Poet Amy Lowell's literary reputation, marred in her lifetime due to her lifestyle and at times overbearing personality, has in recent years begun to improve as new generations of readers have rediscovered her work. Born in 1874 in Brookline Massachusetts, Amy Lowell was the daughter of a prominent New England family, one that encouraged her love of reading and writing. She ...
One of the lions of American poetry, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's verses have endured across centuries to become some of the best known and best loved in the English language. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, in 1807, the son of wealthy parents, his father an attorney. From childhood, Longfellow was preoccupied with words and writing, and even as a ...
While D.H. Lawrence is known to modern audiences primarily as a novelist and short story writer, the author's initial forays into literature were his poems. Born in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1885, David Herbert Lawrence's childhood was spent around the colleries of the Eastwood area, where his father and most of the other men in his family worked as miners. Although Lawrence ...
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Few poets are more beloved by more people than Rudyard Kipling. A favorite of readers both young and old, known the world over, Rudyard Kipling's poems - and stories - have proven both popular and evergreen. Born ...
Good metrical rhymed verse, if it’s to grip the imagination and stay readable, has to have, as well as those external formal features, the same dynamo of hidden musical dramatic laws as the apparently free verse. ~ Ted Hughes Poet Ted Hughes stormy private life often overshadowed his poetry, giving him a notoriety that even the most readable and accessible of poets ...
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. ~ Thomas Hardy A failed novelist turned poet, Thomas Hardy could be called a writer's writer, his novels and verses read more by other writers than by the public, especially during his lifetime, when the frank sexuality of his novels and the ...
“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” “The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.” “I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks… And ...
During the mid-twentieth century, there was no poet more beloved in the United States than Robert Frost. Considered the unofficial poet laureate of the nation, Frost's poems were more widely read than almost any other poet's work, his poetry was part of every English course in America's curriculum, and not surprisingly, his poetry was among the most familiar lines among ...
Poet, essayist, Transcendentalist and American literary giant, Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry is still taught as assiduously in the 21st Century as it was during the 19th Century. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. The son of a Unitarian minister who died when he was eight years of age, Ralph Waldo Emerson began writing as a child. After ...
Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry made him the first African-American poet to reach national prominence while also assuring him a place in American literature. Born in 1872 to former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar overcame a childhood marked by poverty and discrimination. Dunbar's mother, Matilda, had no formal education but instilled an appreciation for education and literature, particularly poetry, into her children, resulting in Paul ...
