Haniel Long was an American writer known primarily for his prose writing but at least two collections of poetry were published under his name. He was also a teacher of English and contributor to a newspaper called The New Mexico Sentinel where he edited the writers’ page, thus continuing his efforts to encourage new writers. He had begun that task when he ...
George Wither was a controversial English poet, born in the late 16th century when the country was changing in style and outlook from the perceived excessive glamour of the Elizabethan age to the more austere times under James I. He was one of those who was, on the one hand, nostalgic for the reign of Elizabeth I, but on the other ...
Reading the story of the famous Harry Harbord Morant, often referred to by his nickname of “The Breaker”, it is hard to believe that this man was a poet. He was generally known as a rollicking, womanising, horse-breaking drover and soldier who found his way from England to Australia and then on to the Boer War battlefields of 19th Century South Africa. ...
Born in 1874 in London, Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a writer, critic, lay preacher and poet who was known for his sharp wit and more popularly remembered for his fictional detective creation Father Brown. Over his lifetime, G. K. Chesterton wrote some 80 novels and prose works, 200 short stories and thousands of essays on everything from religion and philosophy ...
Born in 1884 in London, writer Gilbert Frankau was mostly known for his prose work but was also an important contributor to the poetry of the First World War. Although he was born into a Jewish household, Frankau was actually baptized into the Anglican Church when he was thirteen years old. His father was a merchant who had been born in ...
