Josephine Preston Peabody, later Josephine Preston Peabody Marks, was born in New York City on 30 May 1874 and died on 4 December 1922. During her comparatively short life she became one of the most admired American poets and verse dramatists of the early twentieth century. She was praised for a voice at once musical, delicate, morally serious, and theatrically ambitious. Her poetry moved easily among childhood, myth…
“One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.”
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American Poets, Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Love Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Spirituality
Lionel Pigot Johnson was born on 15 March 1867 at Broadstairs, Kent, and died in London on 4 October 1902. His life lasted only thirty-five years, yet it occupied a peculiarly important position in the literary history of the 1890s. He was a poet of the English Decadence, a Catholic convert, an Irish cultural nationalist of a nuanced and literary kind, a gifted critic, and a man whose private suffering became insepar…
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Decadent Poets, Edwardian Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Sorrow, Peace
