8 sentences with 'poetry'
Example sentences and phrases with the word poetry and other words derived from it.
• « She loved poetry and painting, and had a reputation for compassion. If she adopted a kitten, she chose the ugliest of the litter. »
• « Soon, the Romans imitated the Greeks, writing in both Greek and Latin and creating poetry, drama and literature. »
• « Persian became the international language of both scholarship and poetry during this period, with important works written in Persian from northern India to Anatolia by writers of diverse ethnic origins. »
• « Renaissance thinkers and artists very consciously claimed that they were reviving long-lost traditions of the classical world in areas as diverse as scholarship, poetry, architecture and sculpture. »
• « In other words, reading the classics inspired Renaissance thinkers to emulate the great writers and philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, creating poetry, philosophy and theory on a par with that of an Aristotle or a Cicero. »
• « Experiencing what would later be called a mid-life crisis, Dante turned to poetry for solace, eventually producing the greatest written work of the late Middle Ages: The Divine Comedy. »
• « Similar in some respects to innovations in the visual arts and music, modernist literature created a new approach to poetry and prose. »
• « There my father spent his first 18 summers, unravelling the old secrets of fishing, swimming and sailing that filled his life with poetry. »