Grace Hazard Conkling, born Grace Walcott Hazard in New York City on 7 February 1878, belonged to a generation of American women whose intellectual ambitions were increasingly supported by women’s colleges, international study, and new professional opportunities, even as marriage and motherhood still imposed demanding social expectations. She became a poet, teacher, musician, critic of children’s reading, and a forma…
“I don't mean to be sentimental about children, I want to be just. But I do believe that beauty is often real to them when we cannot see it, because they have not yet had time to get tired of anything.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Sensuality, Longing
Helen Hoyt, born on 22 January 1887 in Norwalk, Connecticut, and dead on 2 August 1972, belonged to the generation of American poets that came of age just as literary modernism was remaking the possibilities of verse. She was a poet, editor, anthologist, and perceptive advocate for new writing, yet her name has often remained at the edges of accounts dominated by more famous contemporaries. That relative obscurity ca…
“These contentions are true, but everyone grants the convenience and justice of such categories as French Poetry, Spanish Poetry—Greek, German, Hindu Poetry—and is there not as great difference, in physical make-up, in psychology, custom and history, between the people called Men and the people called Women?”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Confessional Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sensuality
