His works range from love lyrics and short didactic poems (Sprüche) to full-scale epics, such as Partonopier und Meliur, on the fairy-lover theme, and Der Trojanerkrieg (The Trojan War), an account of the Trojan War.
Now comes the feminist cultural critic Bell Hooks with her new book of essays, "All About Love," written in a didactic style that would merge moral philosophy with self-help.
She was an authentic daughter of Blake, (whom she loved) -- a poet who wrenched her aesthetic at times to accommodate didactic passion.
Although he experimented little with prosody, his work ranged widely in type from didactic verse to love poems and from poems on domestic life (his shrewish second wife was a source of poetic inspiration) to political satire.
I don't have many teaching responsibilities in the didactic sense, which does help – I love to do it but it does take a lot of time.
"Sxyx and Gimplex" is a terrific retelling of the Prague Spring as told by a pair of earmuffs, but the strangely heavy little bald man will undoubtedly go to "Txmyxz" and its didactic hedgehog — Academy members have traditionally preferred animated rodents who love the movies over household objects who love the movies.
Ovid's Ars amatoria was comedy or satire in the burlesque guise of didactic, an amusing commentary on the psychology of love.
What I love about his work is that he was not a didactic artist; it was writing, it was literature, it was poetry, it was a new approach to politics, film-making and a language of music.
This is partly because their role is didactic: they are there to show that an Iranian love story can barely be written, and have no quiddity as literary characters.
Sordello left 1,325 lines of a didactic poem, L'Ensenhamen d'onor, and 42 lyrical pieces, mostly love songs and satires.
