Born in New York in 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s life didn’t get off to the best of starts. His father tragically passed away 6 months before his birth and his mother found herself detained in an asylum shortly after he was born. He was brought up by his Aunty Emily, who became his ward and brought him to Strasbourg for the first ...
Known for his sentimental poems and patriotic war songs, Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet born in Glasgow in 1777. The son of a merchant, by the age of 21 Campbell had already achieved a certain amount of fame Pleasures of Hope and he was very much considered a poet of his time, though his popularity began to wane even during ...
Archibald Lampman was born in 1861 in a small village called Morpeth, close to the shores of Lake Erie in Canada. His father was an Anglican priest who moved the family when Archie was six years old to Gore"s Landing on Rice Lake, Ontario but the young boy soon fell ill with a severe rheumatic fever which damaged his heart and left ...
Denise Levertov was born in Essex in 1923. Her mother was Welsh while her father was a Russian born Hassidic Safardic Jew who migrated first to Germany and then to England. He later became an Anglican priest. At the tender age of five she declared that one day she would be a writer. True to her word she had a passion for ...
English playwright, poet and actor Ben Jonson was born in London June 11th 1572 to a family believed to be of Scottish descent. His clergyman father died before he was born and his mother remarried. He was fortunate to receive a classical education at the prestigious Westminster School, paid for by a family friend. Jonson wanted to continue his education at Cambridge ...
