Poets Timeline
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Bio Mary Balfour published at least four books: Hope: A Poetical Essay: with Various Other Poems (Belfast: Smith and Lyons, 1810) Kathleen O’Neil: A Grand National Melodrama (Belfast: Archbold and Duncan 1814) Emmeline with Some Other Pieces (Edinburgh: Manners and Miller, 1819…Nationality IrishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic -
Bio Born February 10, 1775, in London and educated at Christ's Hospital, Charles Lamb was a minor poet (and friend of S. T. Coleridge), but also the earliest editor of Elizabethan drama, and the greatest essay-writer of his age. He first took a job at South Sea House and from 1792 to his…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic -
Bio Francis Scott Key was born in Frederick, Maryland, on August 1, 1779, and after an education at St. John's College, Annapolis, he worked as an attorney, first in his home town, and then in Georgetown, in Washington, D.C. In 1814 the British seized Dr. William Beanes in retreat from…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Early National
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Bio Moore's career was academic: born in New York, he took a B.A. from Columbia University in 1798 and from 1823 to 1850 was Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, whose site he in fact donated for the college. His Compendious…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Early National -
Bio Bowerbank, Sylvia. "Taylor, Jane (1783–1824)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Gilbert, J., ed. Autobiography and other memorials of Mrs Gilbert. 3rd edn. 1878. Taylor, Ann and Jane. Rhymes for the Nursery. 1806…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Bowerbank, Sylvia. "Taylor, Jane (1783–1824)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Taylor, Ann and Jane. Rhymes for the Nursery. 1806. --. Limed Twigs to Catch Young Birds. 1808. --. The Associate Minstrels. 1810…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic
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Bio Pierpont, John. Airs of Palestine, a Poem. Baltimore: Printed for the author, 1816; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1817. Pierpont, John. Airs of Palestine and Other Poems. Boston: James Munroe, 1840. Pierpont, John. The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont. Boston: Oliver Johnson,…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance
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Bio Born October 23, 1786, Barron Field married Jane Carncroft in 1816 and became Supreme Court Judge, Sydney, in February 1817. He published the first book of verse in Australia in 1819. Barron Field's Memoirs of Wordsworth. Ed. Geoffrey Little. Sydney: Sydney University Press for the…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Colonial -
Bio Sarah Josepha Buell was born October 24, 1788, in Newport, New Hampshire. Self-educated, at 18 she became a schoolteacher in Newport and worked there until 1813, when she married David Hale, a lawyer. At his death nine years later, she was a 34-year-old pregnant mother of four who…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio William Knox was born August 17, 1789, in Lillieslief, Roxburghshire, and educated there and at Loretto Academy in Musselburgh. He took up farming from his parents but abandoned it for journalism, and especially poetry. He brought out three volumes of verse, The Lonely Hearth, and Other…Nationality ScottishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Romantic
