Hero Essays on Poets from the BC Era through the 18th Century
World Poetry day celebrates the diversity of expression through language. According to the UN, it is meant "to encourage a return to the oral tradition of poetry recitals, to promote the teaching of poetry, to restore a dialogue between poetry and the other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and to support small publishers and create an attractive image of poetry in the media, so that the art of poetry will no longer be considered an outdated form of art, but one which enables society as a whole to regain and assert its identity."
As we can see through the popularity of expressions today like rap music, poetry is not outdated and the oral tradition of expressing feelings and stories through the spoken word is alive and well.
BC Era Poets
Poets born in the 8th Century
Poets born in the 13th Century
Poets born in the 14th-17th Centuries (aka Renaissance in the Western tradition)
Imagine trying to become a poet 400 years ago as a woman in Puritan New England, while raising eight children.
Sor Juana is a famous Mexican writer, poet, nun, and influential women's right leader from the late 17th century
Poets born in the 18th Century
"And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name." ~ William Shakespeare
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