Born #onthisday in 1929 Adrienne Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century". Rich criticised rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorised what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.
DANTE GABRIELLE ROSSETTI
Born #onthisday in 1828 Dante Gabrielle Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats and William Blake, while his later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling.
ROBERT BROWNING
Robert Browning was born #onthisday in 1812. An English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
Niccolò Machiavelli
3 May 1469
Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince, written about 1513. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. Lots of memorable quotations (none of them pleasant) of which this is my favourite “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
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