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Submitted by little Tree on Wed, 08/07/2013 - 10:31am

Famous Poet

Andre Breton

Andre Breton was born at Tinchebray (Orne) in 1896. Initially he began training in medicine. However, he soon realised that it...

MRS. BROWNING was born in London, England, in 1809, and she died at Casa Guidi, Florence, June 29, 1861.

Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music...

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje, the first Canadian winner of the prestigious Booker Prize in 1992, is perhaps most famous for the work that...

Richard Aldington

Aldington, christened Edward Godfree, was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, on July 8, 1892.

Tu Fu

Chinese poetry is much different than its Western counterpart. Each Chinese character is a word/picture.

Sylvia Plath

Born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath published her first poem when she was eight.

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is generally considered the greatest of Italian poets, and also one of the greatest poets that...

Ralph Angel

Ralph Angel was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1951.

Gwendolyn Brooks

The African American poet Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born June 7, 1917, to Keziah and David Brooks in Topeka, Kansas.