Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet was a prominent 17th century English poet, politician and diplomat. Between the years 1661-1666he was a Privy Councillor serving in the House of Commons. During the Civil War he took the Royalist side and was a staunch supporter of King Charles II during the hostilities and he remained so later, when the king was in exile. Besides his ...
The 11th century Song dynasty poet and essayist Su Tung-po is also sometimes referred to as Su Shi or Su Tungpo. He was a multi-talented man, with art, calligraphy and gastronomy added to his literary skills. He had a keen interest in pharmacology and was an important political figure, working against the New Policy party that was led by Wang Anshi. His many ...
Raymond Clevie Carver was a 20th century American poet who was also a major contributor to the resurgence of short story writing in his country which happened during the 1980s. He was born on the 25th May 1938 in the mill town of Clatskanie, Oregon. He spent his formative years though in Yakima, Washington. It was a working class family with his father earning a ...
Raymond Knister was a 20th century Canadian writer whose poetry, novels and short stories, mostly about rural Canada, were much appreciated for their realism. Despite his brief spell on earth his was seen as a distinctively modern voice in the literary history of his country. He was born John Raymond Knister on the 27th May 1899 in the small town of Ruscom, Ontario. Little ...
Rémy Belleau, his Christian name sometimes spelled Rémi, was a 16th century French Renaissance poet. Many of his poems appeared to be paradoxical praise for simple concepts found in everyday life and he also wrote about precious stones. He was born into a noble family some time during the year 1528 in Nogent-le-Rotrou which is a small town in northern France, in the Eure-et-Loir department. ...
