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The oldest documented use of poetry discovered so far is a large body of texts called Vedas, which originate from Ancient India around 1700BC.
Lesson Summary. The term dramatic poetry describes any dramatic work composed in verse. First developed in Athens in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., dramatic poetry is believed to have begun with the first tragedies of Aeschylus, the warrior-poet.