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Brewer's: Poetical

(See Aonian.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Poetical JusticePoetaster A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

Brewer's: Poetical Justice

That ideal justice which poets exercise in making the good happy, and the bad unsuccessful in their evil schemes. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Poetry on…

Scaliger, Julius Caesar

(Encyclopedia) Scaliger, Julius Caesar, 1484–1558, Italian philologist and physician in France. Scaliger studied medicine and settled in France (1526), where he worked as a physician. A scholar of…

Ki no Tsurayuki

(Encyclopedia) Ki no TsurayukiKi no Tsurayukikē nō ts&oomacr;ˈräˈy&oomacr;ˈkē [key], c.872–945, early Japanese diarist, literary theorist, and poet. Renowned for his erudition and skill in…

Ozu, Yasujiro

(Encyclopedia) Ozu, Yasujiro, 1903–63, Japanese film director. Ozu began working at a Tokyo studio in 1923, became an assistant director in 1926, and directed his first feature in 1927. He made 35…

aesthetics

(Encyclopedia) aestheticsaestheticsĕsthĕtˈĭks [key], the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of art and the criteria of artistic judgment. The classical conception of art as the…

Adonis, Syrian poet

(Encyclopedia) Adonis or Adunis, pen name of Ali Ahmad Said Esber, 1930–, Syrian poet and essayist, generally considered the Arab world's greatest living poet. He began writing poetry in the 1950s.…