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Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet and critic, outstanding for prosodic innovations and noteworthy as the symbol of mid-Vi..
Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni was born in Capriasca, Switzerland of Italian-Swiss parents. Paulina, Alfonsina’s m..
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder (b. 1930) was born in San Francisco, but his family moved to a farm outside of Seattle w..
James Stephens
James Stephens was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland, and died December 26, 1950, in Lond..
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. His father, Jonathan Swift Sr., a lawyer and an Engli..
Robert Southey
ROBERT SOUTHEY poet laureate of England, was born at Bristol, August 12, 1774, and he died at Greta,..
Robert William Service
Born in Preston, in the English county of Lancashire, at the head the estuary of the river Ribble, o..
Karl Shapiro
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 -May 14, 2000) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States poet,..
Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith was born on September 20, 1902 in Hull, England. Her father left the family..
May Swenson
May Swenson was born in Logan, Utah, in 1919. She attended Utah State University, Logan, and receive..
Carl Sandburg
Author-poet Carl Sandburg was born in the three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg o..
Arthur Symons
Born on Feb. 28th, 1865 at Milford Haven, Wales. Arthur Symons was the son of a Wesleyan minister.
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Judith Skillman
Judith Skillman is the author of eight books of poems. She is winner of many poetry awards, includin..
Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart was born 1913, Ottawa, Ontario, in a prominent family and she was educated at privat..
Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern (born 1925 in Pittsburgh) is a United States poet. His work was widely recognized after..
Alan Seeger
Seeger was born in New York to parents from old New England families. Seeger’s family lived on State..
Jose Asuncion Silva
Jose Asuncion Silva along with Jose Marti, Julian del Casal, Salvador Diaz Miron, and Manuel Gutierr..
Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) was an English poet and novelist whose works have been credited w..
Duncan Campbell Scott
Duncan Campbell Scott, poet and short story-writer, is one of the major Canadian literary figures of..
Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart was born in 1722 in Shipbourne, Kent, England. His father, a steward on the estate..
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