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Tom Hood. Frances Freeling Broderip. Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works.
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) [1] was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of ...
Thomas Gray. Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. [1]
Craig Charles (born 1964), English writer, poet and comedian; Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770), English poet and forger of medieval poetry; Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet, philosopher and alchemist; Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904–1948), Indian poet writing in Hindi; Reverend Fr. Fray Angelico Chavez (1910–1996), US writer, poet and ...
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Although Thomas Hood (1799–1845) is usually regarded as a humorous poet, towards the end of his life, when he was on his sick bed, he wrote a number of poems commenting on contemporary poverty. These included "The Song of the Shirt", "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Labourer". "The Bridge of Sighs" is particularly well-known because ...
Matthew Prior. Matthew Prior (21 July 1664 – 18 September 1721) was an English poet and diplomat. [1] [2] He is also known as a contributor to The Examiner .
Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was a British writer of poetry and prose. He is sometimes considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. He only started writing poetry at the age of 36, but by that time he had already been a prolific critic, biographer, nature writer and travel ...