Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

male, deceased (1889)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit priest, was an English poet whose posthumous, 20th-century fame established him among the finest Victorian poets....

Mark Liberman

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Mark Liberman is a linguist. He has a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, as Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of...
Timothy Steele

Timothy Steele

male, 61 years old
Timothy Steele (born 1948) is a United States poet and academic. Timothy Steele was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1948 and is a professor of...

Pingala

male
Pingala was an ancient Indian mathematician, famous for his work, the "Chandas Shastra" (', also "Chandas Sutra" '), a Sanskrit treatise on prosody...
Gunnar Fant

Gunnar Fant

male
Carl Gunnar Michael Fant (born October 8 1919) is professor emeritus at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He is a first cousin...
Robert Davidson

Robert Davidson

male
Robert Davidson (born 17 December 1965) is an Australian composer. He studied composition with Terry Riley in 1995 following studies with Philip...

Juvencus

male
Gaius Vettius Aquilinus Juvencus was a Spanish Christian and Latin poet of the fourth century. Of his life we know only what St. Jerome tells us...

Terentianus

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Terentianus, surnamed Maurus (a native of Mauretania), Latin grammarian and writer on prosody, flourished probably at the end of the 2nd century....
Acharya Hemachandra

Acharya Hemachandra

male, deceased (1172)
Hemachandra Surī was an Indian Jain scholar, poet, and polymath who wrote on grammar, philosophy, prosody, and contemporary history. Noted as a p...

Virahanka

male
Virahanka (विरहाङ्क) was an Indian prosodicist who is also known for his work on mathematics. He possibly lived in the 6th century AD, but it is al...