Famous Poets
Margaret Atwood
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poetess of considerable fame. She was born in Ontario in 1939 to a forest entomologist and spent much of her early life in Quebec. At the age of seven she moved to Toronto where she studied at the University of Toronto and then earned her masters degree at Radcliffe College […]
Maya Angelou: Woman extraordinaire
Monday, February 18th, 2008Maya Angelou is one of those people who change the way others think and leave an impact on the world forever. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St Louis in Missouri on the 4th of April, 1928. She is multi faceted and is popular as a author, poet, songwriter, playwright, historian, dancer, stage […]
Tennyson- master of poetry
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Lord Alfred Tennyson is one of the best and most well known poets of the 19th century and he is to date day regarded as such. Tennyson was born in 1809 to a clergyman and was one of 12 children. The family had to survive on a clergyman’s paltry salary as his father who was […]
D.H Lawrence
Thursday, January 24th, 2008D.H. Lawrence is one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. He has written many highly acclaimed books and poems including the very controversial ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’s’ which has been made into movies and ‘Sons and Lovers’ as well as many poems that have stood the test of time including ‘Snake’ and ‘How […]
T.S. Elliot
Monday, December 24th, 2007One of the most remembered and well read of all poets in history is T.S. Elliot. He was born in 1888 in Missouri and was educated at Harvard and graduated in Philosophy at Oxford. He then worked was a school master, a bank clerk and later as the editor of Faber & Faber of which […]
Oscar Wilde: Genius interrupted
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Oscar Wilde is one of the most famous poets and playwrights in history. He was highly misunderstood and got great critical acclaim as well as drew a lot of criticism from society for both his literature as well as his lifestyle. Although he gained fame and popularity through his plays like Lady Windermere’s Fan and […]
An ode to an unacknowledged poetic genius
Monday, December 3rd, 2007I’m sure there are more than a million Doors’ fans in the world. You, you’re probably one yourself. But have you ever thought of Jim Morrison as a poet? I know ‘Light my fire’ probably isn’t Wordsworth, but it still has a quality which makes you identify with him, something the likes of Wordsworth and […]