Sentence examples for scholar poet from inspiring English sources

The late 15th-century scholar, poet, and writer ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī greatly advanced Turkic-language literature and was also a talented artist and composer.

In the 14th century the Italian scholar, poet, and humanist Petrarch frequently used the canzona poetic form, and in the 16th century canzoni were often used as texts by madrigal composers.

An accomplished scholar, poet and calligrapher, Kukai's life's work was to be the creation of a Buddhist center of learning in Koya-san, a high-mountain plateau in central Japan, where to this day more than 100 temples continue his teachings.

Bill Bryson is chairing this year's judging panel, and is joined on it by weather forecaster and presenter Lisa Burke Sian Edee, an authority on art and science interactions; broadcaster, neurophysiologist and lecturer Mark Lythgoe and Ruth Padell, scholar, poet and chair of the Poetry Society.

We can also forget that al-Ghazali's brother, an esteemed scholar, poet, and mystic, advocated the erotic contemplation of young boys as a spiritual practice.

Scholar, poet, intellectual, theologian, columnist, rock star, celebrity, preacher man -- Thomas Friedman is now all things to all people who like to think they are thinking about the world.

"Mandarin" seemed wrong; a better analogy, for me, would have been mountain-dwelling scholar-poet.

The police identified the other students under arrest as Adam Klein, the fencing team member; Stephan Vincenzo, the scholar-poet; and Michael Wymbs, the student council member.

In 2007, Pico's remains, together with those of the man who may have been his lover, the scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano, were disinterred from the Dominican Convent of San Marco, in Florence.

In 2007, his remains, together with those of the man who may have been his lover, the scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano, were disinterred from the Dominican Convent of San Marco, in Florence.

Illiterate himself, he encouraged scholars, poets, painters, and musicians, making his court a centre of culture.