Sentences with phrase «first poets»

The witnesses referred to are in fact at first poets or illustrious men whose judgments are publicly recognized, speakers of oracles, and authors of proverbs.

He was among the first poets to combine classical forms and Christian faith.

Recently, MoMA's first poet laureate, Kenneth Goldsmith, received national attention for teaching a course at the University of Pennsylvania titled «Wasting Time on the Internet.»

Earlier this year, Bard College professor Robert Kelly was appointed Dutchess County's first poet laureate.

Josef von Sternberg is the great stylist of the thirties, a Hollywood maverick with a taste for visual exoticism and baroque flourishes (which prompted David Thomson to dub him «the first poet of underground cinema»), but step back into his silent work and you'll find a storyteller of unparalleled talent and one of the great directors of silent cinema.

First LA Poet Laureate The city of Los Angeles has elected its first poet laureate, Eloise Klein Healy.

He was first a poet, eventually turning to painting in his late teens.

He is the first poet to receive an annual commission from Cape Farewell, and his first appearance this Friday, on the Eden Project's Bī - ŏt «ĭk Stage, will mark the start of ADRIFT, exploring climate, poetry and the city.

Now as Arizona's first poet laureate, Rios has a platform for his «poems of public...

Not exact matches

But it looks like things are slowly getting back to normal, with Harvard and London Business School earning top spots in Poets & Quants» first MBA rankings.

In the first century AD, Roman poet Ovid wrote the following: «There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.»

I have a lot of tricks to get those first few words on the page, maybe the best one is something I heard from a poet during his reading; «To cure writer's block just lower your standards.»

Prior to the building of Temple Court, the location was home to the Chapel Street Theater, which held the first performance of Shakespeare's «Hamlet» in New York in 1761, and Clinton Hall, a literary salon of sorts where poet Edgar Allan Poe worked.

A graduate of the MBA program at the Sloan school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will earn $ 1.8 million in total compensation in the first year out of school, according to a post on the business education website Poets & Quants, which pulled the number from Bloomberg BusinessWeek's annual...

The first line suggests that a struggle might lie ahead, but in the second line we find out how delightfully easy the spiritual life is for the poet.

Further evidence that Graber's volume was worthy of notice might be found in the fact that her book was the first selection in the re-launched Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and — as one reader reminded us — a nominee for a National Book Award.

For readers and potential writers, here are some of the qualities we tend to look for in selecting verse: First, some indication that the poet has read more deeply than R. S. Gwynn's Narcissus in The Narcissiad, who «knows his poets, too, for he has read / The works of many, three of whom are dead.»

In the essay, Losana Boyd, the Director of Creative & Marketing Services at First Things, and a poet, favorably reviewed The Eternal City by Kathleen Graber, praising the poet's fluent syntax, arresting imagery, and elegant, well - crafted lines.

63 When bloody flooding killed the human race And brand - new oceans put man in his place, Except for those who carried mankind's seed, I, first of creatures, snubbed what law decreed, While I mocked yielding to the Lord's command, For which, I think, a poet would declare, «The sin....

I first started claiming the label my first year in graduate school (3/4 years ago) when I had to write a paper on Queer Theory and studied Adrienne Rich, who was a queer feminist poet in the late 80s / early 90s.

Between Self and Soul: On Being Both More and Less than We Think We Are Wednesday, November 8 First Things presents a public lecture by poet, critic, and professor James Matthew Wilson, held at the Covenant School in Dallas, Texas.

(21) A legend has it that Amaru, one of the earliest and greatest Sanskrit poets of love, was the hundred and first incarnation of a soul which had previously resided in the bodies of a hundred women.

In concluding his statement, the president combined words from the first and last lines of a moving poem, «High Flight,» written by a poet - pilot, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. «We will never forget them,» the president said, «nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye, «and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.»»

Macquarrie goes on to show that Heidegger considered poetry to have first place among the arts, and poets to be modern incarnations of Hermes, busily running messages between heaven and earth.

It was not until the Enlightenment that the vitality and passion of this love song could be recognized freely (the poet Johann Gottfried von Herder was one of the first to find its theme to be human love).

