Arthur Hugh Clough, born in Liverpool on 1 January 1819 and dead in Florence on 13 November 1861, occupies an unusual and compelling place in nineteenth-century English poetry. He was a Victorian poet, but he often sounds impatient with the assurances conventionally associated with Victorian verse: confidence in progress, confidence in religious doctrine, confidence in moral formulas, and confidence that elevated poe…
“A bad style is as bad as bad manners, and manners you admit do mean something. Things really ill-written it does one a little harm to read.”
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Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Longing
Richard Crashaw (c.1613 – 25 August 1649) stands as one of the most distinctive and polarising voices of seventeenth-century English poetry. A poet of spiritual excess, luminous devotion, and baroque extravagance, Crashaw occupies a singular position among the so-called Metaphysical poets. Where contemporaries such as Donne and Herbert often balance intellectual ingenuity with restraint, Crashaw abandons moderation a…
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Devotional Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
