William Dean Howells was an American poet and novelist who wrote in a strictly Realist style. He also contributed to numerous publications with literary reviews of other writers while occasionally writing plays. In later life he made the statement that, in his opinion, “the future of American writing was not in poetry but in novels”. He also believed that the romantic storytelling seen ...
William Matthews has been described as “an alert and engaging” 20th century American poet and essayist. He had an unorthodox style though in that you could almost describe many of his poems as “essays in verse” where he seems to make no effort to include any standard poetic rhythm into the lines, or use rhyming couplets and the like. One of his ...
Sir William Watson was an English poet, most certainly at his peak in the latter years of the 19th century. He could be described as the archetypal “Victorian Poet” with his style and idioms being firmly entrenched in that period. Some of his poems were of a lyrical nature, none more so than the famous Wordsworth’s Grave, written in 1890. At other ...
Born in the Hamlet of Husum, Jutland, in 1817, German poet Theodor Storm was a proponent of literary realism, writing a number of novellas, poems and short stories the most famous of which is The Rider on the White Horse. His father was a lawyer and the young Storm went to school in Husum before following in his footsteps and heading ...
Lebanese poet Nadia Tueni was born in 1935 in Beirut and she wrote seven volumes of poetry before her untimely death from cancer at the age of 47. She came from a Lebanese and French background – her father was a diplomat and distinguished writer in his own right and her mother was from French Algerian stock. Tueni was schooled both in ...
