• The Rival Poet is one of several characters, either fictional or real persons, featured in William Shakespeare's sonnets. The sonnets most commonly identified...
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    the young man for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress; and pun on the poet's name. The final two sonnets are...
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  • The Rival Poets, or the Love Charm is an English comic opera in two acts by Edward German to a libretto by W. H. Scott. The opera was first performed...
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    published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in the Quarto of 1609. It is the final poem of the Rival Poet group of the Fair Youth sonnets...
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    playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is one of the Fair Youth sequence, and the first of the mini-sequence known as the Rival Poet sonnets, thought...
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    George Chapman (category 16th-century English poets)
    and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. William Minto speculated that Chapman is the unnamed Rival Poet of Shakespeare's...
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    D'Ambois, a 1613 play by George Chapman, who has been suggested as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Chapman describes Oxford as "Rare and most absolute"...
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    launched by Arthur Acheson on textual grounds, in his Shakespeare and the Rival Poet (1903). The new name is a reference to a passage in Act IV, scene 3 of...
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  • Richard Barnfield (category 16th-century English poets)
    English poet. His relationship with William Shakespeare has long made him interesting to scholars. It has been suggested that he was the "rival poet" mentioned...
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    tradition and his father Creophylos was said to have been the host of his rival poet Homer. Others credit Bias of Priene, Thales, or Anaximander (a pupil of...
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  • Arthur. Shakespeare and the Rival Poet: Displaying Shakespeare as a Satirist and Proving the Identity of the Patron and the Rival of the Sonnets. London,...
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  • named Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), Irish playwright (The Rivals), poet and politician Sheridan may also refer to: Sheridan (surname) Sheridan...
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    Rival Poet sequence of sonnets (78-86), which has caused a rift between the poet and his Muse. He writes of how immediately following the Rival Poet sonnets...
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  • Already famous for his verse, he became more widely known by his feud with rival poets Farazdaq and Akhtal. Later he went to Damascus and visited the court...
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    Derek Walcott (category 20th-century Saint Lucian poets)
    2009). "Ruth Padel under pressure to resign Oxford post over emails about rival poet Derek Walcott". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original...
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  • Naʽat (section Na'at poets)
    he was a poet, and after converting, he started writing Naats in honor of Muhammad. His poetry defended Muhammad in response to rival poets who attacked...
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    Paraphrase (1745) began a pamphlet controversy regarding the merits of the rival poets. His niece Isobel Johnston married Peter Blackburn, Bishop of Aberdeen...
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    poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is part of the Fair Youth sequence, and sometimes included as the last sonnet in the Rival Poet group. The poet admits...
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    Torquato Tasso (category Italian male poets)
    Petrarch and Ariosto he never derived one penny of pecuniary profit. A rival poet at the court of Ferrara undertook to revise and edit his lyrics in 1582...
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    looking into Chapman's Homer' and as being a proposed candidate for the Rival Poet mentioned in Shakespeares Sonnets. Chapman's memorial was designed and...
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    Terence's characterisation of himself as a "new" writer (Eu. 43), and of a rival poet as "old" (Hau. 23), that Terence was young when he wrote his plays in...
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    sonnet of the Rival Poet series. The poet anticipates his own death, and includes the chance that the young man might die first. When the poet dies he will...
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    Ichijō's court, dominated by the powerful Fujiwara clan, was the seat of two rival imperial empresses, Teishi and Shōshi, each with ladies-in-waiting who were...
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    Al-Farazdaq (category Poets from the Umayyad Caliphate)
    namely his feud with his rival Jarir (an Arab poet and satirist of renown, equally well known for his feud with rival poets Farazdaq and Akhtal) and Jarir's...
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  • Globe or the Fortune. The play focuses on the relationship between two rival poets: the bitter, misanthropic satirist Lampatho Doria and the generous, lighthearted...
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    playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is part of the Fair Youth sequence, and the third sonnet of the Rival Poet sequence. The poet's strategy...
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    Fair Youth of Shakespeare's sonnets and that Richard Barnfield is the "Rival Poet". Stanley was Barnfield's patron and the subject of his homoerotic sonnet...
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  • Shakespeare's "Rival Poet". A "Richard Barnfield of Dorlestone in the Countie of Stafford Esquire" who died here in 1627, was formerly believed to be the poet, but...
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    Murasaki Shikibu (category 11th-century Japanese poets)
    (紫式部, 'Lady Murasaki'; c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best...
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    The Rival Queens, or the Death Of Alexander the Great is a Restoration tragedy written by Nathaniel Lee c. 1677. Regarded as one of his best tragedies...
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