In the pantheon of American poetry, few figures embody the restless spirit of early twentieth-century modernism quite like John Gould Fletcher. Born into the genteel society of Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 3, 1886, Fletcher would traverse continents and literary movements, ultimately crafting a body of work that bridged the gap between traditional American verse and the revolutionary experiments of European mode…
“Poetry merely descriptive of nature, however vivid, no longer seems enough for me, there has to be added to it, the human judgement, the human evaluation.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Death & Mortality, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets, Nature Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
Phineas Fletcher, baptized on 8 April 1582 and buried in December 1650, was one of the most ambitious English poets of the generation after Edmund Spenser. He lived through the last decades of Elizabeth I, the reigns of James I and Charles I, and the early upheavals of the Civil War, yet his own life was comparatively quiet: he was a scholar, priest, husband, father, country rector, and author. His reputation has nev…
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Nature Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Despair, Longing
