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…
“I have thanked God every waking hour since the Eighth of November. That day was the greatest in the history of the present generation.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Wonder
Edward Thomas was born Philip Edward Thomas on 3 March 1878 at Lambeth in south London, and died on 9 April 1917 near Arras in France, aged thirty-nine. His name now evokes a particular kind of English poetry: quiet but unsettled, exact in its descriptions of paths, trains, weather, birds, woods, and country speech, yet charged with questions of loss, belonging, choice, and mortality. His poetic career lasted scarcel…
“I am not a poet, and I never wanted to be a poet.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets, War Poets, Welsh Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder
