Who was Allen Tate?
In prominence as a New Critic, Allen Tate stands next to Ransom. Born in Kentucky, he studied at Georgetown and Washington, and graduated in 1922...
Literature & Language
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Who was Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
His life Coleridge was born in Devonshire, and was the youngest of the thirteen children of the vicar of Ottery St. Mary. As a child,...
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Who Was Earnest Hemingway?
Earnest Hemingway was perhaps the most widely known American novelist of recent times. His style of narration created a revolution in the art of English...
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Who was Joel Spingarn?
Spingarn was widely learned in the history of literary criticism, and tired of the fruitless study of critical theories, which merely indulged in scholarly hair-splitting...
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Who was George Gordon Byron?
Lord Byron (1788-1824) His Life George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron, was as proud of his ancestry as he was of his poetry, and his...
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Who was James Thomson?
Thomson can hardly be called a great poet, yet in the history of literature he is unusual enough to be regarded (chronologically) as a freak....
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Who was Francis Beaumont?
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625) combined to produce a great number of plays, said to be fifty two in all. How much of...
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Who was August Wilson?
August Wilson was growing up when the two diverse strains (one moderate, conciliatory and integrationist of Hansberry and the other of violence of Baraka) in...
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
Life, Career and Reputation Whitman was born at West Hills on Long Island, on May 31, 1819. The paternal side of the family was of...
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Who was Nissim Eizekiel?
Life and Works of Nissim Eizekiel The term “Indo-Anglian” is used to denote original literacy creation in the English language by Indians. Today there are...