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Thomas E Spencer was an English-born, Australian poet, building contractor and stonemason. He was born Thomas Edward O’Brien on the 30th December 1845 in the East London district of Hoxton. His father, Daniel O’Brien, was a cabinet maker. Thomas eventually took the name of his mother’s second husband, a stonemason also called Thomas Edward Spencer. There is nothing of note recorded about his early years ...
Thomas Dunn English was a 19th century American poet, songwriter, lawyer, magazine editor and politician. His most famous piece of work was a poem whose title is inscribed on his gravestone at Fairmount Cemetery, Newark where it says that he was the "Author of Ben Bolt". He is also well known for a long-running feud with the writer Edgar Allan Poe which, ...
Thomas Dekker was an Elizabethan-era English poet, playwright and pamphlet writer. Remarkably, one of his poems – Cradle Song - was incorporated into the lyrics of a Beatles pop song in the 1960s. He was involved for a number of years with a group of dramatic writers known as the Admiral’s Men. There is very little recorded about his early life but it is ...
Stephen Crane was a 19th century American poet, journalist, writer of short stories and novelist whose most famous book, The Red Badge of Courage, drew plaudits from all over the literary community, including luminaries such as Ernest Hemingway. He lived a tragically short life but is remembered as an innovative writer who incorporated imagism and realism into his work. He was born on the ...
St Nerses the Gracious was a 12th century Armenian poet, hymn writer and priest. He is known by other names, such as Nerses IV the Gracious, Nerses Shnorhali or Nerses of Kla. His great desire was to unify the Christian faiths through his teaching and his writing and the name Shnorhali was given to him because of his irenic style and quality of ...
Stefan Anton George, a German who translated a number of works by Baudelaire, Dante and Shakespeare into German was predominantly a poet that also edited literary magazines. He was born in Büdesheim on the 12th July 1868, a place which now forms a piece of Bingen in the Rhineland-Palatinate, the son of a wine merchant and inn keeper. He completed his education at the age of 20, and ...
Stephan G. Stephansson was an Icelandic-Canadian poet and farmer. His literary output was substantial and was certainly enough for him to be considered one of Iceland’s greatest writers. He was born Stefán Guðmundur Guðmundsson on the 3rd October 1853 in Skagafjörður, Iceland. He had no formal education but was self-taught. His parents instilled into him the ethic of hard work and he continued with this all ...
Stephen Foster was an 18th century American poet and songwriter who was so popular that is referred to as "the father of American music”. He wrote songs over 150 years ago that are standards today, and are known and sung all over the world. So many of his songs have appeared in stage productions and American films. Almost anyone, young or old, ...
Stephen Hawes was a popular poet in Tudor England whose work was well known and admired in the 15th and 16th centuries, but much less so nowadays. His work was greatly inspired by allegorical poetry and medieval romantic pieces from earlier times. Details about his early life are quite sketchy but it is believed that he was born somewhere in Suffolk, but this is ...
Stephen Phillips was an English poet, playwright and occasional actor who enjoyed widespread popularity for his work. He achieved a great deal of success during his lifetime, and yet he died at the age of 50 in poverty. He was born on the 28th July 1864 in Summertown, near Oxford. His father was the precentor at Peterborough Cathedral. The family moved there and Stephen went to ...
