Poets Timeline
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Bio Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and raised in Worcester, Thayer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in philosophy in 1885 after editing the Harvard Lampoon. Its business manager, William Randolph Hearst, hired Thayer as humour columnist for the San Francisco Examiner 1886-88. His…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio George Essex Evans, born on June 18, 1863, in London, emigrated to Australia in 1881 and became District Registrar, Toowoomba. He published three volumes of verse, The Repentance of Magdalene Despar (1891), Loraine and Other Verses (1898), and The Secret Key and Other Verses (1906). He…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Robert Fuller Murray was born Dec. 26, 1863, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, of John and Emmeline Murray. In 1869 John took his son to Kelso, England, and then to York. He was educated at grammar schools in Ilminster and in Crewkerne. Murray then attended his beloved University of St. Andrews…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born Augustin Nicholas Ruiz de Santayana y Borais on December 16, 1863, George Santayana was raised for eight years in Avila before moving with his family to America. He lived in Boston and was educated at Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1889 with his doctorate and joined…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Henri de Régnier (1864-1936) is the author of many novels and short stories as well as collections of poetry and essays on literary criticism. He began as a disciple of Leconte de Lisle and Heredia and later became one of the chiefs of the Symbolist movement. His poetry is notable for…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Gerson, Carole. "Marie Joussaye Fotheringham: Canada's First Woman Labour Poet." Canadian Notes & Queries 44 (Spring 1991): 21-23. --. "‘Only a Working Girl’: The Story of Marie Joussaye Fotheringham." Northern Review 19 (1998): 141-60. Joussaye, Marie. Selections from…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Gay, William. Sonnets and Other Verses. Melbourne: E. A. Petherick, 1894. Internet Archive --. Sonnets. Bendigo, 1896. --. Christ on Olympus and Other Poems. Bendigo: W. Gay, 1896. --. The Complete Poetical Works of William Gay. 1911. Internet Archive. SETIS. Ingamells, R. William Gay,…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Adela Florence Cory was born on April 9, 1865, at Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire, to Colonel Arthur Cory and Fanny Elizabeth Griffin. She was brought up by relations in England and attended school in Richmond near London while her father, in the Bombay army, was posted in Lahore, India.…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio All works by W. B. Yeats, although briefly out of copyright in the 1990s, re-entered copyright since then and can only be published by permission of the publishers or the poet's estate. For a brief biography of the poet, see the Nobel Foundation Web site and Foster, R. F. "Yeats,…Nationality IrishLiterary Movement Irish RenaissanceLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was born in Leeds on July 21, 1865. He was among the most acerbic men of letters and journalists of his lifetime. An anti-Scottish Tory and Monarchist, a Methodist, Crosland earned his living as a Fleet Street reviewer, critic, and editor for journals like…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Born in Boston on January 30, 1866, Frank Gelett Burgess graduated from M.I.T. in 1887 with a B.Sc. and went to work as a draftsman, eventually becoming an instructor at the University of California at Berkeley. His gift was comic verse and fiction. In 1895-97 he edited The Lark in San…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Edmund Vance Cooke, popularly known as "the poet laureate of childhood," was born on June 5, 1866, in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada. He began working at 13-14 years old for the White Sewing Machine Co. factory and stayed there for 14 years until he became a self-employed poet and lecturer…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Barcroft Capel Boake notes and Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake letters (State Library of New South Wales); Boake manuscript (National Library of Australia). Boake, Barcroft Henry Thomas. Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Poems. Ed. A.G. Stephens. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1897. --. Where…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Colonial -
Bio Although not a South African, but rather educated at Haslemere, Alice Mary Buckton's The Burden of Engela (1904) well described the life of a Boer woman on a Transvaal farm during the Anglo-Boer War. (Thanks to André le Roux, Reference section, National Library of South Africa, Cape Town…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio MacInnes, Tom. Complete Poems. Toronto: Ryerson, 1923. Internet Archive. PR 9199.3 M3215 A17 Victoria College Canadiana --. The Fool of Joy. Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild, and Stewart, 1918. Internet Archive. --. High Low Along: A Didactic Poem. Vancouver: Canada Clark and…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Born at Grenfell, New South Wales, June 17, 1867, Henry Lawson was Australia's first great short-story writer and poet. Educated at New Pipeclay and at the Catholic school at Mudgee, and influenced by his mother's writing, Lawson discovered literature. His deafness became evident when he…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Edgar Lee Masters was born August 23, 1868, in Garnett, Kansas, and spent his youth in Shipley Hill, Petersburg, and Lewistown, Illinois. Masters in 1915-16 depicted the latter two communities in his Spoon River Anthology. Educated at Knox College in 1889-90, Masters went on to study the…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Paul Claudel (1868-1955) was a professional diplomat who represented France as ambassador in many countries including China and the United States. In his poetry, he reveals himself as a fervent Catholic and mystic. Claudel often writes in short versets which make his thought difficult to…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Stephen (Butler) Leacock was born in Swanmoor, Hampshire, on December 30, 1869, and came to Canada in 1876. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Strathroy Collegiate Institute, and the University of Toronto (B.A. 1891). He taught modern languages at Upper Canada College in Toronto…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
