Poets Timeline
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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
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Bio Charles G. D. Roberts was born on January 10, 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, and grew up near the Tantramar marshes by Sackville. Educated at Fredericton Collegiate School from 1874 to 1876, and at the University of New Brunswick from 1876 to 1879, Roberts quickly published his first…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement Confederation PoetsLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) was born in Montevideo of Breton parents but his early years were spent at Tarbes in the Hautes Pyrénées. He came to Paris as an adolescent and later spent five years in Germany (1881-1886), where he met and married a young English woman. He died of…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Katharine Tynan, born on January 23, 1861, in Dublin, was educated at the Sienna Convent in Drogheda. She authored over one hundred novels, a five-volume autobiography, and several books of poems. Her friends included George Russell, W. B. Yeats, Christina Rossetti, and Alice Meynell.…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Born September 5, 1861, Walter Alexander Raleigh received his education at the City of London School, Edinburgh Academy, University College London, and King's College Cambridge. His academic appointments were as Professor of English Literature at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in the Canadian Maritimes, and educated at the University of New Brunswick, Carman authored more than 50 volumes of poetry in his lifetime and became recognized, after his coast-to-coast tour in 1921 reading his poetry, as Canada's unofficial poet…Literary Movement Confederation PoetsLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Archibald Lampman was born in 1861 in Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Chatham and Ridgetown at the intersection of routes 3 and 17. His family moved to Gore's Landing on Rice Lake in 1867 but he received his education at the Collegiate Institute in Cobourg, Trinity College School in…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement Confederation PoetsLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Frederick George Scott, known as "the poet of the Laurentians," was born in Montreal in 1861 and educated at Bishop's College, Lennoxville (B.A., 1881; M.A., 1884). Made an Anglican priest in 1886, he become rector of St. Matthew's Church in Quebec City. He published 13 books of poetry…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian
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Bio Born May 6 (some sources say May 7), 1861, in Calcutta, Rabindranath Tagore became one of the prolific writers in the world, poet, artist, dramatist, musician, novelist, and essayist. He was completely at home both in Bengali and in English, in part because he was educated at University…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Born in London, graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, and living her adult life mainly at the family home, 7 Endsleigh Gardens, London, Amy Levy was a feminist Jewish poet and novelist of distinction. She published three volumes of verse, Xantippe and other Verse (1881), A Minor…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Newbolt, Henry. Admirals All and Other Verses. London: Elkin Mathews, 1897. PR 5103.N4 A6 1981 Robarts Library --. The Island Race. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899. PR 5103.N4 I8 Robarts Library --. The Sailing of the Long-Ships and Other Poems. London: John Murray, 1902. PR 5103.…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio Born April 24, 1862, to Mary Sidgwick and Edward White Benson, future archbishop of Canterbury (1882-1896), Arthur Christopher Benson became a popular essayist of Edwardian England, the librettist of England's beloved anthem, "Land of Hope and Glory," and the editor of Queen Victoria's…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio Born in Ottawa in 1862, educated at Smith's Falls, Ontario, and Stanstead, Quebec, Scott obtained a position at 17 years old as a clerk in the Indian Branch of the federal government and before his retirement in 1932 had risen to become deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement Confederation PoetsLiterary Period Georgian
