George Bacovia

George Bacovia (real name George Vasiliu) was born on September 17, 1881 in Bacau, Romania. He was a great Romanian poet. Biography and Career : He was the fifth of the 11 children...

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio was born on March 12, 1863 in Pescara, Italy as son of Francesco Paolo D' Annunzio and Luiza De Benedictis. He was a famous Italian poet, writer, novelist and dramatist. Biography...

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian poet, author of a collection of tales called the Decameron (1348-1353). Short Biography: Son of a Florentine merchant, he lived in...

George Ives

George Ives was born on Tuesday, October 01, 1867 and he was a famous poet.Being born on Oct 01, George was a Libra.George Ives died on Sunday, June 04, 1950.George Ives dated Oscar...

Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi, Count Leopardi (1798-1837) was an Italian romantic poet. Short Biography: The first collection of his uniquely pessimistic poems, / Versi/Verses, appeared in...

Grigore Soitu

Grigore Soitu - poet. Born on December 29th 1972 in Constanta. He is the son of Constantin (former royal navy officer, forced to retire in 1948, to become later a mariner, a “reabilitated”...

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was an English poet. Short Biography: His work, marked by its religious themes and use of natural imagery, includes "The Wreck of the Deutschland"...

Giorgos Seferis

Assumed name of Greek poet-diplomat Georgios Sefenades (1900-1971) was an ambassador to Lebanon 1953-1957 and then to the UK 1957-1962, he did much to help resolve the Cyprus crisis....

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) was an English poet. Short Biography: Author of "The Canterbury Tales" about 1387, a collection of tales told by pilgrims on their way to the...

Gabriela Mistral

Pen name of Lucila Godoy de Alcayaga (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet, who wrote Sonnets of Death (1915). She won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945. She was consul of Chile in Spain...

George Meredith

George Meredith (1828-1909) published the first realistic psychological novel The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859). Short Biography: Later works include Evan Harrington (1861)...

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...

Gheorghe Izbasescu

Gheorghe Izbaşeşscu - poet. Also journalist. Born on September 8th 1935 in the village Laicai (Argeş), he is the son of Gheorghe Izbaşescu, communal clerk, and of...

George Vulturescu

George Vulturescu (pseudonym of Gheorghe S. Pop) - poet. Also essayist and publisher. Born on March 1st 1951 in Tireac (Satu Mare). he is the son of Gheorghe Pop and Irina Pop, peasants....

George Crabbe

George Crabbe (1754-1832) was a English poet. Short Biography: Originally a doctor, he became a clergyman in 1781, and wrote grimly realistic verse of the poor of his own time...

Grigore Chiper

Grigore Chiper - poet. Also literary critic and essayist. Born on 16th April 1959 in Copanca. Slobozia, the Republic of Moldova, in a family of peasants. He graduated from the Faculty...

Gabriel Chifu

Gabriel Chifu - poet. Also prose writer and journalist. Born on March 22th 1954 in Calafat. Son of Ion Chifu, a lawyer, and of Angela Chifu. After graduating in 1973 from the National...

Gheorghe Ene

Gheorghe Ene - poet and prose writer. Also journalist. Born on October 16th 1950 in Caldarasti (Buzau), he is a son of a peasant family. He graduated in 1973 from the Faculty of Letters...

Guillaume de Machaut

Guillame de Machaut (1300-1377) was a French poet and composer. Short Biography: Born in Champagne, he was in the service of John of Bohemia for 30 years and, later, of King...