George Pope Morris was a 19th century American poet and songwriter who also edited newspapers and wrote columns as a literary critic. One of his compositions, named Woodman Spare That Tree, became a popular parlour song during Victorian times and then, in the middle of the 20th century, was adapted by the humorous singer Phil Harris who turned it into a very popular song ...
George Ratcliffe Woodward was an British poet and musician who, being an Anglican priest, wrote predominantly religious pieces. His hymns and Christmas carols are still sung today, one of the most famous titles being Ding Dong Merrily on High. As well as writing his own material he also translated ancient texts, especially from the Renaissance period. He was aided in the harmonisation of songs by a composer ...
George Robert Sims was an English writer of poetry, novels and plays who also spent time as a socio-political journalist. His carefree lifestyle led to him being called a “bon vivant”, meaning that he enjoyed the good things in life, mixing with a large circle of artistic and literary friends. He was successful in all of his writing ventures but, unfortunately, he ...
George Sylvester Viereck, a German-born American poet and magazine editor, held strongly pro-Nazi views. He used his weekly periodical The Fatherland during the First World War to spread Nazi propaganda. He was born on the last day of 1884 in Bavaria. His family circumstances suggested royal connections with one story indicating that George’s father may have been Kaiser Wilhelm I"s son. It was ...
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli was an Italian poet of the 19th century who was most famous for the sonnets that he wrote in the Roman dialect called Romanesco, a derivative of the Italian language that is still spoken today. In later life he worked for the government as a censor of “inappropriate” literature and art. He was born Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli on the ...
Helen Gray Cone was an American poet and writer of short stories. She was also a university professor who spent her whole working life teaching English literature at one institution, that being the Hunter College in NYC. She was born on the 8th March 1859 in New York. Her education was completed at the city’s Normal College which was later renamed Hunter College. She ...
Gilbert White was an 18th century occasional poet and country parson who was best known for his pioneering work in the study and appreciation of the natural world. His work earned him the title Fellow of the Royal Society and he produced the much acclaimed study of his home village in Hampshire called Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. It is generally accepted that ...
Gilbert Waterhouse was an British war poet who was one of the many who never came back from the First World War battlefields. Tragically his body lay undiscovered for some time before being recovered at the conclusion of the Somme. He had fallen on the first day. Prior to joining the Army he was an architect. He was born on the 22nd January 1883 ...
Gerrit Achterberg was a 20th century Dutch poet whose use of surreal imagery and language inspired, later in his life, a generation of post-World War II poets known as the Experimentalists. His earlier work was very much of a sombre nature, being mostly concerned with a longed for reunion with someone who had died and he developed into a poet who used both romantic and ...
George Cosbuc was a Romanian poet and translator who also worked as a teacher and journalist at different times. His poetry reflected his rural upbringing, on the one hand describing a tranquil, joyful lifestyle while on the other emphasising what a hard life it could be. He was born on the 20th September 1866 in a small Transylvanian village named Hordou which was, at that time, ...
