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Posts by Month: May, 2009
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Oscar Fingal O' Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. In his first nine years, ... |
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Amy Lowell, an American poet, was born Amy Lawrence Lowell on February 9, 1874 in Brookline, Massach... |
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Robert Hayden is an American poet, essayist and educator. He was born Asa Bundy Sheffrey on August ... |
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Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 at Bockhampton, in Dorset, England. His father was a stonemason and b... |
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Thomas Hardy, a British poet, was born in Dorset, England on June 2, 1840. Despite showing great po... |
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Jack Prelutsky, an American poet, was born on September 8, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. He went to p... |
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William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in Dublin, Ireland. Yeats went to schools in both London, Eng... |
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Allen Ginsberg was born Irwin Allen Ginsberg on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is an ... |
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Sylvia Plath was born on October 27th, 1932 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Plath was raised by he... |
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William Wordsworth is a famous poet that specialized in the English Romantic genre. Wordsworth was ... |
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Walt Whitman was born on May 31st, 1819, on Long Island to Walter and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman. Wh... |
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William Wordsworth was born in the Lake District of northwest England in 1770. His father was a lega... |
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Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett was an extraordinary poet who is best remembered for her poem "How... |
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One of the greatest American poets, artists, and novelists was E.E. Cummings. Edward Estlin Cumming... |
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American poetry has been admired and loved for many years. There are many great poets who have left... |
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Emily Dickinson was a poet that did not fit the normal mold. She did not publicize her work. It wa... |
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American poet, writer and editor, Edgar Allan Poe, was born in 1809 in Massachusetts. His father le... |
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Maya Angelou is an extraordinary woman who rose from poverty and despair to become a voice for black... |
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Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904. Neruda’s birth name was Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, but... |
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Shel Silverstein was born in Chicago in 1930. An amazingly talented individual, Silverstein was kno... |
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Emily Dickinson, born December 10th, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, is one of the greatest poets wh... |
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Langston Hughes was born James Mercer Langston Hughes on February 1, 1902. Best known for his work ... |
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Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874 and moved with his mother and sister to New Hampshire... |
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Edgar Poe was born in 1809 in Boston and was an orphan before he was three. A Richmond merchant, Jo... |
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Maya Angelou has had more than an abundance of experiences in her lifetime. As a survivor of traged... |
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Controversial is a word to describe Pablo Neruda and his poetry. A writer of mostly love poems and ... |
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Born September 25, 1930, Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein, became a legend in the world of writing. S... |
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Langston Hughes was a literary legend whose career spanned four decades. His works provide valuable ... |
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