Sentences with phrase «modern poet»

He is a national poet in a way no other modern poet is.

There are many modern poets saying valid and beautiful things about the world, but few people are buying their books.

Let me then conclude with the words of Rabindranath Tagore, a great modern poet of India, to say what kind of feelings and excitement the venture of contextual theology could bring to our hearts:

God is as much an absence as a presence for Jarman; in this sense he is an eminently modern poet.

I remember reading, some time ago, that the eminent modern poet - philosopher from India, Rabindranath Tagore, was invited to a football game on one of his trips to the U.S..

Such blanket assessments are subjective, of course, and impossible to support, but there is no denying that Neruda is that rare modern poet whose work achieved a global reach — nearly...

In a collection for all ages, Lewis pairs poems by classic and modern poets with breathtaking photos from the National Geographic archives that capture the amazing diversity of the animal world.

Ai's father was the well - known Chinese modern poet Ai Qing; the family was sent to a labor camp as a result of his father's denouncement during the 1957 - 59 Anti-Rightist Movement purge, and they were subsequently exiled to Shihezi, Xinjiang, in far Western China.

He gave up wanting the spiritual adventure of a God - abandoned, God - abandoning life, something that he above all other modern poets is known for wanting.

It's also inspired the church's great modern poets — the people responsible for updating the outdoor marquee with new service times and mind - boggling puns — to rise to their finest hour and show these gamers what they're missing if they just come for the Pokemon.

Acconci, like many modern poets, uses the spoken word, the context and the physicality of his presence in tandem with intense psychological pressures to generate and structure a host of emotions in his viewer - listener.

«While it is a fictional account of the life of the modern poet Delmore Schwartz, it is notable and worth reading if only for the line that reflects the extended period of time before Schwartz — who died destitute --[which] was identified on his death.

A modern poet, Margaret Widdemer, has put these arresting, words on the lips of a girl desperate for peace of mind.

True, the modern poet — as exemplified, in widely divergent ways, by a Joyce and a Kafka — has given himself in large measure to a reversal of our mythical traditions.

It was no surprise to me that the modern poets eschew rhyme and metrical regularity, but it was a surprise that only two of the twenty - three earlier poets» Campion and Coleridge» knew better than to render the brawny Hebrew of the psalms in rhyme and meter.

Where is the modern poet who comprehends that the deepest yearning of the human heart for Christ is more adequately described as the eros of Plato and Augustine than as the angst of Kierkegaard and Sartre?

Demirköz grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, steeped in the region's poetry, especially the modern poet Nazim Hikmet and the ancient Mevlana (Rumi).

Joe Gould — mysterious madman, darling of the modern poets and, perhaps, a genius — began writing a book in the late...

Joe Gould — mysterious madman, darling of the modern poets and, perhaps, a genius — began writing a book in the late 1920s.