George Marion McClellan was born on 29 September 1860 near Belfast, Tennessee, and died on 17 May 1934. His lifetime stretched from the final year of slavery in the United States through the Civil War, Reconstruction, the consolidation of Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration, and the Harlem Renaissance. To read his poetry only as the work of a minor late-Victorian versifier would be to miss the extraordinary his…
“This is a domain that mocks at legislative restrictions, caste, exclusionism and what not.”
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African American Poets, American Poets, Death & Mortality, Harlem Renaissance, Nature Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
George Reginald Margetson was a poet whose life and work embodied the quiet heroism of the immigrant dreamer, the working-class visionary who carved verses from the clang of machinery and the weight of family responsibilities. Born in the sun-drenched hills of St. Kitts in the British West Indies and later transplanted to the industrial bustle of early twentieth-century Boston, Margetson (1877–c.1952) produced a body…
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African American Poets, American Poets, Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Hymn Writers, Mystical & Spiritual Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Spirituality, Sorrow
