In the turbulent landscape of early twentieth-century literature, few writers navigated the transition from Victorian sensibilities to modernist innovation with the skill and prescience of May Sinclair. Born Mary Amelia St. Clair Sinclair on August 24, 1863, in Rock Ferry, Cheshire, and dying on November 14, 1946, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Sinclair lived through one of the most transformative periods in literary…
“Moments when the human creature we have known all our life without truly knowing it reveals its incredible godhead.”
Neighbourhood:
LGBTQ+ Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Irony
Ernst Stadler was born on 11 August 1883 in Colmar, in Alsace, and was killed on 30 October 1914 near Zandvoorde in Flanders during the First World War. His life lasted little more than thirty-one years, and the body of poetry on which his reputation rests is correspondingly small. Yet his importance in German-language literature is out of proportion to its size. Stadler stands among the decisive early voices of Expr…
“In the end one is too much a creature of nerves to possess the soldierly virtues which popular convention takes for granted and which perhaps really do exist.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, German Romantics
Emotional landscape: Longing, Fear, Sensuality
