James Lister Cuthbertson was a Scottish-born Australian poet and much-loved school master. He was born on the 8th May 1851 in Glasgow. As he went through his school years at Trinity College in the Perthshire town of Glenalmond he had ambitions to join the Indian Civil Service. To achieve this he needed to pass certain entrance examinations which were available to him at ...
James Lord Pierpont was a prolific 19th century American poet, songwriter and musician whose major claim to fame is a song that is still sung at Christmas time all over the world. It is popularly known as Jingle Bells and almost everyone who has sung a Christmas song knows at least the chorus. Pierpont’s original title for this poem, later turned into a ...
James Madison Bell was an African-American poet who lived at a turbulent time in the history of the United States, his life spanning three quarters of the 19th century and just spilling over into the 20th. He was actively involved in the growing movement to abolish slavery and his oratory and written words were powerful tools used in this struggle. He was born on the 3rd ...
James McAuley was a 20th century Australian poet and man of letters. He also worked as a journalist and literary critic. Perhaps his most famous literary “achievement” was a collaboration with fellow poet Harold Stewart in 1943. The pair invented a writer named Ern Malley and they submitted a body of work numbering seventeen poems to the editor of a magazine called Angry ...
James McIntyre was a Scottish-born, Canadian poet who became well known as “The Cheese Poet” due to the fact that he lived in, and wrote about, that area of the country famous for its dairy produce. His work was often met with derision but he was never discouraged from writing, despite a lack of genuine literary talent. He was born in Forres, in ...
