In a modest house on Wilson Street in Perth, Scotland, a small attic room served as both prison and sanctuary for one of Scotland's most remarkable twentieth-century poets. From this confined space, William Soutar would pen some of the most enduring children's verse in Scots literature while simultaneously crafting deeply personal meditations on mortality, isolation, and the human condition. His story is one of extra…
“It becomes a habit which would ever seduce us to say more than we ought to say and more than we have the experimental qualifications to state.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Nature Poets, Scottish Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Peace
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr., born 12 February 1861 near Bardstown in Nelson County, Kentucky, and dead 14 March 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky, lived across one of the most consequential spans in African American history. He was born in the final weeks before the Civil War, came of age amid Reconstruction’s uncertain promises, worked and wrote through the entrenchment of Jim Crow, and survived long enough to witness the f…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Devotional Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Tenderness, Despair
