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Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉, 1644 – November 28, 1694); [2] born Matsuo Kinsaku ( 松尾 金作 ), later known as Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa ( 松尾 忠右衛門 宗房) [3] was the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after ...
Anne Bradstreet ( née Dudley; March 8, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published ...
"If—" is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism . [2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son, John .
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. [1] – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, [2] Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The ...
Early life. Baudelaire was born in Paris, France, on 9 April 1821, and baptized two months later at Saint-Sulpice Roman Catholic Church. His father, Joseph-François Baudelaire (1759–1827), a senior civil servant and amateur artist, who at 60, was 34 years older than Baudelaire's 26-year-old mother, Caroline (née Dufaÿs) (1794–1871); she was his second wife.
Ozymandias. " Ozymandias " ( / ˌɒziˈmændiəs / o-zee-MAN-dee-əs) [1] is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner [2] of London. The poem was included the following year in Shelley's collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other ...
Robert Graves. Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) [1] [2] was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology. Robert Graves produced more than 140 ...
Robert Southey (/ ˈ s aʊ ð i / or / ˈ s ʌ ð i /; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions.