James Patrick Kinney was born in a very poor Irish family in Cincinnati. He joined the army and was stationed in the Philippines as a radio man. On his return to USA, he started writing more extensively. James Kinney Poetries were published in different magazines. “The Cold Within” by James Read more…
Maya Angelou, born in 1928, lived through some of the worst oppression and inequality for African American people. Although slavery had been long abolished, Angelou saw its effects on society. Out of Maya Angelou Poems, ‘Still I Rise’ is her declaration that she would not allow the hatefulness of society to determine Read more…
Paul Laurence Dunbar was born on June 27, 1872 to two formerly enslaved people from Kentucky. He became one of the first influential Black poets in American literature. Published in 20 books were Paul Laurence Poetries and fiction and numerous articles, stories, and poems in magazines and newspapers. “We Wear Read more…
Nissim Ezekiel was an Indian-born poet of Jewish descent. People describe him as the “father of post-independence Indian verse in English”. A number of collections of Nissim Ezekiel Poetries were published which were very popular. Some, such as The Night Of The Scorpion, and the anti-jingoism poem The Patriot, are standard verses Read more…
Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose); (15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and Indian nationalist. Also he was a journalist, editing newspapers such as Vande Mataram. He joined the Indian movement for Independence from British colonial rule. He started writing poetry as a young student. Here are some Sri Aurobindo Read more…
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath. He worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. Rabindranath Tagore poetries of Gitanjali are “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful”. Moreover he became the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Where The Mind Read more…
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their Lyrical Ballads. William Wordsworths Verses are remembered as verses of spiritual and epistemological speculation. Wordsworth’s deep love for the “beauteous forms” of the natural world was established Read more…
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886, is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She took definition as her province and challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. “Hope is the thing with feathers” written somewhere around 1861 is a popular poem Read more…
William Shakespeare, bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616, was an English playwright, poet and actor. The world widely regards him as the greatest writer in the English language and is also the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”. Apart from the most known plays Read more…
Markus Natten is a poet from Norway. He wrote famous and profound poems, the most known work of his being ‘The Childhood’. The poet in this poem thinks over his lost childhood and talks about the transition of the poet from his childhood to maturity. As he matured, he forgot about the time Read more…