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Richard Savage was an 18th century English poet and writer of tragi-comedy plays whose historical details are, unusually, mostly known from the contents of a biography written about him by Samuel Johnson, which he called Life of Mr Richard Savage. This book was published in 1744, a year after the subject’s death. Naturally though, one should view Johnson’s observations with a little ...
Richard Watson Dixon was an English poet and Wesleyan minister of the 19th century. He was born on the 5th May 1833 in the London borough of Islington, the son of a notable Wesleyan preacher of the time called Dr James Dixon. His parents sent him to be educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, whose headmaster was the eminent Anglican minister Dr Gifford. ...
Richard Watson Gilder was an American poet, newspaper editor and private soldier in the Unionist army during the Civil War. Many of his poems featured artistic themes such as the theatre, music and art although he did write a great deal of material describing his wartime experiences. He had the honour of having one of his most famous war poems, The Dead ...
Rida Johnson Young was a late 19th/early 20th century writer of music and plays. She was a prolific writer of songs and at least five hundred compositions have been credited to her. Additionally she was a playwright with some thirty plays and musicals under her belt and was also an accomplished librettist. Her outstanding efforts as a song writer earned her a place ...
Robert Blair was an 18th century Scottish poet and man of the cloth who followed his father, one of the King’s chaplains, into the ministry. He only published three poems in his relatively short life time but one of these brought him a great deal of fame. It is a long piece of blank verse, numbering some 767 lines, called The Grave. Later ...
Robert Bloomfield was an English poet who grew up in a rural, working class environment during the late 18th century. He loved to write poetry and his efforts have been compared favourably with the likes of other pastoral poets such as George Crabbe and John Clare. He had a period of relative prosperity due to his work becoming known worldwide before ...
Robert Lowe Sherbrooke, properly known as the 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, was a highly respected 19th century British politician and member of the Privy Council who also wrote a good deal of poetry in his spare time. It is incredible that he achieved so much because he had very poor eyesight, a condition that may have been attributed to his albinism. His terms ...
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 ...
