Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) verse includes Goblin Market and Other Poems in 1862 and expresses unfulfilled spiritual yearning and frustrated love. She was a skilful technician...

Cecil Day-Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972) was a Irish poet laureate 1968-1972. Short Biography: With Auden and Spender, he was one of the influential left-wing poets of the 1930s. He also...

Christopher Brennan

Christopher John Brennan (1870-1932) was a Australian Symbolist poet, influenced by Baudelaire and Mallarm. Short Biography: Although one of Australia's greatest poets, he is...

Coventry Patmore

Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) was a librarian at the British Museum (1846-1866), and as one of the Pre-Raphaelites achieved fame with the poem The Angel in the House (1854-1863) and...

Charles Olson

Charles Olson (1910-1970) was an American poet, noted for his theories of "composition by field" and his association with the Black Mountain school of poets. Short Biography: His...

Crudu Dumitru

Crudu Dumitru - poet. Also journalist and translator. He writes under pseudonyms Andrei Vrîi or Djokhar Dudaev. Born on November 8th 1968 in Flutura, Ungheni (Bessarabia / The Republic...

Carmen Firan

Carmen Firan - poet. Also prose writer and publisher. Born on November 29th 1958 in Craiova, she is the daughter of professor and literary historian Florea Firan and of Elena Firan...

Charles Peguy

Charles Peguy (1873-1914) was a French Catholic socialist, who established a socialist publishing house in Paris. Short Biography: From 1900 he published on political topics...

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...

Corina Ciocarlie

Corina Ciocarlie - literary critic and essayist. Also journalist. Born on October 13th 1963 in Timisoara, she is the daughter of essayist and prose writer Livius Ciocarlie. In 1986...

Clemens Brentano

Clemens Brentano (1778-1842) was a German writer, leader of die Young Romantics. Short Biography: He published a seminal collection of folktales and songs with Ludwig von Arnim...

Calin Vlasie

Calin Vlasie - poet. Also essayist, journalist and publisher. Born on May 21st 1953 in Buzau, he is the son of Hristache Vlasie, a police non-commissioned officer, later a clerk, and...

Clement Marot

Clement Marot (1496-1544) graceful, witty style has been a model for later writers of light verse. Short Biography: Born at Cahors, he accompanied Francis I to Italy in 1524,...

Cistelecan Alexandru

Literary critic and essaist. Also journalist. Born on December 2nd 1951 at Aruncuta (Cluj), he is the son of Alexandru and Maria Cistelecan. peasants. He was educated at “Ady -...

Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, whose work combined rhythmical and musical perfection with a morbid romanticism and eroticism, finding beauty in decadence and...

Chretien de Troyes

Chretien de Troyes medieval French poet, born in Champagne about the middle of the 12th century. Short Biography: His epics, which include Le Chevalier de la Charrette; Perceval...

Cristian Popescu

Cristian Popescu - poet. Born on June 1st 1959 in Bucharest. He died in 1995, also in Bucharest. He graduated in 1987 from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest. As...