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M, W E
Americas.
Born: 1800,
Died: 1900,
1 poems.
W.E.M. was a member of General Robert E Lee's Army - this is all that is known of this poet at this time. 1st Nov. 2005
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Mac Cumhal, Fionn
European.
Died: 280,
2 poems.
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Macaulay, Lord Thomas Babbington
English.
Born: 1800,
Died: 1859,
21 poems.
His poetical work, the Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), celebrated the great events of Roman history.
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Macaulay, Dame Rose
English.
Born: 1881,
Died: 1958 (modern),
4 poems.
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MacCaig , Norman
Born: 1910,
Died: 1996 (modern),
1 poems.
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MacCarthy, Denis Florence
English.
Born: 1817,
Died: 1882,
94 poems.
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MacColl, Evan
English.
Born: 1808,
Died: 1898,
1 poems.
Evan MacColl arrived in Canada already a published poet of Gaelic in 1850. His early books of verse were Mountain Minstrel (1836) and Clarsach Nam Beann (1838). He worked in the Liverpool Custom House and then, owing to health problems, emigrated to
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MacColl, D S
Born: 1859,
Died: 1948,
1 poems.
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MacCreery, John
Born: 1768,
Died: 1832,
4 poems.
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MacDiarmid, Hugh
Born: 1892,
Died: 1978 (modern),
10 poems.
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MacDonagh, Thomas
English.
Born: 1878,
Died: 1916,
96 poems.
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MacDonald, Elizabeth
Americas.
Born: 1864,
Died: 1922,
8 poems.
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MacDonald, George
English.
Born: 1824,
Died: 1905,
450 poems.
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MacDonald, Donald John
European.
Born: 1919,
Died: 1986 (modern),
0 poems.
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Macdonald, Francis
Americas.
Died: 1952,
0 poems.
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Macdonald, Nina
English.
1 poems.
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MacDonnell, James Francis Carlin
Americas.
Born: 1881,
Died: 1945,
2 poems.
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Macedo , Jose Agostinho de
European.
Born: 1761,
Died: 1831,
0 poems.
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Macernis, Vytautas
European.
Born: 1920,
Died: 1944,
9 poems.
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MacEwen, Gwendolyn
Americas.
Born: 1941,
Died: 1987 (modern),
6 poems.
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MacGill, Patrick
Born: 1889,
Died: 1963 (modern),
10 poems.
A writer and poet active 1910 - 1940. Very influential on early British socialist movement. Children of the Dead End his most influential work.
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Macgillivray, Dr James Pittendrigh
English.
Born: 1856,
Died: 1938,
1 poems.
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MacGreevy, Thomas
English.
Born: 1893,
Died: 1967 (modern),
1 poems.
Considered by many critics to be one of Ireland's first modernist poets. His books include monographs on contemporary writers and artists, catalogues of the National Gallery of Ireland's collections, and thousands upon thousands of letters, many of w
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Macha, Karel Hynek
European.
Born: 1810,
Died: 1836,
1 poems.
Mácha's profoundly melancholy and nostalgic verse reveals his strong response to nature, medievalism, and Czech civilization as well as his fatalistic philosophy.
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Machado, Antonio
European.
Born: 1875,
Died: 1939,
13 poems.
Spanish poet who turned to writing and acting to support himself.
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Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria
Americas.
Born: 1839,
Died: 1908,
20 poems.
Brazilian novelist and poet, a predecessor to the imaginative fictions of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. Machado de Assis' career brought him from the lower social classes to the intellectual elite. His work reflects the trends of several Euro
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Machar, Agnes Maule
Americas.
Born: 1837,
Died: 1927,
1 poems.
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Machar, Josef Svatopluk
European.
Born: 1854,
Died: 1942,
1 poems.
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MacInnes, Tom
Americas.
Born: 1867,
Died: 1951,
3 poems.
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Mack, Louise
Oceania.
Born: 1874,
Died: 1935,
2 poems.
The following year, Sydney publishers Angus and Robertson published Louise Mack's 'Teens: A Story of Australian Schoolgirls', illustrated by Frank Mahony. This book was published in answer to Ward, Lock's publication of Ethel Turner's 'Seven Little A
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Mackail, John William
Born: 1859,
Died: 1945,
2 poems.
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Mackay, Isabel
Americas.
Born: 1875,
Died: 1928,
102 poems.
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Mackay, Jessie
Oceania.
Born: 1864,
Died: 1938,
7 poems.
Mackay, Jessie (1864–1938), was born in the Rakaia Gorge of Scottish parentage and educated in Christchurch.New Zealand. She has been described as ‘the first poet of any importance to be born in New Zealand’.
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Mackay, Charles
Born: 1814,
Died: 1889,
6 poems.
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Mackay, Major-general James
Oceania.
Born: 1859,
Died: 1935,
1 poems.
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MacKaye, Percy
Americas.
Born: 1875,
Died: 1956 (modern),
8 poems.
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Mackellar, Dorothea
Oceania.
Born: 1885,
Died: 1968 (modern),
12 poems.
At age 19 she wrote the poem, 'My Country,' with the second verse being one of the best known stanzas in Austrailian poetry.
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Mackenzie, Kenneth
Oceania.
Born: 1913,
Died: 1955,
1 poems.
Kenneth Mackenzie was educated at Guildford Grammar School, and studied briefly at Muresk Agricultural College and the University of Western Australia. He left Perth in December 1933 for Melbourne and then Sydney, on the advice of Norman Lindsay.
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Mackintosh, Ewart Alan
English.
Born: 1893,
Died: 1917,
3 poems.
Lieutenant Ewart Mackintosh, M.C. 4th Seaforth Highlanders
Killed in action 21st November 1917. Aged 24.
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Mackus, Algimantas
European.
Born: 1932,
Died: 1964 (modern),
19 poems.
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Maclaren, Hamish
English.
Born: 1900,
Died: 1987 (modern),
9 poems.
Ex-Royal Navy officer who wrote a sailor's folk opera called Sailor With Banjo and two other literary works in the late 1920's and 1930's.
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MacLean, Sorley
Born: 1911,
Died: 1996 (modern),
8 poems.
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Maclean, Kate
Americas.
Died: 1880,
69 poems.
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MacLeish, Archibald
Americas.
Born: 1892,
Died: 1982 (modern),
33 poems.
His Collected Poems (1952) won him a second Pulitzer Prize, as well as the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize. J.B. (1958), a verse play based on the book of Job, earned him a third Pulitzer, this time for drama. And in 1965 he received an A
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MacLeod, Norman
Americas.
Born: 1906,
Died: 1985 (modern),
46 poems.
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MacManus, Anna Johnston
English.
Born: 1866,
Died: 1902,
85 poems.
psuedonym is Ethna Carbery.
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MacManus, Seumas
English.
Born: 1869,
Died: 1960 (modern),
1 poems.
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MacNeice, Louis
English.
Born: 1907,
Died: 1963 (modern),
17 poems.
Like many modern English poets, MacNeice found an audience for his work through British radio. Some of his best-known plays, were originally written for radio and later published. In addition to his poetry and radio dramas, MacNeice also wrote the ve
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MacNeill, Professor
1 poems.
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MacNeill, Hector
English.
Born: 1746,
Died: 1818,
48 poems.
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