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poet
(redirected from Lyrical poet)

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poet (sometimes when feminine), poetess
a person who writes poetry


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But blue sky was never far away, and the sun would lance out to blaze across steep meadows of emerald and wild russet acres of heather moorland, setting fire to leaves in steep shady valleys and glinting off silver puddles, making lyrical poets of us all, it seems.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi considers him the finest contemporary Arab lyrical poet and admits that what she finds "stunning and utterly distinctive in his art is that, for all his concentration on a single broad theme, which is at base political, he is neither a propagandist nor a political zealot catering to national frenzy.
In the 1980s he began to develop a reputation both as a film actor - notably in Cry Freedom (1987), Mandela (also 1987, a film for television in which he played Walter Sisulu), Leon Schuster's There's a Zulu on My Stoep (1993) and Hijack Stories (2000) - and as a lyrical poet.
 
 
 
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