Joaquin Miller, born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller on September 8, 1837, and dead on February 17, 1913, lived a life that seemed designed to invite legend. He was a poet, journalist, lawyer, teacher, dramatist, lecturer, rancher, and relentless self-inventor. To admirers in the nineteenth century, he was the “Poet of the Sierras,” a bard who had given the American West its own grand, romantic voice. To skeptics, he was an…
“The poet's trade is the hardest trade of all trades in the world; his compensation is the poorest; his triumphs the fewest; not one in ten thousand can earn his bread at it.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
In the brief span of twenty-seven years, Georg Trakl created a body of work that would forever alter the landscape of German-language poetry. His verses, saturated with autumnal imagery, spiritual anguish, and apocalyptic visions, emerged from the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and spoke to a civilization on the brink of collapse. Today, he stands as one of the most enigmatic and influential poets of early t…
“To see clearly is sometimes the greatest suffering of all.”
Neighbourhood:
German Romantics, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
