Carolina Oliphant, later Lady Nairne, was born on 16 August 1766 at Gask House in Perthshire, into a family whose private memories were inseparable from one of Scotland’s most public historical wounds. She died on 26 October 1845, also at Gask, after a life of seventy-nine years in which she became one of the most accomplished and widely loved writers of Scottish song. For much of that life, however, the public did n…
“I was present when it was asserted that Burns composed the 'Land o' the Leal' on his death-bed, but the parties could not decide why it never appeared in his works. I never answered.”
Neighbourhood:
Folk & Ballad Poets, Political Poets, Scottish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
In the pantheon of American poets, Sidney Lanier occupies a singular position—a musician who wielded verse with the same technical mastery he brought to his flute, a Southern gentleman who sought to reconcile the fractured soul of his native region with the progressive ideals of a nation transformed by war. Born on February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, and dying tragically young on September 7, 1881, in Lynn, North Ca…
“Music is love in search of a voice.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Love Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Nature Poets, Poet-Musicians, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Sorrow, Spirituality
