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Novel writer and poet Jean Ingelow was born in 1820 in Lincolnshire, the daughter of a local banker, her mother originally from Scotland. Brought up initially in Boston, the family moved during her childhood to Ipswich before finally settling in London where Ingelow would spend most of the rest of her life. Whilst she could never compete with the literary heights ...
Harriet Monroe was an American poet and a passionate supporter of up and coming young poets. She was the founder and editor of the influential Poetry: A Magazine of Verse which was a vehicle for new poets to get nationwide exposure. She gave a helping hand to poets such as William Carlos Williams, T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. ...
George Sterling was, in his time, an acclaimed California-based playwright and poet who had famous mentors to lean on such as Ina Coolbrith and Ambrose Bierce. He was, according to many of his friends in his literary circle, the “uncrowned King of Bohemia” which referred to his regular presence in The Bohemian Club. This was a private gentlemen’s club that was set ...
George William Russell was an Irish writer and artist, and occasional critic and magazine editor. He was heavily involved in the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IAOS), and served as Assistant Secretary of this organisation for a number of years. His literary talents were used by the IAOS; they made him editor of their in-house magazine Irish Homestead, a post that he held ...
Harold Edward Monro was a British poet who was probably most famous for his London Poetry Bookshop fin Bloomsbury. It was set up in 1912 for the benefit of new poets struggling to achieve recognition and for established ones to meet and exchange views. He also founded the highly influential magazine The Poetry Review and his own first collection of poems was ...
Henry Francis Lyte was a Scottish-born Anglican minister who wrote poetry and a number of hymns that have found their way into most common hymn books. His most famous work was the stirring hymn Abide With Me which is sung the world over and has a special significance for the football fans attending Wembley Stadium where, every year, it is sung ...
Born in Connecticut in 1790, Fitz-Green Halleck was a poet and satirist who spent most of his life in New York and was often referred to as the American answer to Lord Byron. The son of a store owner and partially deaf following an accident in early childhood, he left school at the age of just fifteen and worked for ...
One of the great influences on the literary resurgence in San Francisco at the turn of the 19th Century, Gelett Burgess was born in 1866 in Boston. He was most widely known for his humorous verses and produced a wide body of work as well as creating the small magazine The Lark which led to a number of spinoffs over the ...
Born around 84 BC in Verona, Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Roman poet and is generally perceived as a strong literary influence on the more well-known writers such as Ovid and Virgil who were to follow. Over time his works fell into obscurity before being rediscovered in the Middle Ages where they resumed their rightful place in the ...
Born in Essex in 1592, Francis Quarles was a popular poet of the time and often mentioned in the same breath as the illustrious John Milton who was one of his contemporaries. Quarles was born into a well-to-do family though his parents died early on and he was left an orphan. This did not hamper his development though and he ...
