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William Wetmore Story was a US born art critic, poet, sculptor and essayist. He lived in Italy for much of his life and it was a coincidence that he died in the very place that had inspired him to write an earlier travel journal in 1881. The town, and journal, was called Vallombrosa. He was born on the 12th February 1819, his father a Massachusetts jurist. ...
William Winter was an American poet, essayist, theatre critic and biographer. He was born on the 15th July 1836 in the coastal town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Little is known of his formative years other than to say that he attended Harvard Law School and graduated in 1857. Rather than choose a career at the bar he had ambitions to be a writer and he ...
Winifred Mary Letts was an English poet, novelist and playwright who lived much of her life in Ireland. In 1914 some of her poetry was set to music by the Irish composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford who took six poems and called them A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster. The best known of these is one called A Soft Day. She came into the world ...
Here at My Poetic Side, we love to explore new topics relating to our poets, so this week we decided to do some sleuthing on something a little more gruesome than usual, putting our CSI hats on and investigating the sometimes-disturbing cause of deaths of some of our favourite poets. Ok, so we know it sounds a little morbid, but it’ll be interesting, we promise! ...
The Australian-born poet, playwright, novelist and music critic Walter James Redfern Turner lived in England from his early 20s and it was here that he made his name as a writer, remaining there for the rest of his life apart from a brief spell just before the outbreak of the First World War. He was born on the 13th October 1884 in South Melbourne ...
William Forster was an Indian-born, Australian poet and politician who wrote a great deal of cutting satire, mostly aimed at the colonial government. He only eased up on these attacks when he took his seat in parliament, serving there for many years. He was acting Premier during a five-month period between 1859-60. He was born on the 16th October 1818 in Madras while ...
Although Wallace Berman was an occasional American poet he was best known as an “assemblage” artist. In other words, he specialised in three-dimensional art, putting together diverse materials and shapes to create artistic forms. He was actually known as the “father” of 20th century assemblage art. While living in San Francisco he ran a low-circulation but influential arts magazine called Semina which ...
The English-born, Australian writer, usually known by his initials, rather than his Christian name William, began his literary career as a journalist on the North Sydney Tribune, a weekly paper. He subsequently worked for a number of other publications while writing a great deal of “bush” poetry along the way. He was born William Thomas Goodge on the 28th September 1862 in London. ...
Washington Allston was an American poet and artist who was, perhaps, best known for being a pioneer in the American Romantic movement of landscape painting. As an artist he was an exponent of bold colours and dramatic scenes while his poetry was well liked during his lifetime. Some called him the "American Titian", in honour of his Venetian Renaissance style of painting. He spent ...
William Edward Harney, more often known as Bill Harney, was an Australian outback writer whose work often featured the lives of the Northern Territories Aboriginal people. He lived a tough, uncompromising life, overcoming poverty and hardship whenever he could. He was born on the 18th April 1895 in Charters Towers, Queensland. His parents had emigrated from England and the education of their three children ...
