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Henry Vaughan was born on April 17, 1622, in Llansantffraed, Breconshire, Wales. He was educated in Oxford and studied law in London before being recalled home after the Civil War broke out. He is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished (1646). Vaughan was considered a metaphysical poet, alongside poets John Donne and George Herbert. He practiced medicine in the latter half of his life, and died on April 23, 1695.
Born in 1886, Hilda Doolittle was one of the leaders of the Imagist movement. She published...
The poet John Donne is known as the founder of the Metaphysical Poets, which included George...
George Herbert was born on April 3, 1593, the fifth son of an eminent Welsh family.
The technical brilliance and formal variety of Elizabeth Bishop's work—rife with precise and...
Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright William Carlos Williams is often said to have been one...
Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879. He attended Harvard...