Helen Gray Cone was an American poet and writer of short stories. She was also a university professor who spent her whole working life teaching English literature at one institution, that being the Hunter College in NYC. She was born on the 8th March 1859 in New York. Her education was completed at the city’s Normal College which was later renamed Hunter College. She ...
Gilbert White was an 18th century occasional poet and country parson who was best known for his pioneering work in the study and appreciation of the natural world. His work earned him the title Fellow of the Royal Society and he produced the much acclaimed study of his home village in Hampshire called Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. It is generally accepted that ...
Gilbert Waterhouse was an British war poet who was one of the many who never came back from the First World War battlefields. Tragically his body lay undiscovered for some time before being recovered at the conclusion of the Somme. He had fallen on the first day. Prior to joining the Army he was an architect. He was born on the 22nd January 1883 ...
Gerrit Achterberg was a 20th century Dutch poet whose use of surreal imagery and language inspired, later in his life, a generation of post-World War II poets known as the Experimentalists. His earlier work was very much of a sombre nature, being mostly concerned with a longed for reunion with someone who had died and he developed into a poet who used both romantic and ...
George Cosbuc was a Romanian poet and translator who also worked as a teacher and journalist at different times. His poetry reflected his rural upbringing, on the one hand describing a tranquil, joyful lifestyle while on the other emphasising what a hard life it could be. He was born on the 20th September 1866 in a small Transylvanian village named Hordou which was, at that time, ...
