Nora Hopper Chesson, born Nora Hopper on 2 January 1871 in Exeter, England, and dead on 14 April 1906, belongs to that compelling company of poets whose work has remained more vivid than their public reputation. Her life was brief, her published oeuvre relatively small, and the surviving record of her private circumstances incomplete. Yet the poems she left behind possess a distinctive pressure and atmosphere: they a…
“In every stall and stable the horses and cattle receive human speech for an hour.”
Neighbourhood:
Irish Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Symbolist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
In the pantheon of Victorian literature, where names like Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold dominate the landscape, the voice of Dorothy "Dora" Greenwell emerges as both distinctive and revelatory. Born into the rolling hills of County Durham on December 6, 1821, and departing this world on March 29, 1882, in Clifton near Bristol, Greenwell crafted a literary legacy that bridged the sacred and secular, the personal and…
“I was born beneath quiet hills, among green pastures, beside still waters. My first companion was a little stream, my earliest counsellor an ancient Book.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Tenderness
