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We’re bundled up to our noses and snow is quietly falling. It’s officially winter. Here at My Poetic Side, we’re paying tribute to the picturesque winters of New England by reading tomes upon tomes of poetry by the writers who call the Northeast home. So light some candles, grab a blanket, and curl up with a book of poetry ...
Mona Van Duyn was a multi-award winning American poet whose most prestigious honour came in 1992 when she was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. As well as being a prolific writer she served the University College of Washington University for many years as a lecturer and only stopped doing so when she retired in 1990.
She was born ...
Hal Gye was chiefly an Australian illustrator of humorous and political cartoons that appeared in a number of journals and newspapers. Besides this though he wrote poetry and articles, most of which were collected and published towards the end of his life, and posthumously.
He was born Harold Frederick Neville Gye on the 22nd May 1887 in Ryde, a suburb of Sydney in New South ...
Hans Sachs was a 16th century German poet and playwright who also belonged to the exclusive guild of Meistersingers. These were mostly men of the German middle classes who specialised in unaccompanied singing and lyrical composition. As an aside he also worked as a shoemaker, a trade that he learned as a boy and that he kept up throughout his life.
He was born ...
Frederick Locker-Lampson was a 19th century English poet, collector of rare books, a man of letters and a civil servant for a short period in his life.
He was born Frederick Locker some time during the year 1821 at Greenwich Hospital in London, the son of Edward Hawke Locker who was Civil Commissioner of the Hospital. He had no real plans during his school ...
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman was a 19th century American poet and, at least for a short time, he worked as a lawyer. He became more famous during the next century rather than when he was alive. He is best known for his considerable output of sonnets although he did write in other forms besides that. His work has often been included in anthologies of ...
In light of recent events concerning Donald Trump’s refugee ban, which has, for the moment, been stopped in its tracks by US judge James Robart, we decided to delve a bit deeper into the lives of poets that have moved to the U.S. and who, if the ban was effective at the time, may never have been able to tread on US soil. For those who are unaware, America’s ...
Fitz James O"Brien was an Irish-born writer of the 19th century who emigrated to America in 1852. His literary output included poetry and what is believed to be amongst the first science fiction stories ever written. He also dabbled in the writing of plays though to much less a degree.
He was born Michael O"Brien on the 25th October 1826 in Cork, the ...
Frederick George Scott was a Canadian poet, Anglican priest and lover of the role of the British Empire in world affairs. Besides his lyrical and often patriotic poetry he wrote a number of hymns in praise of Canada’s role in supporting the British in conflicts such as the Boer War and the First World War. He lived for much of his life near the ...
Florence Earle Coates was a very widely published American poet with some three hundred poems having featured in magazines including
The Literary Digest and Atlantic Monthly.
She also had a deep interest in music and a good number of Florence"s poems were adopted by musical composers including Charles Gilbert Spross, and turned into songs.
She was born Florence Van Leer Earle on the 1st July 1850 ...
