Bryan Waller Procter, known to generations of readers by the literary name Barry Cornwall, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 21 November 1787, and died in London on 5 October 1874. He belonged to that broad, fascinating company of early nineteenth-century writers who stood close to the great Romantic generation without ever wholly entering its innermost circle. He was not a poet of Byron’s volcanic self-dramatization,…
“This, however, was known only to his own heart, for he had no confidant in his charities.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Tenderness
Dorothy Wordsworth was born on 25 December 1771 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the English Lake District, and died on 25 January 1855 at Rydal Mount, Westmorland. For much of the nineteenth century, she was remembered chiefly as the devoted sister and household companion of William Wordsworth, the poet whose name became central to English Romanticism. Modern readers, however, increasingly encounter her as a writer of…
“The waters were tumultuous and angry, and the wind seized the trees and tossed them about.”
Neighbourhood:
Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Longing, Sorrow
