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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 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...
