Poets Timeline
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Bio Born February 11, 1802, in Medford, Massachusetts, Lydia Maria Child made her living as a novelist, story-story writer, schoolteacher, editor, writer for children, and controversialist. Her first notorious work, a novel entitled Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times (1824), celebrated…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio Born and educated in London, L. E. L. (as she signed her prolific output of poems, stories, and novels) was one of the most popular women writers of the nineteenth century and earned an excellent livelihood from her writings, which she needed to support her parents and siblings. Her…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic -
Bio Victor Hugo (1802-1885) in his writing reflects many of the literary tendencies of the century which his life almost spanned. As a prolific poet, he first imitated classical forms in his Odes et poésies diverses (1822), then turned to exotic descriptive poetry in Les Orientales (1829),…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic -
Bio Robert Stephen Hawker was born on Dec. 3, 1803, to Jacob Stephen Hawker and Jane Elizabeth Drewitt. He was educated at Liskeard and Cheltenham Grammar Schools, and Pembroke College and Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving his B.A. in 1828. Hawker brought out his first book of poems,…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born at Bungay, Suffolk, on December 6, 1803, Susanna Strickland was the sixth child in a family of eight. Educated at home, three of the Strickland children pursued literary careers. Like Moodie, Catherine Parr Traill, and Samuel Strickland went on to write of their experiences in…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston and attended Boston Latin School from 1812 to 1817, and Harvard from then to 1821. His first career, as a school-teacher, lasted four years, after which he was licensed to preach as a Unitarian. In 1829 he was ordained minister of…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Halsey, Alan. “Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1849).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement Elizabethan revivalLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Editor and owner of the Novascotian, then leader of the Reformers' party, Joseph Howe in 1848 obtained for Nova Scotia status as the first British colony to achieve responsible government. He became Liberal party premier of the province's government from 1860 to 1863, a federal cabinet…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Sarah Flower was born in Harlow, Essex, and married William Bridges Adams in 1834. Harold William Stephenson wrote a biography of this actress--Lady Macbeth, 1837--dramatic poet (Vivia Perpetua, 1841) and Unitarian hymn writer in The Author of Nearer my God to Thee in 1922. "Nearer my…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Born December 17, 1807, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, John Greenleaf Whittier, inspired by reading Robert Burns, wrote and published poems in local journals beginning in 1826. After a two-year education at Haverhill Academy, Whittier embarked on a lifelong career of journalism, editing…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement Fireside PoetsLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, on February 27, 1807, and was educated at Portland Academy and alongside Nathaniel Hawthorne at Bowdoin College and then at Harvard University. He taught at Bowdoin from 1829 to 1835 as a professor of foreign languages after…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement Fireside PoetsLiterary Period American Renaissance
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Bio Turner, Charles. Collected Sonnets Old and New (London: C. Kegan Paul, 1880). PR 5699 T7 Robarts Library. --. Sonnets (1864). Evans, Roger. "Turner, Charles (1808–1879)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born in Kenmare, Scotland, Evan MacColl arrived in Canada already a published poet of Gaelic in 1850. His early books of verse were Mountain Minstrel (1836) and Clarsach Nam Beann (1838). He worked in the Liverpool Custom House and then, owing to health problems, emigrated to Kingston,…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 29, 1809, Oliver Wendell Holmes proceeded to Phillips Academy and Harvard, from which he graduated in 1829. His first, most popular poem, written at 21, was "Old Ironsides." Like most of Holmes' poems, this was an occasional piece, prompted by…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement Fireside PoetsLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Edgar Poe was born on Jan. 19, 1809, to David Poe Jr. and a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins (née Arnold), both actors. Edgar and his sister Rosalie were orphaned in Richmond, Virginia, when their parents died of illness in December 1811. Taken in by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan, Edgar was…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, described by P. Lal as a "Calcutta Eurasian of Portuguese Indian ancestry," was born on April 18, 1809, and educated in a private English-speaking school in the Dharmatala or (today) Esplanade area around the Shahid Minar in Calcutta. A journalist who…Nationality BengaliLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic
