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Elizabeth Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911. Her four short collections, North and South (1946), A Cold Spring (1955), Questions of Travel (1965) and Geography III (1976), won many…
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. In 1912 he moved to England where his first volumes of poems, A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914),…
Robert Traill Spence Lowell was born into American aristocracy in Boston in 1917. His first collection, Lord Weary’s Castle, published in 1946, brought him iconic status and won the Pulitzer…
John Milton, regarded as the greatest epic poet in the English language, was also a political philosopher and pamphleteer and dedicated over twenty years of his life to the cause…
Christina Georgina Rossetti was born in London in 1830. Her masterpiece collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems appeared in 1862 and won her instant acclaim. The Prince’s Progress and other…
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born into an aristocratic family in Sussex in 1792. Poet, playwright and courageous pamphleteer, his long poem Queen Mab, published in 1813 when he was twenty,…
Robert Browning achieved fame late in life with The Ring and the Book (1868/69). His earlier works – Dramatic Lyrics (1842), Men and Women (1855) and Dramatis Personae (1864), testify…
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (he inherited the title at the age of ten) was born in London in 1788. A poet, playwright, essayist and campaigner for Liberal causes, he…
John Keats, along with fellow Romantic poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon, Lord Byron, remains one of the most loved of English poets. Keats, an East Londoner, was a…
Larkin was born in Coventry on the 9th August, 1922, and educated there, and at Oxford University. Shortly after university he became a librarian in Wellington, and published two novels….
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830, Emily Dickinson, unpublished in her lifetime, is one of America’s greatest nineteenth-century poets. Read more….
Thoma Stearns Eliot, born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888, was a poet, playwright and critic. His Prufrock and Observations, The Waste Land and Four Quartets are masterpieces of the…
