Poets Timeline
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Bio Edwards, Mary Jane. "McLachlan, Alexander." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. University of Toronto / Université Laval, 2000. McLachlan, Alexander. The Emigrant, and Other Poems (Toronto: Rollo and Adam, 1861): 27-28. Internet Archive. --. Lyrics. Toronto: A. H. Armour,…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) was born on Reunion Island off East Africa. He studied law in France but spent his life as a journalist and translator. Like Vigny, he is a pessimist, but he refuses to express his personal despair. He turns for inspiration to the classics and the Orient. In…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Cecil Frances Humphreys was born at 25 Eccles Street, Dublin, and lived in Miltown House, county Tyrone, Ireland, beginning in 1833. She married the Right Reverend W. Alexander, Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, in 1850. She wrote nearly 400 hymns, among which her work for children established…Nationality IrishLiterary Movement Oxford movementLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Julia Ward was born in New York and married Samuel Gridley Howe in 1843. They had six children and co-edited the abolitionist organ The Commonwealth. Her penning of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and her extraordinary work on behalf of the state and women earned her many honors: she…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Macpherson, Jay. "Scriven, Joseph Medlicott." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Vol. XI (1881-1890). University of Toronto / Université Laval, 2000. Scriven, Joseph Medlicott. Hymns and other Verses. Peterborough, Ontario, 1869.Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Canada, Mark. "English, Thomas Dunn."American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies, 2000.Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Mary Ann Evans was born on Nov. 22, 1819, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, to Robert Evans and Christiana Pearson. She was educated at Nuneaton and Coventry (1841-). Her first publication was a poem in the Christian Observer (Jan. 1840). After leaving the Church, she moved to London in 1849…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Herman Melville, born August 1, 1819, in New York City, was educated at the New York Male High School (1825-29), Grammar School of Columbia College (1829-30), and Albany Academy (1830-31). He entered service in merchant shipping in 1839 and travelled the seas until 1844. This life led…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Lowell, James Russell. Poems. 1844. --. A Year's Life. 1841. --. Poems: Second Series. 1848. --. A Fable for Critics. 1848. 1956. --. The Biglow Papers. 1848. --. The Vision of Sir Launfal. 1848. --. Under the Willows. 1869. --. The Cathedral. 1870…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Born in Huntington, Long Island, on May 31, 1819, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman was the second eldest of nine children. Out of school as early as 13, he soon started work as a typesetter, from 1836 to 1841 taught in schools, and thereafter worked as a journalist with…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Inventor, civil engineer, and molecular physicist, William John Macquorn Rankine was born July 5, 1820, in Edinburgh. After he was educated at the University of Edinburgh, he became surveyor on waterworks and railways in Dublin and Drogheda in Ireland and later for the Caledonian Railway…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) spent most of his life in Paris, though one can see in some of his poetry the influence of an early voyage he made to the East Indies. His mother and stepfather had encouraged this trip in the hope that it would make Baudelaire forget about following a…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Frederick Locker Lampson was born in London in May, 1821. After a brief education, he obtained clerkships in Somerset House and then the Admiralty in Whitehall. Financial security came when he married Lady Charlotte Bruce in Paris in July 1849, a union that continued until her death in…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Whitfield, James Munroe. America and Other Poems. Buffalo: James S. Leavitt, 1853. Internet Archive --. Poems. 1846.Nationality African AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Educator (his tenure as Assistant Master of Eton College lasted from 1845 to 1872) and author of A Guide to Modern British History (New York: Holt, 1880-82), William Johnson became William Johnson Cory after his retirement. A brief biography appears in the third edition of Ionica, his…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Adams, Mary Electa. From Distant Shores: Poems. [Toronto: 1898]. Unpaginated. Internet Archive Reid, John G. "Adams, Mary Electa." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Volume XII. Toronto: University of Toronto and Laval University, 2000.Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
