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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 ...
Will McKendree Carleton was an American poet and journalist. He wrote mostly about the rural America in which he grew up and some critics have stated that he did for the people of Michigan what the likes of Robert Burns did for the Scottish crofters, and the Reverend William Barnes did for the English farming fraternity. He was born on the 21st ...
Many cities of the world have seen some remarkable poetic events, including the rise and demise of some incredibly wonderful poets. What if we could tell you exactly which cities have been the most important throughout history? Well, we have a lot of data. We"ve been putting together some great timelines and timemaps (you should check them out!), and that took a lot of data-entry. For every event that happened ...
William Byrd was an English poet and composer of mostly sacred musical pieces, whose main focus was on the development of the English madrigal, a style that had originated in Italy in the 14th century. He was also an expert keyboard player. He was a Catholic but much of his work was produced for Anglican services which was, perhaps, a sensible course ...
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was an English poet and playwright whose work was produced during the early years of the reign of King George V, thus placing him in the group known as the Georgian poets. Other writers belonging to this group included Siegfried Sassoon, D. H. Lawrence and Rupert Brooke. Both Sassoon and Brooke are well known as First World War ...
The American poet, teacher and politician Charles Wilbert Snow is more often known as Bill Snow, or sometimes Wilbert Snow, while some formal references to him quote the name C. Wilbert Snow. Born in the late 19th century this man certainly lived a full life, into his early nineties, and he held the post of 75th Governor of Connecticut, albeit for barely two ...
Wallace Irwin was an American poet and journalist. He also wrote novels, screen plays and the lyrics for a number of Broadway musicals. This multi-talented writer was also credited with taking the standard detective story into the realms of antiquity with his 1935 novel The Julius Caesar Murder Case. He was born on the 15th March 1875 in Oneida, New York but he spent his ...
William Baylebridge was an Australian poet, short story writer and musician who was one of the leading writers of his age although he only adopted that name at the age of 42. It was generally thought that he had a political agenda in his writing and was fond of portraying himself as a populist nationalist. He published much of his work privately and ...
Tevfik Fikret was an Ottoman poet, magazine editor and school teacher. His literary achievements were so significant that many consider him to be a great reformer of Turkish poetry, as well as being the founder of the modern school. He was known as “the freedom poet” because of his opposition to the ruling Sultan. He was born Mehmed Tevfik on the 24th December 1867 ...
Theodore O'Hara was a 19th century American poet, lawyer, civil servant and long-serving army officer who participated in both the Civil War and the Mexican-American War. Not surprisingly, his best known poem was one about military conflict called Bivouac of the Dead. Words from this can often be found on gravestones throughout the country. He was born on the 11th February 1820 in ...