He was a poet and literary critic, but I think it does no disservice to his memory to say that his poetry was not quite first rate and that his criticism was eclectic, occasional and of varying quality.

At first glance, Feuerbach's later theory looks like an elaboration of a view that goes back at least to the Roman poet Statius and was revived by Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume and others: that fear of the terrifying forces of nature first created the gods — «in the ignorance of causes,» as Hobbes explains.

But as Frank Lloyd Wright said, an architect should first be a poet, and the good poet observes closely and listens carefully.

This poet wonders what sense can be made of the death by drowning of five nuns on their way to a mission field, but his first major poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland (1876), shows his determination to overcome his doubts:

Mary Karr, one of the writers Gioia mentions, shares this belief as well, confessing, «Poets were my first priests, and poetry itself my first altar.»

Centuries before the Karen people of Burma first heard the gospel, their poetry taught of one creator God who mankind had sinned against by eating forbidden fruit.Their poets also foretold the coming of a white man who would visit with a holy golden book that contained the truth about life.

We should greatly err if we were to claim that at ~ is point the idea first dawned on human thought through the insight of this Hebrew poet.

The entire Granth is a very substantial body of poetry, consisting mainly of the writings of Guru Nanak and his first four successors, to which were added poems of a dozen or more, one - time famous saints, or bhagats, including Ramananda, Kabir and the well - known Maratha poet, Namdev.

Jaffa, in his first book on Lincoln, even displayed honest / tricky Abe as America's greatest poet.

An oft - repeated anecdote concerns the sermon they heard that first Sunday and minister Jack Jensen's mention of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

First Things is pleased to announce our next event: renowned poet Christian Wiman will be giving a reading here at our editorial offices in Manhattan on October 29, at 6 p.m. Wiman is editor of Poetry magazine.

Sally Thomas, a contributing writer for First Things, is a poet and homeschooling mother in North Carolina.

Encounters like these brought Holly to the point of believing there was a God who fired the imaginative sense within her, but would eventually lead her to also investigate the beliefs of Christian poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and TS Eliot whose writing she connected with so profoundly: «I had a two - step conversion, first to belief in God then to belief in Christ.

The 17th century Puritan and poet John Milton was one of the first modern Christians to defend free speech.

The — in the first instance meant somewhat disparagingly — concession that every theory of the world also has to deal with the «imaginations» and conclusions» of the poets, philosophers, and theologians, gives way to a systematically consistent, matter - of - fact view.

I pray three ways, first to the Holy Ghost in charge of poets who would serve the Lord, then to St. Michael, head of heaven's host: «Lead me in battle, angel,» I've implored.

Two surprised Swiss students asked the landlord who the knight was that sat reading Hebrew in the bar lounge, and were told it was Luther — at first they refused to believe it, and said it must surely be Ulrich von Hutten, the knight poet.

It is almost as if he wanted to find a way back again to the experience of the child's first amazement before the mystery of the world and to linger there forever, speaking a language of pure naming, pure invocation — the language of Adam or of the natural poet.

Today's inauguration itself also put that creed into practice, featuring a black president, a white vice-president, a gay poet, a Hispanic female justice, a Cuban - American priest, and the first woman to ever deliver an inaugural prayer: civil rights icon Myrlie Evers - Williams.

To be sure, Maeterlinck, when he was suggested for membership in the French Academy, the first Belgian in history to be so honored, wrote a letter to Le Journal asking that they choose instead «my old friend Emile Verhaeren, first, because he is my elder; second, because he is a very great poet, while I am only an industrious and conscientious prose writer.

But the word was first coined nearly 600 years ago by the British poet William Langland as the name of a demon.

Tomorrow's films (free, but first come, first served) are Paris Noir, a documentary on black American poets, writers, artists and others living in Paris in the 1920s and»30s, and When Voice Rise, a documentary on desegregation in 1950s Bermuda.

La Leche League Leaders have a common belief system founded upon ten concepts and poet Alison Jones illustrates the first one, «Mothering through Breastfeeding» in verse.

Cian: I found out about the People's Assembly about three years ago trawling the internet and I came across this guy called Stephen Morrison - Burke who was the [Birmingham] poet laureate and he presented the poem in the first People's Assembly event that Tony Benn was a part of.