Biography of William Topaz McGonagall
William Topaz McGonagall was born of rather poor Irish parents in Edinburgh,
Scotland, in March 1825. In his nearly unreadable, rambling biographical notes1,
one eventually learns that he sprang from a family of five children and that he
worked with his father as a handloom weaver. His education appears to have been
patchy, but, in his own words, 'William has been like the immortal Shakespeare
he had learned more from nature than he ever learned at school'. The family
settled in Dundee while William was still a boy, and he lived there for the rest
of his life. He died in 1902.
http://www.poemhunter.com/william-topaz-mcgonagall/biography/
William Topaz McGonagall was born of rather poor Irish parents in Edinburgh,
Scotland, in March 1825. In his nearly unreadable, rambling biographical notes1,
one eventually learns that he sprang from a family of five children and that he
worked with his father as a handloom weaver. His education appears to have been
patchy, but, in his own words, 'William has been like the immortal Shakespeare
he had learned more from nature than he ever learned at school'. The family
settled in Dundee while William was still a boy, and he lived there for the rest
of his life. He died in 1902.
http://www.poemhunter.com/william-topaz-mcgonagall/biography/
Biography of Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey (September 9, 1878 – October 8, 1914) was an American poet.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was raised in Rochester, New York, daughter of
Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who had been transferred from New York
City to Rochester, and Adelaide T. Crapsey. She attended public school in
Rochester, and then Kemper Hall, an Episcopal girls' preparatory school in
Kenosha, Wisconsin, before entering Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York,
where she was class poet for three years and editor-in-chief of the Vassarion in
1901, the year she graduated.
http://www.poemhunter.com/adelaide-crapsey/biography/
Adelaide Crapsey (September 9, 1878 – October 8, 1914) was an American poet.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was raised in Rochester, New York, daughter of
Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who had been transferred from New York
City to Rochester, and Adelaide T. Crapsey. She attended public school in
Rochester, and then Kemper Hall, an Episcopal girls' preparatory school in
Kenosha, Wisconsin, before entering Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York,
where she was class poet for three years and editor-in-chief of the Vassarion in
1901, the year she graduated.
http://www.poemhunter.com/adelaide-crapsey/biography/
Biography of Matthew Prior
Matthew Prior, poet and diplomat, was born near Wimborne Minster, Dorset. His
family moved to London while he was still a child. He was educated at
Westminister School, but was taken out when his father died and apprenticed to
his uncle, a tavern-keeper. In 1680 he went to Cambridge on a scholarship from
the Earl of Dorset and while there he co-wrote with Charles Montague, The Hind
and the Panther Transversed to the Story of the Country and City Mouse (1687), a
burlesque on Dryden's Hind and the Panther which cuts it down to size by making
it absurd.
http://www.poemhunter.com/matthew-prior/
Matthew Prior, poet and diplomat, was born near Wimborne Minster, Dorset. His
family moved to London while he was still a child. He was educated at
Westminister School, but was taken out when his father died and apprenticed to
his uncle, a tavern-keeper. In 1680 he went to Cambridge on a scholarship from
the Earl of Dorset and while there he co-wrote with Charles Montague, The Hind
and the Panther Transversed to the Story of the Country and City Mouse (1687), a
burlesque on Dryden's Hind and the Panther which cuts it down to size by making
it absurd.
http://www.poemhunter.com/matthew-prior/