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Wystan Hugh Auden  ( /ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/ ; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1] ) was a  British-American   poet . Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with  politics ,  morals ,  love , and  religion , and its variety in  tone ,  form , and  content . Some of his best known poems are about love, such as " Funeral Blues "; on political and soc...

Emily Jane Brontë  ( /ˈbrɒnti/ , commonly  /-teɪ/ ; [2]  30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) [3]  was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel,  Wuthering Heights , now considered a classic of  English literature . She also published a book of poetry with her sisters  Charlotte  and  Anne titled  Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell  with her own poems finding regard as poet...

Robert Herrick  (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) [1]  was a 17th-century English  lyric  poet and  Anglican cleric . He is best known for  Hesperides , a book of poems. This includes the  carpe diem  poem " To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time ", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may". Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. T...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling  ( /ˈrʌdjərd/   RUD-yərd ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [1]  was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in  British India , which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include  The Jungle Book  (1894),  Kim  (1901), and many short stories, including " The Man Who Would Be King " (1888). [2]  His poems include " Manda...

Maurice Manning  (born 1966) is an American poet. His first collection of poems,  Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions , was awarded the  Yale Younger Poets Award , chosen by  W.S. Merwin . [1]  Since then he has published four collections of poetry (with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and  Copper Canyon Press ). He teaches English and Creative Writing at  Transylvania University  in  Lexington, Kentucky ,...

Lucy Shaw has published ten volumes of poetry (several still in print) and numerous  non-fiction  books, and has edited and collaborated on multiple other works, including several with  Madeleine L'Engle . [6]  Her poems are widely  anthologized . [1]  Shaw usually works in  free verse , and typically her poems are quite short, less than a page. Nevertheless, in tone and content, she affiliates mo...

Edwin Arlington Robinson  (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet. Robinson won the  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry  on three occasions and was nominated for the  Nobel Prize in Literature  four times. [2] Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus e...

Maya Angelou ( /ˈændʒəloʊ/  ( listen )  AN-jə-loh ; [1] [2]  born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and  civil rights activist . She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more t...

Born in Waterloo, Iowa, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday is the daughter of Northern Soul singer/songwriter Jimmy Holiday. Her father died when she was five, and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles. Holiday earned a BA in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA at Columbia University. She is the author of  Negro League Baseball  (2011), winner of the Fence Books Mot...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include " Paul Revere's Ride ",  The Song of Hiawatha , and  Evangeline . He was the first American to translate  Dante Alighieri 's  Divine Comedy  and was one of the  fireside poets  from New England. Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is...

Li-Young Lee  (李立揚,  pinyin : Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American  poet . He was born in  Jakarta ,  Indonesia , to  Chinese  parents. [1]  His maternal great-grandfather was  Yuan Shikai , China's first Republican President, [2]  who attempted to make himself emperor. Lee's father, who was a personal physician to  Mao Zedong  while in China, relocated his family to Indonesia, wher...

Richard Purdy Wilbur  (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of his generation, Wilbur's work, composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance. He was appointed the second  Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress  in 1987 and received the  Pulitzer Prize for Poe...

Thomas Hardy   OM  (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A  Victorian realist  in the tradition of  George Eliot , he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by  Romanticism , including the poetry of  William Wordsworth . [1]  He was highly critical of much in  Victorian  society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those f...

Ursula Askham Fanthorpe ,  CBE ,  FRSL  (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet, who published as  U. A. Fanthorpe . Her poetry comments mainly on social issues. Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subs...

Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American  poet  and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry." [1] Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with o...

William Carlos Williams  (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with  modernism  and  imagism . In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both  pediatrics  and general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, where he served as the hospital's chief of pediatrics from 1924 until his...

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás , known in English as  George Santayana  ( /ˌsæntiˈænə, -ˈɑːnə/ ; [2]  December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952), was a  philosopher ,  essayist ,  poet , and  novelist . Originally from Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the US from the age of eight and identified himself as an American, although he always retained a valid  Spanish passport...

Wystan Hugh Auden  ( /ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/ ; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1] ) was a  British-American   poet . Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with  politics ,  morals ,  love , and  religion , and its variety in  tone ,  form , and  content . Some of his best known poems are about love, such as " Funeral Blues "; on political and soc...

Mary Jane Oliver  (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American  poet  who won the  National Book Award  and the  Pulitzer Prize . Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild. It is characterised by a sincere wonderment at the impact of natural imagery, conveyed in unadorned language. In 2007, she was decl...

Nancy Willard  (June 26, 1936 – February 19, 2017) [1]  was an  American  writer: novelist, poet, author and occasional illustrator of  children's books . She won the 1982  Newbery Medal  for  A Visit to William Blake's Inn . [2] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episode...

Ayodeji Malcolm Guite  ( /ɡaɪt/ ; born 12 November 1957) is an English poet, singer-songwriter,  Anglican priest , and academic. Born in Nigeria to British  expatriate  parents, Guite earned degrees from  Cambridge  and  Durham  universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of  J. R. R. Tolkien ,  C. S. Lewis ,  Owen Barfie...

Philip Edward Thomas  (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. He is considered a  war poet , although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences, and his career in poetry only came after he had already been a successful writer and literary critic. In 1915, he enlisted in the British Army to fight in the  First World War  and was killed in action durin...

James Harrison  (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and memoir. He wrote screenplays, book reviews, literary criticism, and published essays on food, travel, and sport. Harrison indicated that, of all...

William Blake  (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the  poetry  and visual art of the  Romantic Age . What he called his  prophetic works  were said by 20th-century critic  Northrop Frye  to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of p...

Jamaal May  is an American poet from  Detroit . [1] [2]  May was included in the  Best American Poetry  anthology from 2014. May lived in Detroit, where he taught poetry in public schools. He received an MFA from  Warren Wilson College . [3]  May has taught at the  Vermont College of Fine Arts , and was a fellow at the  Kenyon Review  between 2014 and 2016. [4] [5]  May cites Vievee Francis, anoth...