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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 ...
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. ...
