Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a prosperous suburb west of Chicago, and died on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. He became one of the most recognizable writers of the twentieth century: novelist, short-story master, journalist, war correspondent, celebrity, sportsman, and, in his earliest publications, a poet. His name came to signify a style as much as a body of work. Hemingway…
“And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Modernist Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Sorrow, Despair
William Ernest Henley was born on 23 August 1849 in Gloucester, England, and died on 11 July 1903 at Woking, Surrey. He occupies an unusual place in English literary history: widely remembered by the public for a single short poem, “Invictus,” yet far more consequential in his own age as a poet, editor, critic, journalist, dramatist, and formidable presence in literary society. Henley’s life was shaped by physical pa…
“This volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism.”
Neighbourhood:
Confessional Poets, Death & Mortality, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
