Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was an English poet and playwright whose work was produced during the early years of the reign of King George V, thus placing him in the group known as the Georgian poets. Other writers belonging to this group included Siegfried Sassoon, D. H. Lawrence and Rupert Brooke. Both Sassoon and Brooke are well known as First World War ...
The American poet, teacher and politician Charles Wilbert Snow is more often known as Bill Snow, or sometimes Wilbert Snow, while some formal references to him quote the name C. Wilbert Snow. Born in the late 19th century this man certainly lived a full life, into his early nineties, and he held the post of 75th Governor of Connecticut, albeit for barely two ...
Wallace Irwin was an American poet and journalist. He also wrote novels, screen plays and the lyrics for a number of Broadway musicals. This multi-talented writer was also credited with taking the standard detective story into the realms of antiquity with his 1935 novel The Julius Caesar Murder Case. He was born on the 15th March 1875 in Oneida, New York but he spent his ...
William Baylebridge was an Australian poet, short story writer and musician who was one of the leading writers of his age although he only adopted that name at the age of 42. It was generally thought that he had a political agenda in his writing and was fond of portraying himself as a populist nationalist. He published much of his work privately and ...
Tevfik Fikret was an Ottoman poet, magazine editor and school teacher. His literary achievements were so significant that many consider him to be a great reformer of Turkish poetry, as well as being the founder of the modern school. He was known as “the freedom poet” because of his opposition to the ruling Sultan. He was born Mehmed Tevfik on the 24th December 1867 ...
