ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about some of the Greek poets namely Ausonius, Paulinus of Nola, Ennodius, Luxorius, Alcuin, Gottschalk, Walafrid Strabo, Notker Balbulus, Salomo, Waldo, and Godfrey of Winchester. A successful politician under the Roman Emperor Gratian, Ausonius retired to his native Bordeaux in 383. His epigrams imitate those found in the Greek Anthology. Like his teacher-friend Ausonius, Paulinus hailed from Bordeaux, where he served as a consul to Rome. Little is known about Luxorius except that he was a Christian who lived in Carthage and imitated Martial. Alcuin was summoned by Emperor Charlemagne to his court in Aachen to perform literary and educational tasks. Walafrid Strabo was educated at Reichenau, Germany, and later studied at Fulda with Rabanus Maurus, a student of Alcuin. Notker Balbulus entered the famous musical Abbey of St. Gall, where he was a stammerer.
