Ivan Turgenev was a 19th century Russian writer and civil servant whose literary output included poetry, plays, short stories and novels. Literary critics have held the general view that his Fathers and Sons ranks amongst the greatest novels of that time whilst an 1852 collection of short stories called A Sportsman's Sketches was “a milestone of Russian Realism”. He was born Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev in October 1818 into ...
Jacob Steendam was a 17th century Dutch-born poet who was amongst the early American settlers around the year 1650. The place that is now known as New York was, at that time, named New Netherland but all this changed when the English arrived. It is generally believed that he was the first-known poet from that town. Besides poetry Steendam also wrote pamphlets for the benefit of ...
Horatio Alger Jr. was a 19th-century American poet and novelist who wrote during the so-called “Gilded Age” in the United States where many of the people were struggling to make any kind of life for themselves whilst the country’s economy was going through boom times. Alger wrote about young men who rose from the doldrums of poverty to get themselves into a position ...
James Beattie was a distinguished 18th century Scottish poet, academic and moral philosopher whose work earned him the post-nominals FRSE – Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an organisation that he was a co-founder of. His name carried such weight in literary history that he was one of the sixteen Scottish writers included on the Scott Monument that was completed in ...
Hovhannes Tumanyan was a poet whose work has had such an impact on the literary life of his country that he is thought by many to be the national poet of Armenia. In addition to his own original work he translated many other writers’ work into Armenian, examples being the German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and English romantic poet, the Lord Byron. Much ...
