Richard Le Gallienne, born Richard Thomas Gallienne in Liverpool on 20 January 1866 and dead at Menton, France, on 15 September 1947, lived long enough to become both a participant in and a chronicler of several literary ages. He began as an ambitious young poet of the late Victorian aesthetic movement, came to public notice amid the bright notoriety of the 1890s, crossed the Atlantic to remake himself for an America…
“Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Love Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Longing
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
