William Wilfred Campbell was a Canadian writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who was, for a time, an Anglican minister. His brief spell in the ministry dramatically affected his views on religion and he demonstrated this with a controversial series of articles in the Toronto Globe which attracted a great deal of negative reaction from the paper’s readers. ...
This 20th century American poet was known among his friends and contemporaries as Waring Cuney. He was musically trained and could have become a singer, but he chose to pursue a career in literature instead. His poetry is, in many ways, influenced by his musical training, with blues and ballad forms often appearing in his verse. His status as one of the ...
Alexander Bestuzhev lived a relatively short life in 19th century Russia and became known, towards the end of his life, as a poet of “florid Romanticism”. Some compared his work to that of great European writers such as Victor Hugo, Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron. He tended to exaggerate his characters and often favoured medieval jousting scenarios in both ...
One of the true literary giants of the 19th Century, Victor Hugo was born in 1802 in Besancon in France and was a leading dramatist in the Romantic Movement of the century. He was born into an age of huge turmoil with the rise of the Napoleonic era that created family divides, his father a high ranking official in the army ...
Born in 1886 in Brooklyn, New York, William Rose Benet was a poet and writer who is probably best known for founding the magazine The Saturday Review of Literature. The son of an army colonel, Benet spent most of his youth growing up in Bethlehem in Pennsylvania before being sent back to New York to study at the the Albany ...
