Although Aleksis Kivi is generally regarded as the national writer of Finland he lived a short and unhappy life in the late 19th century. He wrote a significant number of plays and pieces of verse but his major life project was a novel called Seven Brothers which took him ten years to complete. It was an unsympathetic, uncompromising view of rural Finland and ...
Alexander (Aleksandr) Ivanovich Vvedensky was a radical Russian poet of the first half of the 20th century who belonged to the “Russian Futurism” movement of artists and writers. Their aim was to jettison the “old ways” and the old style of literature in favour of a new direction in keeping with the ever-increasing industrialisation of the country. Vvedensky sought desperately to attach himself ...
William Caldwell Roscoe was a 19th century English journalist and poet whose life, like many at that time, was cut tragically short by typhoid fever. His two best known pieces of dramatic work were tragedies called Eliduc and Violenzia and he contributed poems, essays and literary criticism to publications such as the National Review and Prospective. Roscoe was born in Liverpool on the 20th ...
Alexander Brome, born in 1620, was an English poet, famous for his many drinking songs and satirical verses against the Rump Parliament. A lawyer by profession, he was a prime supporter of the Royal Party during the reign of Charles I and was also instrumental in aiding the Restoration Movement. In 1661, following the Restoration, Brome published a number of songs and ...
The American author Augustus Lucas Hillhouse was a writer of hymns and books on the natural world. He was the younger brother of James Hillhouse who was also known as “The Poet Hillhouse”. Augustus was born in New Haven, Connecticut on the 9th December 1792. He graduated from Yale University in 1810. Augustus’s poetry is generally found in his extensive hymn writing. A long ...
