Records of the 16th century writer Robert Greene are, understandably, sometimes sketchy and occasionally contradictory, but it seems that he was a popular and often witty composer of poems, plays and pamphlets. The best known piece of work that was attributed to him posthumously is Greene’s, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance. Curiously this pamphlet appeared to contain clear and ...
Robert Haven Schauffler was an American writer of poetry and a number of biographies of famous musicians such as Brahms and Beethoven. He is also remembered as the author of a series of travel books on American and European destinations aimed at Americans contemplating a holiday, either at home or abroad. He was equally adept as a musician, specialising in playing the cello. Towards the ...
Robert Loveman was an American southern poet and songwriter of the late 19th and early 20th century. His work does not warrant an especially significant place in the history of American literature but, during his lifetime, he was a very popular writer amongst both readers and literary critics. He does have at least two significant credits against his name though. His song Georgia ...
Owen Suffolk was a 19th century Australian poet who arrived on Australia’s shores in 1847 having been transported from his home in England because of serious criminal activities. Here continued his criminal ways and took to the life of the “bushranger”, effectively hiding from authority wherever he could and resorting to stealing from passing travellers just to get by. In between times though ...
Nathaniel Graham Shepherd was a 19th century American poet and journalist whose famous, and poignant, poem The Roll Call is often quoted whenever American Memorial Day comes around. It’s an account of the aftermath of a Civil War battle when the names are read to a platoon of soldiers standing on parade, but only a few are left to answer their names. ...
