Poets Timeline
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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
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Bio Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) was the illegitimate son of a Polish mother whose name was Kostrowitzky. After desultory studies in Paris, he led a rather nomadic life until the First Great War in which he enlisted in 1914. He was wounded in 1916 and died in the influenza epidemic of…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio After taking his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University, Joseph Warren Beach returned to Minneapolis in 1907 to the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, his undergraduate alma mater. Starting as Assistant Professor, he became Associate Professor in 1917 and Professor in…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Anderson, Robert T. Canadian Born and Other Western Verse. Edmonton: Esdale Press, 1913. Internet Archive --. The Old Timer and Other Poems. Edmonton: Edmonton Printing and Publishing, 1909. Internet Archive --. Troopers in France. Coles Printing Co., 1932Nationality ScottishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Duprey, Richard. "Wilson (Pugsley) MacDonald." Canadian Writers, 1890-1920. Ed. W. H. New. Detroit: Gale, 1990. MacDonald, Wilson. Armand Dussault, and Other Poems. Toronto: Macmillan, 1946. PURDY M 24 University College --. Caw-caw Ballads. Montclair, N.J.: Pine Tree, 1930.…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Born in Birmingham, England, on August 20, 1881, Edgar A. Guest settled with his family in Detroit in 1891. Starting in 1895 as a copy boy at the Detroit Free Press, Guest worked his way up as police reporter, exchange editor, and verse columnist. His first, weekly column, "Chaff," began…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Born November 15, 1881, Franklin P. Adams worked for forty years as a leading New York newspaper daily columnist and wit penning light verse and a weekly diary that amused a large and literate audience. A few years after graduating from the Armour Scientific Academy in Chicago in 1899,…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Mina Gertrude Lowy was born on 27 December 1882 in Hampstead, London to Sigmund Felix Lowy, a tailor, and Julia Bryan. Loy was educated at home before attending a progressive school in London. Despite the fact that her mother wanted nothing more than a good marriage for her daughter,…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Born June 27, 1883, in Leeds, Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy was educated at Leeds Grammar Shool and Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained a degree in classics and divinity in 1904. He then studied for the Anglican priesthood at Ripon Clergy College and went on to minister in…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Born near London at Gunnersbury on September 14, 1883, Marjorie Pickthall emigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto in 1889. After receiving her education at Bishop Strachan School for Girls, she worked in the library of Victoria College in the University of Toronto, where she helped…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio William Carlos Williams served as a physician in his home town of Rutherford, New Jersey, from 1910 to 1951, and in hours after work wrote fiction, poetry, plays, and criticism. He was born on September 17, 1883, in Rutherford, educated at Horace Mann School in New York, and from 1902…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement ImagistLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Essayist, translator of Henri Bergson, aesthetic philosopher, lecturer, and imagist poet whose entire published output was six poems at the time of his death, and whose essays were edited by Sir Herbert Edward Read posthumously in Speculations (1924) and Notes on Language and Style (1929…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement First World War PoetsLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio Born November 5, 1884, in London, James Elroy Flecker received his education at Uppingham and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Consular Service in 1908, was posted to Constantinople in 1910, and he married Helle Skiadaressi, a Greek. From 1911 to 1913 Flecker served as vice-consul…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement French Parnassian schoolLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Sara Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 8, 1884, and received her education at the Mary Institute. Until her marriage in 1914 to Ernst B. Filsinger, a businessman, she lived either in St. Louis or Chicago; afterwards, she lived mainly in New York. She began publishing…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Born in Grahamstown, South Africa, in 1885, Kingsley Fairbridge was educated at St. Andrew's College, but at eleven, his family moved to Umtali in the eastern highlands of Rhodesia. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, where he graduated with a first from Exeter College in October 1908. In…Nationality RhodesianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, to a coal-mining father he could sometimes despise and a mother whom he revered. Later Lawrence wrote about his life with them in Sons and Lovers. After his education, he taught at Eastwood School, and…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement ImagistLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, born on October 30, 1885, in Hailey, Idaho, obtained an M.A. in Romantic literature after attending the University of Pennsylvania and Hamilton College from 1901 to 1906. His first job came as lecturer in French and Spanish at Wabash College, Crawfordsville,…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement Lost GenerationLiterary Period Modern
