John Edward Masefield was born on 1 June 1878 in Ledbury, Herefordshire, a market town on the borderlands of England and Wales, and died on 12 May 1967 at Abingdon, then in Berkshire. During his long life he became one of Britain’s most recognizable poets: a writer of sailors, fields, foxhunts, village sinners, mythic heroes, children’s dreams, national ceremonies, and private grief. He was also a novelist, playwrigh…
“There is no such thing as a good sailor, only a sailor who has had good luck.”
Neighbourhood:
Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Georgian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder
John Wesley Holloway was born on July 28, 1865, in Meriwether County, Georgia, just months after the end of the Civil War had shattered the chains of slavery across the American South. He entered a world still raw with the promise and peril of Reconstruction, where the red clay hills hummed with the songs of freedpeople building new lives amid the ruins of plantations. Holloway died on October 31, 1935, in Nashville,…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Devotional Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Tenderness, Longing
