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Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), [ 1 ] which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list , [ 2 ] and is a key text of the mythopoetic men’s movement .
Rose was born in the West Indies in 1806 [2] or 1808, [3] and is believed to have migrated to Salford as a child. Though himself a gentleman of independent means, he was associated with a group of working class poets known as the Sun Inn Group, who met regularly at the Sun Inn on Long Millgate, Manchester.
Robert Calverl(e)y Trevelyan (/ t r ɪ ˈ v ɛ l j ən,-ˈ v ɪ l-/; 28 June 1872 – 21 March 1951) was an English poet and translator, of a traditionalist sort, and a follower of the lapidary style of Logan Pearsall Smith.
Robert de Boron is considered the author of two surviving poems in octosyllabic verse, the Grail story Joseph d’Arimathie, ou le Roman de l’estoire dou Graal and Merlin; the latter survives only in fragments and in later version rendered in prose (possibly too by Robert himself).
"A Man's a Man for A' That" is a song by Scottish poet Robert Burns, famous for its expression of egalitarianism. The song made its first appearance in a letter Burns wrote to George Thomson in January 1795. It was subsequently published anonymously in the August edition of the Glasgow Magazine, a radical monthly. [1]
During the 1930s, his success continued with more works, including fictional pieces and poetry. His 1933 novel One More Spring was filmed in 1935 . In 1940, he wrote his most successful book, Portrait of Jennie , about a Depression -era artist and the woman he is painting, who is slipping through time.
Robert Seymour Bridges OM (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was a British poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is the author of many well-known hymns.
Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a British born Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". [2] Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty.