Alice Meynell, born Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson on 11 October 1847 and dead on 27 November 1922, was one of the most distinctive English writers to work across the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. A poet of exquisite compression, an essayist of alert and sensuous intelligence, a critic, editor, Catholic public intellectual, and campaigner for women’s suffrage, she made a literary identity that cannot be r…
“Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Tenderness
John Wesley Holloway was born on July 28, 1865, in Meriwether County, Georgia, just months after the end of the Civil War had shattered the chains of slavery across the American South. He entered a world still raw with the promise and peril of Reconstruction, where the red clay hills hummed with the songs of freedpeople building new lives amid the ruins of plantations. Holloway died on October 31, 1935, in Nashville,…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Devotional Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Tenderness, Longing
