Poets

  • Tate, Nahum 1652 - 1715

    Hopkins, David. "Tate, Nahum (c.1652–1715)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008.
    Literary Period: Restoration
  • Taylor, Ann 1782 - 1830

    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. --. Limed Twigs to Catch Young Birds. 1808. --. The Associate Minstrels. 1810. --. Hymns for Infant Minds. 1810. --. The Linnet'… Read more
    Literary Period: Victorian
  • Taylor, Edward 1642 - 1729

    Guruswamy, Rosemay Fithian. The Poems of Edward Taylor: a reference guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. Hammond, Jeffrey A. American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000. Taylor, Edward. The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. --. Edward Taylor's Gods determinations and Prepatory Meditations: a… Read more
    Literary Period: Colonial
  • Literary Period: Unknown
  • Taylor, Jane 1783 - 1824

    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. --. Hymns for Infant Minds. 1810. --. The Linnet's Life. 1822. --, Isaac, ed. Memoirs and Poetical Remains of the late Jane Taylor… Read more
    Literary Period: Romantic
  • Teasdale, Sara 1884 - 1933

    Sara Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 8, 1884, and received her education at the Mary Institute. Until her marriage in 1914 to Ernst B. Filsinger, a businessman, she lived either in St. Louis or Chicago; afterwards, she lived mainly in New York. She began publishing verse in Harriet Monroe's journal, Poetry. In her first three books of poetry, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems (1907; about famous… Read more

    Literary Period: Modern
  • Ricks, Christopher. "Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. May 2006.
    Literary Period: Victorian
  • Born July 18, 1811, in Calcutta, William Makepeace Thackeray was sent to England in 1817 at his father's death. He was educated at the Charterhouse School in England from 1822 to 1826 and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1829-30 but left without graduating. At first unsuccessful as a journalist, Thackeray came into his own in writing for Fraser's Magazine, Punch, The Times and other journals, especially in… Read more

    Literary Period: Victorian
  • Thaxter, Celia 1835 - 1894

    Celia Laighton was born June 29, 1835, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and grew up on the Isles of Shoals. In 1851 she and Levi Thaxter married, came to live in Newtonville, Massachusetts, by 1856, and had several children. When she discovered that the editor of The Atlantic Monthly had published her poem "Land-locked" without her permission in March 1860, she started writing poetry and stories for popular journals like… Read more

    Literary Period: Unknown
  • Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and raised in Worcester, Thayer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in philosophy in 1885 after editing the Harvard Lampoon. Its business manager, William Randolph Hearst, hired Thayer as humour columnist for the San Francisco Examiner 1886-88. His last piece, dated June 3, 1888, was a ballad entitled Casey. Although it made him famous, and Thayer recited it at a Harvard class… Read more

    Literary Period: Modern
  • Thomas, Dylan 1914 - 1953

    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)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed.… Read more
    Literary Period: Modern
  • Thomas, Edward 1878 - 1917

    Born March 3, 1878, in London, Edward Thomas had his education at St. Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford University, from which he graduated in 1900 with a history degree. Having married Helen Noble in 1899 and with a baby son, Merfyn, to support, Thomas became a professional writer. In his brief 15-year career he produced over two dozen books and many dozens of reviews. He focused on local history and literary… Read more

    Literary Period: Georgian
  • Bolden, Tonya. "Biographies: Clara Ann Thompson (1869-1949)." Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century. 2000. The New York Public Library. 21 May 2009 http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/biographies.html. Parascandola, Louis J. "Thompson, Clara Ann." American National Biography Online. American… Read more
    Literary Period: Modern
  • Thompson, Francis 1859 - 1907

    Boardman, Brigid M. "Thompson, Francis Joseph (1859–1907)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2011.
    Literary Period: Victorian
  • Thomson, James 1700 - 1748

    Sambrook, James. "Thomson, James (1700–1748)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. May 2008.
    Literary Period: Augustan
  • Thomson, James 1834 - 1882

    Pseudonym
    Vanolis, Bysshe
    Ridler, Ann Margaret. "Thomson, James (1834–1882)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
    Literary Period: Victorian
  • Harding, Walter. "Henry David Thoreau." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000.
    Literary Period: American Renaissance
  • Literary Period: Unknown
  • Thornely, Thomas 1855 - 1949

    Thornely, Thomas.Verses from Fen and Fell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1919. --.Cambridge Memories. London: H. Hamilton, 1936. --.The Collected Verse of Thomas Thornely. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1939.
    Literary Period: Edwardian
  • Tichborne was executed for having become a party to a Catholic plot to murder Elizabeth. Although not quite as young as his farewell poem suggests, written within three days of his death, the verses were famous in the period.

