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 ...
Susanna Strickland Moodie was a 19th century Canadian poet and journal writer who wrote extensively about her experiences as an English settler in British colonial Canada. She also wrote for children and took an active interest in the anti-slavery movement in London before emigrating. She was born Susanna Strickland on the 6th December 1803 in a small Suffolk town called Bungay. It was a ...
Sydney Thompson Dobell was a 19th century English poet and literary critic who belonged to a group called the “Spasmodic School” of writers whose numbers included George Gilfillan and Richard Henry Horne. He was born on the 5th April 1824 in the small town of Cranbrook in Kent into reasonably comfortable circumstances. His father, John Dobell, ran a successful wine business and his mother ...
Sydney Jephcott was an Australian poet and cattle farmer, the son of 19th century English immigrants. Apart from his literary achievements he was a journalist and also a remarkably successful exotic tree grower. From seeds introduced in 1874 he helped to create a spectacular arboretum at the family farm and he took great pains to ensure that this important plantation survived throughout ...
Thomas Augustine Daly was an Irish-American poet who is more commonly referred to as T A Daly. He was a very popular writer, mainly poetry, but he had many articles published in newspapers and magazines. He also made a good living on the lecturing and after-dinner speaking circuit where he would often recite his own poetry to appreciative audiences. His style was ...
Takuboku Ishikawa was a Japanese poet of the early 20th century whose life was tragically cut short by tuberculosis. His writing mostly followed the classical tanka style, although sometimes he used a “modern” or “free-style” method. His early work showed that he favoured naturalist subjects as favoured by the Myojo group but, later, he renounced this style in favour of the “socialist” method of writing. He ...
