Poetry Biographies Samples For Students

Thomas Hardy is one of the most renowned poets and novelist in the English literary history. He was born in the year 1940, in the English village of Higher Bockhampton in Dorset. His father Thomas was a stone mason and a master builder, and his mother Jemima was a highly educated woman who enjoyed reading and narrating folk tales of their region t the time. His parents are said to have influenced his life a great deal because he indeed loved country folk and had a passion for literature, as well as music. When he was eight years old, Hardy began school at Julia ...

Sara Teasdale was born in the year 1884, August in a state called Missouri at a place called St. Louis. The health of the lady was a problem and this is why she delayed attending school. Instead, she started her studies at home and attended school at the age of 14. It is due to her health problems that the lady changed school at one time.
Sara Teasdale is known as a poet. The first poem that she composed was written in a local newspaper in the year 1907. This is when she started becoming famous. In 1911, her collection of poems was ...

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According to the American Encyclopaedia, Stevie Smith was known for her “lively, often irreverent wit, unexpected turns of phrase, and unsentimental views of the human condition” (American Encyclopaedia, 65).

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Florence Smith was born in 1902 in Hull, England. However, she and her family moved to London in 1906 after her father left. Unusually, she stayed in the same house until she died in 1971. She went by the nick-name 'Stevie' for much of her life and, despite some romantic relationships, she never married. For 30 years, Smith earned a living working as a secretary, though she retired while still in her ...

Biography and Criticism - Aemilia Lanyer

In the realm of the English literary canon, one of the most intriguing figures is Aemilia Lanyer. As mysterious as she is important, not a great deal is known about her life - in fact, there is no physical representation of her in artwork or pictoral form, so we do not even know what she really looked like. Nonetheless, she left an indelible impact on English literature, not the least of which through her interaction with William Shakespeare. Her own poetry is thought to be some of the best of Renaissance literature, and what is known about her history is ...

The Canadian poet Robert Service remains a paradox. He is the best selling poet of the twentieth century and yet his work has been reviled and criticized by literary critics. His biographer, Mallory, claims that “his poetry has touched the lives of millions of North Americans” (xv).
Because of his enormous success, Service’s life was a real rag-to-riches story. Born on January 16th, 1874 to Scottish parents (his father worked in a bank), he followed his father’s footsteps when he first left school, joining a bank in Glasgow, the family having moved back to Scotland where Service joined them at ...

William Faulkner is an American writer from the state of Mississippi, Oxford who lived between 1897 and 1962. He is regarded as one of most important Southern Literature writers of the United States. During his lifetime, he was credited for writing and publishing a great volume of poetry, novels, short stories, essays and screenplays. His collection of short stories and novel is the most popular. He also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 for his contribution to the field of American Literature (O’Connor 1). This paper focuses on the most important works of William Faulkner, his literary ...

Currently living in the city of Atlanta Georgia, I am a native Californian. At a young age, I was introduced to pastoral care. My grandfather enjoyed a prominent position as an elder in the Baptist church. He would visit his members on a regular basis. He was the one who actually introduced me to learn about pastoral care as a PK. The basis of Pastoral care, as exemplified in one's treatment of the neighborhoods, grew out of the theological commitment as demonstrated in one's love for God’s people. I believe that my interest in pastoral care is a ...

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In the history of computing, there are many names. These are the names of a number of near Ada Lovelace and Charles Burbidge. Charles Babbage is the person who created the drawings of the analytical engine, and the woman who wrote the world's first software for this machine. She was a great mathematician and a very persistent woman; it did not disappoint even the fact that she did not see her program works.

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Augusta Ada Lovelace was born December 10, 1815. She was the only daughter of the great English poet George Gordon Byron (1788 - 1824) and Annabella Byron, born Milbank ( ...

This paper is the result of my research on the British dramatist, Harold Pinter. There is so much material available on Pinter that it was sometimes hard to decide exactly what to use, so I have limited my source texts to two authoritative reference books. As well as giving biographical information, I have tied to trace his contribution to the theatre, but even that was slightly problematic, since he did so much – he directed, acted and wrote for the theatre. Even if we concentrate on his writing, we are dealing potentially with a huge amount since he wrote plays, poems, ...