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…
“Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Love Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Longing
1611 – present
7 live poems · English
The King James Bible, more accurately called the King James Version or Authorized Version, does not have a birth and death date in the ordinary biographical sense, because it is neither a person nor the work of a solitary author. Yet it has a remarkably vivid life story. “Born” in print in 1611, during the reign of James VI and I (born June 19, 1566; died March 27, 1625), it emerged from religious conflict, royal cal…
“The very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession, containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God.”
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Devotional Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Wonder
