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The poem is the base for the motto of Wynberg Allen School in Mussorie, India. It is also the name and motto for the Brampton, Ontario, Canada box lacrosse teams. In 1871 Mr. George Lee, a Brampton High School teacher introduced lacrosse to the town. He proposed the name "Excelsior", which he took from Longfellow's poem.
"Invictus" is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). Henley wrote it in 1875, and in 1888 he published it in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses , in the section titled "Life and Death (Echoes)".
W. Gregory Stewart (born 1950), poet, science fiction author, short-story writer who works at a public utility and lives in Los Angeles, California; John Stiles, poet living in London, United Kingdom; Anne Stone, poet, writer, and performance artist; Betsy Struthers (born 1951), poet and novelist; Andrew Suknaski (1942–2012), Saskatchewan poet
Sydney Elliott Napier (1870–1940) poet and writer; John Shaw Neilson (1872–1942) Philip Neilsen (born 1949) poet and children's author; Hume Nisbet (1849–1923) Scottish-Australian author and artist; Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) (1920–1993) Indigenous Australian poet and human rights activist
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [a] (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k ɒ f /; [3] Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов [b], IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 [c] – 15 July 1904 [d]) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem ...
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 [1] [2] – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
Montale wrote more than ten anthologies of short lyrics, a journal of poetry translation, plus several books of prose translations, two books of literary criticism, and one of fantasy prose. [ citation needed ] Alongside his imaginative work he was a constant contributor to Italy's most important newspaper, the Corriere della Sera , for which ...
Antipater of Sidon (2nd century BC) writer and poet best known for his list of Seven Wonders of the World; Antipater of Thessalonica author of more than a hundred epigrams in the Greek Anthology; flourished around 15 BC; Anyte of Tegea (fl. early 3rd century BC) Arcadian poet, admired for her epigrams and epitaphs