Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was born on 22 May 1870 at Lissadell House, the great neo-classical estate overlooking Sligo Bay in north-west Ireland, and died in London on 30 June 1926. She was a poet, dramatist, essayist, spiritual seeker, trade-union ally, campaigner for women’s suffrage, and one half of one of the most enduring partnerships in the history of British and Irish reform. Her name was long overshadowed b…
“I question whether ever war has ever been fought for a good cause, though the soldiers who fought it may have been deluded into thinking so.”
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Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace
Lucian Bottow Watkins lived a life etched in the quiet heroism of ordinary struggle and extraordinary expression. Born into the lingering shadows of American slavery yet propelled by an unquenchable thirst for beauty, knowledge, and justice, he became a soldier-poet whose verses captured the soul of a people awakening to their own power. Though his time on earth spanned only a little over four decades—he was born on…
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African American Poets, American Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace
