Henry Scott Holland was born on 27 January 1847 at Ledbury, Herefordshire, into a world of Anglican privilege, classical education, and public duty. He died on 17 March 1918 in Oxford, at the close of a life spent attempting to make Christianity answerable to the moral crises of modern society. He was not, in the ordinary sense, a poet: he did not build his reputation through volumes of verse, nor did he belong to th…
“Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name.”
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Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Spirituality, Tenderness
On March 18, 1875, in the historic Hempstead House in New London, Connecticut, Anna Hempstead Branch was born into a world of deep New England roots and literary tradition. The younger of two children, she arrived into a family where words mattered, where literature breathed through the rooms of an ancestral home that had sheltered Hempsteads since 1640. Her father, John Locke Branch, practiced law with quiet distinc…
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American Poets, Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Hymn Writers, Nature Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Fear, Despair, Wonder
