Poets Timeline
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Bio Hennessy, Michael. "Phyllis McGinley". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 48: American Poets, 1880-1945, Second Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Peter Quartermain, University of British Columbia. The Gale Group, 1986. pp. 285-290. McGinley, Phyllis. On the Contrary…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Challis, D. A., and Gloria Rawlinson. The Book of Iris: A Biography of Robin Hyde. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Hyde, Robin. The Desolate Star and Other Poems. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1929. --. The Conquerors and Other Poems. Macmillan's…Nationality New ZealandLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Poet, novelist and newspaperman Charles Bruce was born in 1906 in Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia. After graduating from Mount Allison University in 1927 with a Bachelor of Arts, he joined the Canadian Press in Halifax and was transferred to Toronto in 1933. Among his six collections of…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement PostmodernismLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. Bevington, Helen. Dr. Johnson's Waterfall, and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, 1946. --. Nineteen Million Elephants, and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, 1950. --.A Change of Sky, and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, 1956. --.When…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio John Betjeman, son of Ernest Edward Betjemann (a furniture manufacturer) and Mabel Bessie Dawson, was born at Parliament Hill Mansions, north London. John adopted his style of spelling the family name around the age of twenty-one (the name can be traced back to Dutch or German origin).…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Cunningham, Valentine. “Sprigg, Christopher St John (1907–1937).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Caudwell, Christopher. Poems. London: John Lane, 1939. PR 6037. P64A17 1939 Robarts Library --. Collected Poems: 1924-…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian
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Bio Hope, A. D. The Wandering Islands. Sydney: Edwards and Shaw, 1956. PR 6015.O55 W36 1956 Robarts Library --.Poems. London: Hamilton, 1960. PR 6015.O55 A17 1960 Robarts Library --. Selected Poems. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1963. PR 6015.O55 A17 1963 Robarts Library --. Collected Poems…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets As I Walked Out One Evening Epitaph on a Tyrant First Things First Friday's Child In Memory of Sigmund Freud In Memory of W. B. Yeats Lullaby On Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics On the Circuit…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Tolley, A. T.. “Bell, Julian Heward (1908–1937).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Bell, Julian. Winter Movement and Other Poems. London: Chatto and Windus, 1930. PR6003 .E434 W5 1930 E. J. Pratt Library at…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets At the Fishhouses Filling Station In the Waiting Room Little Exercise One Art Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance Suicide of a Moderate Dictator The Armadillo The Fish The Moose…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Hunting, Constance. "May Sarton". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 48: American Poets, 1880-1945, Second Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Peter Quartermain, University of British Columbia. The Gale Group, 1986. pp. 376-386. Sarton, May. Encounter in April…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Thomas, Hilda L.. "Anne Marriott". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 68: Canadian Writers, 1920-1959, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by W. H. New, University of British Columbia. The Gale Group, 1988. pp. 244-247. Marriott, Anne. The Wind Our Enemy.…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement PostmodernismLiterary Period Modern -
Bio The works of Dylan Thomas are in copyright and may only be published with permission of his publisher. For a biography, see the Dylan Thomas Home Page, owned by the City and County of Swansea and managed by the Dylan Thomas Centre; and Ferris, Paul. "Thomas, Dylan Marlais (1914–1953…Nationality WelshLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets Once in the 40's With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach and The Poetry Foundation A Family Turn A Human Condition A Message from the Wanderer A Posy A Survey A Tentative Welcome to Readers Accountability…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio De-la-Noy, Michael. “Cornford, (Rupert) John (1915–1936).” Rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Cornford, John. Collected Writings. Ed. by Jonathan Galassi. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1986. HX246 .C78 A2 1986 Robarts…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Georgian
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Bio Brown, Ashley. "Robert Lowell". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 169: American Poets Since World War II, Fifth Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Joseph Conte, State University of New York at Buffalo. Gale Research, 1996. pp. 165-178. Lowell, Robert. Land of…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Ruth Gilbert was born at Greytown, New Zealand, in 1917, daughter of Florence Margaret (Carrington), a music teacher, and Henry George Gilbert, a Prebyterian minister and violin-maker. In 1945 she married John B. Mackay (1918-95), a doctor, and has four children. Her poetry appeared…Nationality New ZealanderLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Born and educated in Toronto, Raymond Souster is that city's most loved poet and servant to poetry. He worked at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce from 1939 to his retirement in 1985, a career interrupted only from 1941 to 1945, when he served as ground crew in the Royal Canadian…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri Endings Letters from a Father and The Poetry Foundation "The Wish To Be Believed" A Bouquet of Zinnias A Garland for Christopher Smart A Kind of Music A Serious Case…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio E. R. "Bus" Davey grew up in London, Ontario. In 1943 he was posted to the Royal Air Force Banff Strike Wing (Scotland) as a member of the 404 squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force. On October 2, 1944, piloting Beaufighter "Q" (#LV 189), Davey died as a result of a mid-air collision…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Born on June 9, 1922, in Shanghai, the son of American missionaries (John Gillespie Magee and Faith Emmeline Backhouse), John Gillespie Magee Jr. received his education at the American School, Nanking (1929-31), St. Clare's near Walmer, Kent (1931-35), Rugby School (1935-39), and Avon…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Dewey, Anne Day. "Denise Levertov". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 165: American Poets Since World War II, Fourth Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Joseph Conte, State University of New York at Buffalo. Gale Research, 1996. pp. 147-164. Levertov, Denise.…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
