Maxwell Bodenheim was a US born poet, magazine editor and novelist whose sometimes outrageous lifestyle, leading him to be known in New York City as the “King of the Greenwich Village Bohemians”, would eventually lead to a violent death for both himself and his wife. He was most famous as a writer during the “Jazz Age” of the 1920s. He was born Maxwell Bodenheimer in Hermanville, Mississippi on ...
The eminent Urdu and Persian poet Meer Taqi Meer, more often known by his pen name Mir, was active during the Mughal era of the 18th century. His influence was such that it is believed that he was instrumental in shaping the Urdu language. Many of his poems were in the ghazal format, these being odes of a romantic, often erotic and ...
Mellin de Saint-Gelais, sometimes known as Melin St. Gelays or Melin Sainct-Gelais, was a French medieval poet of the Renaissance era, much in favour at the royal court. He was a member of the literary group known as “Le Pleiade” and was well regarded and compared favourably with Clément Marot, a contemporary known as the "Prince of French poets". He also spent ...
Mercy Otis Warren holds a unique place in the history of American politics and literature. At a time when women did not publish written works under their own name she was a pioneering, fearless writer and political activist who became known as the "Conscience of the American Revolution". Her patriotic and stirring articles and poems galvanised and influenced the country’s founding fathers at ...
Menella Bute Smedley was a 19th century English poet, playwright and novelist who also translated German verse into English. She published at least three volumes of poetry and also collaborated with a sister on poetry for children. A famous relative of hers was Lewis Carroll. Smedley was born sometime during November 1820 in the Buckinghamshire town of Great Marlow, the daughter of a ...
