The paper presents a reconstruction of the automatic poetry generation system realized in Italy in 1961 by Nanni Balestrini to compose the poem Tape Mark I. The major goal of the paper is to provide a critical comparison between the high-level approach that seems to be suggested by the poet, and the low-level combinatorial algorithm that was actually implemented. This comparison allows to asses...

The poet Nikolai Kliuev (1884–1937) has fascinated and provoked to polemics successive generations of Russian readers, attracting to this day treatments that range from the hagiographical to the denunciatory. In his own lifetime he elicited strikingly diverse reactions from those who came into contact with him or who read him. In many cases, those reactions, both hostile and favourable, sprang ...

Kafzade Abdülhay Çelebi (1589–1621), known under the pen name Faizi is, in spite of his prolificacy, an often-ignored figure modern literary historiography. Though oeuvre has been studied and short biographies him have written more than once about main lines life, a closer look at 17th-century primary sources reveal that some poems correspondence, including biographical information, are unstudi...

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. —R. L. Stevenson, " Requiem " or more than a century, readers have pondered the strange beginning to one of the most haunting poems in the English language, " Requiem. " Who has not wondered how a poet can seem to welcome his own death? Scotsman Robert Louis Stevenson died of a disease so poorly understood in his day that over a few d...

Russian ecological literature writers and British "Lake Poets School" in the 19th century were determined to build their literary values by appreciating natural world. Due diverse circumstances as well personal experiences, two countries' have respective views on nature, ecology, attitudes towards life, writing styles. Based issues above, this paper conducts a detailed textual reading of works ...