In the pantheon of Victorian literature, where names like Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold dominate the landscape, the voice of Dorothy "Dora" Greenwell emerges as both distinctive and revelatory. Born into the rolling hills of County Durham on December 6, 1821, and departing this world on March 29, 1882, in Clifton near Bristol, Greenwell crafted a literary legacy that bridged the sacred and secular, the personal and…
“The power of faith is not in the person who exercises it but in the object in which it rests.”
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Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Tenderness
1611 – present
7 live poems · English
The King James Bible, more accurately called the King James Version or Authorized Version, does not have a birth and death date in the ordinary biographical sense, because it is neither a person nor the work of a solitary author. Yet it has a remarkably vivid life story. “Born” in print in 1611, during the reign of James VI and I (born June 19, 1566; died March 27, 1625), it emerged from religious conflict, royal cal…
“We have not tied ourselves to a uniformity of phrasing, or to an identity of words, as some peradventure would wish that we had done.”
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Devotional Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Wonder
