Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, born on 17 August 1840 at Petworth in Sussex and dead on 10 September 1922 at Newbuildings Place, his Sussex home, lived a life unusually crowded with contradiction. He was an English gentleman who became one of Victorian Britain’s most persistent critics of empire; a formal, often old-fashioned poet who sought to make verse answer political injustice; a diplomat who abandoned official service i…
“Her reformation is indeed already begun, and may be gradually carried to its full results, by no violent means, and in a progressive, not a reactionary spirit.”
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Irish Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
Thomas Campbell was born on the twenty-seventh of July, 1777, in a house on Glasgow's High Street that has long since vanished beneath the changing face of the city. He was the youngest of eleven children born to Alexander Campbell, a merchant who had made and then lost a fortune trading with Virginia before the American war severed his commercial lifeline, and Margaret Campbell, whose family, like her husband's, tra…
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Folk & Ballad Poets, Irish Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
