Henry Van Dyke was born on 10 November 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, then a distinct community on the edge of Philadelphia and now part of the city. He died on 10 April 1933 in Princeton, New Jersey. During the eighty years between those dates, he became one of the most recognizable public literary figures in the United States: a Presbyterian minister, popular preacher, Princeton professor, poet, essayist, noveli…
“Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember only what other people have done for you?”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Wonder, Sorrow
“Aytoun was one of those rare spirits who could marry wit with patriotism, and scholarship with song.” William Edmondstoune Aytoun was born on the 21st of June, 1813, in Edinburgh — that granite nest of poets, philosophers, and lawyers, often called the ‘Athens of the North’. To be born in Edinburgh in the early nineteenth century was, for a young man of letters, a sort of birthright into Scotland’s intellectual aris…
Neighbourhood:
Folk & Ballad Poets, Light Verse Poets, Scottish Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Joy, Peace
