Anthony Hecht was an American multi-award winning poet of German-Jewish origins whose writing was much influenced by the terrible events that he experienced in Germany towards the end of the Second World War. Post-war he worked as a journalist for the military paper The Stars and Stripes and had a number of teaching assignments at various educational establishments. He was born Anthony Evan Hecht on the ...
Robert Fitzgerald was a 20th century American poet, university professor and literary critic who also worked for a number of years as both a newspaper and magazine journalist. He made a considerable name for himself as a translator of classic Greek and Latin works and these became a source of standard reference for students for a number of generations afterwards. He was born ...
Mark Strand was a Canadian-born, multi-award winning American poet who also published essays and works of translation. His greatest honour was his appointment as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. He also spent many years teaching at universities all over the United States as well as in Brazil, both on the academic staffs and in visiting professor ...
Robert Hass is a US poet now in his seventies who has won many honours and awards for his writing, including his appointment as National Poet Laureate between the years 1995-97. Much of his writing reflects his Californian origins in both subject matter and attitude and he has been described in some quarters as "a lyrical virtuoso who is able to turn even cooking recipes into poetry”. ...
William Meredith was an American poet, journalist, wartime fighter pilot and professor of English at a number of educational establishments. His great literary achievements won him a number of honours and awards including being appointed his country’s Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1978, serving in this post for two years. Unusually, he was the first gay ...
