- William Morris
William Morris was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain. His family was wealthy, and he went to school at Marlborough College, but left in 1851 after a student rebellion there. - W. H. Auden
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 century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form, and content. The central themes of his poetry are: personal love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, … - John Betjeman
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 and hack". He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead. Although he claimed he failed his degree at Oxford University, his early ability in writing poetry and interest in architecture supported him throughout his life. - Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24 , 1905 - September 15 , 1989 ) was an American poet and writer. He was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926. He later attended Yale University and obtained his B. Litt . at Oxford University in England in 1930. - William Collins
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 lyrical odes mark a turn away from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the romantic era which would soon follow. - Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon is a poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Muldoon's poetry is known for difficulty, allusion, casual use of extremely obscure or archaic words, understated wit, punning, and deft technique in meter and slant rhyme. Muldoon has lived in the United States since 1987; he teaches at Princeton University and is an Honorary Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. - Michael Rosen
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 of 140 books. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and holds this honour till 2009. Rosen's father was a secondary school teacher before becoming a professor of English at the Institute of Education, London, … - Anna Akhmatova
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 Russian poetry for half a century. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as "Requiem" (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece on the Stalinist terror. Her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, … - Kevin Crossley-Holland
Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English children's author and poet. Born in Mursley, North Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns. He attended Oxford University, where after failing his first exams he discovered a passion for Anglo-Saxon literature. After graduating he became the Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds, and from 1972–1977, he lectured in Anglo-Saxon for the Tufts University of London program. - John Leonard
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 he moved to Australia and completed a PhD at the University of Queensland. He currently lives in Canberra, Australia and is poetry editor of the journal Overland. His poetry is concise and sometimes cryptic. - John Leonard
John Leonard (born 1965) is an Australian poet. He was born in Cambridge, England, and from 1984 to 1987 studied at Oxford University. In 1991 he moved to Australia and completed a PhD at the University of Queensland. He currently lives in Canberra, Australia and is poetry editor of the journal Overland. His poetry is concise and sometimes cryptic. - Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell (born in 1962) is a British poet. - Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel (1562 - October 14, 1619) was an English poet and historian. - Edmund Blunden
Edmund Charles Blunden, MC (November 1, 1896 - January 20, 1974), although not one of the top trio of English World War I writers, was an important and influential poet, author and critic. Born in London, Blunden was educated at Christ's Hospital, a famous public school in Sussex, and later at Queen's College, Oxford. In 1915, he was commissioned as an officer into the Royal Sussex Regiment, and served with them right up to the end of the war, … - George Woodcock
George Woodcock , in Literary History , describes Maritime poets who "were content to live in Fredericton or whatever other Atlantic community they chose, and to take the matter for their poetry from the region, to live poetically A as it were A off the land" (306, Vol. 3). Fred Cogswell is one poet who leaps to mind. Cogswell, teacher, editor, translator, was born in East Centreville, New Brunswick, on November 8, 1917. - Peter McDonald
Peter McDonald is a poet and academic, currently based in Oxford, England. He was born in Belfast in 1962, and educated first at Methodist College in Belfast, then at University College, Oxford. His collections of poetic works include Biting the Wax (1989), Adam's Dream (1996), Pastorals (2004). He has also had individual poems included in various publications. His academic work is largely concerned with contemporary poetry. - Ruth Padel
Ruth Sophia Padel (born 8 May 1946) is a British classical scholar, poet and journalist. She came to prominence with a poetry column in the London "Independent on Sunday", of close readings of contemporary poems; the book "52 Ways of Looking at a Poem" edits together her writing there. Padel is the eldest child of the psychoanalyst John Hunter Padel (a descendant of the surgeon John Hunter) and his wife Hilda Horatia Barlow, daughter of Sir Alan Barlow, … - Ernest Dowson
Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867 - 23 February 1900), born in Lee, London, was an English poet associated with the Decadent movement. - Bernard O'Donoghue
Bernard O'Donoghue (born 1945) is a noted contemporary Irish poet and academic. Born in Cork, Ireland, he moved to Manchester, England when he was 16. He has lived in Oxford, England since 1965. O'Donoghue is currently fellow and tutor in Old English and Medieval English, Linguistics and the History of the English Language at Wadham College, Oxford University. He was previously Reader at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was a colleague of John Fuller and David Norbrook. - Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 - October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He is the father of the British novelist Martin Amis. - Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald (born 1966) is an English poet. Oswald read Classics at Oxford University, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald (also a trained classicist), and her three children in Devon, in the South of England. In 1994 she was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award. - David Berlinski
David Berlinski (born 1942 in New York City) is an educator and author of popular books on mathematics. He is a leading proponent of intelligent design, critic of evolution and author of numerous articles on the topic. - David Constantine
