Felicia Dorothea Hemans, born Felicia Dorothea Browne on 25 September 1793 and dead on 16 May 1835, was among the most celebrated poets of the early nineteenth century. In her lifetime she was read with an enthusiasm now difficult to imagine: her poems circulated throughout Britain, Ireland, the United States, and the British Empire; they appeared in annuals, schoolbooks, anthologies, newspapers, and domestic parlors…
“I do not think I can bear the burden of my life without music, for more than two or three days.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, 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
