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Born in 1892 in London, Edward Shanks was a poet and writer who began publishing verses during the First World War and was also known for his innovative work in science fiction. He was a prolific writer and highly respected for his poetry, being the first recipient of the literary award the Hawthornden Prize established by philanthropist Alice Warrender in 1919. Like ...
Born in the Cheshire town of Runcorn in 1852, writer Francis William Bourdillon published some 500 poems during his lifetime and is perhaps best noted for one in particular, the short romantic work The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. Brought up with a good education and studying at Worcester College in Oxford University, he went on to become a teacher and ...
Born in Portishead, England, in 1880 Fay Inchfawn was a writer and poet whose work spanned several decades during the 20th Century. Inchfawn was a pen name and she was actually born Elizabeth Daniels and also came to her writing career late, in her mid-thirties to early forties. She is probably best known for her work The Verse Book of a ...
Born in London in 1875, Edmund Clerihew Bentley was a well-known writer and wit who is now best remembered for creating a new verse form called the Clerihew. His father was not only a respected civil servant but also played for England against Scotland in one of the first international rugby matches. The young Bentley was born into a moderately ...
Bedros Tourian was a 19th century poet from Western Armenia whose tragically short life was cut short by tuberculosis. Despite his unfortunate circumstances he made a huge impact on the history of Armenian literature. As well as being an accomplished poet he was also a fiercely patriotic playwright and actor whose writing often reflected a deep desire for independence for his country. ...
If ever the description “the man had a full life” could be levelled at someone then that man would have to be Coates Kinney. During the 19th century he was, at various times a wistful and skillful poet. For a short time he was a politician, filling the role of Senator in the State of Ohio for two years. He was a ...
John Henry Newman was a devoutly religious, 19th century Englishman who was originally captivated by the Calvinist evangelical movement but who eventually moved towards the High Church of England and then Catholicism. Such was his status that he became known as Cardinal Newman and Blessed John Henry Newman. An Oxford academic and teacher, he was also responsible for writing a number of ...
The tragic figure of Chidiock Tichborne is famous either for his martyrdom as a devout Catholic or for being part of a terrorist plot to kill the reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth I. He had lived a short life in the 16th century practicing, along with his parents, Catholicism at a time when to do so was becoming increasingly dangerous. With the Queen ...
Edgar Bowers was a 20th century American poet whose poetry output, though relatively modest, won him two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships and a Bollingen prize for poetry. It was said that his experiences in Germany at the end of the Second World War, where he served in Counter Intelligence, had a profound effect on both his life and his writing. He remained in ...
Born in 1887, poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell was born into a family where she was left unloved by her well to do parents and spent much of her youth under the influence of her governess, Helen Rootham. Sitwell suffered from health problems from an early age and was put into an iron frame when it was diagnosed that ...
