Theodore Tilton stands as one of America's most complex literary figures of the nineteenth century—a man whose poetry spoke to universal truths about the human condition while his personal life became entangled in one of the most scandalous trials of the Victorian era. Born on October 2, 1835, in New York City, and dying in self-imposed exile in Paris on May 29, 1907, Tilton's seventy-two years encompassed the full s…
“If you were living in America, as I am, an eye-witness of the cruel despotism which here flourishes under the shadow of a free flag.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Wonder
Carl Sandburg, born 6 January 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois, and dead 22 July 1967 in Flat Rock, North Carolina, became one of the most recognizable American writers of the twentieth century: a poet of factories and prairies, a journalist of civic life, a collector and performer of folk songs, a novelist and children’s writer, and the immensely popular biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Few writers worked so deliberately t…
“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Modernist Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder
