Praised for its literary, historical and cultural contributions, the Purananuru is acknowledged to be most important among eight anthologies of Ettutokai. The one hundred forty nine known poets whom three eighty poems are clearly attributable have not only provided us with a wealth information wisdom, but also, unobtrusively, told something about themselves. main reason this disclosure found in...

One activity recognised as an interesting instance of creativity is the ability of poets to systematically come up with new poems, irrespective of how many they have already written in the past. Poets who periodically produce a new poem, different from the earlier ones and comparatively valuable, are considered to embody a more interesting type of creativity than poets who have produced only on...

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to show the practical applications of theoretical evaluation measures designed to capture the degree of creativity of a program, and to use the results to evaluate an effort to develop an automatic Spanish poet. Existing efforts for the development of automatic poets are described, and the implications of their particular architectures to the evaluation iss...

To us, who have lived our entire lives in a culture saturated with print, it seems obvious that the survival of a verbal artifact for any length of time would be impossible without material texts. To a writer, getting published is the necessary first step toward a potentially limitless Nachleben. The fact that, ceteris paribus, a new book is more likely to be pulped within a few years than to s...

Hardly could any poet, like Al-Mutanabbi, draw to himself the constant attention of scholars, literary man and poets. In this article, we try to find the secret of the admiration that Al-Mutanabbi’s poetry has won and see why he is one of the most preferred poets and considered the prophet of Arab poets. Scholars have studied this issue from various perspectives. In this article, however, I wil...

al-jawahiri, one of the most illustrious contemporary classical poets of iraq, was born in the holy city of najaf to a cultured, scholarly, and cultivated family. the scientific and cultural environment of najaf, the literary and scientific richness of his familial atmosphere, and al-jawahiri’s poetic taste and talent caused him to turn to his predecessor poets’ works, especially the ones from ...

Wallace Stevens is one of the most perplexing of the major modern poets. His poetry, as even his most ardent admirers agree, is very difficult to follow, and his personal life cuts against the grain of commonplace beliefs about the lives of modern poets. Stevens was neither a bohemian, nor a drunk, nor a professor. In fact he was a successful insurance lawyer in Connecticut, and became a vice p...