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Adriano del Valle was a renowned Spanish poet and artist of the first half of the 20th century. For his 1933 work World Without Trams he was awarded the prestigious National Poetry prize. He was a contemporary of another famous Spanish poet – Federico Garcia Lorca – who he met in 1916. Two years later del Valle was the co-founder, along ...
The Persian poet, also known by the surname Shamloo, or in his homeland as Ahmad Šāmlū, occasionally used the pen name A. Bamdad when writing poetry or working as a journalist. Many critics consider him to be amongst the most influential poets in modern-day Iran. While on first appearances his poetry suggests complexity, relying heavily on imagery, it is actually quite simple ...
August Strindberg was an extremely prolific writer of poetry, plays and books on a variety of subjects. Over a period of some forty years he wrote in excess of sixty plays and thirty books covering such topics as politics, history, Swedish culture, autobiographies and some fiction. He was also an accomplished artist. His style of writing has been described as iconoclastic and ...
Barry Cornwall was the pseudonym used by an English poet who also enjoyed a long career in the legal profession. Despite being a busy lawyer he still found the time to compose verse although it seems that he wrote his poetry over a relatively short period of time, approximately between the years 1815 and 1832. He was born Bryan Waller Procter on the ...
Adelaide Procter was known, by many in the literary world, as one of the most popular poets of Victorian times. Indeed, it is said that she was Queen Victoria’s favourite poet and many of her verses were set to music, often as hymns. She lived a short but full life, exhibiting philanthropic qualities throughout. She spent a lot of time with homeless and ...
Babette Deutsch was an American poet, literary critic and novelist. She was also a renowned translator of Russian literature into English, her most notable work being the translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin along with a number of poems written by Boris Pasternak. Her own poetry received critical attention for the first time in 1919 when she published a collection called Banners, the ...
Adelaide O'Keeffe was an Irish poet and novelist who was best known for her highly successful collections of verse written especially for children. She was also responsible for historical novels such as Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, written in 1814. This was a novel with strong religious themes throughout, focusing on conversions from paganism to Judaism and also from Judaism to Christianity. She also ...
Barry Pain was an English writer whose work included parodies, light humour and, at the opposite end of the spectrum, tales of horror and the supernatural. He “re-imagined” stories such as Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Robinson Crusoe, taking the characters further on. Stevenson studied Pain’s work and compared him to the French short story writer Guy ...
Barcroft Boake was a tough 19th century Australian stockman and drover while at the same time he was a sensitive, if unstable, character. He wrote poetry about the injustices meted out to his fellow workers by usually uncaring, and often absent, land and stock owners. He seemed to be at home out in the bush and it was said that he looked ...
Barron Field was an English poet, judge and botanist who spent much of his working life in the Australian colonies of New South Wales as well as holding legal appointments in Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) and Gibraltar. He was something of a minor poet but he does have the distinction of being the first published poet in Australia. First Fruits of ...
