Poets Timeline
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Bio Poet and literary journalist, Joyce Kilmer was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, attended Rutgers and obtained his A.B. degree from Columbia University in 1908, and married Aline Murray the same year. They had four children, and during this time Kilmer became a Roman Catholic. By 1913,…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement First World War PoetsLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Born September 10, 1886, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Hilda Doolittle wrote poetry, plays, fiction, and speculative prose, and experimented in film. She was educated at the Moravian Girls' Seminary and the Friends' Central School, where she was a keen classicist and basketball player in…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement ImagistLiterary Period Modern -
Bio "Dion Titheradge." Internet Movie Database.Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Co-author of "The Whiffenpoof Song" with George S. Pomeroy.Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Naturalistic -
Bio Rupert Brooke was born August 3, 1887, at Rugby, Warwickshire, and educated there and at King's College, Cambridge, which he left with a degree in 1909. His first book of verse, Poems, came out in 1911. After studying briefly in Munich in 1912, he returned to live in England at the Old…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Marianne Moore was born November 15, 1887, in Kirkwood, Missouri, raised largely by her mother, a schoolteacher at the Metzger Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Marianne Moore entered Bryn Mawr in 1905. After graduation in 1909, she learned shorthand and typewriting at Carlisle…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Born October 16, 1888, in New York, Eugene O'Neill is the 20th-century's best-known American dramatist. Educated at Princeton, he spent his early years working as a secretary in New York, as a gold-prospector in Honduras, as a seaman on trips to Buenos Aires, South Africa, and…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Bovey, Patricia E. "Bertram Richard Brooker." The Canadian Encyclopedia / The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. Brooker, Bertram. Sounds Assembling: The Poetry of Bertram Brooker. Ed. Birk Sproxton. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1980. PS8503 .R62 S69 Robarts Library --. Think of…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Aline Murray Kilmer was born August 1, 1888, in Norfolk, Virginia, educated at Rutgers Prep School and the Vail-Deane School in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She and the poet Joyce Kilmer married in 1908. Candles That Burn (New York: George H. Doran, 1919), was her first volume of verse. Vigils…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Short-story writer and poet, Katherine Mansfield, a pseudonym for Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (from 1910), was born on October 14, 1888, in Wellington, New Zealand. She was educated in the cello at Queen's College, London, 1903-1906, after which she returned to study music in New…Nationality New ZealanderLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Born in New York and Harvard-educated in Italian studies, Seeger edited the Harvard Monthly in 1906. He had travelled to Paris and settled in his Latin Quarter in 1912, where he enlisted in the Foreign Legion and served in World War I. He was killed at Belloy-en-Santerre and received…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Julian H. F. Grenfell was born March 30, 1888, and died in battle on May 26, 1915, a captain in the Royal Dragoons. For a biography, see Nicholas Mosley, Julian Grenfell, his life and the times of his death, 1888-1915 (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1976).Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement First World War PoetsLiterary Period Georgian
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Bio Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his education at Smith Academy there, at Milton Academy in Massachusetts, and at Harvard University, where he obtained a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy (1909-10) and taught briefly in 1913-14. His Ph.D…Literary Movement Lost GenerationLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Claude McKay, born in Jamaica on September 15, 1889, came to America in 1912, the year his two books of Jamaican dialect verse came out, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads. He studied agriculture for two years, first at Tuskegee in Alabama, and then at Kansas State University, but he…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement Harlem RenaissanceLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Stallworthy, Jon. "Rosenberg, Isaac (1890–1918)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement First World War PoetsLiterary Period Edwardian
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Bio Hughes, Beryl. "Nicholls, Marjory Lydia (1890-1930)--Biography." Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Hughes, B. & J. Vial. "Archives: A Portrait of Marjory Nicholls." Women's Studies Journal 5.1 (Sept. 1989): 74-80. Nicholls,…Nationality New ZealanderLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio William Hamilton was born in Dumfries, Scotland, immigrated to South Africa, and was educated at the South African College (now University of Cape Town), where he went on to teach English and Philosophy. He died in Flanders, 1917. (Thanks to André le Roux, Reference section, National…Literary Movement First World War PoetsLiterary Period Georgian
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Bio Born on August 19, 1891, in Slane, Ireland, Francis Ledwidge left school when twelve years old to work on a farm, on the roads, and in the mines. Before he entered World War I in October 1914 in the 5th battalion of the Royal Inniskillings, Ledwidge published verse in the Drogheda…Nationality IrishLiterary Movement First World War PoetsLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on February 22, 1892, in Rockland, Maine. Educated in Camden and New York, she graduated from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1917. At first, she worked as a playwright, an actress, and a journalist for Vanity Fair while making a start as a…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
