Poets Timeline
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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
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Bio Cambridge, Ada. Hymns on the Litany. Oxford: J.H. and J. Parker, 1865. --. Hymns on the Holy Communion. London: Houlston and Wright, 1866. --. The Manor House and Other Poems. London: Daldy, Isbister, 1875. --. Unspoken Thoughts. London: Kegan Paul, 1887. --. Thirty Years…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Colonial -
Bio Arabella Eugenia Smith was born in 1844 in Lichfield, Ohio, and resided from 1850 to 1874 in Percival, Iowa. She graduated from Tabor College (originally Tabor Literary Institute, 1853-66, open to both sexes) in Tabor, Iowa. This Christian College offered four-year courses in classics,…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Born on March 14, 1844, in London, Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy earned his living in the Natural History Department of the British Museum, which he joined as a junior assistant in the Department of Printed Books in June 1861. He eventually became a valued expert on reptiles. O'…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Father Tabb (John Banister Tabb) was born at "The Forrest," in Mattoax, near Richmond, Virginia, on March 22, 1845. Despite bad eyesight, he served on the Robert E. Lee steamer for the South in the Civil War and was imprisoned by the North in Point Lookout prison. After the war, he…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Alexander Macgregor Rose was born August 17, 1846, in Tomantoul, Banffshire. He graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1867 and became, in 1870, Master of the Free Church School in Gairloch, Rossshire. After returning to Aberdeen to study Divinity from 1871, he was ordained on Sept…Nationality ScottishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Romesh Chunder Dutt was born in Calcutta on August 13, 1848, and received his education there and at University College and the Middle Temple, London. He was called to the bar and in 1869 passed the examination for entrance to the Indian civil service, in which he served -- as the only…Nationality BengaliLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born July 22, 1849, in New York city to Moses and Esther Nathan Lazarus, assimilated, Sephardic Jews, Emma Lazarus grew up in New York city and Newport, Rhode Island. In 1866 she published her first book, Poems and Translations, after which Emerson acted as her informal mentor. Admetus…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio Born October 7, 1849, James Whitcomb Riley gave up formal education in Greenfield Academy, Indiana, early to do art and make a living however he could, as by sign-painting, one-man stand-up comedy, and medicine shows at home and on the road. He then turned to journalism, first in…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Isabella Valancy Crawford was born in Dublin in 1850 (according to conjecture, on Dec. 25), the sixth child of Dr. Stephen Dennis Crawford and Sidney Scott Crawford. The family emigrated to Canada and settled in Paisley, Ontario, in 1857, where her father became the settlement's family…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Ella Wheeler, poet, novelist, and spiritualist, born November 5, 1850, in Johnstown Center, Wisconsin, was educated at home and at the University of Wisconsin. For a quarter-century from her first volume of pro-temperance poems, Drops of Water (1872), she wrote sentimentally and…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Eugene Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850, educated in Monson and Williamstown, Mass., at Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois), and at the University of Missouri. His career in journalism saw him write for newspapers in St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, and finally--from 1883…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic
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Bio Arthur Clement Hilton was born in 1851 and educated at Marlborough College and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he published in 1872 The Light Green, a collection of verse parodies. After graduating from Wells Theological College in January 1873, Hilton was ordained deacon on March 1…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Burke, Johnny. The Ballads of Johnny Burke: A Short Anthology. Newfoundland Historical Society Pamphlet 1. Ed. Paul Mercer. St. John's: Newfoundland Historical Society, 1974. --. St. John's Advertiser and Fishermen's Guide: A Racy Little Song and Joke Book. 1894. Hiscock,…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Clark, Walter Aaron. "Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett." New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1992. Coutts, Francis. The Girls of England. London: Hatchards, 1882. Available at the University of Toronto Libraries Online Resources. --. Poems. London…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian
