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Robert Burns, better known as Rabbie Burns, is was a poet and lyricist. Regarded as the national poet of Scotland, he is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language. A pioneer of the Romantic Movement Burns was a source of inspiration to the founders of both socialism and liberalism...
John Keats was an English Romantic poet and one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantics alongside Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley...
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, better known as Lord Byron was a poet, peer and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence...
Matthew Arnold was a poet and cultural critic who also worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Rugby School’s famed headmaster, Thomas Arnold he has been characterized as sage writer who chastises and instructs the reader on social issues of the day....
Robert Lee Frost was a poet. Initially published in England, his work was soon published and renowned internationally...
Poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley Date of Birth: 4 August 1792, Horsham, UK English Date of Death: 8 July 1822, Lerici, Italy
Artist: Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo Born: 12 December 1851 Nationality: English Movement: Art Deco Died: 18 March 1942
Poet: Irwin Allen Ginsberg Date of Birth: 3 June 1926, New Jersey, USA American Date of Death: 5 April 1997, New York, USA Buried: Gomel Chesed Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Artist: Édouard Manet Born: 23 January 1832, Paris, France Nationality: French Movements: Impressionism, Realism, Modern Art, Modernism Died: 30 April 1883, Paris, France
Poet: Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall Date of Birth: 14 September1883, London, UK Canadian Date of Death: 22 April 1922, Vancouver, Canada
Poet: Heinrich Heine Date of Birth: 13 December 1797, Düsseldorf, Germany German Date of Death: 17 February 1856, Paris, France
Poet: William Blake Date of Birth: 28 November 1757, London, England English Date of Death: 12 August 1827, London, England
Poet: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Born: 24 March 1919, New York, USA American
Poet: William Cullen Bryant Date of Birth: 3 November 1794, Massachusetts, USA American Date of Death: 12 June 1878, New York, USA
Artist: Gustav Klimt Born: 14 July 1862, Baumgarten, Austro-Hungarian Empire Nationality: Austrian Movement: Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Died: 6 February 1918, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire Gustav Klimt is remembered as one of the greatest decorative painters of the 20th century, while also producing the century’s most significant body of erotic art. Initially he found success in his … Continue reading All Art is Erotic
Artist: James Collinson Born: 9 May 1825, Mansfield, England English Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Died: 24 January 1881, London, UK
Poet: Louisa May Alcott Born: 29 May 1832, Pennsylvania, USA American Died: 6 March 1888, Massachusetts, USA
John Keats 14 October 1795 – 23 February 1821 English Poet John Keats was an English Romantic poet and one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantics alongside Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. John was born on 14 October 1795 in London, the son of Thomas Keats, a hostler at … Continue reading The Nightingale Poet
