Gabriel Harvey was an English writer and scholar of the 16th and 17th centuries who claimed to be the inventor of the English version of the hexameter metre in verse that was a standard of so many classical pieces in Latin and Greek literature. He might have attained greater heights as a writer but for a long-running feud with the influential Elizabethan pamphleteer ...
Erik Johan Stagnelius was a Swedish poet who was a member of the Romantic movement in arts and literature, and also a playwright. He was born on the 14th October 1793 in Gärdslösa, a town on the island of Öland. His family background was of a religious nature, his father being a minister who eventually rose to the rank of bishop, and the boy’s spiritual thinking was, ...
Ernest Christopher Dowson was a 19th century English writer who aligned himself with other literary and artistic figures of the time who were, collectively, called Decadents. In his short lifetime he was a writer of short stories, novelist and poet and he also carried out a number of translations of French novels into English. He was born on the 2nd August 1867 in the ...
Ernest Favenc was an English-born Australian poet and also the author of a number of books covering a wide range of subjects, from children’s stories to exploration. He was often commissioned by both the government and the proprietors of the Queenslander newspaper to carry out surveys in different parts of the continent, these journeys usually taking several months to complete. He would ...
Ernest Myers was an English poet, university lecturer and translator of ancient Greek and Roman texts. He was born Ernest James Myers on the 13th October 1844 in the north western town of Keswick, the son of a clergyman. His education was completed at Cheltenham college before going up to College in Oxford. Here he was an exceptional student of the classics and, ...
