George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was born on 22 November 1819 at South Farm on the Arbury estate near Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England, and died in London on 22 December 1880. She became one of the defining writers of the Victorian age, though she reached that position by a route unusually difficult for a woman of her period. Novelist, translator, editor, critic, essayist, and poet, Eliot brought philos…
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
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Love Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
Amastan Ag Mohamed, conventionally dated c. 1803–1878 in modern retellings, occupies an unusual and revealing place in the imaginative history of Saharan literature. He is not a historically documented nineteenth-century Tuareg poet in the ordinary biographical sense. Rather, he is a fictional figure created to give a personal face to the cultural world from which traditional Tuareg desert poetry emerges. The name, t…
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Folk & Ballad Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Nature Poets, Persian Mystic Poets
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