Edna Wahlert McCourt, born Edna Wahlert on 19 July 1887 and dead on 4 January 1963, belonged to a generation of American women writers whose literary lives were often sustained through friendship, little magazines, local institutions, family networks, and persistent private labor rather than through the highly visible routes to fame available to a few celebrated contemporaries. She is remembered principally as a poet…
“Ze world is like ze barrel of apples—not any apple is safe if zer is one rotten apple in ze barrel.”
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American Poets, Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Modernist Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Nature Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality
Katharine Lee Bates was born on 12 August 1859 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, and died on 28 March 1929 in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Her name is permanently associated with “America the Beautiful,” one of the most familiar and resonant poems in United States culture. Yet the anthem has sometimes obscured the range of the woman who wrote it. Bates was not simply a patriotic versifier who happened to find a m…
“It is beautiful to see out of what scant allowance of that which we call well-being, may be evolved wisdom and joy, poetry and religion.”
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American Poets, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Longing
