Poet

a poet is a poet, who writes lyric poetry. In the antique one and in the Middle Ages lyric poetry is predominantly sung Liedlyrik, the poet thus also song composer and singer.

Already in the antiquity highest appreciation was brought to the person of the “singer”.
Asprominent poets let themselves be called:

In the people-linguistic Middle Ages individual personalities step particularly in the Minnesang and in the saying seal out (roll ago of the bird pasture, woman Mrs., Trobadors). Religious lyric poetry (e.g. the sequences) as well as latin Vagantendichtung are often anonymous indelivers larger collections (Carmina Burana). The master singers of the urban coined/shaped late Middle Ages (and. A. ) Their seal as learn and checkable of syllable and tones produce Hans Sachs - handicraft.

In Italy the poets of the Renaissance Dante and Petrarca worked innovative,further important poets Michelangelo or Torquato Tasso, and much, many later then the Gabriele D'Annunzio or Giuseppe Ungaretti.

The poets of France stand in the shade Francois Villons. In the romance Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de stepped must;in the modern trend Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud or Paul Verlaine out.

England poets, first under Italian influence, find in William Shakespeare and John Milton, then in Alexander Pope and Thomas Gray and later in Robert Burns, William Blake or John Keats up to the generation 20. Century T. S. Eliot or Dylan Thomas's outstanding representatives.

As US-American poets Edgar Allan Poe would be, rolls Whitman, Emily Dickinson or in 20. Century William Carlo Williams, E. E. Cummings, T. S. To call Eliot and Ezra Pound.

Into Germany as well as the religious poets Friedrich Spee and beside the creators the poets of the church song, begun with Martin Luther and Paul Gerhardt, step human lyric poetry Andreas Gryphius, with which the baroque society poets Martin Opitz, Simon roof and Paul Fleming associated. In 18. Stepped century Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Friedrich of Hagedorn, Christoph Martin how/as country, Christian fear God Gellert as well as Friedrich God-dearKlopstock out.

The classical poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and Friedrich Hölderlin followed them.

Later romantics came as new fact-read, Friedrich Schlegel, Clemens Brentano or Joseph Eichendorff in addition.

An intermediate position between romance and realism takes Eduard Mörike .

Realistic poets for instance Annette of Droste Hülshoff or Franz Grillparzer are called.

Form-artistic poets however would be August von Platen or Friedrich back ore; socialcritical-political poets Heinrich Heine or Ferdinand Freiligrath.

In 20. Aesthetic poets make centuryas Stefan George or Rainer Maria Rilke of itself talks.

In the expressionism George Heym, George Trakl as well as Gottfried Benn step out .

Its own position takes Bertolt breaks in .

To the most important creators of German-language modern lyric poetry since the Second World War count

 

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