Kenneth Allott was an English poet and university lecturer who had family ties with both Wales and Ireland. He was well known for his in-depth knowledge of the 19th century writer, schools inspector and social injustice champion Matthew Arnold. He was born on the 29th August 1912 in the Welsh county of Glamorgan, the son of a local doctor. While still a ...
Leslie Holdsworth Allen was a poet, academic, playwright and Australian University English Professor at a number of locations. He translated works of German literature into English and also chaired the Literature Censorship Board for many years. He was born on the 21st June 1879 in the Victoria town of Maryborough, one of three brothers. His father was a minister and they moved in 1890 ...
Kate Brownlee Sherwood was an American writer of poetry and short stories as well as being a journalist and philanthropical patron of the arts and literature. In 1883 she was one of the founders of the Woman’s Relief Corps, an organisation set up after the American Civil War. Much of her poetry centred on military subjects, her most famous being a memorial poem ...
Lizette Woodworth Reese was a US school teacher and poet. She taught classes in English in Baltimore schools for most of her adult life. She was made Poet Laureate of Maryland in 1931 whilst in her mid-seventies. She was born in the Waverly district of Baltimore, Maryland on the 9th January 1856, one of twin sisters. She enjoyed a modest education at local ...
Juliusz Słowacki was a 19th century Polish Romantic poet, one of the so-called Three Bards of that period in Polish literature when much anguished poetry was written about the loss of Polish sovereignty. He and his two contemporaries, Adam Mickiewicz and Zygmunt Krasiński, were exiled in France for their own safety but this status did not, at the time, endear them to ...
