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
Samuel Hoffenstein entered the world on October 8, 1890, in the Lithuanian corner of the Russian Empire—a place of rolling fields, resilient Jewish communities, and the quiet tensions of life under imperial rule. Some records nod toward Odessa in what is now Ukraine as his birthplace, but the heart of his story begins with the immigrant voyage his family undertook when he was just four years old in 1894. Josiah Mayer…
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