    Williams, Penry. "Babington, Anthony (1561–1586)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
    Literary Period: Tudor
  • Tickell, Thomas 1685 - 1740

    Sambrook, James. "Tickell, Thomas (1685–1740)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008.
    Literary Period: Augustan
  • Tierney, Matthew. The Hayflick Limit. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009. PS 8589 .I464 H29 2009 Robarts Library --. Full speed through the morning dark. Toronto: Wolsak and Wynn, 2004. PS 8589 .I464 F84 2004 Robarts Library --. Trans-Mongolian express : Bejing to Moscow (second class). Montréal: Mercutio Press, 2003. canlit pam 01451 Thomas Fisher Rare Book… Read more
    Literary Period: Unknown
  • Titheradge, Dion 1886 - 1934

    "Dion Titheradge." Internet Movie Database.
    Literary Period: Unknown
  • Todhunter, John 1839 - 1916

    Poet, playwright, and pioneer of the Irish literary movement, John Todhunter was born in Dublin on December 30, 1839, and educated at medical school in Trinity College, from which he graduated M.B. in 1867 and M.D. in 1871. In Dublin he acted as Visiting Physician at the Cork Street Fever Hospital and, from 1870 to 1874, Professor of English Literature at Alexandria College. He re-settled in Bedford Park, London, in… Read more

    Literary Period: Unknown
  • 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 Toplady (Cambridge: James Clarke, 1983; BV 330 T6 L3 Emmanuel College Library). The parson's dairy survives and was published in 1987… Read more

    Literary Period: Augustan
  • Traherne, Thomas 1637 - 1674

    After lying in manuscript for over two centuries, two autograph volumes of poetry and prose by Thomas Traherne were discovered in a London bookstall in 1896 and were thought by A. B. Grosart to be the work of Vaughan. After Dr. Grosart died, the MSS came into the hands of the bookseller Bertram Dobell, who identified their author and published the Poems in 1903, the prose Centuries of Meditations (`century' meaning… Read more

    Literary Period: Restoration
  • Tsiriotakis, Helen. A House of White Rooms. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2000. PS8589 .S57 H68 2000 Robarts Library Fragoulis, Tess, Steven Heighton, and Helen Tsiriotakis, eds.Musings: An Anthology of Greek-Canadian Literature. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2004.
    Literary Period: Unknown
  • Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard. Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Internet Archive The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. Ed. N. Scott Momaday. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.
    Literary Period: Unknown
  • Turner, Charles. Collected Sonnets Old and New (London: C. Kegan Paul, 1880). PR 5699 T7 Robarts Library. --. Sonnets (1864). Evans, Roger. "Turner, Charles (1808–1879)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. May 2009.
    Literary Period: Victorian
  • Twain, Mark 1835 - 1910

    Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the American journalist, novelist and humorist born and raised in Missouri, Mark Twain is best known for his novels, The Prince and the Pauper (1882), A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Selected Letters are edited by Charles Neider (New York: Harper and Row, 1982; PS 1331 A4 1982… Read more

    Literary Period: Realistic
  • Valéry, Paul 1871 - 1945

    Paul Valéry (1871-1945) published some early poetry before 1900 but then disappeared completely from the literary scene until 1917 when La jeune Parque came out in print. Like Mallarmé, Valéry is an implacable perfectionist, and he demands of form what the older poet sought in harmonic effects. Valéry is above all an intellectual poet whose work requires a real effort on the part of the reader. His influence on the… Read more

    Literary Period: Unknown
  • Van Duyn, Mona 1921 - 2004

    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… Read more
    Literary Period: Modern
  • Van Dyke, Henry 1852 - 1933

    Born November 10, 1852, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and educated in theology at Brooklyn Polytechnic, Princeton, and Berlin, Henry Van Dyke worked twenty years as a minister, first in Newport, Rhode Island, from 1879 to 1883 and next in New York until 1899. His Christmas sermons, his essays, and his short stories made him a popular writer. His poems reveal a classical education as well as a common touch in matters of… Read more

    Literary Period: Modern
  • Vaughan, Henry 1622 - 1695

    The poems by Vaughan printed here are from Silex Scintillans ("Sparkling Flint") 1655, but all except "The Star," "They are all gone into the world of Light," and "The Water-Fall" were first published in a 1650 edition of Silex Scintillans to which a second part was added in 1655.

