Richard Harris Barham was an English poet and novelist who was also a minister of the Church of England. He wrote under the pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby. He was born on the 6th December 1788 in Canterbury, Kent. He had a difficult childhood, despite being born into comfortable circumstances. When only seven years old his father died, leaving him an estate include a manor house at Tappington ...
Richard Henry Stoddard was a 19th century American poet and well respected literary critic. He was born on the 2nd July 1825 in Hingham, Massachusetts. He was the son of a sea captain who tragically was lost at sea when Richard was still a boy. His widowed mother then took her son to live in New York City and he was sent to a local ...
Richard Hovey was a 19th century American poet, dramatist and translator who lived a tragically short life. He was a student of Dartmouth College, the famous New Hampshire Ivy League college, and he had the honour of being the writer of the school Alma Mater, titled Men of Dartmouth. He was described in many quarters as quite a self-conscious man and it is ...
Richard Jago was an 18th century English poet, landscape gardener and clergyman. He could not be described as a great poet but his work was certainly appreciated by many, and often imitated. He was born on the 1st October 1715 in a small Warwickshire village called Beaudesert, not too far from Stratford-on-Avon. His father was the rector of the local church and Richard was sent to ...
Percy MacKaye was an American poet and dramatist. He made a major name for himself as a playwright but a poetry achievement would probably be the unusual title that was allocated to him in 1945. Having written a poem called The Atomic Law, published in the Christmas 1945 issue of The Churchman, he became known as the first poet of the “Atomic Era”. He was ...
