Literary Library

Mina Loy

by Angela Beck
December 27, 1882 - September 25, 1966British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer and bohemianAuthor of "Lunar Baedeker"...
Art Artist Arts Bohemian British Designer England English English Poetry Great Britain Novel Novelist Paint Painter Painting Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Theater Theatre Writer

Thomas Gray

by Angela Beck
December 26, 1716 - July 30, 1771English poet, classical scholar and professorAuthor of only 13 poems including "Elegy Written in a Country Church...
British England English English History English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry Scholar University

William Collins

by Angela Beck
December 25, 1721 - June 12, 1759English poetAuthor of "Persian Eclogues" and "Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects"
British English English History English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Matthew Arnold

by Angela Beck
December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888English poet, cultural critic, school inspector and professorAuthor of "Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems", "Po...
British Critic Culture England English English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry Professor School Teach Teacher University

George Crabbe

by Angela Beck
December 24, 1754 - February 3, 1832English poet, surgeon and clergymanAuthor of "The Candidate", "The Village" and "The Burough"
British Church Clergy Clergyman Doctor England English English Poetry Great Britain Medical Medicine Physician Religion Religious Surgeon Surgery

Carol Ann Duffy

by Angela Beck
December 23, 1955 - British poet, playwright and profesorAuthor of "Standing Female Nude", "Selling Manhattan" (for which she won the Somerset Mau...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poet Laureate Poetry Professor Somerset Maugham Award T. S. Eliot Prize Teach Teacher United Kingdom University

Charles Stuart Calverly

by Angela Beck
December 22, 1831 - February 17, 1884English poetAuthor of "Verses and Translations", "Translations Into English and Latin" and "Fly Leaves"Also pu...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Hannah More

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1745 - September 7, 1833English religious writer, poet and playwrightAuthor of "The Inflexible Captive", "Fatal Falsehood" and "Coeleb...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Religion Religious Theater Theatre

Sean O'Brien

by Angela Beck
December 19, 1952 - British poet, critic, playwright and professorAuthor of "Downriver" (for which he was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in...
British Critic England English English Poetry Great Britain Griffin Poetry Prize Play Plays Playwright Professor T. S. Eliot Prize Teach Teacher Theater Theatre University

Christopher Fry

by Angela Beck
December 18, 1907 - June 30, 2005English poet and playwrightAuthor of "The Lady's Not for Burning" (for which he won the New York Drama Critics Aw...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain NY Drama Critics Award Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Theater Theatre Tony Award

Ford Madox Ford

by Angela Beck
December 17, 1873 - June 26, 1939English novelist, poet, critic and editorAuthor of "The Inheritors" (written with Joseph Conrad), "The Good Sold...
British Critic Editor England English English Poetry Great Britain Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry The English Review

Anna Seward

by Angela Beck
December 12, 1742 - March 25, 1809English Romantic poetAuthor of "Louisa: A Poetical Novel, in Four Epistles", "Llangollen Vale, 1976" and "Memoir...
British England English English Poetry Great Britain Poem Poems Poet Poetry Romantic