Born on December 8, 1828, in Charleston, South Carolina, Henry Timrod was a poet whose verse would come to embody the soul of a region in anguish — the American South during and after the Civil War. Though he lived only thirty-nine years, his life was a tapestry woven with threads of profound beauty, relentless hardship, and unyielding devotion to art. A man of delicate health, financial instability, and deep emotion…
“And so this is Death! the struggle has come at last. It is curious to watch it. It appears like two tides—two tides advancing and retreating, these powers of Life and Death!”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Political Poets, Romantic Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Spirituality
Thomas Edwards Hankinson was born at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, on 19 June 1805, and died at Stainley Hall near Ripon, Yorkshire, on 6 October 1843. His short life coincided with a period of exceptional change in British religious, literary, and social history: the final decades of the Romantic movement, the Reform crisis, the growth of evangelical and missionary culture, and the opening of the Victorian age. He was neith…
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Joy
