Arthur Symons was born on 28 February 1865 at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, into a household shaped by religious discipline, frequent movement, and intellectual aspiration. He was the son of the Reverend Arthur Symons, a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and Mary Ann Symons. His father’s ministry required the family to move from place to place, and the boy’s childhood was therefore less rooted in one local communit…
“The poet is not a man who has something to say, but a man who has something to sing.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Edwardian Poets, Symbolist Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder
Samuel Rogers was born on 30 July 1763 at Newington Green, then a village on the northern edge of London and now part of the capital’s urban fabric. He died on 18 December 1855, aged ninety-two, having outlived nearly every major writer of the generation with which he was associated. His long life stretched from the late age of Samuel Johnson to the early reign of Queen Victoria; he knew the world before the French R…
“The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who reads too.”
Neighbourhood:
Augustan Poets, Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Joy, Peace
