It is, understandably, quite difficult to establish clear facts about the life of someone born in the years BC (Before Christ), sometimes known as BCE (Before the Common Era). Scribes and scholars wrote things down but many of these records and parchments have disappeared in the two millennia that have passed since that time. It is, therefore, necessary to rely on legend ...
Ivor Bertie Gurney came into this world in Gloucester, England, August 28th 1890 to a father, David who worked as a tailor and mother Florence, a seamstress. From quite young he suffered from bi-polar disorder, a condition quite possibly inherited from his mother who was said to be unstable and highly-strung. Mental illness would come to affect Gurney severely in the last ...
In the 1950s there arose a group of American writers who called themselves the Beat Generation. The Beat Generation epitomised the new hippie culture of sex, drugs and rejection of traditional standards. Jack Kerouac described Gregory Corso as “a tough young kid from the Lower East Side who rose like an angel over the rooftops and sang Italian song as sweet ...
Born in the English county of Lincolnshire in 1926, Elizabeth Jennings was one of the most popular female British poets of the 20th Century. She is noted amongst a number of poets who were collectively part of The Movement that was devoted to the notion of English poetry and its place in the world. Although she suffered serious mental illness in ...
Writer of hymns and popular poet, William Cowper was born in Hertfordshire in 1731 and was seen by many of his contemporaries as one of the foremost artists of his time. Throughout his life he chose to write about normal, everyday events and had a love of the country that often featured in his works. His father was a rector but ...
