David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 at 8a Victoria Street in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, an English coal-mining town whose physical landscape, class divisions, and social pressures would remain central to his imagination. He was the fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a coal miner, and Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, née Beardsall, a former pupil-teacher from a family with stronger educational and middle-…
“The vast bulk of consciousness is non-cerebral. It is the sap of our life, of all life.”
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Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Sorrow
Helen Dudley was born on 3 June 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, and died in 1932, leaving behind a body of work that was small in quantity but unusually concentrated in feeling. Her name has never become as familiar as those of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, H. D., Amy Lowell, or Elinor Wylie, yet her poems belong to the same unsettled and fertile era in American writing. She wrote during the transition from late…
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American Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
