Frank Stuart Flint was born on December 19, 1885, in Islington, London, into circumstances that would have crushed a lesser spirit but instead forged one of the most influential yet underappreciated figures in early twentieth-century English literature. He died on February 28, 1960, leaving behind a legacy that Ford Madox Ford would describe as that of "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the…
“As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality
Robert Lee Frost was born on 26 March 1874 in San Francisco, California, at a distance both geographical and imaginative from the New England landscape with which his name would become permanently associated. His father, William Prescott Frost Jr., was a Harvard-educated teacher turned journalist and political aspirant, a man of forceful opinions, Southern sympathies, and unstable prospects. His mother, Isabelle Mood…
“There are a lot of good things I believe in, but for the life of me I can't always enumerate them at a moment's notice.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Peace
