Katharine Lee Bates was born on 12 August 1859 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, and died on 28 March 1929 in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Her name is permanently associated with “America the Beautiful,” one of the most familiar and resonant poems in United States culture. Yet the anthem has sometimes obscured the range of the woman who wrote it. Bates was not simply a patriotic versifier who happened to find a m…
“It is beautiful to see out of what scant allowance of that which we call well-being, may be evolved wisdom and joy, poetry and religion.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Longing
James Edwin Campbell was born on September 28, 1867, in Pomeroy, Ohio, and died there on January 26, 1896, before he had reached his twenty-ninth birthday. His life was brief, but it was unusually full: he was a teacher, school principal, educational organizer, newspaper editor, essayist, public speaker, and poet. Most enduringly, he was an important early African American literary artist whose poems preserved the sp…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Love Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Sensuality, Joy
