The winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, Seamus Heaney was one of the major poets of the previous…
Lucille Clifton’s early career began promisingly when the very first volume of poems she published, Good Times, was included in…
English poet and Catholic priest Gerard Manley Hopkins studied at the Highgate school and at the Oxford University. In the…
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in a middle-class family. He studied painting. In the 1848, along with other artists, he…
Kathleen Jamie is one of the most famous poets working today. In her verse she often explores important historical phenomena,…
A prolific American poet and author, Maxine Kumin was awarded Pulitzer Prize and a number of other prestigious awards. According…
Although Gillian Clarke was a well-known Welsh poet, translator, and author of plays, she actually abandoned a promising career in…
The fact that R. S. Thomas was born in Wales and spent his life there influenced his poetry greatly. It’s…
Initially Anne Stevenson studied music, and it was only during her University years that she decided to pursue poetry. No…
Granddaughter of Charles Darwin, Frances Crofts Cornford enjoyed early success, yet in the course of time her fame waned. Her…