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Richard Harris Barham was an English poet and novelist who was also a minister of the Church of England. He wrote under the pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby. He was born on the 6th December 1788 in Canterbury, Kent. He had a difficult childhood, despite being born into comfortable circumstances. When only seven years old his father died, leaving him an estate include a manor house at Tappington ...
Richard Henry Stoddard was a 19th century American poet and well respected literary critic. He was born on the 2nd July 1825 in Hingham, Massachusetts. He was the son of a sea captain who tragically was lost at sea when Richard was still a boy. His widowed mother then took her son to live in New York City and he was sent to a local ...
Richard Hovey was a 19th century American poet, dramatist and translator who lived a tragically short life. He was a student of Dartmouth College, the famous New Hampshire Ivy League college, and he had the honour of being the writer of the school Alma Mater, titled Men of Dartmouth. He was described in many quarters as quite a self-conscious man and it is ...
Richard Jago was an 18th century English poet, landscape gardener and clergyman. He could not be described as a great poet but his work was certainly appreciated by many, and often imitated. He was born on the 1st October 1715 in a small Warwickshire village called Beaudesert, not too far from Stratford-on-Avon. His father was the rector of the local church and Richard was sent to ...
Percy MacKaye was an American poet and dramatist. He made a major name for himself as a playwright but a poetry achievement would probably be the unusual title that was allocated to him in 1945. Having written a poem called The Atomic Law, published in the Christmas 1945 issue of The Churchman, he became known as the first poet of the “Atomic Era”. He was ...
Pedro López de Ayala, sometimes called Don Pero López de Ayala, was a medieval Castilian poet, born in the 14th century. Additionally, during his long lifetime, he served his country as chancellor and statesman, and was a royal courtier. As was the custom in other countries in those days, being a learned man, he also acted as chronicler and historian, recording major ...
Philip James Bailey was a 19th century English poet who belonged to the so called “Spasmodic School”, a group of writers of the Victorian era which included the likes of George Gilfillan and Ebenezer Jones. Bailey’s best known work was the epic and highly complex multi-part piece which appeared under the title Festus and which ran to over 40,000 lines in total. He was ...
Philip Joseph Holdsworth was a 19th century Australian poet who worked for many years in the colony of New South Wales. He filled a number of civil service posts and was also a journalist and newspaper editor in the Sydney area. He was born on the 12th January 1851 in Balmain, near Sydney, the son of a successful boat builder. It was a fairly ...
Philip Freneau was an 18th century-born American poet who has been dubbed the "Poet of the American Revolution" He considered himself a polemicist and he had the opportunity to express his views widely in his capacity as a newspaper editor. Freneau also served for a time as a sea captain. He was born Philip Morin Freneau on the 2nd January 1752 in New York ...
Phillips Brooks was a 19th century poet and writer of hymns. His most famous composition was the carol O Little Town of Bethlehem, a favourite that is still sung around the world today every Christmas. He enjoyed a long career as a minister in Boston, MA, eventually rising to the position of Bishop. He was born on the 13th December 1835 in Boston and ...
