Robert Burns- Scottish poet
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Robert Burns was born on 25 January 1759 in the village of Alloway, two
miles south of Ayr. His parents, Willian Burnes[s] and Agnes Broun, were tenant
farmers but they ensured their son received a relatively good education and he
began to read avidly. The works of Alexander Pope, Henry Mackenzie and Laurence
Sterne fired Burns's poetic impulse and relationships with the opposite sex
provided his inspiration. Handsome Nell, for Nellie Kilpatrick, was his
first song.
Hard physical labour on the family farm took its toll on the young Burns, who increasingly turned his attentions towards the passions of poetry, nature, drink and women which would characterise the rest of his life. He fathered twins with eventual wife Jean Armour, but a rift in their relationship nearly led to Burns emigrating to the West Indies with lover Mary Campbell (his Highland Mary). Mary's sudden death and the
sensational success of his first published collection of verse kept him in
Scotland. At just 27, Burns had already become famous across the country with
poems such as To
a Louse, To a Mouse and The Cotter's Saturday Night.
biography from : http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/biography.shtml
Robert Burns was born on 25 January 1759 in the village of Alloway, two
miles south of Ayr. His parents, Willian Burnes[s] and Agnes Broun, were tenant
farmers but they ensured their son received a relatively good education and he
began to read avidly. The works of Alexander Pope, Henry Mackenzie and Laurence
Sterne fired Burns's poetic impulse and relationships with the opposite sex
provided his inspiration. Handsome Nell, for Nellie Kilpatrick, was his
first song.
Hard physical labour on the family farm took its toll on the young Burns, who increasingly turned his attentions towards the passions of poetry, nature, drink and women which would characterise the rest of his life. He fathered twins with eventual wife Jean Armour, but a rift in their relationship nearly led to Burns emigrating to the West Indies with lover Mary Campbell (his Highland Mary). Mary's sudden death and the
sensational success of his first published collection of verse kept him in
Scotland. At just 27, Burns had already become famous across the country with
poems such as To
a Louse, To a Mouse and The Cotter's Saturday Night.
William Carlos williams
In 1883, William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began
writing poetry while a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he
made the decision to become both a writer and a doctor. He received his MD from
the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound.
Pound became a great influence on his writing, and in 1913 arranged for the
London publication of Williams's second collection, The Tempers.
Returning to Rutherford, where he sustained his medical practice throughout his
life, Williams began publishing in small magazines and embarked on a prolific
career as a poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright.
Following Pound, he was one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement, though as time went on, he
began to increasingly disagree with the values put forth in the work of Pound
and especially Eliot, who he felt were too attached to European
culture and traditions. Continuing to experiment with new techniques of meter
and lineation, Williams sought to invent an entirely fresh—and singularly
American—poetic, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday
circumstances of life and the lives of common people.
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His influence as a poet spread slowly during the twenties and thirties,
overshadowed, he felt, by the immense popularity of Eliot's "The Waste Land";
however, his work received increasing attention in the 1950s and 1960s as
younger poets, including Allen
Ginsberg and the Beats, were impressed by the accessibility of
his language and his openness as a mentor. His major works include Kora in
Hell (1920), Spring and All (1923), Pictures from Brueghel and
Other Poems (1962), the five-volume epic Paterson (1963, 1992), and
Imaginations (1970).
Williams's health began to decline after a heart attack in 1948 and a series
of strokes, but he continued writing up until his death in New Jersey in
1963.
In 1883, William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began
writing poetry while a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he
made the decision to become both a writer and a doctor. He received his MD from
the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound.
Pound became a great influence on his writing, and in 1913 arranged for the
London publication of Williams's second collection, The Tempers.
Returning to Rutherford, where he sustained his medical practice throughout his
life, Williams began publishing in small magazines and embarked on a prolific
career as a poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright.
Following Pound, he was one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement, though as time went on, he
began to increasingly disagree with the values put forth in the work of Pound
and especially Eliot, who he felt were too attached to European
culture and traditions. Continuing to experiment with new techniques of meter
and lineation, Williams sought to invent an entirely fresh—and singularly
American—poetic, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday
circumstances of life and the lives of common people.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/119
His influence as a poet spread slowly during the twenties and thirties,
overshadowed, he felt, by the immense popularity of Eliot's "The Waste Land";
however, his work received increasing attention in the 1950s and 1960s as
younger poets, including Allen
Ginsberg and the Beats, were impressed by the accessibility of
his language and his openness as a mentor. His major works include Kora in
Hell (1920), Spring and All (1923), Pictures from Brueghel and
Other Poems (1962), the five-volume epic Paterson (1963, 1992), and
Imaginations (1970).
Williams's health began to decline after a heart attack in 1948 and a series
of strokes, but he continued writing up until his death in New Jersey in
1963.
Robert Service-
Robert William Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, England
of Scottish parents. He spent his childhood in Scotland and attended the
University of Glasgow. His vagabond career took him throughout the world, with a
diversity of jobs from cook to clerk, from hobo to correspondent . He emigrated
to Canada in 1894 and took a job with the Canadian Bank of Commerce and was
stationed for eight years in Whitehorse, Yukon. It was while in the Yukon that
he published his first book of poems that was to make him famous - Songs of a
Sourdough.
He was a correspondent for the
Toronto Star during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and an ambulance driver and
correspondent in France during World War I. He settled in France after WW I and
married a French girl, Germaine Bougeoin. He returned to Canada during WWII,
living in Hollywood and Vancouver. He wrote two autobiographical works,
Ploughman of the Moon
(1945) and Harper of Heaven (1948) and 6 novels, including The Trail
of '98 (1912) about the Klondike Gold Rush, and more than 45 verse
collections containing over 1,000 poems. Several of his novels and his poem
"McGrew" were adapted to movies. He made a brief appearance with Marlene
Dietrich in the 1942 film The Spoilers. After World War II he returned to
France, where Robert, Germaine, and their daughter lived the remainder of his
life, mainly in Brittany and on the French Riviera
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Robert William Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, England
of Scottish parents. He spent his childhood in Scotland and attended the
University of Glasgow. His vagabond career took him throughout the world, with a
diversity of jobs from cook to clerk, from hobo to correspondent . He emigrated
to Canada in 1894 and took a job with the Canadian Bank of Commerce and was
stationed for eight years in Whitehorse, Yukon. It was while in the Yukon that
he published his first book of poems that was to make him famous - Songs of a
Sourdough.
He was a correspondent for the
Toronto Star during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and an ambulance driver and
correspondent in France during World War I. He settled in France after WW I and
married a French girl, Germaine Bougeoin. He returned to Canada during WWII,
living in Hollywood and Vancouver. He wrote two autobiographical works,
Ploughman of the Moon
(1945) and Harper of Heaven (1948) and 6 novels, including The Trail
of '98 (1912) about the Klondike Gold Rush, and more than 45 verse
collections containing over 1,000 poems. Several of his novels and his poem
"McGrew" were adapted to movies. He made a brief appearance with Marlene
Dietrich in the 1942 film The Spoilers. After World War II he returned to
France, where Robert, Germaine, and their daughter lived the remainder of his
life, mainly in Brittany and on the French Riviera
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