Robert Graves Poems

 

Born in 1895 in London, Robert Graves is perhaps one of Britain’s most successful and best loved poets and novelists of the 20th Century. Perhaps better known for his historical novels such as I, Claudius and his war memoir Good-Bye To All That, he was also a prolific poet and critic. For a man who lived to the grand old age of ...

Sir Walter Raleigh Poems

 

Sir Walter Raleigh, featured in the BBC’s poll of 100 Greatest Britons in 2002, was best known for introducing the potato and tobacco to Britain. This has not been proven, though he did do much to promote the popularity of pipe smoking at the court of Queen Elizabeth the First. Born around 1552 in Devon, England, the product of his father Walter’s third ...

William Ernest Henley Poems

 

Although William Ernest Henley was a poet he was, in truth, better known as an editor and critic.  He was, in fact, unknown as a poet until his 36th year and confessed himself “unmarketable” as a poet prior to 1887.  Whether his generally poor health from boyhood up to then had anything to do with it is uncertain, but there is no ...

Gabriela Mistral Poems

 

Gabriela Mistral became a cultural icon amongst all Hispanic people in 1945 when she became the first Spanish American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Her writing was influenced greatly by her humble beginnings in Chile which saw her family living in poverty.  She became well known as a poet who wrote with a great deal of love and respect for ...

Gertrude Stein Poems

 

Although Gertrude Stein is remembered as an innovative, somewhat outlandish American poet and writer of prose, she actually spent the last 43 years of her life as a leading light on the Paris art scene where she lived from 1903.  She was an avid collector or fine art and her salon in central Paris was well known as a meeting place for ...