Poets Timeline
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Bio Charlotte Mary Mew (1869–1928) was a British poet whose work spanned the Victorian and modernist periods. Her first collection, The Farmer’s Bridge, was published by Harold Monro’s Poetry Bookshop in 1916; a second collection, The Rambling Sailor, was published posthumously by the same…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Thomas William Ogilvie, the poet's grandson, corrects RPO when it asserts that the poet's nationality was Australian: "I can assure you that, while he spent a decade of his young adult life in Australia and wrote much of his verse there, he was definitely a Scot by nationality and a…Nationality ScottishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on Dec. 22, 1869, at Head Tide in Maine and until 1897 lived at the family home in Gardiner, Maine, aside from several years as a student at Harvard University. For the rest of his life he moved in New York and devoted his life to writing poetry.…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio William Vaughn Moody was born on July 8, 1869, in Spenser, Indiana, and his family moved in 1871 to New Albany. He obtained his B.A. (1893) and M.A. (1894) at Harvard University, where he became co-editor of the Harvard Monthly, and joined its English Department in the 1894-95 academic…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio Bolden, Tonya. "Biographies: Clara Ann Thompson (1869-1949)." Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century. 2000. The New York Public Library. 21 May 2009 http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/biographies.html. Parascandola, Louis J. "Thompson,…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Hatcher, John. “Binyon, (Robert) Laurence (1869–1943).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. 14 Aug. 2009 . Binyon, Laurence. Lyric Poems. London: Elkin Mathews, 1894. end .B568 A155 1894 Thomas Fisher Rare Book…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement First World War PoetsLiterary Period Modern -
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 -
Bio Christopher John Brennan was born in Sydney, Australia in 1870 of Irish parents. Brennan first studied for the priesthood, but abandoned his vocation at St. Ignatius College for the University of Sydney. There Brennan concentrated on classics and philosophy, graduating from the…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Born on November 1, 1871, in Newark, New Jersey, Stephen Crane grew up in Port Jervis and Asbury Park. Educated at the Hudson River Institute, Lafayette College, and Syracuse University until 1890, he did journalistic work and eked out a poor living as a writer until the publication of…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic
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Bio Guiterman, Arthur. Betel Nuts. San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1907. LSansk G968bet.E Robarts Library --. A Book of Hospitalities and a Record of Guests. San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1910. --. The Laughing Muse. New York: Harper, 1915. --. The Mirthful Lyre. New York: Harper,…Nationality Austrian-AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Edith L. M. King was born at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, became a student in England, and afterwards taught at Eunice High School, Bloemfontein, where she was headmistress at her retirement in 1922. King spent five years studying art in Paris and exhibited her art with the…Nationality South AfricanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Paul Valéry (1871-1945) published some early poetry before 1900 but then disappeared completely from the literary scene until 1917 when La jeune Parque came out in print. Like Mallarmé, Valéry is an implacable perfectionist, and he demands of form what the older poet sought in harmonic…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Born near Dublin on April 16, 1871, John Millington Synge studied at Trinity College Dublin. When he was travelling in Europe, he met W. B. Yeats in Paris in 1896, who advised him to return to the Aran Islands to find the well-springs of his writing. Synge did so and published The Aran…Nationality IrishLiterary Movement Irish RenaissanceLiterary Period Edwardian
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Bio The Complete Poems of W. H. Davies. Intro. by Osbert Sitwell. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. Page, Frederick. "Davies, William Henry (1871–1940)." Rev. Annette Peach. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed.…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian
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Bio Blewett, Jean. The Cornflower and Other Poems. Toronto: William Briggs, 1906. Internet Archive. --. Jean Blewett's Poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1922. Internet Archive. --. Heart Songs. Toronto: George N. Morang, 1897. Internet Archive. "Blewett, Jean." Canada's…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio Born in Dayton, Ohio, and raised by his mother, Paul Dunbar stood out as the only black student in Central High School, the class poet, the editor of the school newspaper, and the president of its literary club, the Philomathean Society. After some years of menial work, and without…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement African AmericanLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio William Christopher Handy. Blues: An Anthology: Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs --. Book of Negro Spirituals --. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography. Ed. Arna Bontemps New York; Macmillan, 1941. --. Unsung Americans Sing --. Negro Authors and Composers of the…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement BluesLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Gilbert E. Brooke was born March 28, 1873, at Hyères, France, and educated at Monkton Combe School near Bath (1884-88), Pensionnat Georgens, Ouchy, Switzerland (1889-90), Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1894; M.A., 1901), London Hospital (1894-96; L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.), and Edinburgh (…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian
