Poets Timeline
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Bio Joseph Trumbull Stickney was born in Geneva on June 20, 1874, and grew up (to a height of six feet four inches) as his parents travelled widely ... Wiesbaden, Florence, Nice, London, and New York. After being educated by his father Austin at home in Latin and Greek, Trumbull entered…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born on 29 May, 1874 at 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, London. He was the elder son of Edward Chesterton (an estate agent) and Marie Louise (née Grosjean). As Chesterton would later emphasize in his Autobiography (1936), he had a comfortable upbringing…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio Lucy Maud Montgomery, born November 30, 1874, in Clinton, on the north shore of Prince Edward Island, Canada, grew up after her mother's death with her relatives in Cavendish. She started writing poetry in 1883 and published first in 1894 after training as a teacher at the Prince of…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Klinck, Carl F. Robert Service. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976. Service, Robert W. --. Songs of a Sourdough. Toronto: William Briggs, 1907. --. Ballads of a Cheechako. Toronto: William Briggs, 1909. --. Rhymes of a Rolling Stone. Toronto: William Briggs, 1912. --. Rhymes of…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio Professor Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, chair of the Department of Botany, University of Manitoba (1904-36), was born in Birmingham on August 19, 1874. He obtained his Ph.D. at Leipzig before joining the university. His best-known academic work was Researches in Fungi, 7 vols. (1909-34…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Kizuk, R. Alex. "Robert (Winkworth) Norwood." Canadian Writers, 1890-1920. Ed. William H. New. Detroit: Gale, 1990. Norwood, Robert. Bill Boram. New York: Doran, 1921. Internet Archive --. Driftwood. N.pl.: n.pr., 1898. --. His Lady of the Sonnets. Toronto: McClelland and…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio The Times obituary is as follows: "Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley de Vere Julius, who died last week at Millbank Military Hospital, at the age of 54, was educated at St. Laurence College, joined The Royal Sussex Regiment from Sandhurst i n 1896, and served throughout the Tirah campaign. He…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio This South African poet brought out The Gods of Africa and other Poems in London in 1912 and whose later poem, "Eve," was first published for a centenary collection of South African verse in 1925. He appears to have lived once in Pretoria. Francis Ernley Walrond was born in Edinburgh and…Nationality South AfricanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Rose Amy Fyleman was born on the outskirts of Nottingam on 6 March, 1877 to Emilie (née Loewenstein) and John Feilman. Her mother had immigrated from Russia, while her father's family was situated in Germany seventeen years prior to Rose's birth. As a young girl, Fyleman was educated at…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Heaney, Frances Gale. Theodore Goodridge Roberts. University of New Brunswick, 1960. Northland Lyrics: William Carman Roberts, Theodore Roberts & Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald. Ed. Charles G.D. Roberts. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899. Roberts, Theodore Goodridge. The Leather…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Carl Sandburg's parents were Swedish immigrants who settled in Galesburg, Illinois, where he was born. After a time of manual labour, Sandburg spent four years (without obtaining a degree) at its Lombard College and went on to a career in journalism in Chicago as associate editor of…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Gervais, David. “Masefield, John Edward (1878–1967).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008. 11 Aug. 2009 . Masefield, John. Salt-Water Ballads. London: G. Richards, 1902…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement Georgian Poetry, 1910sLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Born March 3, 1878, in London, Edward Thomas had his education at St. Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford University, from which he graduated in 1900 with a history degree. Having married Helen Noble in 1899 and with a baby son, Merfyn, to support, Thomas became a professional…Nationality WelshLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Adelaide Crapsey taught at Kemper Hall (1902-04), Miss Lowe's Preparatory School, Stamford, Conn. (1906-08), and Smith College (1911-12). She invented the quintain and died much too young for one with such astonishing skill as a poet.Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Naturalistic -
Bio Gillan, Patrick. "MacDonagh, Thomas Stanislaus (1878-1916)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality IrishLiterary Movement Irish RenaissanceLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Perceval Gibbon, a native of Wales, was educated at Baden and became a journalist on South Africa's now defunct Rand Daily Mail. He was a short-story writer and a poet. Gibbon, Perceval. African Items: A Volume of Verse (London: Elliott Stock, 1903). 011651.l.98 British Library --.…Nationality South AfricanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, Illinois, on November 10, 1879. After graduating from Hiram College, Ohio, in 1900, he began a short-lived career in art and lectured at the Y.M.C.A. in New York. In 1906 he made a walking tour of the south in which he handed out a poem, "The Tree…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Émile Nelligan is one of the most celebrated and admired of Canada’s nineteenth-century poets. He had only a brief career as a young poet, but produced some remarkable poems. Born in Montreal on the 24th of December, 1879, Nelligan was the oldest child of David Nelligan, an Irish…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement Canadian symbolistLiterary Period Unknown
