Who said, “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may”?
Robert Herrick said, “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may”, in the first line of the 1648 poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.”
Robert Herrick said, “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may”, in the first line of the 1648 poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.”
Robert Frost won four Pulitzer prizes, for New Hampshire (1924), Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943).
Author Anne Hutchinson organized literary groups for women in the seventeenth century.
In Charles Dickens’s 1847-48 novel of that name, Dombey and Son was a shipping firm.
Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland appeared in 1577. This history was Shakespeare’s source for much of Macbeth, King Lear, and Cymbeline. Holinshed died about 1580.
Robert Browning (1812-89) and Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61) had to marry secretly because Barrett’s father refused to let his children marry, even though Elizabeth was forty at the time. The secret wedding took place at London’s St. Marylebone Church on September 12, 1846. (Browning was thirty-four.) They lived in Florence for fifteen happy years until her…
Poet Vachel Lindsay killed himself by drinking Lysol, in 1931 at age fifty-two.