Poets of Old

As always, I had this batty idea of just creating a little page with these dead, but highly influential poets. I knew some of them from my English classes and then, got some from an anthology of poems.
[+] Homer: Greek epic poet who wrote the famous Iliad (an epic poem talking about the siege of Troy) and the Odyssey (another epic poem describing the 10 years wandering of Odysseus or Ulysses on his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan war. Visit the Homer pages at George Perimeter College, Washington State Univ. and Univ. of Oregon for more about the Iliad and Odyssey.
[+] Archilochus: Greek lyric poet and lampooner from Paros [714 – 676BC]. More information on him is at 1911 version of Encyclopedia, Answers.com, and Champlain Valley Union High School.
[+] Virgil: Roman poet [70 – 19BC] who wrote the Aeneid (written about 29 B.C.E., unfinished) which depicts Aeneas’s search for a new homeland and his war to found a city. He was born Publius Vergilius Maro in Andes, a village in northern Italy near Mantua (Mantova) [MSN Encarta]. According to Books and Writers, the Aeneid had taken as its literary model Homer’s epic poems Iliad and Odyssey.
[+] Horace: Roman lyric poet and satirist, whose works are masterpieces of Latin literature of the Golden Age [65 – 8BC]. Quintus Horatius Flaccus – known in the English-speaking world as Horace – was born at Venusia (Venosa) [Books and Writers].
[+] Maenas: Roman Knight who befriended Virgil and Horace.
[+] Asclepiades: Greek poet (3rd century BC). According to this Britannica excerpt, he was born 124 BC, Prusa, Bithynia [modern Bursa, Turkey] died circa 40 BC in Rome [Italy]. Visit NNDB for more about his beliefs as a physician.
[+] Alcaic or Alkaios: Greek lyric poet [fl. 600 BC] or pertaining to the kind of verse invented by him.
[+] Alexander Pope: poet [1688 – 1744] who wrote “Pastorals,” “Essay on Criticism,” “The Rape of the lock,” “Windsor forest,” “the dunciad,” “prologue to the satires” and more. He was an English essayist, critic, satirist, and one of the greatest poets of Enlightenment [Books & Writers
[+] Ovid/Ovidius: Latin poet [43 BC – 17AD]. Real name:Publius Ovidius Naso was also member of the Roman knightly class.
[+] Sophocles: Athenian tragic poet [c. 496 – 406 BC]. He lived to be ninety and stands midway between Aeschylus and Euripides chronologically, more realistic in dramatic action than the former and less secular than the latter (Euripides). Sophocles was born about 496 bc in Colonus Hippius (now part of Athens), the son of Sophillus, reportedly a wealthy armor-maker.
[+] Pacuvius: Roman tragedian [220 – 130BC]. His reputation rested almost exclusively on his tragedies which continued, like those of his predecessors on the Latin stage, to be taken from Sophocles, Euripides, and the great Greek writers [Ancient Library].
[+] Accius, Lucius: Roman tragedian born at Pisaurum in Umbria [170 – 86BC] of whom little is known. According to Ancient Library, Horace regarded Pacuvius and Accius as the two most im­portant of the early tragedians. Accius wrote other works of a literary character: Didascalicon and Pragmaticon libri, treatises in verse on the history of Greek and Roman poetry, and dramatic art in particular [Theatre History]
[+] Aeschylus: great Athenian tragic poet [525 – 456BC]. As the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides, he is called the father of Greek tragedy. Aeschylus was born in Eleusis, near Athens. Head over to Theatre Database, Bartleby on Aeschylus and Theatre History for more articles about his works.
[+] Euripides: Greek dramatist, with Aeschylus and Sophocles, the third of the great Attic tragic poets; Born at Salamis in 480 BC on the day of the great battle when the Greeks defeated the Persians.
[+] the Four Greek modes of music: Lydian airs, Ionian, Dorian and Phrygian. Learn more about Greek music as well as the Greek modes.
[+] Hermes Trismegistus: Greek name for Egyptian Thoth, inventor of writing and supposed author of books on magic and alchemy. Visit Illuminations, The Light Party, and a student’s page at Roanoke College for more about the Hermetic writings.
[+] Marlowe Christopher: Renaissance English poet and author of “Tamburlaine,” “Dr. Faustus,” “The Jew of Malta,” and “Edward III,” [1564 – 1593]. Visit the section on Marlowe at InfoPlease and visit the Perseus Digital Library page on Christopher Marlowe at Tufts University.
[+] Thomas Kyd: dramatist and famous for revenge plays and tragedies [1558 – 1595]
[+] Sappho: poetess of Lesbos, island on Aegean sea
[+] John Lyly: dramatist and poet and author of the prose romance, “Euphues,” whose writings were all the rage before Shakespeare [1554 – 1606]
[+] Beaumont Francis: poet, dramatist and collaborator with John Fletcher [1584 – 1616]
[+] Lucius Annaeus Seneca: whose tragedies influenced English writers (especially Kyd and Ben Jonson) in Renaissance times
[+] Aristophanes: great Satirical comedian of Athens [444 – 380BC]. Many of his lead characters were caricatures of prominent men of his day. “The Frogs” is his most famous play
[+] Terence: born at Carthage in the 2nd century BC came to Rome as a slave and was later freed. 6 of his comedies are extant
[+] Plautus: most famous of Roman comic dramatists. Shakespeare based the plot of “Comedy of Errors” on Plautus’ “Menaechmi”
[+] William Dunbar: [1460 or 1465 – 1530] Scottish poet influenced by Chaucer wrote allegorical and occasional poems among the former being the celebrated “The Golden Targe,” “The Thrissil and the Rois.” His best work is found in his satires and lyrics e.g. “The Dance of the Seven Deidile Synnis.”
[+] Sir Walter Raleigh: born at Hayes Barton, Devonshire wrote “History of the World,” “The Pilgrimage,” “The Soul’s errand,” and “the Epitaph.” [1552 – 1618]
[+] George Crabbe: [1754 – 1832] born at Aldeburgh in Suffolk wrote “Inebriety,” “Peter grimes.”
[+] Robert Burns: [1759 – 1796] born at Alloway in Allyshire, wrote “The Cotter’s Saturday Night,” “The Two dogs,” “To a field mouse,” “the address to the devil,” and “tam o’ shanter.”