Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

female, deceased (1946)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Radcliffe College alumni, LGBT, Stomach cancer death, Jewish person, American…poet
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern...
Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop

female, deceased (1979)
American Poet Laureate, American women writer, American Poets Laureate, writer, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, poet
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 - October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer. She enjoyed critical acclaim in her lifetime, and her...
Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

male, deceased (1637)
buried at Westminster Abbey, satirical, jacobean, Renaissance, English Poets Laureate, English Renaissance dramatist…poet
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 - 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he...
E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

male, deceased (1962)
Sonneteers, Modernist poetry in English, love, poet, American poet, Playwright
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), abbreviated E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright....
Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

male, deceased (1867)
poet, Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Writers that also draw/paint, French poetry, Wagnerites, Critic…Symbolist poet, French-language poet, French poet
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867) was an influential nineteenth century French poet. He was also a critic and translator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male, deceased (1832)
Farbenlehre, theology, Elective Affinities, bildungsroman, Autobiographer, epistolary novel…poet, German-language poet
"'"',, (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, Humanism,...
Van Morrison

Van Morrison

male, 64 years old
Brown Eyed Girl, Grammy Award winner, golden record, Bridget Jones' Diary Soundtrack, Sounds of the Seventies, georgia on my mind…poet
Van Morrison was born in Belfast in 1945, the son of a shipyard worker who collected American blues and jazz records. Van grew up listening to the...
Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

male, deceased (1400)
from the City of London, buried at Westminster Abbey, author, bureaucracy, English, Civil Servant…Middle English poet, Medieval poet, poet
Geoffrey Chaucer -- courtier, diplomat, and poet -- is arguably one of the most important figures in English literature. His philosophically...
Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

male, deceased (1985)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Poetry Book Society, Academic of the University of Hull, St John's College, Oxford, Order of the Companions of Honour, FRSL…poet laureate, poet
Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL, (9 August 1922 - 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

male, deceased (1989)
waiting for godot, Happy Days, humour, Death from emphysema, optimism, Aosdána…Irish modernist poet, poet
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally...