Sarojini Naidu, known as the ‘Nightingale of India’, was a celebrated poet, playwright and Indian independence activist. She was the first woman to become President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to achieve the post of Governor of Uttar Pradesh state. She was born one of eight siblings on 13th February 1879. Her family at that time lived in Hyderabad, ...
Mira Bai was an Indian poet born in 1498 who created over a thousand bhajans, or sacred songs, that are still popular in the country today. Most of her history, and a good part of her myth, was handed down over the years through the oral tradition. She was considered a Hindu mystic and a devotee of the 8th incarnation of ...
Probably most widely known for her novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker was born in Georgia in 1944. Thrown into a time when many Southern whites believed that blacks had no need of an education, Walker came through the turmoil of the US Civil Rights Movement and has been an activist all her adult life. That she had any education at all ...
Poet John Milton(1608-1674) was a poet of the people. His civil ties and deeply emotional works set him apart as one of the pillars from which many poets have built upon. John Miltion’s poetry addresses the governmental influences as well as the day to day obstacles (though more so in the terms of daily human conflict over that of daily ...
A master of the hokku, Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) has helped readers achieve a deeper thought process through his works. Rumored to be the son of a samurai, which would surely account for his sense of honor and discipline, and confirmed as a scholar of Todo Yoshitdad the influences in his life made for very though provoking literature. Ever deemed a ...
