Joseph Johnston Lee was a Scottish poet who wrote about the First World War but, curiously, has been largely ignored amongst others of that generation. For this reason he is often referred to as Scotland's “Forgotten' War Poet". Besides this he was also an artist, a playwright and journalist. He was born sometime during the year 1876 in the north eastern city of Dundee, ...
John Sandes was an Irish-born Australian poet, novelist and journalist. He was born on the 26th February 1863 in the southern Irish city of Cork, the son of a priest. At the age of nine the family moved to England and Sandes was educated at the King's College School, London before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford where he gained a Bachelors’ degree in ...
Joseph Skipsey was a prolific English poet, song writer and coal miner who wrote many of his poems about the north eastern area in which he was born, lived and worked. His most famous piece of work was called The Hartley Calamity which was a poem to commemorate the terrible disaster at Hartley Colliery of 1862 where over two hundred men had died ...
Josephine Preston Peabody was a US poet, English teacher and dramatist. Much of her work displayed her deep social awareness as well as her interest in spiritual, ethereal subjects. She came into the world on the 30th May 1874 and lived in the Brooklyn district of New York up to the age of ten. She was lucky enough to have parents who encouraged her ...
Joshua Sylvester was an English poet and essayist who was perhaps best known as the translator of a scriptural epic by the Huguenot poet and courtier Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas. This was known as Divine Weekes and Workes. He was born sometime during the year 1563 in the Medway region of Kent, a county in the south east of England. He was the ...