    Rudrum, Alan. "Vaughan, Henry (1621–1695)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP,… Read more
    Literary Period: Commonwealth
  • Vaux, Thomas Lord 1509 - 1556

    Woudhuysen, H. R. "Vaux, Thomas, second Baron Vaux (1509–1556)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008.
    Literary Period: Tudor
  • Pseudonym
    Stewart Venright, , Steve Venright,
    Venright, Steve. Floors of Enduring Beauty. Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2007. --. The Illustrated Venright English Dictionary. Toronto: BookThug, 2004. canlit pam 03508 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library --. It lies on the grass now and then ... [Toronto: CURVD H&Z, 19]83. --. Notes Concerning the Departure of My Nervous System. Toronto: Contra Mondo Press, 1991. canlit 13721 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library… Read more
    Literary Period: Unknown
  • Verlaine, Paul 1844 - 1896

    Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a youthful poet frequented the coterie of Leconte de Lisle where his verses were favourably received. Shortly after his marriage in 1870, Verlaine met Arthur Rimbaud, and in 1872 he abandoned his wife and child and went away with the young poet to Belgium and England. After a quarrel in which Rimbaud was shot and wounded, Verlaine was imprisoned for two years. At this time he sincerely… Read more

    Literary Period: Unknown
  • Very, Jones 1813 - 1880

    Deese, Helen R. " Very, Jones." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies, 2000.
    Literary Period: American Renaissance
  • François Villon is France's first great poet. Born in 1431, he is known to have studied at the University of Paris between 1449 and 1452. Villon disappeared from view in 1463 but in the record of his brief career there are many accounts of encounters with university authorities and the police. It was during an imprisonment in 1461 that Villon wrote his Grand Testament where he laments his wasted opportunities and… Read more

    Literary Period: Unknown
  • For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

    and The Poetry Foundation

     

    Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurrences Belly Dancer Blue Monday Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch Inside Out Picture of a Girl Drawn in Black… Read more
    Literary Period: Modern
  • Derek Walcott's works are in copyright. Permission to reproduce them must be obtained from his publishers.

    For a brief biography of the poet, see the Nobel Foundation Web site.

     

    Walcott, Derek. 25 Poems. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948. --.Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos. Bridgetown, Barbados: Barbados Advocate, 1949. --.Poems. Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston… Read more
    Literary Period: Modern
  • British-born novelist, children's playwright, and poet, educated in Point Levy, Quebec, and Sarnia, Ontario, where she and her sisters operated a school for ladies, Walker published poetry widely in newspapers on both sides of the border before collecting them in Leaves from the Backwoods in 1861-62. She returned to England to work for her cousin, Margaret Oliphant, a well-known novelist, and edited her Autobiography… Read more

    Literary Period: Unknown
  • Waller, Edmund 1606 - 1687

    Chernaik, Warren. "Waller, Edmund (1606–1687)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
    Literary Period: Caroline
  • This South African poet brought out The Gods of Africa and other Poems in London in 1912 and whose later poem, "Eve," was first published for a centenary collection of South African verse in 1925. He appears to have lived once in Pretoria. Francis Ernley Walrond was born in Edinburgh and educated at Rugby. He moved to South Africa in 1904 and earned a living there as a bank manager, in Pretoria, it seems, until his… Read more

    Literary Period: Modern
  • Nick Warburton. David Higham literary, film, and tv agents (Nicky Lund).
    Literary Period: Unknown
  • Anna Letitia Waring was born at Plas-y-Velin, Neath, on April 19, 1823. She left her parents' faith, the Society of Friends, for Anglicanism, into which she was baptised on May 15, 1842. Her life-long avocations were the study of the Bible (in self-taught Hebrew), the writing of hymns, a love of animals, and charitable work for prisoners. Her Hymns and Meditations (1850) reached its 17th edition in 1896 and was… Read more

    Literary Period: Victorian
  • Warner, William 1558 - 1609

    Craik, Katharine A. "Warner, William (1558/9–1609)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
    Literary Period: Elizabethan
  • Warr, Bertram 1917 - 1943

    Warr, Bertram. The Collected Poems of Bertram Warr: Acknowledgment to Life. Ed. Leo Gasparini. Pref. by Earle Birney. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1970. --. Yet a Little Onwards. London: Favil Press, 1941.
    Literary Period: Unknown
  • John Byrne Leicester Warren, Lord De Tabley, was a literary scholar, a numismatist, and a botanist. Born April 26, 1835, Warren was educated at Eton College and then at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he graduated B.A. in 1859 and MA one year later. Between 1659 and his death in 1895, Warren published a dozen volumes of poetry, the last two of which -- Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical (1893) and its second series (1895… Read more

    Literary Period: Victorian
  • Reid, Hugh. "Warton, Thomas (1728–1790)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. May 2006.
    Literary Period: Augustan