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…
“In this series there is no drama, no situation, no set scene. Nothing happens. It is just life going on and on.”
Neighbourhood:
LGBTQ+ Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Irony
Ralph Hodgson was born on 9 September 1871 in Darlington, County Durham, and died on 3 November 1962 in Minerva, Ohio. His life traversed an astonishing stretch of history: the late Victorian industrial world, the upheaval of two world wars, the flowering and fragmentation of literary modernism, and the gradual emergence of a more public consciousness about animals and the natural environment. Yet his poetry seems to…
“The birds seemed just as interesting as in England, and I'd never seen a hummingbird. It took my mind.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Tenderness, Joy
