Lydia Huntley Sigourney, born Lydia Howard Huntley on 1 September 1791 in Norwich, Connecticut, became one of the most widely read, industrious, and culturally influential American writers of the nineteenth century. During the height of her career, her poems were printed in newspapers and magazines, memorized by schoolchildren, recited at funerals, quoted from pulpits, and displayed in family albums. She wrote for re…
“My mind was made up never to leave my parents. I felt that their absorbing love could never be repaid by the longest life-service.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Spirituality
Juliusz Słowacki was born on 4 September 1809 in Krzemieniec, in Volhynia, a town then located within the Russian Empire and now known as Kremenets in Ukraine. He died in Paris on 3 April 1849, not yet forty years old, but by then he had produced a body of poetry and drama of extraordinary range, daring, and linguistic power. Together with Adam Mickiewicz and Zygmunt Krasiński, he stands among the central figures of…
“I want to transform reason into wisdom, awaken a person, and give him an impulse towards the great purposes of life.”
Neighbourhood:
Dramatic Poets, Love Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Political Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality
