Poet

As a poet, one called a writer of poetic texts and poems. The term was used mostly to " poet " is used until the end of the 19th century interchangeably, and sometimes generally used in this context for " writer " or "author". Today he is ( ironic or derogatory ie ) in use almost exclusively in a figurative sense; the modern name is a poet and lyricist.

Etymology

Etymologically, the word from the Latin Poet, the one called the author of linguistic art. The Latin word is in turn borrowed from the Greek: Poietes ( ποιητής ) indicated there literally to the manufacturer ends, the author. The verb poiein ( ποιείν ) had the meanings of manufacture compose.

Until the 18th century, the poet, the author of poetry remained rare novels. The "Opera Poet " in this term spectrum was the author of operas - today's librettist, in the parlance of the 17th and 18th century, quite the for the opera (and often their staging) primarily responsible. In the course of differentiation between the old, the trivialization of the licensed market of fiction and the new market, " high ", ie demanding, reprehensible literature continued in the second half of the 18th century, an alternative speaking of " poets " with respect to authors of trivial and use literature by. Biedermeier was " Poet" then to caricaturing name for the failed poet ( cf. Carl Spitzweg effective powerful picture " The Poor Poet "); the poet he was opposite the celebrated author of the nation's great works. This development took place temporally shifted and less radically in other European languages ​​, lead the " poets" as the author of lyrical specifically worthy friendly than language works of art still in the process of inventory.

Presence

A renaissance, albeit with shifted meaning experienced the term poet currently through the verschiedentliche acquisition of the English term poet in German, with the English meaning of poet ( poet ) superimposed with that of the historical German concept, with some ironical accent - such as neologisms as Surfpoet or in art names like Poetenladen.