Alcaeus summary
Find out about the life and works of Alcaeus, a Greek lyric poet whose poetry was a model for Horace
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poetry Summary
Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. (Read Britannica’s biography of this author, Howard Nemerov.) Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history and