Robert Southey was born in Bristol on 12 August 1774 and died at Greta Hall, near Keswick in the Lake District, on 21 March 1843. During his lifetime he was among the most visible men of letters in Britain: a poet, historian, biographer, reviewer, editor, translator, political commentator, children’s writer, and, from 1813 until his death, Poet Laureate. Yet posterity has treated him unevenly. He is often remembered…
“Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.”
Neighbourhood:
Hymn Writers, Nature Poets, Political Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Irony, Wonder
Thomas Edwards Hankinson was born at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, on 19 June 1805, and died at Stainley Hall near Ripon, Yorkshire, on 6 October 1843. His short life coincided with a period of exceptional change in British religious, literary, and social history: the final decades of the Romantic movement, the Reform crisis, the growth of evangelical and missionary culture, and the opening of the Victorian age. He was neith…
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Joy
