Kedar N. Sharma
Kedar N. Sharma is an experienced literary expert and analyst with a postgraduate degree in English Literature. With many years of experience, he specializes in poetry and literary analysis. His strong knowledge of literary terms and critical theory adds depth and value to his contributions to PoemSense.
Robert Frost | Biography
July 12, 2026
Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. His father was William Prescott Frost and mother was Isabella Moodie Frost, an immigrant from Scotland. His father died in San Francisco when...
Chaucer to Pre-Romantic Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer | Biography
July 12, 2026
Geoffrey Chaucer, often referred to as the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, is considered the “father of English literature, or the “father of English poetry”. Chaucer was buried as a first English literary...
Gerard Manley Hopkins | Biography
July 12, 2026
Gerard Manley Hopkins was among a few individual innovators whose technical experiments and new approach to poetic expression were the result of new imaginative needs; but he was virtually unknown to his generation and had...
Ted Hughes | Biography
July 12, 2026
Ted Hughes was born Edward James Hughes in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, England. His father was William Hughes, a carpenter and a veteran of World War I. As a boy, Hughes spent much of his time fishing, hunting, and studying...
Chaucer to Pre-Romantic Poetry
Thomas Gray | Biography
July 11, 2026
Thomas Gray was an English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. He was a dominant poetic figure in the mid-eighteenth century and precursor of the Romantic Movement in English poetry. Gray was born...
Poetry Guides / Postmodern & Other Poetry
Sylvia Plath | Biography
July 11, 2026
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Otto and Aurelia Plath. Her father, Otto, was a German immigrant and a professor of biology specializing in bees, while her mother, Aurelia,...
Poetry Guides / Romantic & Victorian Poetry
Emily Dickinson | Biography
July 11, 2026
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in a conservative puritanic, New England town, Amherst, Massachusetts. The Dickinson had been a popular and influential family in the town. Emily’s grandfather had taken a leading...
