Paul-Jean Toulet was born on 5 June 1867 in Pau, in the Béarn region of southwestern France, and died on 6 September 1920 at Guéthary, on the Basque coast. He occupies a singular place in French literature: neither wholly Symbolist nor conventionally modernist, neither simply a Decadent aesthete nor merely a regional poet of nostalgia. He was a writer of poems, novels, criticism, aphorisms, and journalism, but his la…
“Rien n'est plus triste qu'un amour qui n'est pas partagé, sinon un amour qui l'est.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, French Symbolists, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Wonder, Peace
In the early decades of the twentieth century, when American poetry was undergoing one of its most dramatic transformations, a young man of Irish heritage was crafting verses that sought to bridge the ancient traditions of Celtic literature with the modern sensibilities of his adopted homeland. Shaemas O'Sheel, born James Shields in New York City on January 12, 1886, would become one of the more intriguing yet ultima…
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Imagist Poets, Irish Poets, Modernist Poets, Political Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Spirituality
