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…
“For nearly a year I have been normal, human, like other people, no longer isolated from the men and women whom I met in the street.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Edwardian Poets, Symbolist Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder
Theodore Henry Shackelford entered the world on May 29, 1887, in the small community of Essex, in Essex County, Ontario, Canada—just a stone’s throw from the bustling border town of Windsor. The air there carried the crisp bite of Lake Erie’s winds, and the landscape, though far from the cotton fields of the American South, still echoed with the stories of Black families who had found refuge in Canada via the Undergr…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Devotional Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Tenderness, Peace
