How high the situation of poor Scotland . . . in arts, in arms, and in litera­ ture—her universities every year more crowded—her philosophers advanc­ ing with so proud a career in the field of science—her little junta of accom­ plished men in the first literary journal that ever appeared in any country, giving law to the republic of letters—her moralists improving—her poets delighting the world...

using and calling on traditional heritage of the past is considered the most important literary techniques in contemporary arabic poetry, that unites the past with present, in fact the contemporary poet by calling the heritage of the past achieved rich and inexhaustible source, and the calling of traditional characteristics is considered one of the literary techniques. the character of “imam hu...

Scholars of Chinese literature note that China’s tumultuous literary history in the 20th century centered around the uncomfortable tensions between tradition and modernity. In this corpus study, we develop and automatically extract three features to show that the classical character of Chinese poetry decreased across the century. We also find that Taiwan poets constitute a surprising exception ...

In his little-known 1539 collection of epigrams, Jacques Delaunay (Jacobus Alnetus), a physician and canon Saint-Étienne de Troyes, includes two important, hitherto unnoticed, poetic exchanges between the monastic humanist poets Jean Dampierre Nicolas Marconville himself. After brief presentation these figures, present article examines principal themes literary techniques characteristic poems t...

ntifying Poets Rohert Crawford speculates that 'the poet who constructs an identity I allows that poet to identify with a particular territory is the paradigmatic modern , adding that 'the position of poets in Scotland is typical of this situation' (Crawford 3: 142). One purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the limits of a Scottish literary ism preoccupied by the search for 'poetic selves t...