POETRY. 152 POHL. Alexander Smith, Sydney Dobell, and Ckrald Jlasrifv (qq.v.). POETS' CORNER. The popular name given to a part of tlic south transept of Westminster Abbey containing the tombs and memorials of a number of Enjilishmen eminent in letters. The memorials include those of Cliaueer, Dryden, Mil- ton. Shakespeare. Spenser, Addison, Ben .Jonson, Maeaulay. Wordsworth, the American Longfel- low, and others. POET, po'a, Felipe (1799-1891). A Cuban naturalist, born in Havana. In 182G he went to Paris, where he studied zoOlopry and aided in founding the Entomological .Society of France. In 18;!3 he returned to Havana and devoted liim- lielf to the study of Cuban fauna, particularly fishes, of which he discovered many new species. In 1842 he was appointed professor of compara- tive anatomy and zoiilog^' at the University of Havana, a position which he held until his death. The most important of his publications are: Memorius sobre la historia natural de la ]sla de Cuba (18(50); Reporlorio fisico-nntural dc la Isla de Cuba: and Entimrratio Piscium Cubcnsium (187.5). His greatest work, Ictiologia Cubana, was still in manuscript at the time of his death. POGE, Cape. See Cape Poge. POGGE, pA'ge. Pail (18.39-84). A German explorer of Africa, Ixirn at Ziersdorf, in Jleck- lenburg. In 1874 he joined Homeyer"s expedition, and in December of 1S7.T alone reached Musam- ba, the capital of Muata .Tamvo. the farthest ])oint inland reached at that time by an explorer of the German Company. In 1880. with Wiss- man, he set out to explore the southern basin of the Congo. They separated at Xyangwe in 1882, and Pogge established a station near Mukengc. He died at Loando just as he was starting back to Kurope. He wrote Im Rciche des Muata Jamwo (1880). POGGENDORF, x<(<^^^en-i{C,vi, .Ioiianx Chris- tian 1179018771. . German physicist, chemist, and editor. He was born at Hamburg, studied pharmacy, chemistry, and physics, and was con- nected with the I'niversity of Berlin from 1840 until his death, serving as professor from 18.34. In 18.38 he became a member of the Berlin Acad- emy of Sciences. His chief discoveries were in connection with electricity and magnetism, but he is best known perhaps for the fact that from 1824 he edited the Annalrn drr Pkt/sik und Chemie, to which he contributed many important memoirs. In connection with Licl)ig and Wohler he prepared the Handtiyirterbuch der Chemie (Brunswick, 1837-.51). He also published the Lrbenxlinien siir Clrschichtc der e.rakten M'is- senschaften (Berlin. 18.5.3), and Biofrraphisch- litterarisches Haiidwirrterbuch sur Ocichichte der eiralclen Wisscnuvhaften (Leipzig. 18.58-03. 2 vols.), siibsequent editions of which have been issued. The Gesrhirhte drr Plaisik, edited by W. Barenten, was published in 1879. A biography of Poggendorf will be found in vol. clx. of the Annnlen. POGGIO BRACCIOLINI, pod'jS bra'chA- le'nc. Giovanni Fkancesco (1380-14.59). A dis- tinguished Italian scholar and author in the Renaissance period. He was born at Terranuova, near Florence, and after studying under .John of Ravenna and Manuel Chrysoloras became a copyist of manuscripts. His skill in that pursuit attracted the attention of the leading Florentine 9»'holars, and at the age of twenty-two he entered the service of Pope Boniface IX. as Apostolic Secretary. He served in the same capacity under the seven succeeding po]x-s (1404-53), attended the Council of Constance in 1414. and was [ircsent at the trial and martyrdom of .lerome of Prague, of which he wroteanalmost sympalhizin" account. For the most part, however, lie seems to have cared little for the important political and ecclesias- tical movements of the period, and is remembered chiefly for his per.severing and successful re- searches in various European monasteries where masterpieces of classic literature were lying un- known. Among the manuscripts he thus recov- ered were those of t^uintiliaii (complete I. the great philosophic poem of Lucretius, Ve Sutura Jferum, seven orations of Cicero, twelve plays of Plautus, the coiiimcntarics of Asconius Pedianus, the history of Ammianus Marcellinus. Petronius, the Diulogus and (Imnania of Tacitus, and the fragment of Suetonius, De (Iramtnaticis ct lihe- loribus. Amoiifj his own works, all of which are in Latin, are a collection of Letters (1437) ; va- rious moral essays, including Dc yobilitate Dia- logus and Dc Varictiitc FartiiiKr: Hixtoria Flur- eittina, written in imitation of the style of Livy; and his most famous work. Liber Facetiarum (ed. by I. Lisieur, Paris, 1878), a collection of violent and often indecent diatribes against the monks and clergy. The most scurrilous are those against Valla and Filelfo. with whom he was engaged in a long and bitter controversy. His works contain livel}' descriptions of the life and customs of va- rious European countries, and valuable notes on the remains of antique art in Rome. He spent his last years at Florence, where he was cliosen Cliancellor. The material for the collection of French tales Cent nouvellcs noureJIcs (q.v.) was taken in part from the works of Poggio. His statue in the Cathedral of Florence is the work of Donatello. Consult the Life by Shepherd (Liverpool, 1802), and Symond's Renaissance in Italy. POGO'DIN, Mikhail Petrovich (1800-75). A Russian liistorian and arclurologist. Appoint- ed professor at the Moscow I'niversity in 1830. he resigned in 1844 to devote himself to literature and the study of archii'olog'. His collecti(m of Russian antiquities was bought by the Govern- ment. He published in 1841-50 a literary and political periodical called The Moscorile. in which he advocated Panslavism. His eti'orts in various kinds of literature are of little impor- tance. Several monographs on special periods of Russian history, with his unfinished ihissinn History (7 vols.," 1840-59), which is important for the material gathered, are his chief works of value. POGY. The menhaden (q.v.). POHL, pol. Richard (1826-96). A German writer on music. He was born in Leipzig, studied at Chemnitz and Karlsruhe, at Gdttingcn and Leipzig, taught in (Jratz. and then devoted him- self to music, living in Dresden (1852-54), in Weimar (1854-63), and in Baden-Baden from 1863 till his death. He edited the Hadebhitt and (1856-60) Anrcqvnyen fiir Kunst and Wissen- schaft. His musical critiques, some of which were published under the name Hoplit. did much to bring into favor the 'new German' school of
