Poets Timeline
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Bio Born at Indian Hill, Ohio, March 6, 1809, David Bates was educated as a clerk in Buffalo and then in a mercantile house in Indianapolis, Indiana. Eventually he rose in the company to be a full member and its buyer, and he and his family settled in Philadelphia. He contributed as a man of…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Abraham Lincoln was born 12 February 1809 near Hodgenville, Kentucky, and grew up with little formal schooling. Self-educated, he was eventually elected to the Illinois House of Representatives and served from 1834 to 1842. Admitted to the bar in 1836, Lincoln used law as a gateway into…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio Edmund Hamilton Sears was born on April 6, 1810, and educated at Union College in Schenectady, New York, 1831-34, and Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1837. He became a missionary for the American Unitarian Association, a minister for congregations in Wayland and…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Athey, Joel. "Fuller, Margaret." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies, 2000.Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) belonged to a distinguished family. After brilliant studies, he became a popular member of fashionable society and began to write poetry and plays. The great event in Musset's life was an unhappy love affair with George Sand (1833-4), which inspired his most…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Born July 18, 1811, in Calcutta, William Makepeace Thackeray was sent to England in 1817 at his father's death. He was educated at the Charterhouse School in England from 1822 to 1826 and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1829-30 but left without graduating. At first unsuccessful…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) started out as a painter, but he soon turned to literature. He gained a livelihood as a journalist and critic, writing poetry and novels in his spare time. Gautier excels in descriptions, and one can see in them the influence of his early interest and…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811. A student at the Hartford Female Academy, founded by her sister Catherine, Stowe went on to teach there and at the Western Female Institute in Cincinnati, also founded by her sister after their father, Lyman…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Born on May 12, 1812, in London, Edward Lear as a teenager found artistic work drawing zoological specimens for illustrated books. One of his patrons was the earl of Derby, for whose children he devised the Book of Nonsense, published in 1846, the year after he had given drawing lessons…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Charles Dickens was born on Feb. 7, 1812, in Portsea and grew up in Chatham. At twelve years old, his father was jailed for debt, and the entire family suffered poverty and humiliation. Young Dickens began working as a clerk in legal offices and soon, by studying shorthand, became a…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Linton, W. J., ed. Catoninetales: A Domestic Epic. [Attri. to Hattie Brown, Linton's pseudonym]. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891. Internet Archive --. Claribel and Other Poems. London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1865. Internet Archive --. Heliconundrums. Hamden, Conn.: Appledore,…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio Gale, Robert L. "Sargent, Epes." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies, 2000.Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement Knickerbocker GroupLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Deese, Helen R. " Very, Jones." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies, 2000.Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement transcendentalismLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Charles Harpur, a major nineteenth-century Australian poet, made a living as a sheep farmer and civil servant in New South Wales. Elizabeth Perkins first published a good edition of his poems in 1984. His manuscripts can be seen at the Mitchell Library in Sydney. We are grateful…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Colonial -
Bio Harding, Walter. "Cranch, Christopher Pearse." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies, 2000.Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement Hudson River SchoolLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio James Joseph was born on Sept. 3, 1814, to Abraham Joseph Sylvester and was a Jew. Educated at the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, he proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he earned the coveted Second Wrangler in mathematics in 1837. Unable to swear to the Thirty-nine…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Daniel Decatur Emmett was born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, on October 29, 1815. After working in newspaper offices, and serving in the army, Emmett played in circus bands. Emmett organized the first black minstrel company, the Virginia Minstrels, in New York in 1843; he played the violin, and…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic
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Bio Charles William Shirley Brooks was born on 29 April, 1816 at 52 Doughty Street, London. The son of Elizabeth and William Brooks (an architect), he was articled to his uncle Charles Sabine of Oswestry after receiving his early education. In 1938, he passed the Incorporated Law Society's…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Harding, Walter. "Henry David Thoreau." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000.Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance
![Brooks, Shirley](/sites/default/public/styles/thumbnail/public/Shirley_Brooks.png?itok=SIgVgTwk "M.H. Spielmann's The History of "Punch" (Cassell & Sons, 1895), via Wikipedia Commons")
