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
In the long history of American literary scholarship, few figures embody the transition from nineteenth-century genteel letters to modern academic criticism as thoroughly as Henry Augustin Beers. Born on July 2, 1847, in Buffalo, New York, and dying on September 7, 1926, in New Haven, Connecticut, Beers spent nearly his entire adult life at Yale University, where his slight frame became a beloved fixture on campus fo…
“He made the English language an organ of expression unexcelled in the history of literature. Yet he is not an English poet simply, but a world-poet.”
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American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality
