John Drinkwater, born on 1 June 1882 and dead on 25 March 1937, was one of the most visible English men of letters of the years between the First World War and the rise of high modernism. Poet, playwright, actor, theatre manager, critic, lecturer, anthologist, and autobiographer, he possessed a public versatility that can make him seem difficult to place in retrospect. He was never a modernist in the manner of T. S.…
“For the rest, whenever a true poem is given a musical setting, the strictly poetic quality is destroyed.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Modernist Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
Theodore Henry Shackelford entered the world on May 29, 1887, in the small community of Essex, in Essex County, Ontario, Canada—just a stone’s throw from the bustling border town of Windsor. The air there carried the crisp bite of Lake Erie’s winds, and the landscape, though far from the cotton fields of the American South, still echoed with the stories of Black families who had found refuge in Canada via the Undergr…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Devotional Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Tenderness, Peace
