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Yvor Winters was a 20th century American poet who favoured an experimental style of writing which did not always endear him to his peers. Some pieces consisted of one line and he varied his work from the more formal style to including imagist sections. While teaching at Stanford University he fell out with the Head of the English Department, a man who ...
William Henry Drummond was an Irish-Canadian poet of the second half of the 19th century who lived a relatively short life and yet made a huge impact on the Canadian poetry loving public. He specialised in humorous dialect poems that were instantly appealing and he became "one of the most widely-read and loved poets" in Canada." Alongside this he was a qualified ...
William Dean Howells was an American poet and novelist who wrote in a strictly Realist style. He also contributed to numerous publications with literary reviews of other writers while occasionally writing plays. In later life he made the statement that, in his opinion, “the future of American writing was not in poetry but in novels”. He also believed that the romantic storytelling seen ...
William Matthews has been described as “an alert and engaging” 20th century American poet and essayist. He had an unorthodox style though in that you could almost describe many of his poems as “essays in verse” where he seems to make no effort to include any standard poetic rhythm into the lines, or use rhyming couplets and the like. One of his ...
Sir William Watson was an English poet, most certainly at his peak in the latter years of the 19th century. He could be described as the archetypal “Victorian Poet” with his style and idioms being firmly entrenched in that period. Some of his poems were of a lyrical nature, none more so than the famous Wordsworth’s Grave, written in 1890. At other ...
Born in the Hamlet of Husum, Jutland, in 1817, German poet Theodor Storm was a proponent of literary realism, writing a number of novellas, poems and short stories the most famous of which is The Rider on the White Horse. His father was a lawyer and the young Storm went to school in Husum before following in his footsteps and heading ...
Lebanese poet Nadia Tueni was born in 1935 in Beirut and she wrote seven volumes of poetry before her untimely death from cancer at the age of 47. She came from a Lebanese and French background – her father was a diplomat and distinguished writer in his own right and her mother was from French Algerian stock. Tueni was schooled both in ...
Often compared to Scottish literary legend Robert Burns, Robert Tannahill was born around 1774 in Paisley in the county of Renfrewshire. He grew up in a weaving shop and would later be given the name of the ‘weaver poet’, turning as he did to an apprenticeship with his father at the early age of 12 years. From childhood, Tannahill was considered ...
Born in 1750 in Edinburgh, Scottish poet Robert Fergusson was one of the most influential writers of his time despite dying at the tender age of 24. He was brought up initially in Edinburgh but then moved to Dundee where he attended high school before being matriculated to the St Andrews University in 1765. After the death of his father and completing ...
Little is known about the life and history of Myra Brooks Welch. She is popularly known for a single, powerful work of poetry, The Touch of the Master’s Hand, which has appeared in numerous anthologies over the years and been quoted by many, particularly those on the pulpit. Born in 1877 she is said to have written 3 collections of ...
