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Born in 1892 in Adelaide, South Australia, Leon Gellert was a poet and writer who served in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign during the First World War before being wounded in battle. He was brought up by an indulgent mother and a Methodist father of Hungarian origins who did not believe in sparing the rod. Gellert himself was a strong child and ...
Mary Leapor was born in Northamptonshire in 1722 and is noted for being one of the most acclaimed poets of the time who actually came from a working class background. Her achievement, particularly the publication of her most well-known work Poems Upon Several Occasions, is all the more remarkable in that she died at the age of just 24. Leapor was the ...
Born in 1891 in Krakow, poet Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska spoke multiple languages and spent her life traveling from place to place in Europe, rising to prominence as a writer during the interval between the two world wars. From the beginning, she was born into a very artistic and bohemian family environment, brought up surrounded by a variety of painters, poets, authors and ...
Li Ch’ing Chao (also known as Li Cingzhao or Li Qingzhao) was a cultured Chinese writer of noble birth who lived at the time of the Song dynasty, a period in history that lasted from the 10th to the late 13th centuries. She was a poet and most of her work was written in the ci form and it is believed that ...
John Millington Synge was a controversial Irish writer whose plays often found him at odds with the public, in particular those with strong Irish nationalist feelings. The production that many have considered to be his finest work, a play called The Playboy of the Western World, actually caused riots when it was performed in Dublin and was described in such terms as: ...
John Lyly was a 16th century English writer who considered himself a playwright at first but who, later on, switched to poetry. He is best remembered though for two novels: Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and His England (1580). He invented a whole new style of writing which became known as “Euphuism”, in honour of his first book. It has ...
John Lydgate was a medieval English poet who spent much of his early life as a monk at the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds in the eastern county of Suffolk. Sometimes known as John of Lydgate, because he came from a village of that name, he had ambitions beyond the gates of the abbey and it is generally believed that he ...
John Galsworthy was an English novelist, playwright and poet whose work bridged both Victorian and Edwardian eras. He was best known for his saga of the middle classes called The Forsyte Saga, a trilogy of novels and two short interludes, which were popular at the time of writing but which became even more so when they were adapted for British television in ...
Born in Bogota, Columbia, in 1865, Jose Asuncion Silva was a poet who, through his tragic life, is regarded as having helped to found the modernist movement in South America. He was brought up in a wealthy and privileged environment and given a good education that instilled in him an early love of poetry. Silva is reputed to have written ...
Born in 1857 in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, poet and dramatist John Davidson was a popular writer, particularly famous for his ballads and a number of humorous plays such as Scaramouch in Naxos. His father was a minister and the family moved to Greenock when Davidson was five. He later attended the Highlanders’ Academy leaving when 13 to begin a life of ...
