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...

Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin (full name Aleksandr Sergheevici Puskin) was born on the May 26, 1799 in Moscow, Russia. He is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern...

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) established his reputation with the precocious Pastorals in 1709 and Essay on Criticism in 1711, which were followed by a parody of the heroic epic The Rape...

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) poetry is both subjective and political, concerned with female consciousness, peace, and gay rights. Short Biography: Her works include The Fact of...

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud (1854-1891) verse was chiefly written before the age of 20, notably Les Illuminations published in 1886. Short Biography: From 1871 he lived with Verlaine....

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767-1845) was a German Romantic author, translator of Shakespeare whose Uber dramatische Kunst und Literaturl Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature 1809-1811...

Alain Elkann

Alain Elkann was born on March 23, 1950 in New York, USA. He is a famous Italian novelist and a journalist. He married Margherita Angnelli. He has two daughter named Lapo John and...

Archibald Macleish

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Short Biography: He made his name with the poem "Conquistador" in 1932, which describes Corts' march to the Aztec capital...

Alfred de Musset

Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) achieved success with the volume of poems Contes d'Espagne et d'ltaliei/Stories of Spain and Italy in 1829. Short Biography: His Confession d'un...

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...

Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova (Anna Andreevna Gorenko) was born on June 23, 1889 in Odessa, Ukraine and died on March 5, 1966 in St. Petersburg, Russia at age 76. Short Biography: Among her...

Allan Ramsay

Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) became a wig-maker and then a bookseller in Edinburgh. Short Biography: He published The Tea-Table Miscellany 1724-1737, and The Evergreen in 1724, collections...

Alexandru Musina

Alexandru Musina - poet. Also essayist and publisher. Born on July 1st 1954 in Sibiu, he is the son of Alexandru, a waiter, and Viorica, a shop assistant. His grandfather, Gheorghe...

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...

Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) poems include "To His Coy Mistress" and "Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland". Short Biography: He was committed to the Parliamentary Cause...

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...

Aurel Pantea

Aurel Pantea - poet. Also essayist. Born on March 10th 1952 in Chetani (Mures) in a family of Greek-Catholic peasants. After graduating the secondary school in Ludus, he attended...

Adam de la Halle

Adam de la Halle, born c. 1240 and died c. 1290. His Jeu de Robin et Marion, written in Italy about 1282, is a theatrical work with dialogue and songs set to what were apparently...

Andrei Zanca

Andrei Zanca (pseudonym of Andrei Sofalvi) Is a poet. Also translator. Born on September 13th 1952 in Sighisoara. After graduating No. 1 secondary school in Sighisoara, he attended...

Augustin Pop

Augustin Pop - poet. Born on September 13th 1952 in Panticeu. near Cluj Napoca. he died on February 6” 1998. He was the son of Augustin and Doinita Pop (née Ochis). workers. He graduated...

Adelbert von Chamisso

Pen name of Louis-Charles-Adelaide Chamisso de Boncourt (1781-1831) was a German writer of the story 'Peter Schlemihi', the man who sold his shadow. Short Biography: The son...

Abu Nuwas

Abu Nuwas (full name Abu Nuwas Hasan ibn Hani), 762-c.1815, was a Arab poet. His work was based on old forms, but the new freedom with which he used them, his eroticism, and his...

Andre de Chenier

Andre de Chenier (1762-1794) was a French poet, born in Constantinople. Short Biography: His lyrical poetry was later to inspire the Romantic movement, but he was known in his...

Augustin Fratila

Augustin Fraţila - poet. Also book publisher. Born on November 25th 1953 in Aiud (Alba), he is the son of Ovidiu Fraţila, a physician. He was educated at a secondary school...