Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

male, deceased (1834)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834) (pronounced) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his...
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

male, deceased (1849)
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the...
John Milton

John Milton

male, deceased (1674)
John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed...
Robert Burns

Robert Burns

male, deceased (1796)
Robert Burns - known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and (in Scotland) simply as The Bard...
Ludwig Tieck

Ludwig Tieck

male, deceased (1853)
Johann Ludwig Tieck (May 31, 1773 - April 28, 1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who was part of the Romantic...

Théodore Géricault

male, deceased (1824)
Théodore Géricault was an important French painter and lithographer, known for "The Raft of the Medusa" and other paintings. He was one of the pi...
John Polidori

John Polidori

male, deceased (1821)
John William Polidori was an Italian English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as...
Ary Scheffer

Ary Scheffer

male, deceased (1858)
Ary Scheffer, French painter of Dutch extraction, was born at Dordrecht. After the early death of his father, a poor painter, Ary was taken to...
Vasily Zhukovsky

Vasily Zhukovsky

male, deceased (1852)
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (29 Jan/9 Feb 1783, Mishenskoe near Tula - 12/24 Apr 1852, Baden-Baden) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s. He...
Petrus Borel

Petrus Borel

male, deceased (1859)
Petrus Borel, sometimes known as Borel d'Hauterive (26 June 1809 - 14 July 1859) was a French writer of the Romantic movement. Born Joseph-Pierre...