Postmodern & Other Poets
Ray Young Bear | Biography
August 30, 2026
Ray Young Bear (born in 1950) is an American and Indian poet and novelist. He was born and raised on the Tama Indian Reservation in Iowa, in the Mesquaki tribe, where his grandmother instructed him...
Christina Georgina Rossetti | Biography
August 30, 2026
Christina Georgina Rossetti is of Italian origin. Rossetti was one of the most important nineteenth century English women poets. She was born in London on December 5, 1830. Rossetti was entirely educated at home and...
Aristophanes | Biography
July 25, 2026
Aristophanes was born in 448 B.C. and was supposed to die in 388 B.C. Aristophanes was the son of Philippus, of the Deme Cydathenaus. It was uncertain where he was born. He was a contemporary...
Sophocles | Biography
July 24, 2026
Sophocles was one of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Euripides. Unlike his younger contemporary, the often-misunderstood Euripides, Sophocles had the fortune of being revered for his...
Rupert Brooke | Biography
July 12, 2026
Rupert Brooke was a poet born to distinction. Son of a Rugby master, he studied at his father’s school and at King’s College, Cambridge, and won many academic honors. He was born into a well-to-do-academic...
Ted Hughes | Biography
July 12, 2026
Ted Hughes was born on 17th August 1930 in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. His father, William Hughes had fought on the Gallipoli Peninsula in April 1915. William Hughes was one of the only seventeen survivors of...
Thomas Gray | Biography
July 11, 2026
Thomas Gray was born on 26 December 1716 as the fifth child to Philip Gray and Dorothy Antrobus in Cornhill, London. He was a poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. His...
Sylvia Plath | Biography
July 11, 2026
Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is an American poet, whose work is known for its savage imagery and themes of self-destruction, and for the violent protest of a feminist persona generalizing male as...
Emily Dickinson | Biography
July 11, 2026
Emily Dickinson a very sensitive lyrical poet was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a well-known family. For one year she attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now College), in nearby South Hadley, then withdrew and returned...
