Victorian
Alfred Edward Housman | Biography
October 8, 2026
Alfred Edward Housman was born in Shropshire, England. He was a classical scholar, and he taught Latin at the University of London and at Cambridge University. Housman wrote apparently very simple lyrics, but usually kept...
Alfred Lord Tennyson | Biography
October 5, 2026
Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he soon became known for his poetic ability that won him the friendship of the young poet Arthur Henry...
Alexander Pope | Biography
October 3, 2026
Alexander Pope was the most influential poet and critic of the 18th century or the neoclassical period of English literature. He is the first professional poet of English literature also. Because the Catholics were not...
Alden Nowlan | Biography
September 26, 2026
Alden Nowlan was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1933. He served as news editor of The Observer and The Telegraph Journal. Since 1968 he has been writer-in residence at the University of New...
Adrienne Rich | Biography
September 26, 2026
Adrienne Rich born in Baltimore, Maryland was an American poetess and essayist best known for her observation of the experiences of women in society. Her poems often deal with the historical development of women’s roles...
Anne Bradstreet | Biography
September 26, 2026
Anne Bradstreet was the first poet in America to publish a volume of poetry. ‘The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up’ in America was published in England in 1650. This book is generally considered the first...
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray | Summary and Analysis
September 5, 2026
Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is composed in quatrains, where the first line rhymes with the third, and the second with the fourth. Elegiac poetry is mostly written in abab form. The last...
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...
Satire in Lysistrata by Aristophanes
July 26, 2026
Aristophanes takes up the issue of war in the cities of ancient Greece and satirizes war for the loss of life and property it has caused. Through a conflict between the sexes, he exposes the...
