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Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a British born Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". [2] Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty.
Robert Bloomfield (3 December 1766 – 19 August 1823) was an English labouring-class poet, whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers, such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare.
Lyric poetry is very similar to songs / song lyrics. They could have as many stanzas as they wanted, which was different to different forms of poetry at the time. There were no real regulations to this new form of poetry, which was invented by Sir Robert Cite in 1789. This form of poetry is known for being the quickest growing type of the past ...
Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 17 October 1774) was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St Andrews , Fergusson led a bohemian life in Edinburgh , the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as part of the Scottish Enlightenment .
Dodsley's collection of poems, A collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748, 3 vols.) was ‘to preserve to the public those poetical performances, which seemed to merit a longer remembrance than what would probably be secured to them by the Manner wherein they were originally published’ (Collection of Poems, 1748, vol. 1.iii–iv). Given his ...
Born in Coventry, he grew up in Wyken, where his father was a machine-setter at Morris Motors. He was educated at King Henry VIII School.. Shaw trained as a reporter on The Coventry Standard, under the painstakingly prosaic editorship of former BBC correspondent Edgar Letts, who, troubled by Shaw's copy, often was to be heard enquiring of the chief reporter, "Do you think this can be possibly ...
Robert Dana (June 2, 1929 – February 6, 2010) was an American poet, who taught writing and English literature at Cornell College and many other schools, revived The North American Review and served as its editor during the years 1964–1968, and was the poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004 to 2008.
Robert Garioch Sutherland (9 May 1909 – 26 April 1981) was a Scottish poet and translator. His poetry was written almost exclusively in the Scots language , he was a key member in the literary and language revival in the mid-20th century.