We talked about Randall Jarrell, the influential poet and critic who played on the tennis team at Vanderbilt in the '30s.
Hayali Bey, the most influential poet of the first half of the 16th century, was the son of a timar sipahî (feudal cavalryman) from Rumeli, in the Balkans.
August 2, 1949 Beijing, China Bei Dao, Wade-Giles romanization Pei Tao, also spelled Beidao, original name Zhao Zhenkai (born August 2 , 1949 Beijing, China) Chinese poet and writer of fiction who was commonly considered the most influential poet in China during the 1980s; he went into exile in 1989.
The most admired and influential poet of the period was Willem Bilderdijk, whose versatile genius was almost smothered with excesses of rhetoric but whose Protestant zeal had repercussions in the Réveil (Revival), a Calvinist fundamentalist movement that gave impetus to the literary revival of the 1830s.
Wendy Cope – known for her witty touch and once voted by BBC Radio 4 listeners as their choice to follow Ted Hughes as poet laureate (she didn't) – is awarded an OBE, while Simon Armitage, 47, the UK's official millennium poet in 2000, and Michael Longley, 71, the influential poet and commentator on the arts from Belfast, both receive CBEs.
In 1586 Porta was probably again summoned before the Neapolitan Inquisition, perhaps together with Luigi Tansillo (1510 1568), an influential poet (and a close acquaintance of Giordano Bruno (1548 1600)).
He became one of Turkey's most influential poets during the post-World War II era.
His modernist poetry made him one of Turkey's most influential poets during the post-World War II era.
Fourteen years later, he fathered Sylvia Plath, one of the 20th century's most influential poets who continually battled against depression.
Adrienne Rich was "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", according to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
His later career was interrupted by hospitalizations for bipolar disorder, but he nevertheless mentored a number of influential poets in his time at Washington, including Carolyn Kizer, James Wright, and David Wagoner.
