Poets Timeline
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Bio A late Victorian English poet from Buddington, Sussex, Francis William Bourdillon was born on March 22, 1852, educated at Worcester College, Oxford, and acted as tutor to the Prince and the Princess Christian at Cumberland Lodge. He published 13 volumes of poems from 1878 to 1921. One…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born November 10, 1852, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and educated in theology at Brooklyn Polytechnic, Princeton, and Berlin, Henry Van Dyke worked twenty years as a minister, first in Newport, Rhode Island, from 1879 to 1883 and next in New York until 1899. His Christmas sermons, his…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Markham, Edwin. The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems. New York: Doubleday and McClure, 1899. Internet Archive --. Lincoln and Other Poems. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901. Internet Archive --. The Shoes of Happiness. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1915. Internet…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Elleke Boehmer (editor of Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998]: 470) gives what is known about Mary Frances Leslie Miller's marriage (to Ernest Ames, a railway engineer) and book, An ABC, for Baby Patriots (1899). She also…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio James A. Bland, perhaps the greatest African-American folksong writer, was born in 1854 in Flushing, New York. His father, who received a law degree from Howard University, was the first African American appointed examiner to the United States Patent Office. Bland grew up in Philadelphia…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement FolkLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio An immigrant to Montreal from Ireland, Drummond graduated with an M.D. from McGill University in 1884 and started practising in the eastern townships (along the St. Lawrence River) to which his dialect poems so often refer. In 1888 he moved to Montreal. It was ten years later, well after…Nationality IrishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio French, Percy. Prose, Poems and Parodies of Percy French. Ed. Mrs. de Burgh Daly. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1929. PR6011 .R45P7 1930 St. Michael's College --. Best Irish Songs of Percy French. Ed. Tony Butler. London: Wolfe Publishing Ltd., 1971. 16-17. ML54.6 .F7B4 Robarts Library…Nationality IrishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a youthful prodigy. He began writing poetry in his early teens and, after running away from home, met Verlaine who took him under his wing. All of Rimbaud's poetry was composed before he reached the age of twenty, when he gave up writing for the life of an…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio O'Hagan, Thomas. The Collected Poems of Thomas O'Hagan. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1922. PS8479 .H34 A17 1922 Robarts --. In Dreamland, and Other Poems. Toronto: Williamson, 1893. Internet Archive --. A Gate of Flowers and Other Poems. Toronto: William Briggs, 1887.…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian
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Bio Abbot, Leonard D. Ernest Howard Crosby: A Valuation and a Tribute. Westwood, Ma., 1907. Crosby, Ernest Howard. Broad-cast. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1905. --. Plain Talk in Psalm and Parable. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899. 3rd edn.: London: F.R. Henderson, 1901…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Naturalistic -
Bio "Robert Stanley Weir (1856-1926) was born in Hamilton, in what was then Canada West. He took all his higher education in Montreal, and was qualified for both teaching and the law. He chose law and rose rapidly in the profession, becoming in due course, like Routhier, a judge first as…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States (1913-21), founder of the Société des Nations (the League of Nations), and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Ambrosius, Lloyd E. "Wilson, Woodrow." American National Biography Online. American Council of…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Toru Dutt was born on March 4, 1856, in Rambagan, 12 Manicktollah Street, Calcutta, to father Govin Chunder Dutt and mother Kshetramoni, a family that become Christians in 1862. Toru was the youngest child, arriving after sister Aru and brother Abju (who died in 1865). Their cousin was…Nationality BengaliLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio MacPhee, Dianne. "Wetherald, Agnes Ethelwyn (1857-1940)." Literature Online. The Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries. Wetherald, Ethelwyn. The House of the Trees and Other Poems. Toronto: William Briggs, 1895. Internet Archive. --. The Last Robin…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio According to Glenn Blalock, Ben King was born on March 17, 1857 in St. Joseph, Michigan, married Aseneth Belle Latham, of St. Joseph, on November 27, 1883, in Chicago, and had two sons by her. King belonged to the Chicago Press Club and to the Whitechapel Club, which attracted authors…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic
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Bio Poet, translator, novelist, and man of letters, John Davidson spent the first part of his life as a teacher in Greenock, Glasgow, Perth, Crieff, and other places. In 1884 he married Margaret Macarthur, who bore him two sons. In 1899 he moved to London and earned a living by journalism.…Nationality ScottishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Born in London but educated in convents on the Continent and in England, Edith Nesbit started out as a writer of stories. In 1880, seven months pregnant, she married Hubert Bland, a founding member of the Fabian Society when it was founded four years later. Caught in a marriage with four…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio Born in Kitchener (then Berlin), Ontario, Campbell grew up in Wiarton, attended high school in Owen Sound, and studied at University College in 1881-82 (where he wrote for the student newspaper The Varsity) and Wycliffe College in 1882-83, Toronto, and then at the Episcopal Theological…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Dollie Radford, born in London in 1858 as Caroline Maitland, married fellow poet Ernest Radford in 1883 and published poems as well as fiction for both adults and children until 1910. They had three children, Hester, Margaret, and Maitland. In 1920, she died, a year after Ernest.…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio William Herbert Carruth, born on April 5, 1859, near Osawatomie, Kansas, received his B.A. in modern languages at the University of Kansas (1880), studied at the Universities of Berlin and Munich, and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1889, 1893). He served as…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Naturalistic
