William Morris

William Morris

male, deceased (1896)
Victorian poetry, Mythopoeic writer, Communalism, socialist, graphic designer, Marxist…poet, University of Oxford, Exeter College, Oxford, Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford, OxfordUniversity
William Morris was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement,...
W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

male, deceased (1973)
OxfordUniversity, From York, gay, Anglican, writer, Playwright…poet, Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Wystan Hugh Auden IPA: ;, who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th...
John Betjeman

John Betjeman

male, deceased (1984)
Old Cholmeleian, Private Eye contributor, Parkinson's disease, Hampstead, From HAMPSTEAD, From wantage…Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford, poet, University of Oxford, poet laureate, OxfordUniversity
Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August, 1906 - 19 May, 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in "Who's Who" as a "poet...
Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

male (Guthrie)
Louisiana State University faculty, New Criticism, American, rhodes scholar, Bone cancer death, All the King's Men…poet, hired to teach at Yale University, University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, OxfordUniversity
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24 , 1905 - September 15 , 1989 ) was an American poet and writer. He was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from...
William Collins

William Collins

male, deceased (1759)
OxfordUniversity, poet, winchester, chichester, English, Winchester College
William Collins, English poet Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. His...
Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

male, 58 years old
slant rhyme, half rhyme, from County Armagh, pun, Irish Times, Hertford College, Oxford…Fellow of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, Princeton University academic, OxfordUniversity, poet, University of St Andrews
Paul Muldoon is a poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Muldoon's poetry is known for difficulty, allusion, casual use of extremely obscure or...
Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

male, 63 years old
English, Michael Wayne Rosen, Old Fullerians, Children's Laureate, children's writer, Institute of Education…Wadham College, Oxford, Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford, poet, OxfordUniversity, n't a poet, he'd like to be an actor
Michael Wayne Rosen (born May 7, 1946 in Harrow, and brought up in Pinner, Middlesex, in England) is a children's novelist and poet and the author...
Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

female, deceased (1966)
poet, Russian women writer, st petersburg, Russian, Russian Orthodox Christian, Victim of Soviet repressions…OxfordUniversity, doctorate by Oxford University
Anna Akhmatova (— March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of the St Petersburg tradition of Ru...
Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin Crossley-Holland

male, 68 years old
The Green Child, Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Old English language, Macmillan Publisher, Kevin John William Crossley-Holland, King of the Middle March…poet, university of leeds, OxfordUniversity
Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English children's author and poet. Born in Mursley, North Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf,...
John Leonard

John Leonard

male, 44 years old
OxfordUniversity, poet, university of queensland, Australian, canberra, overland
John Leonard (born July 7, 1965) is an Australian poet. He was born in Cambridge, UK, and from 1984 to 1987 studied at Oxford University. In 1991...
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