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Viggo Stuckenberg was a Danish poet and novelist whose short life spanned the second half of the 19th century and the first few years of the 20th. As a young man he wrote in lyrical style, mostly portraying pastoral subjects. Later on he favoured the Expressionism and Realism movements in literature although critics have said that he could not truly be considered a part of those movements. He was ...
Wali Muhammad Wali was a South Asian classical Urdu poet who is known by a number of names including Wali Deccani, Wali Gujarati and Wali Aurangabadi, the latter name relating to his place of birth. He is considered to be the father of Urdu poetry, specifically because he was the first to compose the poetic form known as Ghazals using the Urdu language. This ancient poetic ...
Vance Palmer was an Australia-born poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and radio broadcaster who wrote a number of politically-themed pieces on Australian nationalism and worldwide fascism. He was also a leading literary critic, contributing many articles to various magazines and newspapers. He was born Edward Vivian Palmer on the 28th August 1885 in Bundaberg, Queensland, the son of a school master. He was educated at ...
Vasily Zhukovsky was a leading Russian poet during the first half of the 19th century whose skills brought him to the attention of the ruling Romanovs. He was employed as a tutor, firstly teaching Russian to the German-born Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna. Later on he taught her son, the boy who would go on to become Tsar Alexander II. He is famous ...
Victor James Daley was an Irish-born Australian poet and journalist whose assignments included such publications as the Sydney Punch and The Bulletin. His lyrical style was a stark contrast to the more popular “bush balladists” around at the end of the 19th century. He was considered to be part of the Irish Literary Revival, also known as the Celtic Twilight, which saw ...
Victoria Sackville-West, better known as ‘Vita’, was a colourful figure throughout the first half of the 20th century. A prize-winning author, she wrote a great deal of poetry along with a number of novels and books about gardening techniques. She passed on many of her gardening tips through a weekly column in The Observer newspaper. When her husband, Harold Nicolson, was knighted, ...
Valery Bryusov was a Russian poet and prose writer who was born at the time of the great Russian Symbolist movement in art and literature which lasted into the early years of the 20th century. Bryusov was one of the prominent members of this movement and, in addition, he was also a literary critic, historian, playwright and translator. He was born Valery Yakovlevich ...
Valentine Ackland was the pseudonym used by a 20th century female English poet who eventually earned a place in literary history as being part of the philosophical movement known as Modernism that was prevalent in western society at that time. She was born Mary Kathleen Macrory Ackland on the 20th May 1906. She was known as “Molly” by her parents and had a disturbed ...
Omar Khayyám was the pseudonym used by this great Persian poet, philosopher and scientist. His scientific studies in the fields of astronomy, mechanics, mineralogy and mathematics place him amongst the most influential of that time, making him worthy of the title true polymath. As well as producing poetry he wrote a number of treatises on his scientific discoveries. He was born Ghiyath ad-Din Abu"l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ...
Willa Sibert Cather was an American poet and novelist, and sometime teacher, who grew up on the plains of the developing American West and wrote about her experiences of frontier life with a trilogy of books starting in 1913 with O Pioneers! The story continued with The Song of the Lark in 1915 and ended with My Ántonia, published in 1918. She was a Pulitzer Prize ...
