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…
“Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so well together is untouched, unchanged.”
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Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Spirituality, Tenderness
Henry King, born on 16 January 1592 and dead on 30 September 1669, lived a life shaped by inherited ecclesiastical ambition, private bereavement, literary friendship, civil conflict, and religious restoration. He is remembered chiefly as the author of “The Exequy,” one of the most moving elegies in seventeenth-century English poetry, but that single poem can obscure the breadth of his career. King was a clergyman, ro…
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Cavalier Poets, Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Metaphysical Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
