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…
“An art in which I have as yet failed to perceive either morality or immorality.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Symbolist Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Juliusz Słowacki was born on 4 September 1809 in Krzemieniec, in Volhynia, a town then located within the Russian Empire and now known as Kremenets in Ukraine. He died in Paris on 3 April 1849, not yet forty years old, but by then he had produced a body of poetry and drama of extraordinary range, daring, and linguistic power. Together with Adam Mickiewicz and Zygmunt Krasiński, he stands among the central figures of…
“Three months spent among the most beautiful scenes of nature were a great lesson for me. I saw the harmony that unites everything and bathes it in one colour.”
Neighbourhood:
Dramatic Poets, Love Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Political Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality
