Poets Timeline
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Bio Born at Farnham in Surrey, Toplady took an M.A. at Trinity College, Dublin, and proceeded to holy orders in the Anglican church in 1762. He became vicar of Broad Hembury six years later. George Lawton wrote the biography in Within the Rock of Ages: The Life and Work of Augustus Montague…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Augustan -
Bio Born in Kibworth, Leicestershire, Anna Letitia Aitkin was educated at home by her mother, Jane Jennings. Her father became tutor in divinity at a new Presbyterian school at Warrington, Lancashire, where 15-year-old Anna became friends with Joseph Priestley and his wife when he moved…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic
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Bio Alline, Henry. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Boston: Peter Edes, 1786. Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 44842. Online. Bumsted, J.M. "Alline, Henry." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Vol. IV. University of Toronto / Université Laval, 2000.Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Colonial -
Bio Henry Livingston Jr. was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, on Oct. 13, 1748. The Livingston family was one of the important colonial and revolutionary families of New York. The Poughkeepsie branch, descended from Gilbert, the youngest son of Robert Livingston, 1st Lord of Livingston Manor…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Early National -
Bio Zimmerman, Sarah M. "Smith , Charlotte (1749–1806)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oct. 2007.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Age of Johnson -
Bio Jeffares, A. Norman. "Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008.Nationality IrishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Age of Johnson -
Bio The Poems of Philip Freneau. Ed. L. Pattee. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963. The Final Poems of Philip Freneau (1827-1827). Delmar, NY: Scholars Facsimiles & Reprints, 1979. Poems Written Between the Years 1768 & 1794. Delmar, NY: Scholars Facsimiles &…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Early National -
Bio Groom, Nick. “Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Age of Johnson -
Bio William Roscoe was born March 8, 1753, in Liverpool. In 1774 he became an attorney and during his long life proved a great supporter of the city and its arts. Of the several volumes of poetry that he published, some on the slavery trade, others on Liverpool and its environs, only one…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic -
Bio As a child slave, Phillis Wheatley was shipped on the Phillis to Boston from West Africa, possibly the Gambia river region, on July 11, 1761, when she was about 7-8 years of age. Susanna Wheatley, a Christian and wife of merchant John Wheatley, purchased her. Taught by Susanna's daughter…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement African AmericanLiterary Period Colonial -
Bio André-Marie Chenier (1762-1794) was a victim of the French Revolution. Born in Constantinople of a Greek mother and a French father in the diplomatic service, he early felt the influence of classical antiquity though he was educated in France. Chénier was widely travelled and active in…Nationality FrenchLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Born June 3, 1771, Sydney Smith was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he took a B.A. in 1792 and an M.A. in 1796. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1796 and became a curate in Nether Avon, near Amesbury. Moving to Edinburgh as a tutor, Smith published his first…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic -
Bio Born November 4, 1771, in Ayrshire, Scotland, James Montgomery was brought up and educated by Moravians near Leeds after his parents left for America, never to return. He became an editorial assistant to the Sheffield Register in 1792. Acquiring the newspaper himself, he renamed it the…Nationality ScottishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic
