Helen Hoyt, born on 22 January 1887 in Norwalk, Connecticut, and dead on 2 August 1972, belonged to the generation of American poets that came of age just as literary modernism was remaking the possibilities of verse. She was a poet, editor, anthologist, and perceptive advocate for new writing, yet her name has often remained at the edges of accounts dominated by more famous contemporaries. That relative obscurity ca…
“These contentions are true, but everyone grants the convenience and justice of such categories as French Poetry, Spanish Poetry—Greek, German, Hindu Poetry—and is there not as great difference, in physical make-up, in psychology, custom and history, between the people called Men and the people called Women?”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Confessional Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sensuality
Alfred Bruce Douglas was born on 22 October 1870 at Ham Hill House, near Powick in Worcestershire, into a family whose rank, wealth, volatility, and theatrical public reputation would shape his life almost as powerfully as his literary gifts. He was the third son of John Sholto Douglas, ninth Marquess of Queensberry, and Lady Sybil Montgomery, daughter of the first Baron of Abergavenny. The boy was known from childho…
“There is really nothing more to tell of my life, which at present appears to have settled into a placid groove.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Edwardian Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Sorrow, Longing
