* 1911 – Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet ( d. 1996 )

** Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet ( b 1911 )

** Charles Sorley, British poet ( killed in action ) ( b. 1895 )

Charles Hamilton Sorley ( 19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915 ) was a British poet of World War I.

* May 19-Charles Sorley, British poet ( died 1915 )

It is most famous for being the birthplace of the poet Sorley MacLean, an important figure in the Scottish literary renaissance.

This was a significant episode in the history of Clan MacLean, and the 20th century poet Sorley MacLean mentions Inverkeithing in one of his poems.

Created by NVA, a Scottish environmental arts company directed by Angus Farquhar ( formerly of Test Dept ) and designed by a team including "< slight >" and David Bryant, the work contained music by Geir Jenssen, Paul Mounsey, live performance by Gaelic singer Anne Martin and recordings of the works of Gaelic poet Somhairle MacGill-Eain ( Sorley MacLean ).

War poet Charles Sorley, a contemporary of Woodfroffe at Marlborough, dedicated a poem to Woodroffe entitled ' In Memoriam SCW VC '

* Sorley MacLean ( 1911 – 1996 ), Scottish Scots Gaelic poet

Notable contributors have included the Scottish Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean.

Herm of Sorley MacLean, the Scottish Gaelic | Gaelic poet, in the Lochside development

", and the title track features an extended excerpt from a BBC radio interview with the Gaelic poet, Sorley MacLean, where the poet discussed the suppression of the Gaelic language.

The poet Charles Sorley was his son.

Renowned Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean was amongst its early board members.

Friend and poet Edwin Morgan notes that unlike his contemporaries ( such as Sorley Maclean and Derick Thomson ), Crichton Smith was more prolific in English than in Gaelic, perhaps viewing his writing in what, from Crichton Smith's view, was an imposed non-native language as a challenge to English and American poets.

She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

He was a well-to-do, handsome, and sensitive young poet.

The lordly poet was at low-water mark.

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.

The epic language was not entirely the servant of the poet ; ;

If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward.

" In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked.

Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

760 d. 18 February 814 ) was a Frank who served Charlemagne as a diplomat, abbot, poet and semi-son-in-law.

It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.

Alain de Lille ( or Alanus ab Insulis ) ( c. 1116 / 1117 – 1202 / 1203 ), French theologian and poet, was born in Lille, some years before 1128.

The Imam Hasan Ali Shah was born in 1804 in Kahak, Iran to Shah Khalil Allah, the 45th Ismaili Imam, and Bibi Sarkara, the daughter of Muhammad Sadiq Mahallati ( d. 1815 ), a poet and a Ni ‘ mat Allahi Sufi.

Ani DiFranco (; born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970 ) is an American singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter.

Craig Joseph Charles ( born 11 July 1964 ) is an English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ.

* Cleopatra Mathis ( born 1947 ), American poet and professor

* Jayne Cortez ( born 1936 ), American poet

Caterina Benincasa was born in Siena, Italy, to Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth dyer who ran his enterprise with the help of his sons, and Lapa Piagenti, possibly the daughter of a local poet.

Orville Wright, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and entrepreneur John H. Patterson were born in Dayton.

Thompson was born in Oxford to Methodist missionary parents: His father, Edward John Thompson ( 1886-1946 ) was a poet and admirer of the Nobel-prize winning poet Tagore.

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

Erasmus Alberus ( c. 1500 – 1553 ), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg, Hesse ) about the year 1500.

The poet Christian Wernicke was born in 1661 in Elbląg, while Gottfried Achenwall became famous for his teachings in natural law and human rights law.

* Juan Ismael: the painter, cartoonist and poet born in La Oliva in 1907, considered one of the great Canarian surrealists.

The poet Nicholas Moore and the composer Timothy Moore were his sons, by Dorothy Moore, born 1892, died 1977.

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

Eric Boucher was born in Boulder, Colorado, to parents Stanley Boucher, a psychiatric social worker and poet, and Virginia Boucher, a librarian.

The famous poet and mystic, Jalal al-Din Rumi, was born on September 30, 1207 in Balkh.

* Geraldine Monk ( born 1952 ), British poet

The poet Hesiod connects the name Pegasus with the word for " spring, well ", pēgē: " the pegai of Okeanos, where he was born.

The Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci ( born in a hamlet in the countryside ) wrote: " As a capital city it had to have a river.

* Donald Rawe, Cornish publisher, dramatist, novelist, and poet, was born in Padstow.

The Jacobean poet John Donne was another notable Englishman who was born into a recusant Catholic family.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.