Rainer Maria Rilke - Biography and Works
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was an Austrian lyric poet, born in Bohemia. He studied at Prague, Munich and Berlin.
Rabindranath Tagore - Biography and Works
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Bengali Indian poet, writer and philosopher, was born in Calcutta. He was educated mostly at home. Quite early from his pen began to flow novels, essays, short stories, and poetry.
Philip Morin Freneau - Biography and Works
Philip Morin Freneau is one of the earliest American poets; he was also a journalist, known as the poet of the American Revolution. Born in New York City and educated at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton, University), Freneau is also remembered as the earliest American lyric poet. His work marks the first use of particular, concrete images in American verse. Before Freneau, generality and abstraction reigned; versified didacticism was the all-pervading form of literature. Freneau was a new poet of America in that he began the satiric mode of writing.
Philip Larkin - Biography and Works
Philip Larkin is a noted British poet, novelist and critic. He was born in Coventry, England, and educated at the University of Oxford. Larkin treats the modern English setting in a withdrawn and non-sentimental manner, but often with considerable feeling.
Paul Simon - Biography and Works
Paul Simon (born in 1941) was born in Newark, New Jersey, USA in 1941. A singer, songwriter and guitarist, he is also an excellent pop lyricist. The most successful album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, with one half of the duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel came out in 1970. These two were initially known as Tom and Jerry.
Richard Wilbur - Biography and Works
Richard Wilbur is an American poet and university professor, who was appointed the poet laureate of the United States in 1987. Wilbur was born in New York City and he grew up there. In his long career as a poet, dramatist and educationist, he is best known for imbuing formal and traditional verse forms with urbanity and wit.
Matthew Arnold - Biography and Works
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) is a Victorian poet. He was also a great critic of his age. His voice is a true voice of the sensitive Victorian intellectual lamenting ever inevitable (something that can’t be stopped) loss of faith and the meaning of life.
Mark Strand - Biography and Works
Mark Strand (born in 1934) is a Canadian-born poet and educated in the US. He has taught at various universities. His poems of alienation, treating darkness and doubleness in man, are minimalist in style and affected by surrealism. Strand is considered to be one of the most important American poets. He can be well known as an editor, translator and prose writer in the space of English literature. His styles are the precise use of language, surreal imagery and the recurring theme of absence and negation.
Marianne Moore - Biography and Works
Marianne Moore was born in St. Louis, and became a teacher and a librarian. As the editor of The Dial magazine from 1925 to 1929, Moore played an important part in encouraging young writers and publishing their work. Moore ranks with Emily Dickinson among America's finest woman poets.
Paul Muldoon - Biography and Works
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet, who went to live in England and shifted later to America. He was influenced by Robert Frost’s 'strong, classic, lyric line' in style, but he continued to write about his own Irish experience. He also adopted the cinematic techniques of presenting flashes and fragments of events in his narrative poems.