MESIHI
\mɛsˈɪhɪ], \mɛsˈɪhɪ], \m_ɛ_s_ˈɪ_h_ɪ]\
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A renowned Turkish poet; flourished in the 14th century. He is one of the seven poets called by the Turks "the Pleiades", and whose names, written in gold, are suspended in the temple of Mecca. Sir William Jones, in his "Commentaries on Asiatic Poetry", translated one of his idyls.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.