Valentine Ackland was the pseudonym used by a 20th century female English poet who eventually earned a place in literary history as being part of the philosophical movement known as Modernism that was prevalent in western society at that time. She was born Mary Kathleen Macrory Ackland on the 20th May 1906. She was known as “Molly” by her parents and had a disturbed ...
Omar Khayyám was the pseudonym used by this great Persian poet, philosopher and scientist. His scientific studies in the fields of astronomy, mechanics, mineralogy and mathematics place him amongst the most influential of that time, making him worthy of the title true polymath. As well as producing poetry he wrote a number of treatises on his scientific discoveries. He was born Ghiyath ad-Din Abu"l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ...
Willa Sibert Cather was an American poet and novelist, and sometime teacher, who grew up on the plains of the developing American West and wrote about her experiences of frontier life with a trilogy of books starting in 1913 with O Pioneers! The story continued with The Song of the Lark in 1915 and ended with My Ántonia, published in 1918. She was a Pulitzer Prize ...
Will McKendree Carleton was an American poet and journalist. He wrote mostly about the rural America in which he grew up and some critics have stated that he did for the people of Michigan what the likes of Robert Burns did for the Scottish crofters, and the Reverend William Barnes did for the English farming fraternity. He was born on the 21st ...
William Byrd was an English poet and composer of mostly sacred musical pieces, whose main focus was on the development of the English madrigal, a style that had originated in Italy in the 14th century. He was also an expert keyboard player. He was a Catholic but much of his work was produced for Anglican services which was, perhaps, a sensible course ...
