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…
“The more I can throw my mind into any undertaking which interests my friends, the more I make to myself a place of refuge from personal suffering.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
In the annals of early twentieth-century English poetry, few voices captured the essence of maritime life with such authenticity and vigor as Cicely Fox Smith. Born on February 1, 1882, in Lymm, Cheshire, she would become one of the most distinctive poets of the sea, a woman who carved out a remarkable niche in a literary world dominated by male voices, particularly in the traditionally masculine domain of nautical v…
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Georgian Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Sorrow, Fear
