Amado Nervo

Amado Nervo was born on 27th August 1870 in Tepic, Nayarit. He was a Mexican poet. Biography and Career: Amado Nervo was born and brought up in Tepic, Nayarit. When he was 13...

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England as son of John Shakespeare, a glove maker, and Mary Arden. He was a an English poet and playwright known...

W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was a leader of the Celtic revival and a founder of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Short Biography: His early work was romantic and lyrical, as...

Thomas Wyatt

Thomas Wyatt (c. 1503-1542) was employed on diplomatic missions by Henry VIII, and in 1536 was imprisoned for a time in the Tower of London, since he was thought to have been the lover...

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) in 1797 he moved with his sister Dorothy to Somerset to be near Coleridge, collaborating with him on Lyrical Ballads in 1798 (which included "Tintem Abbey") Short...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) spare images and language reflect everyday speech. Short Biography: His epic poem Paterson 1946-1958 celebrates his home town in New Jersey....

Christoph Martin Wieland

Christoph Martin Wieland, (1733-1813) after attempts at religious poetry, he came under the influence of Voltaire and Rousseau, and wrote novels such as Agathon and the satirical Abderiten...

John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was a powerful opponent of slavery, as shown in the verse Voices of Freedom in 1846. Among his other works are Legends of New England in Prose...

Franz Werfel

Franz Werfel (1890-1945) works include the poems "Der Weltfreund der Gerichtstag"/The Day of Judgment' in 1919; the plays Juarez und Maximilian in 1924, and Das Reich Gottes in Bohmen/The...

Johan Sebastian Welhaven

Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven (1807-1873) was a supporter of the Dano-Norwegian culture, he is considered one of the greatest Norwegian masters of poetic form. His works include...

Adam Wazyk

Adam Wazyk (1905-1982) was a Polish writer who made his name with Poem for Adults in 1955, a protest against the regime that preceded the fall of the Stalinists in 1956. In 1957...

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was an American poet and novelist, the only author to receive a Pulitzer prize for both prose and poetry. His novel All the King's Men in 1946 was...

Walther von der Vogelweide

Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170-c. 1230) of noble birth, he lived in his youth at the Austrian ducal court in Vienna, adopting a wandering life after the death of his patron in...

Robert Wace

Robert Wace (c.1100-c.1175) major works, both written in Norman French, were Roman de Brut (also known as Geste des Bretons) in 1155, and Roman de Rou (or Geste des Normanz) 1160-1162. Short...

Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BC) wrote a series of pastoral poems, the Georgia in 30 BC, four books on the art of farming, and his masterpiece the Aeneid. Short Biography: Virgil...

Francois Villon

Very little of Francois Villon (1431-c.1465) work survives, but it includes the Ballade des dames du temps jadis/Ballad of the ladies of former times, Petit Testament in 1456, and Grand...

Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) volumes of verse include Poemes saturniens/Saturnine Poems in 1866, Fetes galantes/Amorous Entertainments in 1869 and Romances sans paroles/Songs without Words...

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) lyrics show a cosmopolitan independence of Italian poetic tradition. His poems, such as the Allegria di naufragi/Joy of Shipwrecks in 1919, are noted...

Philip Edward Thomas

Philip Edward Thomas (1878-1917) in 1916 he published Six Poems under the pseudonym Edward Eastaway; volumes under his own name were Poems in 1917 and Last Poems in 1918. Thomas...

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953) poems include the celebration of his 30th birthday "Poem in October" and the evocation of his youth "Fern Hill" in 1946. Short Biography: His...

Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892) works include "The Lady of Shalott", "The Lotus Eaters", "Ulysses", "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade"; the longer...

Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) was an Italian poet, author of the romantic epic poem of the First Crusade, La Gerusalemme Liberata/Jerusalem Delivered in 1574, followed by the Gerusalemme...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) attracted attention with the choruses of his Greek-style tragedy Atalanta in Calydon in 1865, but he and Dante Rossetti were attacked 1871 as...

Sir John Suckling

John Suckling (1609-1642) was an ardent Royalist who tried to effect Strafford's escape from the Tower of London. Short Biography: On his failure, he fled to France and may have...