1. Flame Heart
Perhaps the most recognized of these poets is Imr al-Qais, who employs a long nasib, the romantic prelude, to declare his grief over his lost love. ... Imr al-Qais uses all of his senses to capture the majesty of his beast, to a point where it is difficult to discern between his lost love and his beast. ... Instead of taking time to express his grief over his lost love, Tarafa races through the nasib and immediately begins to describe his beast. ... Labid begins his Nasib with an intoxicating depiction of an earthly paradise, Labid begins: "naked shows their trace, rubbed smooth, like l...
JOHN DRYDEN ( 1631-1700). "Absolom and Achitopel- There was a dangerous crisis in 1670, both religious and political, which threatened to undo the Restoration settlement and to precipitate England once again into civil war. Dryden is the commanding figure of the last ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett, an English poet of the Romantic Movement, was born in 1806 at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England. She was the oldest of twelve children born to Mary and Edward Barrett. For centuries, the Barrett family who were part Creole, had l...