Cale Young Rice was born on 7 December 1872 in Dixon, Kentucky, and died on 24 January 1943 in Louisville, Kentucky. During his lifetime he was a conspicuous, if never wholly central, figure in American letters: a poet of formal accomplishment, a playwright attracted to historical spectacle and moral conflict, a lecturer, traveler, and public literary presence. In the decades around 1900, when American poetry stood b…
“The critics of any generation may be right in their estimate of a poem, but only the continued survival of its lines for the experts of other generations suffices to give them final standing.”
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American Poets, Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality
George William Russell, who wrote and painted under the name Æ, was born on 10 April 1867 in Lurgan, County Armagh, and died on 17 July 1935 in Bournemouth, England. He belongs among the most remarkable figures of the Irish Revival, though he has often occupied a position just outside its popular canon. William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge, George Moore, Padraic Colum, and later Patr…
“We are all one in the spirit.”
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Irish Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Nature Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Longing
