Sara Teasdale was born on 8 August 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, and died there on 29 January 1933. During her lifetime she became one of the best-known American lyric poets of the early twentieth century, admired for verse that appeared effortless: brief, melodious, emotionally direct, and exquisitely shaped. Her poems spoke of love, solitude, desire, beauty, loss, the changing seasons, and death. Their clarity made…
“Above all things I have striven to keep the book small, for the big books of poetry on our shelves were always left to themselves.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Confessional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Nature Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
In the grand tapestry of Victorian literature, where convention often stifled authentic expression, Mary Montgomerie, Lady Currie (née Lamb, 24 February 1843 – 13 October 1905), known by the literary pseudonym Violet Fane, was an English poet, writer, and later an ambassadress who dared to weave threads of passion, heartbreak, and feminine desire into her verse. Her life, spanning over six decades of the nineteenth c…
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
