Seamus Heaney is an Irish-born writer, poet, and lecturer. Among his many awards, recognizing him for his outstanding poetry include the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, the 2006 T. S. Eliot award, and the 1996 and 1999 Whitbread awards. He has been a professor at both Oxford and Harvard, teaching poetry, of course. Heaney, born in 1939, lived in ...
One of Australia's most respected and influential poets is Donald Bruce Dawe. More commonly known as Bruce Dawe, he was born in the town of Fitzroy in Melbourne, Australia, in 1930. His parents were both from agricultural communities in Victoria. Neither of his parents had the opportunity to complete a traditional education. His brothers and sisters were also unable to ...
I live in cowboy country. Cowboy poets are a 'dime-a-dozen' here, but none of them comes even close to the wonderful writings of Bruce Kiskaddon. During the early part of the 1900s, a popular theme for television, movies and books was the American cowboy. During the time of this 'cowboy fantasy', a real cowboy turned Los Angeles bellhop was busy writing ...
Some may know her as Marguerite Ann Johnson, but most of the world calls her Maya Angelou. This is one of America's most notable contemporary poets. But she's more complex than that. Her list of professions is long and diverse:, author, playwright, civil rights activist, film producer, professor, television producer, film director, actress, dancer, and finally, a poet. Born in 1928 in ...
H. D. -- that's how most of us know her. Hilda Doolittle was many things: poet, novelist and editor. She was a promoter of the 'imagist' model of poetry, which encouraged the use of common speech, idioms and free usage of rhymes. She was a contemporary of such avant-garde writers as Richard Ardington and Ezra Pound. She was born in the ...