David Constantine (born 1944) is a contemporary British poet and translator. Constantine is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford University and co-editor of the literary journal "Modern Poetry in Translation". Along with the Irish poet Bernard O'Donoghue, Constantine is Commissioning Editor of the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press. At present, Constantine is preparing a translation of Goethe's "Faust" for Penguin Classics. - William Browne
William Browne was an English poet, born at Tavistock, Devon, educated at Oxford, after which he entered the Inner Temple. His poems, which are mainly descriptive, are rich and flowing, and true to the phenomena of nature, but deficient in interest. Influenced by Spenser, he in turn had an influence upon such poets as Milton and Keats. His chief works were "Britannia's Pastorals" (1613), and "The Shepheard's Pipe" (1614). - Giles Andreae
Giles Andreae is Britain's best-selling contemporary poet, through his personas "Purple Ronnie" and "Edward Monkton". A graduate of Oxford University, Andreae completed his degree under difficult circumstances as he developed Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands, and began an intensive course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy the day before his final exams began. He managed to sit some of his papers, and was awarded an upper second class degree. - Lascelles Abercrombie
Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as "the Georgian Laureate") (January 9, 1881 - October 27, 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at the University of Manchester. Before the First World War, he lived for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community which included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost. - John Jordan
John Jordan (1930-1988) was born in Dublin on 8th April 1930. He was educated at Synge Street C.B.S., University College, Dublin (U.C.D.) and Pembroke College, Oxford. In his teens he acted on the stage of the Gate Theatre, Dublin, before winning a Scholarship in English and French to Oxford University from U.C.D. In the mid-Fifties he returned to U.C.D. as a lecturer in English and taught there until the end of the 1960s. - Lewis Morris
Sir Lewis Morris (1833 - 1907) was a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. Lewis Morris was born in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, in south-west Wales. He studied at Oxford University and became a lawyer. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1895, and narrowly missed being appointed Poet Laureate, possibly because of his association with Oscar Wilde. One of his most famous poems is "Love's Suicide". http://readytogoebooks.com/LM-loves-su.htm - Mike Cadogan
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Roy Broadbent Fuller was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, near Oldham, in Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool. He worked as a lawyer (solicitor) for a building society, serving in the Royal Navy 1941-1946. "Poems" (1939) was his first book of poetry. He began to write fiction also in the 1950s. As a poet he became identified, on stylistic grounds, with The Movement. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1968-1973. - F. R. Scott
Francis Reginald Scott CC, commonly known as Frank Scott or F.R. Scott, (August 1 1899 - January 30 1985) was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. Born and raised in Quebec City, Scott witnessed the riots in the city during the Conscription Crisis of 1917. Completing his undergraduate studies at Bishop's University, in Lennoxville, Quebec, … - Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer and environmentalist. He was born in 1972, in Worcester, England, and currently lives in Oxford. Kingsnorth studied modern history at Oxford University between 1991 and 1994. During this period he was introduced to environmental politics through involvement in the road protest movement at sites including Twyford Down, Solsbury Hill and the M11 link road protest in East London. - Patrick Anderson
Patrick John MacAllister Anderson (born 4 August 1915, Ashtead - died 17 March 1979, Halstead) was an English-born Canadian poet. He was educated in Oxford and Columbia. He taught in McGill University between 1940 and 1950. Here is the blurb taken from the reissued version of "Snake Wine" by Oxford in Asia Paperbacks. - Kenneth E. Boulding
Kenneth Ewart Boulding (January 18 1910 - March 18 1993) was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. He was born in Liverpool, England, graduated from Oxford University, and granted United States citizenship in 1948. During the years 1949 to 1967, he was a faculty member of the University of Michigan. - Thomas McGrath
Thomas McGrath, (Sheldon, North Dakota, 1916 - Minneapolis, September 1990) was an American poet. He was a graduate of the University of North Dakota, did postgraduate studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He taught at Colby College, Waterville, Maine and Los Angeles State College from which he was dismissed in connection with his appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. - Jane Griffiths
Jane Griffiths (born 1970) is a British poet. Griffiths was born in Exeter, England, and brought up in the Netherlands. She studied English at Oxford University, and is a past winner of the Newdigate prize for poetry. After gaining her doctorate with research on the Tudor poet, John Skelton, she became an editor on the Oxford English Dictionary. - Richard Corbet
Richard Corbet or Corbett (1582 - 1635) was an English poet of the metaphysical school who, although highly praised in his own lifetime, is relatively obscure today. The son of a gardener, was educated at Westminster School and Oxford, and entered the Church, in which he obtained many preferments, and rose successively to be Bishop of Oxford and Bishop of Norwich. Corbet was noted as a practical joker and considered rather scatter-brained. - W. H. Oliver
W.H. Oliver is a New Zealand historian and poet, born in Feilding, on 14 May 1925, the son of Cornish immigrants. He studied at Victoria University of Wellington (MA) and completed a PhD at Oxford University in 1953. He returned to New Zealand and lectured at University of Canterbury and Victoria, before becoming inaugural professor of history at Massey University in 1965. - Richard Watson Dixon
Richard Watson Dixon (May 5, 1833 - January 23, 1900), English poet and divine, son of Dr James Dixon, a Wesleyan minister. He was educated at King Edward's school, Birmingham, and on proceeding to Pembroke College, Oxford, became one of the famous "Birmingham group" there who shared with William Morris and Burne-Jones in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He took only a second class in moderations in 1854, … - Kate Lilley
Kate Lilley (born 1960) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic. Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Sydney with her family. (She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley.) After studying at the University of Sydney she completed a Phd at University of London. Lilley published her first volume of poems, "Versary", in 2002 and currently lectures in gender studies and literature at Sydney University.
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