Hal Gye was chiefly an Australian illustrator of humorous and political cartoons that appeared in a number of journals and newspapers. Besides this though he wrote poetry and articles, most of which were collected and published towards the end of his life, and posthumously. He was born Harold Frederick Neville Gye on the 22nd May 1887 in Ryde, a suburb of Sydney in New South ...
Hans Sachs was a 16th century German poet and playwright who also belonged to the exclusive guild of Meistersingers. These were mostly men of the German middle classes who specialised in unaccompanied singing and lyrical composition. As an aside he also worked as a shoemaker, a trade that he learned as a boy and that he kept up throughout his life. He was born ...
Frederick Locker-Lampson was a 19th century English poet, collector of rare books, a man of letters and a civil servant for a short period in his life. He was born Frederick Locker some time during the year 1821 at Greenwich Hospital in London, the son of Edward Hawke Locker who was Civil Commissioner of the Hospital. He had no real plans during his school ...
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman was a 19th century American poet and, at least for a short time, he worked as a lawyer. He became more famous during the next century rather than when he was alive. He is best known for his considerable output of sonnets although he did write in other forms besides that. His work has often been included in anthologies of ...
Fitz James O"Brien was an Irish-born writer of the 19th century who emigrated to America in 1852. His literary output included poetry and what is believed to be amongst the first science fiction stories ever written. He also dabbled in the writing of plays though to much less a degree. He was born Michael O"Brien on the 25th October 1826 in Cork, the ...
