Thomas Aird was a Scottish poet and long-time newspaper and magazine editor. His best known work was a long, narrative poem in five cantos called The Captive of Fez, which was published in 1830. He was born on the 28th August 1802 at Bowden in the county of Roxburghshire. He came from a modest family background, his father being a local builder. He went to ...
Thomas E Spencer was an English-born, Australian poet, building contractor and stonemason. He was born Thomas Edward O’Brien on the 30th December 1845 in the East London district of Hoxton. His father, Daniel O’Brien, was a cabinet maker. Thomas eventually took the name of his mother’s second husband, a stonemason also called Thomas Edward Spencer. There is nothing of note recorded about his early years ...
Thomas Dunn English was a 19th century American poet, songwriter, lawyer, magazine editor and politician. His most famous piece of work was a poem whose title is inscribed on his gravestone at Fairmount Cemetery, Newark where it says that he was the "Author of Ben Bolt". He is also well known for a long-running feud with the writer Edgar Allan Poe which, ...
Thomas Dekker was an Elizabethan-era English poet, playwright and pamphlet writer. Remarkably, one of his poems – Cradle Song - was incorporated into the lyrics of a Beatles pop song in the 1960s. He was involved for a number of years with a group of dramatic writers known as the Admiral’s Men. There is very little recorded about his early life but it is ...
Stephen Crane was a 19th century American poet, journalist, writer of short stories and novelist whose most famous book, The Red Badge of Courage, drew plaudits from all over the literary community, including luminaries such as Ernest Hemingway. He lived a tragically short life but is remembered as an innovative writer who incorporated imagism and realism into his work. He was born on the ...
