In the twilight of the nineteenth century, when American literature was finding its distinctive voice and women writers were carving out spaces in a predominantly male literary landscape, Louise Imogen Guiney emerged as a singular figure whose work defied easy categorization. Born into an era of transition and living through decades of profound change, Guiney crafted a literary legacy that spanned poetry, essays, bio…
“A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host’s kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Longing, Fear
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who became immortal under the name Lewis Carroll, was born on 27 January 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire, England, and died on 14 January 1898 at Guildford, Surrey. He was a Victorian clergyman, Oxford mathematician, logician, lecturer, photographer, inventor, letter writer, satirist, and author of some of the most celebrated imaginative literature in the English language. Yet the word “author”…
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Neighbourhood:
Children's Verse, Light Verse Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Joy, Wonder
