John Esten Cooke was a 19th century poet, novelist and American Civil War soldier. He was born on the 3rd November 1830 on the family estate in Winchester, Virginia. He had twelve siblings but only five of the children survived childhood. The family were forced to move to Richmond when John was ten due to their property having been destroyed by fire. As ...
John Hookham Frere was an English born poet, translator of Greek literature, politician and diplomat. He was born on the 21st May 1769 in London into very comfortable circumstances. He was the son of John Frere, the eminent Suffolk archaeologist. He, in all probability, got his literary abilities from his mother, Jwho wrote poetry for private consumption only, although he also had an aunt ...
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard was an American poet born at the end of the 18th century who was generally known as John G. C. Brainard. He also practiced as a lawyer and was a newspaper editor at different times. His ancestors included the man who was responsible for founding the English settlement on Long Island that would eventually become New York State. He ...
John Gillespie Magee Jr. was an Anglo-American poet and fighter pilot who died tragically young while serving in England with the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941. He is known for his poignant poetry, honouring Air Force colleagues who had died on active service, and also for an elegy to the war poet Rupert Brooke, a man whose work that he deeply ...
John Gneisenau Neihardt was a US poet whose historical fascination with the period in his country’s history when the frontiersmen were coming to the end of their mass settlement of the great plains made him an ethnographer. His specific area of interest was the effect on the indigenous people who were often displaced by white settlers. His famous book Black Elk Speaks, ...
