Dorothy Wordsworth was born on 25 December 1771 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the English Lake District, and died on 25 January 1855 at Rydal Mount, Westmorland. For much of the nineteenth century, she was remembered chiefly as the devoted sister and household companion of William Wordsworth, the poet whose name became central to English Romanticism. Modern readers, however, increasingly encounter her as a writer of…
“The waters were tumultuous and angry, and the wind seized the trees and tossed them about.”
Neighbourhood:
Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Longing, Sorrow
Sara Teasdale was born on 8 August 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, and died there on 29 January 1933. During her lifetime she became one of the best-known American lyric poets of the early twentieth century, admired for verse that appeared effortless: brief, melodious, emotionally direct, and exquisitely shaped. Her poems spoke of love, solitude, desire, beauty, loss, the changing seasons, and death. Their clarity made…
“The warmth of the idea that generated the poem should make it clear, ductile, a finished creation, before it touches cold white paper.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Confessional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Nature Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
