03-26-2019, 08:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2019, 08:43 PM by RiverNotch.)
^^^
I'm also curious as to the most influential poets. I named Homer not necessarily because he's so well read, but because his stories are an inspiration to countless numbers of writers (whether they know it or not), as well as Homer Simpson.
Though I went for King David because I wanted a specific poet from that fat old book, and, aside from him being explicitly known as a poet (Moses wrote poems too, for instance), "The Lord is my shepherd", "Have mercy upon me O God", and the fact that his process as a poet is so 'well-documented', if Samuel and the legends around Psalms are to be believed.
I'm also curious as to the most influential poets. I named Homer not necessarily because he's so well read, but because his stories are an inspiration to countless numbers of writers (whether they know it or not), as well as Homer Simpson.
Though I went for King David because I wanted a specific poet from that fat old book, and, aside from him being explicitly known as a poet (Moses wrote poems too, for instance), "The Lord is my shepherd", "Have mercy upon me O God", and the fact that his process as a poet is so 'well-documented', if Samuel and the legends around Psalms are to be believed.