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Presenting biographies of some famous poets and writers of all ages. The biographies highlight childhood, works and achievements and later life of these great poets.
Poets
A. E. Housman Alfred Edward Housman, better known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet regarded as one of the greatest scholars of all ...
Alan Jay Lerner Alan Jay Lerner was an American librettist and lyricist who along with Frederick Loewe created some of the most renowned and enduring works of ...
Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson was a poet laureate of the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria and also one of the most known poets in ...
Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg was a famous American poet who passionately battled against militarism, materialism and sexual repression. A prominent ...
Anne Bradstreet With the publication of her first work “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, by a Gentlewoman of those Parts” in London in 1650, Anne ...
Anne Sexton Anne Sexton was an influential American poet famous for her highly personal and confessional poetry. She had extensively used her knowledge of ...
Aristophanes Aristophanes was an acclaimed Greek comic playwright and poet. Among his originally written forty plays, only eleven are still extant. These, ...
Arthur Rimbaud Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a famous French poet and adventurer. He came out with some of his finest poems while he was still in his late ...
Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht, born as Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, was a German poet, playwright and theatre practitioner. He was a visionary who departed ...
C. Day Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis, commonly known as C. Day Lewis CBE, was an Irish-born poet and novelist. He was also a British poet Laureate from 1968, until ...
Charles Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire was a notable French poet, also known as an essayist, art critic and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. Being a critic ...
Dante Alighieri Durante degli Alighieri, popularly known as Dante, was a chief Italian poet during the middle ages. Born in Florence, he spent a large portion ...
David Wagoner David Wagoner is one of the prolific writers amongst the list of modern American literary scholars. Though media glare and attention has always ...
Derek Walcott A Nobel laureate and an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Derek Walcott is one of the creative geniuses ...
Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas, also known as Dylan Marlais Thomas, was a Welsh-born poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. Apart from poetry, he also ...
E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an impressive American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He is ...
Elizabeth Barrett Br... Elizabeth Barrett Browning was among the most eminent English poets of the Victorian era. Her works were immensely famous in England as well as ...
Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop was an extremely admired American poet, quite popular for her striking sense of witty and descriptive poems. Bishop was the ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ella Wheeler Wilcox's prolific excellence lay in her positive approach and optimistic nature. She had started penning down poetry from an early ...
Emily Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet much acclaimed worldwide for her unique poems. Known for her seclusion from outer world and ...
Ezra Pound An expatriate American poet and critic, Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was a chief personality in the initial modernist movement in poetry. He gained ...
Francesco Petrarch The illustrious Italian poet, scholar and humanist, Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch is inarguably one of the most influential poets in the world ...
Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral was a woman with a multi-faceted personality—she was a poet, an educator, a diplomat and a feminist all rolled into one. She ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Also known as the Father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer was the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He was also the first poet to ...
George Herbert George Herbert was an English poet, orator and Anglican priest with a Welsh origin. He had descended from a wealthy family and thus, was ...
Henrik Ibsen A famous Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet, Henrik Ibsen is often considered as “the father” of modern theater and one of the ...
Henry Wadsworth Long... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He was famous for writing lyric poems, which were popular for their musicality and ...
Homer Homer was a legendary ancient Greek poet who wrote the epics, the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”. These epics were a part of Western canon of ...
Horace Horace, whose real name was Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was the leading Roman poet of the Augustan Age. He was a member of literary circle that ...
James Weldon Johnson A multi-faceted personality, James Weldon Johnson grew up to be America's top author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, ...
James Wright James Arlington Wright, one of the most prolific American poets of the 20th century, was the proud recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. Wright made ...
Johann Wolfgang von ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a key personality in the list of German writers and polymaths. He is regarded as the supreme Genius of modern ...
John Clare John Clare was an English poet, belonging to the Romantic school, known for his vivid and lyrical descriptions of the rural English countryside. ...
John Donne John Donne was a famous English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest of his time. Known for his realistic and sensual style, his writings include ...
John Keats John Keats was a famous English Romantic poet and one of the key figures in the second generation of Romantic Movement, along with Lord Byron ...
John Milton John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He was an influential man of letters and served ...
Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish poet, writer and cleric who gained reputation as a great political writer and an essayist. Jonathan, who ...
Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, popularly known as Jorge Luis Borges, was a renowned writer, essayist, and poet from Argentina. He ...
Judith Wright Judith Wright, born in the early 20th century, was a well-known Australian poet, short-story writer and conversationalist. She was also a highly ...
Juvenal Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, popularly known as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the period between late 1st and early 2nd century AD. He was ...
Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley Williams Amis was an English novelist, poet and teacher and his literary work is includes short stories, poetry, books of ...
Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was better known as the earliest innovators of new literary art ...
Lord Byron Lord Byron was a famous British poet better known as the leading figure of Romanticism. His best known poems include, “She Walks in Beauty”, ...
Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton, born as Thelma Lucille Sayles, was a prolific poet and author best known for writing on themes related to African-American ...
Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold is a distinguished twentieth century English poet and critic who brought about a revolution in the world of English literature ...
Ogden Nash A master of light verse, Frederic Ogden Nash was born in America. Not only did the elements of humor and wit in his poetry make him popular, ...
Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyám was an extremely talented and famous Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet. It is believed that Omar adopted the ...
Ovid Ovid, also known as Publius Ovidius Naso, was a Roman poet. He was best known for his erotic poems such as Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria. ...
P B Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the greatest contributors to the romantic poetry in the English language and author of the Prometheus Unbound ...
Paul Valery Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valery was a popular French poet, essayist, and philosopher. Paul showed great interest in numerous fields and is ...
Philip Larkin Philip Larkin was one of the greatest English poets. He was awarded with many honors, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was also ...
Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley is renowned as the first African-American poetess and the second African-American to get her/his book published. Her work is ...
Rabindranath Tagore “Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.” said once, one of the most heroic poets of India, at a time ...
Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke was a famous Austrian poet known for his significant contribution in German literature. He was famous for the “Thing poems”, ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson was a famous American lecturer, philosopher, essayist, and poet. He was one of the leading figures of Transcendentalist ...
Robert Browning Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright known for his mastery of dramatic verse. His dramatic monologues made him one of the most ...
Robert Burns Robert Burns was a famous Scottish poet and lyricist. Also known as Rabbie Burns, or Scotland's favorite son, Burns is often credited as the ...
Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost is among the most fecund writers when it comes to poetry and playwriting. He was highly appreciated and admired for his ...
Robert Hayden Robert Hayden was a famous American poet, essayist, and educator. He is best remembered for his book “Ballad of Remembrance”, for which he was ...
Rumi Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi was a 13th century Persian poet, an Islamic dervish and a Sufi mystic. He is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual ...
Samuel Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, critic and philosopher who along with William Wordsworth laid the foundation for English Romantic ...
Sarojini Naidu Sarojini Naidu, also known as Sarojini Chattopadhyaya, was a famous Indian poet and a major freedom fighter who went on becoming the first ...
Shel Silverstein Sheldon Allan Silverstein, better known as Shel Silverstein, was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist and ...
Sophocles Sophocles was an ancient Greek poet and one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His plays belonged to the period after ...
Sylvia Plath A Pulitzer Prize winner, Sylvia Plath was a stunning impressive poet, novelist and short story writer. She was also the first poet to win this ...
T S Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, often shorten as T. S. Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic and a Nobel Prize winner for his exceptional work ...
Ted Hughes Many critics named him as one of the best poets of his generation. He was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. He was also appointed ...
Thomas Moore What Robert Burns is to Scotland is Thomas Moore to Ireland. Popularly referred to as Anacreon Moore, Moore is considered as the National Bard ...
Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro, popularly known as Virgil was a magnificent classical Roman poet. Initially a student of rhetoric, medicine, and ...
W B Yeats William Butler Yeats was a famous Irish poet, dramatist and one of the pioneers of the literary world in 20th century. The author was also a ...
Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens was considered as one of the most critical American Modernist poets of the 20th century. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania ...
Walt Whitman Walter Whitman was an American poet, journalist and humanist. The poet is mainly known for his approach to Transcendentalism and realism and ...
William Wordsworth William Wordsworth was a famous English poet who played a central role in the English Romantic Movement. He is best known for ushering in the ...