Robert Friend was an American-born poet and translator who, half way through his life, decided to leave the United States to take up residence in Israel. He remained there until he died, working at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a professor of English literature for over thirty years. He was an acclaimed literary figure in his adopted land who, according to the Jerusalem ...
Records of the 16th century writer Robert Greene are, understandably, sometimes sketchy and occasionally contradictory, but it seems that he was a popular and often witty composer of poems, plays and pamphlets. The best known piece of work that was attributed to him posthumously is Greene’s, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance. Curiously this pamphlet appeared to contain clear and ...
Robert Haven Schauffler was an American writer of poetry and a number of biographies of famous musicians such as Brahms and Beethoven. He is also remembered as the author of a series of travel books on American and European destinations aimed at Americans contemplating a holiday, either at home or abroad. He was equally adept as a musician, specialising in playing the cello. Towards the ...
Robert Loveman was an American southern poet and songwriter of the late 19th and early 20th century. His work does not warrant an especially significant place in the history of American literature but, during his lifetime, he was a very popular writer amongst both readers and literary critics. He does have at least two significant credits against his name though. His song Georgia ...
Owen Suffolk was a 19th century Australian poet who arrived on Australia’s shores in 1847 having been transported from his home in England because of serious criminal activities. Here continued his criminal ways and took to the life of the “bushranger”, effectively hiding from authority wherever he could and resorting to stealing from passing travellers just to get by. In between times though ...
Nathaniel Graham Shepherd was a 19th century American poet and journalist whose famous, and poignant, poem The Roll Call is often quoted whenever American Memorial Day comes around. It’s an account of the aftermath of a Civil War battle when the names are read to a platoon of soldiers standing on parade, but only a few are left to answer their names. ...
Ōtomo no Yakamochi was an 8th century waka poet and statesman who lived during the Nara period of Japanese history. This covered the years 710-794 and was when Empress Gemmei established the capital of the country in the city that is now known as Nara for all but five years (740-745). Yakamochi belongs to an elite group of writers known as the Thirty Six Poetry ...
Osip Mandelstam was a Jewish Russian essayist and poet who was unfortunate to live at a time when intellectuals of his kind were cruelly persecuted by the Soviet authorities. He belonged to a literary group called the “Guild of Poets” who followed Acmeism, demonstrating compactness and clarity in their poetic expression. This movement’s name comes from a Greek word acme and it is ...
Nettie Palmer was an Australian poet and essayist who also became the most prominent literary critic in her country. She was born Janet Gertrude Palmer on the 18th August 1885 in Bendigo, Victoria and later acquired the nickname “Nettie”. Her parents were of Irish immigrant stock and raised a very bright child who excelled at the Presbyterian Ladies" College, Melbourne before going on ...
Orrick Johns was and American writer born in the late 19th century. He moved in elite literary circles and was able to count amongst his contemporaries the likes of Ernest Hemingway, T S Eliot and F Scott Fitzgerald. His work was admired by many, including fellow poet Sara Teasdale who conducted a long-running series of correspondence with him. A ...
