Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles
Tags : Edward Thomas, Eleanor Farjoen
Eleanor Farjeon was born in London on 13th February 1881, the third child of writer Benjamin Farjeon and his wife Margaret (Maggie) Jefferson, who was the daughter of the American actor Joseph Jefferson. Just a few months after Eleanor’s birth, in the summer of 1881, her older brother Charles died, aged just one. Eleanor, known […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles
Tags : Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain was born on December 29th 1893 at Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. She was the oldest child of paper manufacturer Arthur Brittain and his wife Edith (née Bervon), who moved their young family to Macclesfield in Cheshire when Vera was eighteen months old, just a few months before her beloved brother Edward was born. […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles
Tags : 1914 Sonnets, Edward Marsh, Rupert Brooke, The Soldier, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Winston Churchil, Winston Churchill
Rupert Chawner Brooke was born at Rugby on 3rd August 1887, the middle of the three sons of William and Mary Brooke. William Brooke was a Classics master at Rugby, where Rupert and this brothers Richard and William grew up under the watchful eye of their domineering mother. Brooke was educated at Hillbrow Preparatory School, […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Featured Poems, Poetry Articles
Tags : Edmund Blunden, Edward Marsh, goodbye to all that, Laura Riding, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon
Robert Von Ranke Graves was born in Wimbledon on 24th July 1895, the third of five children born to Alfred Perceval Graves and his second wife, Amalie Elizabeth Von Ranke. Graves was educated at Charterhouse School, where he was befriended and influenced by one of the masters, mountaineer, George Mallory. In 1914, Graves has just […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Featured Poems, Poetry Articles
Tags : Death of a Hero, Ezra Pound, Ford Maddox Ford, H.D., Hilda Doolittle, Lawrence of Arabia, Richard Aldington, Robert Graves, T E Lawrence, The Good Soldier
Richard Aldington was born Edward Godfree Aldington in Portsmouth on 8th July 1892. His father Albert was a solicitor’s clerk and when Edward as still an infant, Albert and his wife Jessie moved to Dover in Kent, where they had three more children. At a young age, Edward took a strong dislike to his given […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Featured Poems, Poetry Articles
Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy was born in Leeds on June 27th 1883, the seventh of nine children born to Reverend William Studdert Kennedy and his second wife, Joan. Geoffrey also had five half-siblings from his father’s first marriage and this large family lived a happy life in the poor parish of St Mary’s Quarry Hill, […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Poetry Articles, USA
Tags : Alan Seeger
Alan Seeger was born in New York on 22nd June 1888, the second of three children born to Charles and Elsie Seeger. The following year, the family moved to Staten Island, where they lived for the next nine years and where Alan attended the Staten Island Academy. Alan was always a dreamy, somewhat romantic child, […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles
Tags : Dulce et Decorum Est, Henry Newbolt, Jessie Pope, John McCrae, Julian Grenfell, Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, The Ballad of Purchase Money, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen
It is, perhaps, ironic that Jessie Pope should share her date of birth (although not the year) with Wilfred Owen, who vilified her and her type in his poem Dulce et Decorum Est. Her reputation today mainly persists due to Wilfred Owen’s original dedication of that poem to her, and his criticism therein of her […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles
Tags : Anthem for Doomed Youth, Craiglockhart, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen
Born on 18th March 1893 in Plas Wilmot near Oswestry in Shropshire, Wilfred Owen would eventually become one of the most famous war poets in the English language. His poetry is now most certainly the most widely read and studied within this genre and forms the introduction to the First World War for many individuals. […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Ireland, Poetry Articles
Tags : Katharine Tynan Hinkson, W B Yeats
Born on January 23rd 1861 at Whitehall Dairy Farm in Clondalkin, County Dublin, Katharine Tynan was the seventh child of Andrew Cullen Tynan and his wife Elizabeth (née O’Reilly). A Catholic family, which eventually numbered twelve children, the Tynans were dairy farmers, although Andrew Tynan was also an entrepreneur. Following her education at the Dominican […]
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