Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

male, 70 years old
Seamus Justin Heaney, Translator, gaelic, Alumni of Queen's University Belfast, lecturer, Translator from Polish…poet, Irish Gaelic poet
Seamus Justin Heaney 's attempts to develop poetic language in which meaning and sound are intimately related result in concentrated, sensually...
Robert Browning

Robert Browning

male, deceased (1889)
buried at Westminster Abbey, Victorian poetry, British, From Surrey, Victorian, English…poet
Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic...
Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

male, deceased (1926)
lyric poetry, poet, lyric, Duino Elegies, Sonneteers, Valais…German-language poet, Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of...
John Adams

John Adams

male, deceased (1740)
Harvard University, Congregationalist, poet, Harvard University alumni, congregational church, Massachusetts writer
John Adams (1704 - January 1740), was an American poet. Adams was the only son of Hon. John Adams (merchant) of Nova Scotia, and he graduated from...
Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

male, deceased (1883)
German, der ring des nibelungen, Opera composer, opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, tristan und isolde
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his...
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

male, deceased (1894)
Scottish historical novelist, British non-fiction outdoors writer, from Napa County, California, islomaniac, death by cerebral hemorrhage, From Edinburgh…Lallans poet, poet
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson, was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English...
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

male, deceased (1967)
From Elmhurst, Illinois, from Chicago, writer, House of Vasa, Grammy Award winner, historian…poet
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer, and folklorist. He was born in...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

female, deceased (1861)
English women writer, Sonneteers, Women poet, Victorian poetry, English, victorian era…poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 - June 29, 1861) was a member of the Barrett family and one of the most respected poets of the Victorian...
Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

male, deceased (1321)
the divine comedy, commedia, central work, il Sommo Poeta, Renaissance Latin author, From florence…Medieval poet, poet
Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, (May 14/June 13 1265 - September 13/14, 1321) was an Italian poet from...
Aeschylus

Aeschylus

male
Persian invasion of Greece, The Persian, Persian Wars, Battle of Marathon, Greek chorus, chorus…poet
Aeschylus, IPA: or, 525 BC/524 BC - 456 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is...