Robert Burns

Robert Burns

male, deceased (1796)
Ploughman Poet, Bard of Ayrshire, Scotland's favourite son, Rabbie Burns, Burns Night, Ae Fond Kiss…poet, National poet
Robert Burns - known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and (in Scotland) simply as The Bard...
Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

female, deceased (1963) (United States)
American women writer, Autobiographical novel, expatriate, depression, Smith College alumni, committed suicide…poet
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath...
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

male, deceased (1882)
poet, Transcendentalism, Western mystic, vegetarian, Essayist, LETTERS AND SOCIAL AIMS 1876…Romantic poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century.
William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

male, deceased (1850)
Sonneteers, English, From Cumberland, Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge, Lyrical Ballads, Romantic Age…poet laureate, Romantic poet, poet
William Wordsworth was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with...
Marguerite Annie Johnson

Marguerite Annie Johnson

female, 81 years old (SAINT LOUIS, Missouri)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, memoirist, American Civil Rights Movement, actress, poet, sexually molested aged 7
Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature and as a remarkable Renaissance woman. A poet, educator, historian,...
Ezra Loomis Pound

Ezra Loomis Pound

male (Hailey, Idaho, United States)
poet, imagism, Critic, American expatriate in Italy, expatriate, Hamilton College alumni
Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in the small mining town of Hailey, Idaho . He had an average middle-class childhood in Wyncote,...
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

male, deceased (1969)
The Dharma Bums, on the road, New Journalism, 1960s counterculture, Sailor, Beat writer…beat poet, poet
Jack Kerouac (pronounced) (March 12 1922 - October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is perhaps the best known of a...
Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

male, deceased (1936)
science fiction writer, British imperialism, British Empire, buried at Westminster Abbey, Writer-illustrator, mandalay…poet laureate, World War I poet, poet
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including "The Jungle Book"...
Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

male, deceased (1955)
From st. louis, missouri, Modernism, American modernist poet, from Hartford, Connecticut, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, From St. Louis…poet
Wallace Stevens was a major American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania
John Keats

John Keats

male, deceased (1821)
negative capability, Sonneteers, alfred tennyson, english literature, English, death by tuberculosis…Romantic poet, poet
John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from...