
composer
?
the
haiku
poet
Takahama Kyoshi
edited the
literary magazine
Hototogisu
?
after an accident in his
teens
,
Bulgarian
poet
Pencho Slaveykov
(pictured)
could write and speak only with difficulty?
Ratchanya Yatreegam
,
magnum opus
of
Indian
poet
Henry Alfred Krishnapillai
written in
Tamil
, was based on
John Bunyan
's
The Pilgrim's Progress
?
Nikolay Glazkov
, a
Soviet
poet
, is credited with having coined the term
samizdat
, which has come to be internationally known?
St Laurence Church, Ludlow
,
England
has an extensive collection of
medieval
misericords
and other
wood carvings
, but may be best known as
poet
A.E. Housman
's gravesite?
the
Korean
poetic
form of
sijo
resembles the
Japanese
poetic form of
haiku
?
the
pen-name
of the
Kannada
poet
,
Karnataka Ratna
and
Jnanpith Award
winner
Kuvempu
, was derived from his full name "
Ku
ppalli
Ven
katappa
Pu
ttappa",
Kuppalli
being his native place?
upon reading
Marshall S. Cornwell
's
poem
"Success," American
writer
and
poet
James Whitcomb Riley
wrote Cornwell "your gift seems genuine and far above that indicated in verse"?
when noted American
poet
Lucretia Maria Davidson
(pictured)
died at age 16, she had written over 278 poems of varying lengths?
the work of
Cornificia
, a
Roman
poet
of the
first century BC
, was read for centuries, but has since been lost entirely?
the term
Rashtrapati
, the native word in
India
to refer the
nation's President
, was first suggested by the
Kannada
poet
,
scholar
T.N. Srikantaiah
?
the builder of the
Rispenserpoldermolen
,
Easterein
, the
Netherlands
, was described as a better
millwright
than a
poet
?
the original "dreamer of dreams" was British
poet
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
?
Jean Follain
was a
corporate lawyer
,
magistrate
and award-winning
author
and
poet
who wrote the poem "Death of the
Ferret
"?
Itzik Manger
, a
Yiddish
poet
, is best known for his radical revisions of
Biblical
material?
poet
Forceythe Willson
believed he was
clairvoyant
and that he could serve as a
medium
for communication with the dead?
poet
Violet Kazue de Cristoforo
wrote
haikus
while she and her family were detained in
Japanese American internment
camps during
World War II
?
poet
Anna Williams
's works include
On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon
?
Kavirajamarga
, the earliest
extant
literary work in the
Kannada language
, was written by King
Amoghavarsha I
who was a famous
poet
and a
scholar
?
Iraqi
poet
Nazik Al-Malaika
was the first person to write in
free verse
in
Arabic
?
Jamaican
-born
poet
,
playwright
and
screenwriter
Evan Jones
wrote the 1963
BBC
television play
Madhouse on Castle Street
in which
Bob Dylan
made his acting début?
poet
and
playwright
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
(
pictured
), known as the Polish
Sappho
, discussed topics such as
abortion
, extra-marital affairs, and
incest
?
Russian
avant-garde
poet
and
singer-songwriter
Alexei Khvostenko
is often referred to as the "grandfather of
Russian rock
"?
Russian
critics considered
Armenian
actor
and
poet
Petros Adamian
one of the best
tragedians
of the world for his interpretations of
Hamlet
and
Othello
?
Ukrainian
poet
Yevhen Hrebinka
helped purchase fellow poet
Taras Shevchenko
's freedom from
serfdom
in 1838?
Russian
poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
is famous for his
anti
-
Stalinist
work?
Russian
poet
Dmitri Prigov
wrote approximately 36,000 poems with much of his work distributed as
samizdat
?
Russian
philologist
Mikhail Gasparov
was also a
poet
, but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?
Hoosier
poet
James Whitcomb Riley
's poem "
Little Orphant Annie
" was first published in the
Indianapolis Journal
?
Facts on topics related to Poet
List of Catalan language poets
the only known surviving work of
Catalan poet
Pere de Queralt
is a
maldit-comiat
in which he accuses his lady of having three lovers in a single day?
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