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,…
“Let no one despise the benefits which thus open the young and tender heart. They are the gates of knowledge.”
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Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Romantic Poets
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Amastan Ag Mohamed, conventionally dated c. 1803–1878 in modern retellings, occupies an unusual and revealing place in the imaginative history of Saharan literature. He is not a historically documented nineteenth-century Tuareg poet in the ordinary biographical sense. Rather, he is a fictional figure created to give a personal face to the cultural world from which traditional Tuareg desert poetry emerges. The name, t…
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Folk & Ballad Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Nature Poets, Persian Mystic Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Sorrow
