hendiadys is often characterized by its elevation above the ordinary tone of conventional English and by a kind of syntactical complexity that seems fathomable only by an intuitional understanding of the way the words interweave their meanings, rather than by painstaking lexical analysis.
The oldest documented use of poetry discovered so far is a large body of texts called Vedas, which originate from Ancient India around 1700BC.
The development of modern poetry is generally seen as having started at the beginning of the 20th century and extends into the 21st century. Among its major practitioners are Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Carson.