16 events with tag "poetry"
444 BC
ID: 265
Empedocles teaches four elements and two forces - earth, air, fire, water moved by Love and Strife
ID: 265
23 BC
ID: 5427
Horace's wine poetry - Odes celebrate specific vintages, 'wine loosens tongues and hearts,' promises immortality through verse
ID: 5427
19 BC
ID: 2721
Death of Virgil - leaves Aeneid unfinished, wants it burned, Augustus preserves it, becomes Rome's national epic
ID: 2721
8 BC
ID: 2727
Death of Horace - great lyric poet dies, patron Maecenas dies same year, end of Augustan poetry golden age
ID: 2727
8
ID: 2732
Ovid exiled to Tomis - great poet banished to Black Sea for 'poem and error,' dies in exile, mystery never solved
ID: 2732
1002
ID: 4986
St. Gregory of Narek completes 'Book of Lamentations' - masterpiece of mystical poetry and theology
ID: 4986
1100
ID: 5265
William IX of Aquitaine begins composing troubadour poetry - grandfather of Eleanor, creates first known vernacular love lyrics in Occitan
ID: 5265
1101
ID: 5266
William IX returns from disastrous crusade - writes bawdy and satirical songs, invents 'fin'amor' (refined love) tradition
ID: 5266
1110
ID: 5267
Troubadour culture flourishes in Aquitaine - William IX establishes courts of love, patronizes poets, creates new art form
ID: 5267
1220
ID: 5290
Sicilian School founded - Emperor Frederick II, influenced by troubadours, creates first Italian vernacular poetry school
ID: 5290
1225
ID: 7
St. Francis composes Canticle of the Creatures while nearly blind
ID: 7
1321
ID: 61
Dante completes Divine Comedy - medieval cosmology in vernacular poetry
ID: 61
1837
ID: 808
Marx writes Pale Maiden poem - Thus Heaven I've forfeited, My soul chosen for Hell
ID: 808
1837
ID: 813
Marx memorizes Mephistopheles line from Faust - Everything that exists deserves to perish
ID: 813
1841
ID: 828
Marx writes The Player - Prince of Darkness sold me sword, I play dance of death
ID: 828
1841
ID: 826
January 1841
Marx publishes Savage Songs in Berlin's Athenaeum magazine
ID: 826