SANGSTER, MRS. MARGARET E., editor and poet, was born in New
  Rochelle, N.Y., on the 22d of February, 1838, and educated in Vienna. 
  She has successfully edited such periodicals as Hearth and Home,
  Harpers’ Young People, and Harpers’ Bazaar, in which much of her prose
  and poetry has appeared.  She is at present (1909) the editor of The
  Woman’s Home Companion.

SOUTHEY, ROBERT, an eminent English poet and author, was born in
  the year 1774.  He began to write verse at the age of ten.  In 1792 he was
  expelled from the Westminster School for writing an essay against
  corporal punishment.  He then entered one of the colleges of Oxford
  University, where he became an intimate friend of Coleridge.  While
  residing at Lisbon he began a special study of Spanish and Portuguese
  literature.  In 1813 he was appointed poet-laureate of England, and in
  1835 received a pension from the government.  He died in 1843.  Southey,
  Coleridge and Wordsworth are often called “The Lake Poets,” because they
  lived together for years in the lake country of England, and in their
  writings described the scenery of that beautiful region.

TENNYSON, ALFRED, is considered the greatest poet of his age, and
  one of the great English poets of modern times.  He was born in the year
  1809, and educated at Cambridge University.  In 1850 he gave to the world
  “In Memoriam,” his lament for the loss by death of his friend, Arthur H.
  Hallam.  In 1851 he succeeded Wordsworth as poet-laureate of England.  His
  poems, long and short, are general favorites.  His “Idyls of the King,”
  “The Princess,” “Maud,” and “In Memoriam” are his chief long poems. 
  These are remarkable for beauty of expression and richness of thought,
  of which Tennyson was master.  He died in 1892, lamented by the entire
  English-speaking world, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.  Tennyson
  always loved the sea, the music of whose restless waves awakened an
  answering echo in his heart.

WALLACE, WILLIAM R., was born at Lexington, Ky., in the year 1819. 
  As a poet he is best known as the author of “The Sword of Bunker Hill.”

WESTWOOD, THOMAS, an English poet, was born in the year 1814, and
  died in 1888.  He wrote several volumes of poetry, one of which was
  “Beads from a Rosary.”

WHITTIER, JOHN G., called the “Quaker Poet,” was born in
  Massachusetts in the year 1807.  His parents were Quakers and were poor. 
  When young he learned to make shoes, and with the money thus earned he
  paid his way at school.  He was a boy of nineteen when his first verses
  were published.  His poems were inspired by current events, and their
  patriotic spirit gives them a strong hold upon the public.  “Snow-bound”
  is considered his greatest poem.  Whittier loved home so much that he