Sebastian Brant, whose name is sometimes spelled Brandt, was a writer and humanist of the German medieval period who is quite well known for the satirical piece Ship of Fools, also called Das Narrenschieff. He was born sometime during 1457 in the French/German border city of Strasbourg. He had a fairly humble upbringing, his father was the keeper of an inn in the ...
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn was an American poet, essayist and short story writer who was closely associated with the 20th century American Naturalist literary movement. Robert Frost famously called her “saintly” and he was quoted as follows: “To a saint and a reformer like Sarah Cleghorn the great importance is not to get hold of both ends, but of the right end. ...
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, born in the USA was a magazine editor and writer who achieved worldwide fame with her composition of one of the most famous children’s nursery rhymes ever, Mary Had a Little Lamb. She had a keen sense of public duty and has two major achievements to her name in that line. Her campaigning efforts brought about the Thanksgiving ...
Owen Seaman was an English poet, magazine editor, schoolmaster and barrister at London’s Inner Temple. At the outbreak of the First World War he was knighted for his services to literature, much of which had been of a light-hearted nature. He was born on the 18th September 1861 in the Midlands town of Shrewsbury. He studied at the prestigious School there and then ...
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, also known as Allama Iqbal, was a Pakistani poet and philosopher. This multi-talented man also trained at Lincoln’s Inn, London as a barrister and was much respected in academic circles. Named by the Pakistan government as a “national poet” he is widely acknowledged as being one of the driving forces behind the “Pakistan Movement”. Many literary critics and media outlooks ...
