Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy was born in London on 14 March 1844 and died there on 30 January 1881, at the age of thirty-six. His life was brief, financially constrained, and repeatedly shadowed by bereavement, yet it produced a body of verse whose finest passages have retained an unusual power. He belongs to that fertile, sometimes neglected region of Victorian poetry situated between the late Romantics, the P…
“Art is good—is an incalculable gain to man; but art, in itself equally perfect, which grows with humanity and can assist humanity in growing—is still better.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Symbolist Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Lionel Pigot Johnson was born on 15 March 1867 at Broadstairs, Kent, and died in London on 4 October 1902. His life lasted only thirty-five years, yet it occupied a peculiarly important position in the literary history of the 1890s. He was a poet of the English Decadence, a Catholic convert, an Irish cultural nationalist of a nuanced and literary kind, a gifted critic, and a man whose private suffering became insepar…
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Edwardian Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Sorrow, Peace
