Thomas Sturge Moore, born on 4 March 1870 at Hastings, Sussex, and dead on 18 July 1944 at Windsor, was one of the most distinctive English poet-artists of his generation: a writer of symbolist and classical verse, a critic of painting and artistic purpose, a wood engraver, and an accomplished designer of books. He belonged to that transitional company whose work joined the late Victorian devotion to beauty, craftsma…
“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.”
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Decadent Poets, Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Spirituality, Longing
The life of William Morris presents one of the most remarkable and multifaceted careers in Victorian literature and culture. Born on March 24, 1834, in Walthamstow, Essex, and dying on October 3, 1896, in Hammersmith, London, Morris packed into his sixty-two years an astonishing array of accomplishments as poet, designer, craftsman, printer, translator, socialist activist, and visionary. He remains a figure who defie…
“Fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death.”
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Nature Poets, Political Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Sorrow
