Born in 1913 in Taranaki Province, New Zealand, Douglas Stewart was an Australian poet who was more known for his editing career and his promotion of burgeoning writers in the 20th Century. He was born into a well-to-do middle class family and led a fairly happy childhood in New Zealand. Stewart claims he decided to become a writer at the age of ...
John Crowe Ransom was one of a group of sixteen, southern-based American poets who famously created the “Fugitives” group. They were all passionately committed to the southern ideal of agrarianism as opposed to northern industrialisation which, they felt, was disadvantaging the south unfairly. The group were, no doubt, politically motivated but they did their lobbying with their pens. All were accomplished writers ...
John Skelton was an influential poet and scholar who was, in the last decade of the 15th century, appointed tutor to the young Prince Henry. The Prince grew up to be King Henry VIII and appointed Skelton as his Poet Laureate for a time. It has been said that Henry considered Skelton to be his favourite teacher which would explain how he ...
Born in Orleans in France, 1873, Charles Peguy was a notable poet and writer whose work was greatly influenced by his religious, nationalist and socialist ideals during his short life. Although a doubter in early life, he converted to Catholicism in his twenties and his writing from then on contained a strong religious dynamic. Born into a poor family, Peguy went to ...
Born in 1833 in the Azores, Adam Lindsay Gordon was one of the premier Australian poets of the 19th Century although he was little recognized in his own lifetime. His father was traveled through India and Australasia before settling back down in Cheltenham, England, where Gordon went to school. Whilst he was an accomplished sportsman he was not the most ...
