In Every Human Beast

'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:...

The Bard

Shakespeare was a poet, playwright, and actor. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Referred to as ‘the Bard’ his works include 39 plays, 154 sonnets, narrative poems and other verses. His plays have been translated into all major languages...

O’ Mice an’ Men

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...

The Nightingale 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...

Lord Byron

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

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....

The Sound of Sense

Robert Lee Frost was a poet. Initially published in England, his work was soon published and renowned internationally...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley Date of Birth: 4 August 1792, Horsham, UK English Date of Death: 8 July 1822, Lerici, Italy

Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo

Artist: Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo Born: 12 December 1851 Nationality: English Movement: Art Deco Died: 18 March 1942

Allen Ginsberg

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

Not What Others See

Artist: Édouard Manet Born: 23 January 1832, Paris, France Nationality: French Movements: Impressionism, Realism, Modern Art, Modernism Died: 30 April 1883, Paris, France

Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

Poet: Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall Date of Birth: 14 September1883, London, UK Canadian Date of Death: 22 April 1922, Vancouver, Canada

Heinrich Heine

Poet: Heinrich Heine Date of Birth: 13 December 1797, Düsseldorf, Germany German Date of Death: 17 February 1856, Paris, France

William Blake

Poet: William Blake Date of Birth: 28 November 1757, London, England English Date of Death: 12 August 1827, London, England

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poet: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Born: 24 March 1919, New York, USA American

William Cullen Bryant

Poet: William Cullen Bryant Date of Birth: 3 November 1794, Massachusetts, USA American Date of Death: 12 June 1878, New York, USA

All Art is Erotic

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 …

James Collinson

Artist: James Collinson Born: 9 May 1825, Mansfield, England English Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Died: 24 January 1881, London, UK

Louisa May Alcott

Poet: Louisa May Alcott Born: 29 May 1832, Pennsylvania, USA American Died: 6 March 1888, Massachusetts, USA

The Nightingale Poet

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 …