Charles Lamb was born on 10 February 1775 in Crown Office Row, within London’s Inner Temple, and died on 27 December 1834 in Edmonton, then a village north of the city. He became one of the most distinctive voices in English literature not through a vast epic, a celebrated novel, or the public authority of a major poet, but through shorter forms made unexpectedly capacious: familiar essays, literary criticism, letter…
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”
Neighbourhood:
Light Verse Poets, Love Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Tenderness, Longing
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on 26 September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and died on 4 January 1965 in London. In the course of a life that crossed the Atlantic both literally and imaginatively, he became one of the defining writers of literary modernism: a poet whose fractured early works gave memorable form to urban loneliness and postwar disillusionment, a critic whose arguments reshaped English studies, an edit…
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Irony
