Son of the poet and publisher Louisa Lawson, Henry Lawson was born in New South Wales, Australia, in 1867. He went to school at Eurunduree but began to lose his hearing due to an ear infection and by the time he was fourteen was completely deaf. At a Catholic school in Mudgee, Lawson began to learn about poetry and reading, ...
This Bohemian-Austrian poet came into this world in 1875, with the name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke but many knew him as Rainer Maria Rilke. A very unhappy childhood was spent in Prague and this highly gifted child was forced into military school by his parents, much against his will. A kindly uncle recognised the unsuitability of this situation and ...
It's not often that a person becomes successful in two quite different strains of employment but William Carlos Williams was such a man. Not only was he a renowned poet, much associated with modernism and imagism, but he was also a general practitioner of medicine. His specialist area was paediatrics. Born in 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey with an English ...
American writer and editor Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois in 1878, and went on to win no less than two Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry. A colorful early life saw him leave school at the age of 13 to work odd jobs - delivering milk, harvesting ice, and even shining shoes. It was an upbringing grounded in the common ...
Famed for her caustic wit, Dorothy Parker was born in 1893 in New Jersey and was known from an early age for her uncompromising character. Her mother died when Parker was five and her father remarried a few years later. It was not a happy time for the future doyen of 20"s society. She refused to call this new woman either ...
