Léonie Adams was a multi-award winning American poet whose life spanned most of the 20th century. In 1948 she was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She was the seventh holder of this honour and held the post for two years. Additionally she was a teacher of English at a number of different American colleges and she ...
Katharine Lee Bates was a popular American poet and songwriter who will forever have a place in the hearts of all Americans. She wrote a poem which was set to music and it became one of her country’s favourite anthems – America The Beautiful. Perhaps her second most famous piece of work added to the legend of Santa Claus by giving the fabled ...
The English-born writer James Henry Leigh Hunt was a controversial figure who attracted the patronage of more successful writers than himself while, on occasions, appearing to openly criticise his benefactors in print. Hunt wrote and had published a great deal of poetry but he also turned his hand to plays, some of which were staged in the London theatres. Besides this he ...
Born in 1883 in Saxony, German poet, writer and artist Joachim Ringelnatz worked variously as a sailor on a World War I mine sweeper and as a comic before landing on the wrong side of the rising Nazi government and finding himself banned from performing. He is more widely known in Germany than in the rest of the world where only a ...
Born in 1897 in Philadelphia, Joseph Auslander was a novel writer and poet who was probably best known for the collection of lyric verses he wrote with his Pulitzer Prize winning wife during the Second World War that were designed to increase the sale of war bonds. Auslander was gripped by writing from an early age and was greatly encouraged by ...
