The works of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas are celebrated for their comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt and endearing pathos. He led a personal life that was never f

The American realist painter Thomas Eakins is now widely acknowledged as one of the most important American artists, though during his lifetime he was a controv

One of the few authors to distinguish himself with equal merit in poetry and novel writing, Thomas Hardy remains one of English literature’s leading figures.

In recent times Ford Madox Ford has become one of the neglected figures of modernist literature, although he was a leading writer of his time, producing innovat

The early twentieth-century American novelist Louis Joseph Vance created the popular character Michael Lanyard, a criminal-turned-detective known as ‘The Lone