Poets Timeline
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Bio British-born novelist, children's playwright, and poet, educated in Point Levy, Quebec, and Sarnia, Ontario, where she and her sisters operated a school for ladies, Walker published poetry widely in newspapers on both sides of the border before collecting them in Leaves from the…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Swinburne was born April 5, 1837, in London, the child of an admiral, Captain Charles Henry Swinburne, and Lady Henrietta Swinburne. He spent his childhood at Capheaton Hall, Bonchurch, the Isle of Wight, moved on to receive his education in classics, French and Italian and metrics at…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement DecadenceLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born at Poole, Dorset, on January 30, 1837, as Julia Augusta Davies, Augusta Webster spent her young years on the ship Griper, stationed at such places as Banff Castle and Penzance, and then in 1851, at Cambridge. Her education was informal but she studied at the Cambridge School of Art…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Margaret E. Sangster was born Margaret Munson on February 22, 1838, in New Rochelle, New York, and attended schools in Paterson, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York. She gave up an early career in writing when she married George Sangster in 1858. At his death in 1871, she returned to…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio Poet, playwright, and pioneer of the Irish literary movement, John Todhunter was born in Dublin on December 30, 1839, and educated at medical school in Trinity College, from which he graduated M.B. in 1867 and M.D. in 1871. In Dublin he acted as Visiting Physician at the Cork Street…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Henry Kendall papers: State Library of New South Wales, and National Library of Australia. Kendall, Thomas Henry. Leaves from Australian Forests. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1869. --. Poems and Songs. Sydney: J. R. Clarke, 1862. Internet Archive. --. Songs from the Mountains. Sydney:…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Colonial -
Bio Born on March 18, 1840, William Cosmo Monkhouse was educated at St. Paul's School from 1848 to 1856. He earned his living at the Board of Trade, in which he worked his way up from clerk to Assistant Secretary of the Finance Department. Privately, Monkhouse was a man of letters: a poet…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Thomas Hardy, born in 1840 near Dorchester, took up architectural work, both with a local firm and in London, before turning to writing and publishing novels, beginning with Desperate Remedies in 1871 and ending in Jude the Obscure in 1895. Disgruntled after years of controversy dogged…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Carole Gerson (Canadian Poetry From the Beginnings Through the First World War [Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994]: 112) notes that Phillips emigrated from Liverpool to Canada in 1865 and worked as a journalist, rising to the position of President, Ottawa Press Gallery, by 1896.Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) spent his life as a teacher of English in France. He contributed to various reviews but became known as a poet only some fifteen years before his death. Mallarmé might be called a high priest of poetry. He constantly polished his poems, striving to improve…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Cartoonist, political satirist, poet, and writer of fiction, Ambrose Bierce was born in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio. He enlisted very young in the 9th Indiana Infantry in the American civil war and had risen to the rank of lieutenant by its close. He then travelled to care for his brother…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Naturalistic
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Bio José-Maria de Heredia (1842-1905) was born in Cuba of a Spanish father and a French mother. Educated in France, he became the disciple and close friend of Leconte de Lisle. Like the latter, he cultivates erudition, impersonality, and perfection of form. Heredia excelled in sonnets, and…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Born at Keswick on October 13, 1844, Ernest James Myers received his education in classics at Cheltenham and Balliol College Oxford. He became a fellow of Wadham College in 1868, where he taught for three years, and then moved to London for twenty years to make his living as a translator…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio John Boyle O'Reilly, the greatest Irishman in America at the time of his death, was born at Douth Castle, Drogheda, Ireland, on June 28, 1844. After an education at the National School, and an early career in journalism, he enlisted in the Hussars and became a Fenian. Discovery of his…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a youthful poet frequented the coterie of Leconte de Lisle where his verses were favourably received. Shortly after his marriage in 1870, Verlaine met Arthur Rimbaud, and in 1872 he abandoned his wife and child and went away with the young poet to Belgium and…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
