Poets Timeline
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Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets: The Watergaw and The Poetry Foundation: from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle Gairmscoile My Heart Always Goes Back to the…Nationality ScottishLiterary Movement Scottish RenaissanceLiterary Period Modern -
Bio After training in Egypt, Tom Skeyhill fought as a regimental signaller of the second (Victorian) Infantry Brigade of the Australian armed forces at Gallipoli from April 25, 1915, to May 8, when a shell explosion blinded him during an advance at Cape Helles. He was hospitalized at Al-…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Haig, Catriona. "Hodgson, William Noel (1893–1916)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Medomsley, J. William Noel Hodgson: the Gentle Poet. 1989.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement Georgian Poetry, 1910sLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker was born on August 22, 1893, in West End, New Jersey, the daughter of Henry Rothschild and Eliza Marston. She was educated at the Convent of the Blessed Sacrament in New York. Her first job, writing captions for Vogue, led to a career in journalism, criticism…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets 9. anyone lived in a pretty how town Buffalo Bill 's Chansons Innocentes: I i sing of Olaf glad and big maggie and milly and molly and may my father moved through dooms of love r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Sorley's father describes his son's life as follows: "He was born at Old Aberdeen on 19th May 1895. His father was then a professor in the University of Aberdeen, and he was of Scottish descent on both sides. From 1900 onwards his home was in Cambridge. He was educated at Marlborough…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement First World War PoetsLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio "Graham Lee Hemminger '17, promotion director of the Topics Publishing Co. and a member of its board of directors, died December 19, at his home at Great Neck, N.Y. Among Penn Staters, Hemminger is probably best remembered for a bit of doggerel he composed while he was editor of Froth,…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Louise Bogan was born in Livermore, Maine, August 11, 1897, and was educated at the Girls' Latin High School and Boston University, which she left without taking a degree. Her first marriage, to Curt Alexander, an army officer, in 1916, was effectively over by 1918. Their daughter Maidie…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Lucille Bogan, (nee Armstrong) was born in Amory, Mississippi, on April 1, 1897 and grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She married Nazareth Bogan, with whom she had two children. Bogan, who also used the pseudonym Bessie Jackson, was a blues writer and performer, known for her explicit…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement BluesLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Recollections by V. M. Padmini Chettur (October 2006) G. K. Chettur, my father, was the oldest of the four sons of Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Krishna Menon. His brothers were K. K. Chettur, I. F. S., Ambassador of India to Japan and Belgium, Col. R. K. Chettur, an Army doctor and surgeon, and S…Nationality IndianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian -
Bio Constance Woodrow (1899-1937), née Davies, was born in England but lived in Canada most of her life. She worked in Toronto in its most respected bookstore, Britnell's, formerly just north of Bloor on Yonge Street. Letters of Charles G. D. Roberts to Woodrow survive in the University of…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Djwa, Sandra. Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987. Richardson, Keith. "Scott, Francis Reginald (Frank)." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Scott, F.R. The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, July 21, 1899, the son of a doctor. He became a reporter in Kansas City after leaving school and volunteered on ambulance duty in Italy in World War I, where he was wounded and won the Croce de Guerra. He became a reporter in Toronto for…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Novelist, short-story writer, and poet, John Raymond Knister was born in 1899 at Ruscomb, near Stoney Point, Lake St. Clair, where he drowned while swimming in August 1932. He left his widow Myrtle Gamble and a daughter Imogen Givens. Educated at Victoria College, University of Toronto,…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, Langston Hughes grew up and was educated in Lawrence, Kansas, and Cleveland, Ohio. He briefly enrolled in Columbia University in New York in 1921, the year that he published "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in Crisis, a journal which was edited by…Literary Movement Harlem RenaissanceLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Smith, A. J. M. News of the Phoenix and Other Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1943. --. A Sort of Ecstasy. Michigan State College Press, 1954. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1954. --. Collected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962. --. The Poetic Process. East Lansing, MI:…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Florence Margaret (Stevie) Smith was born on 20 September 1902 at 34 Delapole Avenue, Hull, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Ethel Rahel and Charles Ward Smith. Her father left home for the merchant navy when his shipping business collapsed in 1906, leaving young Smith, her elder…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio David, and Other Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1942. Governor General's Award. Now is Time. Toronto: Ryerson, 1945. Governor General's Award The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1948. Trial of a city and other verse. Toronto: Ryerson, 1952. Ice…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
