Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, born Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida on February 17, 1836, in Seville, and dead in Madrid on December 22, 1870, became one of the most beloved and influential voices in Spanish poetry despite publishing no definitive collection of his poems during his lifetime. His reputation rests chiefly on the Rimas, brief lyric poems of extraordinary intimacy, and the Leyendas, prose tales in whic…
“Poetry is the sudden joy that illuminates your features with a gentle smile, whose hidden cause you do not know.”
Neighbourhood:
Love Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Romantic Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Spirituality, Wonder
Edward FitzGerald was born Edward Purcell on 31 March 1809 at Bredfield House, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, and died on 14 June 1883 at Merton, Norfolk. He occupies an unusual position in English literary history. He wrote original prose, verse, letters, dialogues, and adaptations, translated from Spanish, Greek, and Persian, and moved in circles that included Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Tho…
“These Rubáiyát are not a translation, but an imitation.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Decadent Poets, Love Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Joy, Tenderness
